Puffer Genealogy

Samuel LEIGHTON[1, 2, 3]

Male 1729 - 1812  (82 years)


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  • Name Samuel LEIGHTON 
    Birth 20 Dec 1729  Dover, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1763  Majabigwaduce (Castine), ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Milit-Beg 1775  [4
    Death 21 Mar 1812  Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I18314  Puffers
    Last Modified 4 Jun 2013 

    Father Thomas LEIGHTON,   b. 1696, Dover, NH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jan 1763, Gouldsboro, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Susannah CHESLEY,   b. 1696, Dover, NH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 1786, Gouldsboro, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1718  Dover, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F11046  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Dorcas BUNKER,   b. 1734, Dover, NH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1799, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage 13 Oct 1755  Falmouth, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Theodore LEIGHTON,   b. 1757, Falmouth, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1790, Narraguagus, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 32 years)
     2. Dorcas LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1759, Falmouth, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1799 (Age < 39 years)
     3. Thomas Parritt LEIGHTON,   b. 1759, Narraguagus, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Feb 1855, Crowley Island, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years)
     4. Susanna LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1761, Castine, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1821, Addison, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     5. Isaac LEIGHTON,   b. 25 Feb 1763, Castine, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jan 1836, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     6. Esther LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1764, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1840 (Age > 77 years)
     7. Phineas LEIGHTON,   b. 1768, Steuben, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Oct 1857, Perry, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
     8. Hannah LEIGHTON,   b. 31 Jul 1770, Steuben, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1862, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
     9. Deborah LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1773, Steuben, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1883, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 109 years)
     10. Sarah LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1776, Steuben, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1790 (Age > 15 years)
     11. John Coffin LEIGHTON,   b. 1780, Steuben, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1850 and 1859, Cherryfield, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    Family ID F11009  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 May 2023 

  • 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 
    1. [S134] A collection of notes from Leonard F. Tibbetts, 22.

    2. [S12] Centennial Historical Sketch of the Town of Columbia From 1796 to 1896 (Press of The Republican, Mac, 15.

    3. [S643] Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, 257.

    4. [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).

    5. [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.