Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

Richard Christophers Jr.

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 314 
  • Father:
  • Richard Christophers 
  • Mother:
  • Lucretia Bradley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Dec 1685 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 20 Dec 1691 
  • Christening Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jan 1736 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Saltonstall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Aug 1710 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Christophers

  Sarah Christophers (Ahnentafel No:157 )

  • Notes: 

  • Other sources give Richard Christopher's birth date as 18 AUG 1685.

• Sources for Richard Christophers Jr.

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1919, Vol. 50, p. 334.
  • ² The Mayflower Descendant, 1991, Vol. 41, p. 9.
  • ³ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 267.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 73.
  • ⁵ PBS Television, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 21 FEB 2023, Season 9, Episode 8, Angela Y. Davis.
  • ⁶ Phinney, Mary Allen, Allen Genealogy: A Brief History of Lewis Allen (of Fisher's Island and New London, Conn.) and His Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1954), 13.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 322, 482, 644, 785.
  • ⁸ Stoddard, Mrs. Frances M., Genealogical History of the Allen Family and of Some of Their Connections, Boston: Privately printed (1891), 28-30.

Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd