Puffer Genealogy
Samuel LEIGHTON[1, 2, 3]

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Name Samuel LEIGHTON Born 20 Dec 1729 Dover, NH Gender Male Residence 1763 Majabigwaduce (Castine), ME [4]
Milit-Beg 1775 [4] Died 21 Mar 1812 Columbia, ME [5]
Person ID I18314 Puffers Last Modified 4 Jun 2013
Father Thomas LEIGHTON, b. 1696, Dover, NH , d. 16 Jan 1763, Gouldsboro, ME
(Age 67 years)
Mother Susannah CHESLEY, b. 1696, Dover, NH , d. 9 Jan 1786, Gouldsboro, ME
(Age 90 years)
Married Abt 1718 Dover, NH Family ID F11046 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Dorcas BUNKER, b. 1734, Dover, NH , d. Abt 1799, Columbia, ME
(Age 65 years)
Married 13 Oct 1755 Falmouth, ME Children 1. Theodore LEIGHTON, b. 1757, Falmouth, ME , d. Bef 1790, Narraguagus, ME
(Age < 32 years)
2. Dorcas LEIGHTON, b. Abt 1759, Falmouth, ME , d. Bef 1799 (Age ~ 39 years)
3. Susanna LEIGHTON, b. Abt 1761, Castine, ME , d. 1821, Addison, ME
(Age ~ 60 years)
4. Isaac LEIGHTON, b. 25 Feb 1763, Castine, ME , d. 20 Jan 1836, Columbia, ME
(Age 72 years)
5. Esther LEIGHTON, b. Abt 1764, Columbia, ME , d. Aft 1840 (Age ~ 77 years)
6. Thomas Parritt LEIGHTON, b. 1759, Narraguagus, ME , d. 28 Feb 1855, Crowley Island, ME
(Age 96 years)
7. Phineas LEIGHTON, b. 1768, Steuben, ME , d. 16 Oct 1857, Perry, ME
(Age 89 years)
8. Hannah LEIGHTON, b. 31 Jul 1770, Steuben, ME , d. 23 Feb 1862, Columbia, ME
(Age 91 years)
9. Deborah LEIGHTON, b. Abt 1773, Steuben, ME , d. Yes, date unknown
10. Sarah LEIGHTON, b. Abt 1776, Steuben, ME , d. Aft 1790 (Age ~ 15 years)
11. John Coffin LEIGHTON, b. 1780, Steuben, ME , d. Between 1850 and 1859, Cherryfield, ME
(Age 70 years)
Last Modified 29 Jan 2023 Family ID F11009 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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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
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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.
- [S643] 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.
- [S134] A collection of notes from Leonard F. Tibbetts, 22.