Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Ruth Prior

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 301 
  • Father:
  • John Prior 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Delano   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Apr 1742 
  • Birth Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Apr 1824 
  • Death Location:
  • Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Stevens Hatch
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Dec 1761 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elias Hatch (Ahnentafel No:150 )

• Sources for Ruth Prior

  • ¹ Cushing, Muriel Curtis, Philip Delano of the "Fortune" 1621 and His Descendants for Four Generations, Plymouth, Massachusett: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 92.
  • ² Cushing, Muriel Curtis, Philip Delano of the "Fortune" 1621 and His Descendants in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Generations: Part 2, Plymouth, Massachusett: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 120-124.
  • 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), 73.

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