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LEIGHTON David[1]

Male 1730 - 1811  (81 years)


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  • Name LEIGHTON David 
    Birth 14 Oct 1730  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 97C1E1AE07CFE64DAC85E34887D40F21D761 
    Death 14 Dec 1811  Harmony, Somerset, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • David and Anna joined the Rochester church 22 Sept. 1754 and had their daughter Dolly baptized there (NHGR, 4[1907]:74), as were their other children (6[1909]:74-5, 114-8).

      With his brothers Jonathan, Samuel and Solomon he signed a petition 30 Aug. 1785 for Rochester's representation in the General Assembly (NHSP, 13:336).

      His father deeded him 18 Mar. 1762 lot 69 in Rochester's first division, the property he was already living on and farming (NHPD, 68:29). On 6 Oct. that year he sold this lot to James Place (78:370), and the same day bought Lt. Ebenezer Chamberlain's home lot (69:34; 70:136-8), part of which he sold to Abner Dam 9 Feb. 1785 (StrCD, 6:203). David Latain of the Gore bought 100 acres, part of lot 2, first range, in the Gore from proprietor Theodore Atkinson 30 Nov. 1768 (NHPD, 102:387). He sold part of this latter 25 June 1772 to Nathaniel Buzzell, on condition that within a year Buzzell build and occupy a dwelling on it, and within three years have three acres cleared for mowing or planting (103:283-4). )n 20 Sept. 1777, he sold to "my loving son Jacob" a 60-acre tract, lot 48 in the second division (StrCD, 5:446).

      David served as ensign under Capt. Daniel McDuffee, Col. Stephen Evan's Rgt., 8 Sept. to 15 Dec. 1777, marching against the British at Saratoga (NHSP, 15:297), and was the recruiting officer for Capt. David Place's Co. (TRs 293). In 1780, 1784 and 1788 he was town surveyor (McDuffee, Rochester, 594-7, 606-11).

      David bought land from Abner Dam 9 Feb. 1785, sold part of his home lot in the second division to Ephraim Perkins 8 July 1785, and bought a 240-acre lot from Samuel and John Clements the same day (StrCD, 6:203; 5:40; 6:265). This Clements property he sold to his son William 18 March 1789 (19:68), and part of his lot 48 to his son Ephraim 18 Feb. 1796 (22:98).

      David and Anna were listed in the 1790 Rochester census with a male under 16, another 16 or older, and a daughter; he was on the tax list of the second parish there in 1795.

      In 1800, when David was 70, he and Anna joined his son William in settling at Harmony, ME, making the two-week journey by ox-cart, driving their livestock with them (George T. Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine [NY, 1909] 4:2056-8). Harmony, first settled in 1796 as Vaughntown, was incorporated in 1803. David bought lot 6, 9th range, from Abel Gould 27 Sept. 1806 (KenCD, 11:449).
    Person ID I64035  Noyes Family Genealogy
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2006 

    Father LEIGHTON John,   b. 1698, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother [LEIGHTON] Sarah   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Bef 1726  [3] 
    Family ID F25188  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family CHAMBERLAIN Anna,   b. 18 Jul 1733, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1816, Harmony, Somerset, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 19 Dec 1751  Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
     1. LEIGHTON Dorothy "Dolly",   b. 5 Aug 1752, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. LEIGHTON John,   b. 12 Feb 1755, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. LEIGHTON Jacob,   b. 12 Jul 1757, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Oct 1842, New Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     4. LEIGHTON Ephraim,   b. 13 Feb 1760, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Nov 1834, Ossipee, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     5. LEIGHTON Jonathan,   b. 12 Feb 1762, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Nov 1840, Athens, Somerset, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     6. LEIGHTON William,   b. 17 Jul 1764, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Dec 1846, Harmony, Somerset, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     7. LEIGHTON Elizabeth,   b. 2 Dec 1766, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     8. LEIGHTON Anna,   b. 16 Nov 1770, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 1852, Cambridge, Somerset, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     9. LEIGHTON David,   b. 9 Nov 1773, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jun 1854, Harmony, Somerset, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     10. LEIGHTON Moses,   b. 25 Mar 1776, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 1856, Cambridge, Somerset, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F25168  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

  • Sources 
    1. [S954] Book-A Leighton Genealogy, I:62-63.

    2. [S954] Book-A Leighton Genealogy, I:62.

    3. [S954] Book-A Leighton Genealogy, I:36.


  

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