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Keri Russell

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Keri Russell

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    Jeremiah Leavitt

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    • 5th Great-grandfather of Keri Russell — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 226 
    • Birth Date:
    • 10 Jul 1760 
    • Birth Location:
    • Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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    • Death Date:
    • 1817 
    • Death Location:
    • Hatley, Québec, Canada 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1785 
    • Marriage Location:
    • prob. Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
    • Notes: 
    • Revolutionary War veteran

      Memorial for Jeremiah and Sarah (Shannon) and their children was placed in the Twelve Mile Grove Cemetery at Pecatonica, Illinois, bythe Western Association of Leavitt Families on 12 SEP 2000.

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  • Sources for Jeremiah Leavitt

    • 2 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), 59, 84-85.
    • 3 Esshom, Frank, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company (1913), 872.
    • 4 Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 60, 72-73.
    • 6 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), 163, incorrectly gives death date of Jeremiah's son of the same name as his own.

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