Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Bezaleel Smith

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 80 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1767 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Aug 1848 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Prudence Rice
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jun 1795 
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  • Child:

  Elijah R. Smith (Ahnentafel No:40 )

• Additional marriages for Bezaleel Smith

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  • Spouse:
  • Polly Parker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Sep 1791
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire

• Sources for Bezaleel Smith

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/22/2023).
  • ² New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949, Death record for son Elijah R Smith.
  • ³ Carter, Rev. N. F., History of Pembroke, N. H., 1730-1895, Vol. 2: Genealogical, Concord, New Hampshire: The Republican Press Association (1895), 339, Marriage record for Bezaleel Smith and Polly Parker.
  • ⁴ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England . . ., Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), 110, 189.

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