Samuel LEIGHTON b. 20 Dec 1729 Dover, NH d. 21 Mar 1812 Columbia, ME

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1729 - 1812 (82 years)

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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)
Marriage	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)

Marriage 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. Thomas Parritt LEIGHTON, b. 1759, Narraguagus, ME d. 28 Feb 1855, Crowley Island, ME (Age 96 years)
	4. Susanna LEIGHTON, b. Abt 1761, Castine, ME d. 1821, Addison, ME (Age 60 years)
	5. Isaac LEIGHTON, b. 25 Feb 1763, Castine, ME d. 20 Jan 1836, Columbia, ME (Age 72 years)
	6. Esther LEIGHTON, b. Abt 1764, Columbia, ME d. Aft 1840 (Age > 77 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. Bef 1883, ME (Age < 109 years)
	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)

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

[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.