Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Mercy Delano

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 603 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Delano 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Bonney   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1715 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jan 1800 
  • Death Location:
  • Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Prior
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Oct 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Prior

  Nathaniel Prior

  Ruth Prior (Ahnentafel No:301 )

  John Prior

  Elias Prior

• Additional marriages for Mercy Delano

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  • Spouse:
  • Joseph Ramsden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Nov 1755
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Mercy Delano

  • ¹ Cushing, Muriel Curtis, Philip Delano of the "Fortune" 1621 and His Descendants for Four Generations, Plymouth, Massachusett: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 91-92.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 699.
  • 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), 92-93.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 21, 72-73.

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