Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Dorcas Samson

View famous kin of Dorcas Samson

• • 9th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2415 
  • Father:
  • Henry Samson 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Plummer   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1652 
  • Birth Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • BY 29 Jul 1695 
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Bonney
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 24 Dec 1684 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Children:
  
  

  Ebenezer Bonney

  Elizabeth Bonney

  Mercy Bonney (Ahnentafel No:1207 )

• Sources for Dorcas Samson

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1623.
  • 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 Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 2, 6-7.

Ben Jealous photo by Edward Kimmel (CC BY-SA 2.0)