Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Dudley Leavitt

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 172 
  • Father:
  • Dudley Leavitt 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Apr 1773 
  • Birth Location:
  • Loudon, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Mar 1857 
  • Death Location:
  • Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Fanny Willy
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1798 
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  • Child:

  Joseph Leavitt (Ahnentafel No:86 )

• Additional marriages for Dudley Leavitt

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Call
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Apr 1806
  • Marriage Location:
  • Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire

• Sources for Dudley Leavitt

  • ¹ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947, Marriage record for son Joseph Leavitt and Ruth F Stevens.
  • ² Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 55, 64-65.
  • ³ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 164.

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