Ancestry of
Barack Obama

44th U.S. President

John Punch

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Barack Obama — 14th Generation
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  • AFT 1640 
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  John Bunch I (Ahnentafel No:8128 )

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  • John Punch is known as the “First Slave” in America after he was sentenced to a lifetime of servitude in Virginia on 09 JUL 1640.

• Sources for John Punch

  • ¹ Educational Broadcasting Corporation, "Responses to Enslavement: John Punch", (accessed 11/09/2012).
  • ² Harman, Anastasia, et. al., "Descent of the Bunch Family in Virginia and the Carolinas", (15 JUL 2012) https://c.mfcreative.com/offer/us/obama_bunch/PDF/descendancy_final.pdf, 1-2.
  • ³ Harman, Anastasia, et. al., "Documenting President Barack Obama's Maternal African-American Ancestry: Tracing his Mother's Bunch Ancestry to . . ., (16 JUL 2012) https://c.mfcreative.com/offer/us/obama_bunch/PDF/main_article_final.pdf.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "John Punch (slave)", (accessed 11/09/2012).