Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Dudley Leavitt

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 344 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Leavitt 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Wadleigh   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 May 1729 
  • Birth Location:
  • Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1818 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1765 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Dudley Leavitt (Ahnentafel No:172 )

• Additional marriages for Dudley Leavitt

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Dearborn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Sep 1799
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire

• Sources for Dudley Leavitt

  • ¹ New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947, FHL No. 4243060, Image 3059, Marriage record for Dudley Levit and Sarah Dearborn.
  • ² Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 51, 54-55.
  • 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), 51, 163-164.

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