Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Sarah Smith

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 345 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1744 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 3 Sep 1799 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dudley Leavitt
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1765 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Dudley Leavitt (Ahnentafel No:172 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sarah Smith may have been the daughter of John Smith and Jane Bunderdant. Evidence is needed to support this.

• Sources for Sarah Smith

  • ¹ Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 51, 54-55.
  • ² 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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