Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

Jerusha Richards

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Angela Y. Davis — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 631 
  • Father:
  • James Richards 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Gibbons   
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  • 25 Jul 1697 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Gurdon Saltonstall
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  Gurdon Saltonstall

  Elizabeth Saltonstall (Ahnentafel No:315 )

  Sarah Saltonstall

• Sources for Jerusha Richards

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1920, Vol. 51, p. 212.
  • ² Connecticut State Library, "Gurdon Saltonstall: Governor of the Colony of Connecticut 1708-1724", (accessed 06/11/2015).
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ 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