Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

Gurdon Saltonstall

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 630 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Saltonstall 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Ward   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Mar 1666 
  • Birth Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Sep 1724 
  • Death Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ancient Cemetery, New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jerusha Richards
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  Gurdon Saltonstall

  Elizabeth Saltonstall (Ahnentafel No:315 )

  Sarah Saltonstall

  • Notes: 

  • Colonial Governor of Connecticut

• Sources for Gurdon Saltonstall

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/11/2015).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1856, Vol. 10, p. 340.
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1920, Vol. 51, p. 212.
  • ⁴ Connecticut State Library, "Gurdon Saltonstall: Governor of the Colony of Connecticut 1708-1724", (accessed 06/11/2015).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 644.
  • ⁶ Saltonstall, Leverett, Ancestry and Descendants of Sir Richard Saltonstall: First Associate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and . . ., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press (1897), 20.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Gurdon Saltonstall", (accessed 06/11/2015).

Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd