Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Joseph Leavitt

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 688 
  • Father:
  • Moses Leavitt 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Dudley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Mar 1698/1699 
  • Birth Location:
  • Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Aug 1792 
  • Death Location:
  • Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Wadleigh
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 27 Dec 1727 
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  Nathaniel Leavitt

  Dudley Leavitt (Ahnentafel No:344 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Leavitt

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Gilman
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1768

• Sources for Joseph Leavitt

  • ¹ Eldredge, Mrs. Jane Jennings, The Leavitts of America : A Compilation of Five Branches and Gleanings from New England to California and Canada, Woods Cross, Utah: Leavitt Family Association (1924), 47, 52.
  • ² Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 16, 50-51.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 188.

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