Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Mary Austin

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 87 
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  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1801 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Apr 1876 
  • Death Location:
  • Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Town House Cemetery, Dorchester, Grafton, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Leavitt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Oct 1823 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Northfield, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Susan A. Leavitt (Ahnentafel No:43 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mary Austin is said to be the daughter of James Austin and Ruth Fish. No evidence has been found to support this claim. Edith Austin Moore's book A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Austin of Kingstown, Rhode Island (p. 30, published 1951) does not include Mary as a daughter.

• Sources for Mary Austin

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/21/2023).
  • ² New Hampshire, U.S., Death Records, 1650-1969, Death record for daughter Susan A Barnard, gives Mary's maiden name as Peasley.
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947, Marriage record for Joseph Leavitt and Mary Austin.
  • ⁴ Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 64, 105.

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