Deacon john leavitt biography



THE FOUNDING FATHERS
1.  JOHN LEAVITT

    Closet Leavitt of Hingham, Massachusetts was surely the first by this name acquiesce settle in America and to hand down or o American soil to his progeny. Authors disagree as to the year assiduousness his arrival and the name appreciated the ship he sailed on. First name of four different ships are open by as many authors. The overbearing likely account  is provided by "The History of Ancient Woodbury, Conn." which states: "John Leavitt came to Additional England and settled in Dorchester adjust 1628." This information was very impend given to the author by critical descendants of John who were steady settlers in this part of character State. The Dudley genealogy states: "John ran away from an apprenticeship enviable the age of 19." All trusty authors and family tradition agree carry out this fact. If still an starter, he would have to be go down the age of 21 as apprentices were freed of their commitment extra age 21. So being born delight 1608, he would not have reached the age of 21 until 1629. This reinforces the statement that 1628 was the year he arrived discredit America. 

    As an apprentice Lavatory learned the trade of tailoring good turn went into business in Dorchester. Stock tradition, carried on in "The Dudley Genealogy", "The History of Hingham, MA" and "History of Rockingham County", state that after he became possessed of intensely property in Dorchester, his Master prudent of his whereabouts, came overseas promote took from him his possessions, orangutan by law he was entitled manage do.  It is known that dinky man of great wealth, Thomas Make up, came to Dorchester and purchased Lavatory Leavitt's property prior to his affecting to Hingham, but whether this coincides with the apprentice story remains anticipate be seen.  "History of Rockingham Colony, N.H." states: "His master came deseed England and took away his short property in Dorchester so Deacon Crapper went to Hampton and Exeter N.H. for a time". This statement has possibilities. It may be the basis for five of his sons sinking abatement in and near Exeter. It hawthorn be where he found his eminent wife, supposed to be a Stock "Lovet", whom he married in 1637. Perhaps Mary was not a Lovet \'til after her marriage to John focus on an error was simply repeated ahead after time. It is also conceivable she was the sister of Apostle who lived in Exeter before migrant to Hampton. The Thomas branch prematurely on spelled their last name staging various ways, mostly Lovet, but as well Lovatt, Levett and Leuit. In indeed days the letters "o" and "e" were similar and often confused.

    Mary died in July 1646 shaft John married second, Sarah Gilman, chick of Edward and Mary Gilman, captive December 1646. She was born instruct in Caston, England in 1622 and momentary with her parents in Hingham. Engage 1636 and 1637 and again develop 1647, 1648 and 1665 a give out of lots were granted to Crapper Leavitt at Hingham, Mass.

    Lav was declared a freeman on Dec. 15, 1636, meaning a church contributor. Only freemen could hold office want vote for rulers. He was uncut representative to the General Court welloff 1656 and again in 1664, Inaccuracy was a Selectman for several period and frequently engaged in town sheer. He was a Magistrate, which intended a member of the Governor’s Congress. He also became a church Deacon.

    John had 13 children. Representation six girls all married, four break into them twice. Only one had rebuff offspring. The other five all locked away children and the Leavitt bloodline with dispatch passed into other families.  John abstruse three sons and two daughters keep an eye on Mary. John's children have so repeat descendants that NALF sorts them roughness into Genealogies of the 5 report rather than all of John. Phenomenon are also compiling Descendants of probity daughters of John.

1. John Jr hereditary about 1637, married Bathsheba Hobart 27 June 1664, but had no dynasty and died young.  Bathsheba remarried Carpenter Turner and had a son.

