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)
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

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.