Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Samuel Watson

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 308 
  • Father:
  • John Watson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Blair   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Mar 1749 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Oct 1818 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Spencer Cemetery, Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Baldwin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jan 1773 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Watson Jr. (Ahnentafel No:154 )

• Sources for Samuel Watson

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/23/2023).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Leicester, Vol. 1, p. 228, Marriage of Samuel Watson Jr. and Ruth Baldwin.
  • ³ Bemis, Julia Draper (Watson) and Alonzo Amasa Bemis, History and Genealogy of the Watson Family, Descendants of Matthew [sic] Watson, Who came to America in 1718, Boston: Press of W. S. Best and Co. (1894), 22.
  • ⁴ Washburn, Emory, Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester, Massachusetts, During the First Century from Its Settlement, Boston: John Wilson and Son (1860), 411-412.

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