Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Mercy Bonney

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1207 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Bonney 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Samson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1694 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 28 Apr 1755 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Delano
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Oct 1714 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  Mercy Delano (Ahnentafel No:603 )

  Lydia Delano

  Zerviah Delano

  Nathaniel Delano

  Mary Delano

• Additional marriages for Mercy Bonney

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  • Spouse:
  • John Curtis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Apr 1731
  • Marriage Location:
  • Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Mercy Bonney

  • ¹ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 2, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 35, 57.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 699.
  • ³ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 92.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 7, 20-22.
  • ⁵ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 560.

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