LEIGHTON, Samuel^{[1, 2, 3]}

1729 - 1812  (82 years)

• Name	LEIGHTON, Samuel
  Birth	20 Dec 1729	Dover, NH
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1763	Majabigwaduce (Castine), ME   [4]
  Milit-Beg	1775  [4]
  _COLOR	2
  _FSFTID	27SZ-G5V
  Death	21 Mar 1812	Columbia, ME   [5]
  Person ID	I18190	Puffer 062124
  Last Modified	4 Jun 2013

  
  

  Father	LEIGHTON, Thomas,   b. 1696, Dover, NH d. 16 Jan 1763, Gouldsboro, ME (Age 67 years)
  Mother	CHESLEY, Susannah,   b. 1696, Dover, NH d. 9 Jan 1786, Gouldsboro, ME (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1718	Dover, NH
  Family ID	F10987	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BUNKER, Dorcas,   b. 1734, Dover, NH d. Abt 1799, Columbia, ME (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	13 Oct 1755	Falmouth, ME
  Children	1. LEIGHTON, Theodore,   b. 1757, Falmouth, ME d. Bef 1790, Narraguagus, ME (Age < 32 years)   2. LEIGHTON, Dorcas,   b. Abt 1759, Falmouth, ME d. Bef 1799 (Age < 39 years)   3. LEIGHTON, Susanna,   b. Abt 1761, Castine, ME d. 1821, Addison, ME (Age 60 years)   4. LEIGHTON, Isaac,   b. 25 Feb 1763, Castine, ME d. 20 Jan 1836, Columbia, ME (Age 72 years)   5. LEIGHTON, Esther,   b. Abt 1764, Columbia, ME d. Aft 1840 (Age > 77 years)   6. LEIGHTON, Thomas Parritt,   b. 1759, Narraguagus, ME d. 28 Feb 1855, Crowley Island, ME (Age 96 years)   7. LEIGHTON, Phineas,   b. 1768, Steuben, ME d. 16 Oct 1857, Perry, ME (Age 89 years)   8. LEIGHTON, Hannah,   b. 31 Jul 1770, Steuben, ME d. 23 Feb 1862, Columbia, ME (Age 91 years)   9. LEIGHTON, Deborah,   b. Abt 1773, Steuben, ME d. Bef 1883, ME (Age < 109 years)   10. LEIGHTON, Sarah,   b. Abt 1776, Steuben, ME d. Aft 1790 (Age > 15 years)   11. LEIGHTON, John Coffin,   b. 1780, Steuben, ME d. Between 1850 and 1859, Cherryfield, ME (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F10950	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2024

  
  

• Notes

  "About 1760 two brothers, Thomas and Samuel Leighton, came from Falmout h, Me., to the Narraguagus river." (Centennial Historical Sketch of the T own of Columbia, by Levi Leighton, Esq.) He was with his father and with him settled first at Gouldsboro. Shortl y after, he was the pioneer settler at Columbia, then No. 12 and 13 During the Revolutionary War, and he was in Capt. Francis Shaw's Co. fo r four months defending the coast; then under Capt. Thomas Parritt in J une 1777; in Capt. Henry Dyer's detachment in Aug. and Sept. 1777, serv ing at Machias; in Capt. John Hall's Co. at Majabagaduce in Aug. 1779 a nd again under Capt. Henry Dyer in 1780

  
  

• Sources

  [S134] A collection of notes from Leonard F. Tibbetts, 22. [S12] Centennial Historical Sketch of the Town of Columbia From 1796 to 1896 (Press of The Republican, Mac, 15. [S638] Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, 257. [S91] Assorted Genealogical Notes, Subject: Various (1997, 1998), p. 22. (From "A Leighton Genealogy," Volume One, compiled byPerley M. Leighton. New England Historic Genealogical Society,Boston, Massachusetts, 1989. p. 56). [S66] Ancestry World Tree Viewer Dorr Surname Search., Search on Hannah Leighton:http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedfam&ti=0&f0=167276&f1=364.