Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Mary Wadleigh

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 689 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Wadleigh 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Weare   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 May 1702 
  • Birth Location:
  • Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1767 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Leavitt
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 27 Dec 1727 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Leavitt

  Dudley Leavitt (Ahnentafel No:344 )

• Sources for Mary Wadleigh

  • 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), 52.
  • ² Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 50-51.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 188.
  • ⁴ 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), 16, 51.

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