Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Hope Howland

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4755 
  • Father:
  • John Howland 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Tilley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Aug 1629 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jan 1683/1684 
  • Death Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Chipman
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1646 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Chipman

  Chipman

  Hope Chipman

  Lydia Chipman (Ahnentafel No:2377 )

  John Chipman

  Hannah Chipman

  Samuel Chipman

  Ruth Chipman

  Bethiah Chipman

  Mercy Chipman

  John Chipman

  Desire Chipman

• Sources for Hope Howland

  • ¹ Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, To January 1, 1929, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1988), 386.
  • ² Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. II, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1988), 75.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 18, Birth records for children of John and Hope (Howland) Chipman.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1964, Vol. 118, pp. 88, 210.
  • ⁵ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1904, Vol. 35, p. 67.
  • ⁶ The Mayflower Descendant, 1922, Vol. 24, p. 9.
  • ⁷ The Mayflower Descendant, 1991, Vol. 41, p. 2.
  • ⁸ Chipman, Bert Lee, The Chipman Family: A Genealogy of the Chipmans in America, 1631-1920, Winston-Salem, North Carolina: The Winston Printing Company (1920), 13-14.
  • ⁹ Crocker, James Russell, Crocker Genealogy, San Diego, California: unknown (1967), 5.
  • ¹⁰ Makepeace, Russell, et. al., The Ancestry of Russell Makepeace of Marion, Massachusetts, 1904-1986: A Descendant of Thomas Makepeace . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Newbury Street Press (2005), 134.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#55 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Henry and Margaret (----) Howland of . . .", (accessed 10/29/2014).
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 11/18/2014).
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 173.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 9, 21, 30, 100, 109, 121-122, 147, 163, 167, 181, 223, 268-269, 273, 423, 437, 481, et. al.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 446.
  • ¹⁶ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 68, 71.
  • ¹⁷ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 139.
  • ¹⁸ White, Elizabeth Pearson, ""John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 3, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2008, 2nd printing 2011), 26, 29-35.
  • ¹⁹ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 6.

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