Thomas LEIGHTON

1605 - 1672  (67 years)

• Name	Thomas LEIGHTON  [1]
  Born	1605	Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Constable, selectman
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	22 Jan 1672	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I4330	Main
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	Robert LEIGHTON,   b. 1570, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
  Mother	Hannah SILSBY,   b. 1574, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
  Family ID	F10639	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joanna SILISBY,   b. Abt 1618, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland ,   d. 15 Jan 1704, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 86 years)
  Married	1634	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Children	1. Sarah LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1638, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 1672  (Age ~ 34 years) + 2. Thomas LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1642, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 22 Aug 1677, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 35 years) + 3. Mary LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1644, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. Aft Mar 1708, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 64 years)   4. Elizabeth LEIGHTON,   b. Abt 1646, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F10638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 1634 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Died - 22 Jan 1672 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Signed the Dover Combination. ----- Thomas Leighton, born about 1604 as a deposition shows, died January 20, 167 2. He was among the first settlers in Dover Neck and signed the Dover Combination of 1640. Was one of the selectmen, in 1647, 1648, and 1657, His will, September 20, 1671, names his wife, Joanna (who married, July 16, 1673, Job Clements and the children named, Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah. Joanna died January 15, 1704. ----- Thomas Leighton ( variously spelled Layton ; Laton) was born in 1604; came to America about 1633. In 1633 he took a lot of Captain Wiggans, which is thus described in 1647:--"butting on the Back River west, and on John Dam's Lott on the North, and on the Lane to ye back Cove , on the South,"-- He had various grants of land which it would puzzle an Indian to locate now, one of which was, in 1656, 100 acres joining to the 20 acres he bought of Mr. Gibbons, formerly belonging to Mr. Rogers. He lived on Dover Neck; died 22 Jan'y 1672. His will was dated 21 Sept'r 1671; proved 25 June, 1672. He gave property, therein, to his "only son and heir" Thomas, and to his daughters Mary (wife of Thomas Roberds, Jr.,)--Elizabeth ( wife of Phillip Cromwell,) and Sarah. Of his children were, (Fam.1,) Thomas; Mary who married Thomas Roberds, Jr.;Daughter (Mary) who married Deacon John Hall; Elizabeth who married (1) Philip Cromwell, (2) Philip Chesley; Sarah who was unmarried in 1672. ----- from TORREY: LEIGHTON, Thomas (1604, 1605?, 1602?-1672) & Joanna/[?Hannah SILSBY] (-1704, ae 86), m/2 Job CLEMENTS 1673; by 1643; Dover, NH

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 33:96.