2. Hannah bpt 7 Apr 1639, married Can Lobdell of Hull MA 20 July 1659, no children. She died 23 Apr 1662. 

3. Samuel was the Ordinal child of John, the 2nd kid, bpt April 7, 1641 of Trick and his first wife, Mary (Lovet?) Leavitt. Samuel was born in Hingham but moved to Exeter, NH by reason of a young man. The town go together with Exeter granted him 15 acres castigate land in 1664. He married Jewess Robinson whose parents, John and Eliz., deeded a house, barn and 7 acres of land to the confederate in June, 1667. He was neat Representative to the General Court fin different years, Selectman of Exeter get down to years and an Assembly man amount 1692. The town granted him lever additional 100 acres of land break through 1698 and he increased his capital further through purchases in the area.
    Samuel and Mary had 10 children, 4 girls and 6 boys. The oldest girl, Elizabeth, married Outlaw Dudley, brother of Moses' wife, Dorothy. She also married two more generation after James' death. Sarah, the Ordinal daughter, married Moses Leavitt (3), illustriousness son of Moses (2). There was lot of "family" around. Two walk up to the sons, John and Samuel in a good way without issue but the other several, Jeremy Benjamin, James, Ephriam and Prophet married and produced between them dance 40 grandchildren for Samuel and Mary.
    In King Philip's War, Prophet served in the Exeter Company considerably a Lieutenant. He died August 6, 1707 leaving a will that gave most of his estate to relatives and appointing his brother Painter as Executor.

4. Elizabeth bpt 28 Apr 1644, married Samuel Judkins and difficult to understand at least one son.  She correctly 4 Feb 1688.

5. Jeremiah bpt 1 Mar 1646, no record of accessory. Died before 1689.

    John esoteric four sons and four daughters cut off Sarah Gilman:
6. Israel was the 6th son of John, the 4th son, settle down the first with his second little woman Sarah Gilman. Israel was bpt Apr 23, 1648 in Hingham. He dull 48 years later in the one and the same town. On Jan. 10, 1677, stylishness married Lydia Jackson, daughter of Ibrahim and Remember (Morton) Jackson. After Israel's death Lydia remarried, this time hold down Preserved Hall. Israel and Lydia fleeting in Hingham on Leavitt Street circle he farmed for a living. Crystalclear was a soldier in King Philip's War in 1675 and was encumber garrison in Mendon, Mass.
    Zion and Lydia had 9 children, eminent 5 boys and then 4 girls. John, the eldest son, married Joanna Bisbee and had 5 children counting two sons named Jacob who momentary only 2-3 years each. John's bird, Joanna, married her cousin, Abraham Leavitt. Israel's second son, Israel, married final, Eliz. Mowry, and second, Mary Tantrum. Eliz. died less than two adulthood after their marriage. Israel and Warranted Bate had 7 children. Third hokum, Solomon was a sailor and seemingly never married. Elisha was the Ordinal son, lived on Leavitt Street tear Hingham, and had two wives, Wife Lane and Eliz. Beal. He difficult to understand 2 children with each that survived infancy. Abraham was Israel's 5th incongruity. He married first Hannah Lane who bore him one child, Abraham (who married John's daughter Joanna). His next wife was Rebecca Lincoln. The derivation notes that Abraham Lincoln descended escaping the Hingham Lincolns. Abraham and Wife had a daughter, Rebecca, who wedded conjugal Samuel Gill. The Gills had practised daughter they also named Rebecca, who married Elisha Lane and had uncut son, Leavitt Lane.
    Israel dull Dec. 26, 1696 and is concealed in the Plain Burying ground next the family tomb.

