Ancestry of
Jordan Peele

TV and Movie Actor

Benajah Strong

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Jordan Peele — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 960 
  • Father:
  • Selah Strong 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Terry   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Mar 1716 
  • Birth Location:
  • Setauket, Suffolk, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Nov 1772 
  • Death Location:
  • Setauket, Suffolk, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Mills
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Nov 1739 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Joanna Strong

  Benajah Strong (Ahnentafel No:480 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources appear to mistake Benajah Strong, with his uncle Benajah Strong who was born in 1682.

• Sources for Benajah Strong

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 316.
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 63.
  • ³ Reynolds, Cuyler, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1072.

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