Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

Robinson Mumford

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 78 
  • Father:
  • James Mumford 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Christophers   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Fisher's Island, near New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Mar 1819 
  • Death Location:
  • Rowan County, North Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Coit
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Feb 1761 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Sarah Mumford (Ahnentafel No:39 )

• Additional marriages for Robinson Mumford

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Hand
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 29 May 1799

• Sources for Robinson Mumford

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 220, Birth record for daughter Sarah Mumford.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 220, Marriage record for Robinson Mumford and Sarah Coit.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 1991, Vol. 41, pp. 9-12.
  • ⁴ Hooker, Edward, The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1909), 35.
  • ⁵ Mumford, James Gregory, Mumford Memoirs: Being the Story of the New England Mumfords from the Year 1655 to the Present Time, Unknown: Unknown (1900), 68.
  • ⁶ PBS Television, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 21 FEB 2023, Season 9, Episode 8, Angela Y. Davis.

Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd