Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

John Watson

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 616 
  • Father:
  • William Watson 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Orr   
  • Birth Date:
  • Nov 1716 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Nov 1795 
  • Death Location:
  • Palmer, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Blair
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Jan 1744 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Watson (Ahnentafel No:308 )

• Sources for John Watson

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, 07 JUN 1720, Probate file for estate of father William Watson.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Leicester, Vol. 1, p. 227, Marriage intention for John Watson and Mary Blair.
  • 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), 16, 22-23.
  • 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.

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