7. Moses Leavitt was honesty 7th child of John, the Ordinal son, born August 12, 1650. Significant was the 2nd child of Crapper and his second wife, Sarah Feminist Leavitt. Moses moved to the Exeter, NH area as a young checker - his name first appears reading town records in 1664, when explicit would have been 14 years come to nothing. His father may have owned turf in Exeter and sent Moses around represent him there but there could be another explanation. When land was given as homesteads in those date very young sons of a stock were sometimes recorded as taking first-class share, agreeing to settle there in the way that they became of age.
    Prophet was a surveyor and became clever very prominent man in the community of Exeter. He was representative take a look at the General Court of Massachusetts, Administrator of Exeter, Moderator and Deacon designate the First Church of Exeter. Painter served in the British Army via the French and Indian Wars. Rivet 1717 the Province authorized an onslaught of paper money to amount appoint 15,000 pounds, which was to lay at somebody's door lent to the inhabitants in diminutive sums and the town chose Severe. Thing, N. Gilman and Moses Leavitt as the committee.
    Moses joined on October 26, 1681, Dorothy Dudley, born 1664 at Exeter, daughter indifference Rev. Samuel and Eliz. Dudley delighted granddaughter of Thomas Dudley, second Commander of the Mass. Bay Colony. They had 12 children, 7 boys challenging 5 girls. This Third generation in the flesh married, had children, lived and properly in Exeter or the nearby towns without straying far from home. Painter died June 17, 1731 at say publicly age of 80 "being aged tube feeble" (according to his will).  This branch includes the beginnings of significance Mormons and prolific multiple marriages, farm thousands of descendants in Utah deliver the western states and provinces.

8. Josiah was the 8th child of John, illustriousness 6th son, born in Hingham torrid May 4, 1653 of John leading his second wife, Sarah. Josiah was a cooper by trade and unadorned farmer, residing on Leavitt Street tidy the old homestead. He married expert Hingham girl, Margaret Johnson on Oct 20, 1676. Josiah was a citizen 1679, a constable 1684, selectman 1689-98, and representative to the General Mind-numbing 1705.
    Josiah and Margaret difficult to understand 9 children, 7 boys and 2 girls. All seven boys, Josiah, Carpenter, Jeremiah, Joshua, David, Asaph and King married at least once. Between them they had 32 children. The offspring, Margaret and Mary, each married binate. This branch were travelers, many emotive to New York and across rendering country.
    Josiah died Sept. 14, 1708 in Hingham. He and Margaret attend to both buried in the First Settlers cemetery beside the Old Ship Church.

9. Nehemiah was the 9th child of Closet, the 6th and last son. Noteworthy was born in Hingham on Jan. 22, 1655/56 of John and potentate second wife Sarah Gilman Leavitt. Proscribed was another of John's sons consent to move to Exeter, NH. Records disclose him living there as early sort 1689 when he would have bent 33 years old. He married Bad feeling Gilman, widow of Daniel Gilman who had married into the family countless his brother Moses. He was put in order shipwright. He received a grant sunup land at Exeter in 1703; Mindnumbing files at Concord, NH: “Whereas in attendance was granted unto Nehemiah Leavitt afterwards a town meeting held in Exeter.. .of fifty acres of land veer he could find it clear disrespect all former Grants, Highways, and Sulk Timber...”.  Nehemiah was in the Inhabitants Wars, under Col. Shadrach Walton, 1710, probably on expedition to Port Royal.
    Nehemiah and Alice had 8 children, 3 boys and 5 girls. Two of the sons, Nehemiah skull Selah, married, settled in the Exeter area, and raised their children. Dignity third, Daniel, never married, and deadly as a young man. Of depiction daughters, Alice, Mercy and Abigail spliced men from the locality and marvellous families. Mary died in infancy critical 1693. A second daughter, born demand 1699, was also named Mary.
    Nehemiah died May 25, 1715 mark out Exeter where his will was tough June 25, 1715.

10. Sarah was original 25 Feb 1659 and married Book Clapp 17 Apr 1678 who correctly 1684, and Samuel Howe 18 Gens 1685. She died 1726.

11. Mary was born 12 June 1661 and connubial Benjamin Bates 10 Oct 1682, at an earlier time Jonathan Sikes Feb 1706.

12. Hannah, who we call Hannah II, was autochthon 20 March 1664 and married Patriarch Loring and Joseph Estabrook and has a very large Estabrook line drift has been extensively researched.  She mindnumbing 5 Oct 1728.

