Ancestry of
Adlai Stevenson III

U.S. Senator from Illinois

Benajah Leffingwell

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Adlai Stevenson III — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 420 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Leffingwell Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bushnell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Aug 1693 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jun 1756 
  • Death Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Christophers
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Aug 1726 
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  Christopher Leffingwell (Ahnentafel No:210 )

  Mary Leffingwell

• Sources for Benajah Leffingwell

  • ¹ Leffingwell, Albert and Charles Wesley Leffingwell, The Leffingwell Record: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Lieut. Thomas Leffingwell, 1637-1897, Aurora, New York: Leffingwell Publishing Company (1897), 33, 46-48.
  • ² Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 227.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 26, 62, 80, 111.