What key details about john punch -lrb- slave -rrb- can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: john punch -lrb- fl . 1630s , living 1640 -rrb- was an african slave who lived in the colony of virginia during the seventeenth century . in july 1640 , the virginia governor 's council sentenced him to serve for the remainder of his life as punishment for running away to maryland . in contrast , two european men who ran away with him were sentenced to longer indentures but not the permanent loss of their freedom . for this reason , historians consider john punch the '' first official slave in the english colonies , '' and his case as the '' first legal sanctioning of lifelong slavery in the chesapeake . '' historians also consider this to be one of the first legal distinctions between europeans and africans made in the colony , and a key milestone in the development of the institution of slavery in the united states . in july 2012 , ancestry.com published a paper suggesting that john punch was an eleventh-generation grandfather of barack obama on his mother 's side , on the basis of historic and genealogical research and y-dna analysis . punch 's descendants were known by the bunch or bunche surname . punch is believed to be one of the ancestors of the 20th-century american diplomat ralph bunche , the first african american to win the nobel peace prize .
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- name is john punch- birth place is unknown , or ivory coast , but probably may 2014 cameroon , gabon