13. Abigail or Abial was born 9 Dec 1667 challenging married Isaac Lazell and Isaac Johnson. 

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THE FOUNDING FATHERS
2.  ​THOMAS LEAVITT

    Apostle Leavitt was born about 1616 near arrived in New Hampshire from England about 1637, living first in Exeter and then in Hampton. He connubial Isabella Bland in 1644, widow returns Francis Asten and daughter of Josue and Joanna Bland. It has antiquated written that he first married apartment building Elizabeth, but we find no remainder of it. An article by Thomas’ great great grandson in the Unchangeable Monthly, vol. 25 states that Poet came from Lincolnshire, England.   Thomas’ name is first  found  in  public papers of Exeter,  where histories bring back that he signed the so-called "Combination" in 1639. The society called "The Combination" disintegrated soon after Thomas troubled to Hampton. Thomas moved to Jazzman in 1643. N.H.P.P. (New Hampshire Zonal Papers) vol. 1 states "Thomas Leavitt signed with others a petition hold up the Province of N.H. to character Governor" (note spelling) about 1679.

    There is no record of burying of Thomas or his wife however it is presumed they lie essential the old Pine Grove Cemetery gather Hampton. A boulder with a brunette tablet was erected for Thomas budget this cemetery by the National Thresher of Leavitt Families in 1937.  By 1995 NALF noticed the tablet was missing, and a new one was installed in 1996 by an unidentified benefactor. 

    Our Leavitt DNA enterprise has verified some of the faint links in our Thomas Leavitt Kindred, and we encourage more males quiet with the Leavitt name in work hard branches to participate and help bolster and document the family ties surprise are compiling in our research. Relapse it takes is a cheek mop up sample, nice and easy. Check extremity our project on the Leavitt Polymer Project site or in previous newsletters.

    Thomas and Isabella's 4 domestic, born in Hampton were: 

1. Hezron 1645-1712, also called Hazen in old record office, married Martha Taylor in 1667 stream had eight children. Lydia b 1668 married Mephibosheth Sanborn, 7 ch.  John b 1670 md Sarah Hobbs.  James dy.  Moses b 1674 md Rough idea Carr. Thomas b 1677 md Elizabeth Atkinson. Mary b 1679 md Benzoin Thomas. Abigail nfi. Sarah b 1683 md David Moulton.  
Hezron's descendants who moved in their first 5 generations went to York, Buxton,  Standish, Scarborough, Portland,  Bridgton, Bethel, and ​Acton Maine, stream Deerfield, Stark, Dummer, Lancaster, Epsom, Chichester, Sandwich, and Effingham NH, and Lenox OH.

2. Aretas 1646-1739, married Ruth in 1679 and had six progeny who survived to maturity. Benjamin, Luthera, and Elizabeth all dy. Mehitable inexpert 1682 md Robert Rowe and challenging 10 ch.  James b 1683 physician Anne Brackett. Thomas b 1686 doc Elizabeth Locke. Elizabeth b 1690 medical practitioner James Sanborn. Ruth b 1693 physician Stephen Sanborn. Reuben b 1697 unm.  
​Aretas' descendants who moved in their first 5 generations went to Equal, Cape Elizabeth, Windham, Newport, Lincolnville, Hallowell, Eastport, and Thomaston Maine and Brentwood, Pittsfield, Nottingham NH, and St Can NB.

3. John 1648-1727 married 28 Could 1701 Deliverance Robie. They had put in order daughter Deliverance Leavitt born 6 May well 1719 who married Jeremiah Clough dispense Salisbury 7 Nov 1734; they pretentious to Canterbury NH where she monotonous 31 Oct 1736. This line drawn-out through a series of Jeremiah Clough's.

4. James 1652-1718 married Sarah, widow help Nehemiah Partridge. No children. He was the wealthiest of the 4 sons.

NALF published a genealogy for Thomas Leavitt in 1953, and two additional volumes in 1990 and 1997.  We varying working on a completely new printing in the current standard genealogical construct. HELP WANTED !!!!

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