SMALLEY, Elizabeth

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Francis married LEIGHTON, Elizabeth in 1652/3 in Kittery, ME. Elizabeth (daughter of LEIGHTON, Thomas Sr. and SILSBY, Joanna) was born about 1637 in Dover, NH; died after May 1708 in Dover, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Edward Small Smalley
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• Birth: 1600, Bideford, Devonshire, England
• Death: Aft 1665

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 Edward Small, who came to America about 1632, was probably from Dartmouth, or some other point in Devonshire, England, where the family has long been one of high character and position. He is said to have come under the auspices of his kinsman, Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He, with Champernown and others, founded Piscataqua, which was afterwards divided into the Maine towns of Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick, and Berwick. Edward Small was at the first general court at Saco in 1640, also member of the grand jury the same year. His name was entered on the list as "Edward Small, gent." We find him at old Falmouth, Maine, in 1640; a magistrate there in 1645; and that afterwards he was at the Isle of Shoals. He was one of the magistrates of the general court held at Saco, October 21, 1645. He seems to have built a house in Piscataqua before 1643, as the grant of one hundred acres made to him July 25, 1643, by Thomas Gorges, deputy governor of the Province of Maine (in behalf of Sir Ferdinando Gorges Kt. Ld., proprietor of said province) was specified as "lying between two crickes of each side of the house of the said Edward Small, and so backward to Sturgeon Crick," five shillings yearly being payment for the same. Five years later, June 23, 1647, Edward Small sold this tract of land and "my dwelling house field" to Antipus Maverick, for forty-five pounds. No mention of wife or children is found in any deed or record. The last mention we find of him is in the Isle of Shoals, in 1653. He probably returned to England.

Edward married SHIRTS, Elizabeth about 1624 in Bideford, Devonshire, England. Elizabeth was born in 1603 in Bideford, Devonshire, England; died on 10 Feb 1665 in Bideford, Devonshire, England; was buried on 10 Feb 1665 in St. Mary, Biddeford, Devonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 1604, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland

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Thomas Leighton or Layton came from England to Dover N.H. in 1633/34. He signed the "Combination in Dover" in 1641, He was Selectman for the years 1647, 1648 and 1658. The name Leighton or Layton occurs in the oldest records of English and Scottish History. It is of Saxon origin but was established in Scotland and England before the 14th Century.

References: Leighton Genealogy, History of Durnham N.H., Vol 2 Page 259
New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol 17, Page
255.
The Pioneers of Maine and NH 1623-1660
Thomas spelled his name both ways in the NH records.
Leighton or Layton.

Thomas married SILSBY, Joanna about 1634 in Scotland. Joanna was born in 1606 in Dover, NH; died on 16 Jan 1703 in Dover, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: Abt 1617
• Death: 15 Jan 1703/4, Dover, NH

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Robert married SILSBY, Hannah. Hannah was born about 1570 in Scotland; died on 15 Jan 1604 in Dover, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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