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Note: 721; died -------. He married March 4, 1743, Mary Embree, born March 14, 1723; d. -------.
Thomas3 Leggett purchased a farm at Stillwater, Saratoga County, N. Y., sometime before the Revolution, where most of his children were born. His dwelling and outbuildings, of logs, were within the Hessian redoubt at the battle of Saratoga. At the approach of Burgoyne, the family crossed the river to Easton, Washington County. Two of his sons, Isaac and Thomas, were taken prisoners by the British, and carried to the camp near Schuylerville; but later made their escape and returned home. (This note is taken from the records of a descendant, John6 Leggett [Abraham5, Isaac4], and is probably the correct version of an incident very differently told by Bolton, and quoted from him in other articles.)
The history of Saratoga County states that Isaac and Gabriel Leggett were early settlers at Stillwater, and it seems likely that Thomas3 Leggett was only living there temporarily, those two sons remaining on his property, the other members of the family returning to New York.
The family of Thomas3 Leggett were Friends, the first members of the Leggett family to become members of that faith, and were the founders of the Friends' Society at Stillwater.
There seems to be some difference of opinion as to whether Charles4 Leggett, given by the Rev. Theodore Leggett as the fifth child of Thomas3 and Mary (Embree) Leggett, was a son of this Thomas. His name is not found in the family record of John6 Leggett, noted above, and in the Gustin Genealogy his grandson, General Mortimer Leggett is called a descendant of William2 Leggett. No published records of Charles or of his family have been found.
[This last sentence is in error, and is corrected on p. 98, in Corrections and Additions, as Isaac had at least one son, Charles4, which T.A. Leggett acknowledges, but he is mistaken as to Charles's ancestry, believing him to be a son of Thomas2 Leggett and not a descendant of William2 Leggett, (grandson) as stated in the Gustin genealogy (also wrong of course!) The compiler (A. Hatfield, Jr. presumably) mentions (pp. 64-66) that the correct connection has since been proven to his satisfaction, and he corrects the record, but it is apparently too late to reset type and rejigger his numbering system, leaving us today with some confusion, if we do not read all the references, and the Corrections and Additions, pp. 98-101, of which there are many. DJL]
Source:
Early Settlers of West Farms Westchester County, N.Y.
Copied from the manuscript record of the late Theodore A. Leggett
With additions by A. Hatfield, Jr.
Edition of one hundred copies, New York, 1913. pp. 42-43:
Authorities:
John Leggett family record.
Friends' Records, New York City.
Saratoga County, N. Y., Descriptive and Biographical Record of, pp. 38, 95.
LotLL, 1-16:
* 17-g3Le1 Thomas3 Leggett, (Gabriel2, Gabriel1)
born June 3, 1721 at West Farms
married March 4, 1743, Mary Embree
born March 14, 1723
Children (Leggett) 10: 6 boys, 4 girls
26-g4Le6 Gabriel4
27-g4Le6 Samuel4
28-g4Le6 Martha4
29-g4Le6 Joseph4
30-g4Le6 Isaac4
ß The above children are continued in Section 6; those below in Section 7
31-g4Le7 Thomas4
32-g4Le7 Mary4
33-g4Le7 Embree4
34-g4Le7 Hannah4
35-g4Le7 Abigail4
Thomas3 Leggett purchased a farm at Stillwater, Saratoga County, N.Y., sometime before the Revolution, where most of his children were born. His dwelling and outbuildings, of logs, were within the Hessian redoubt at the battle of Saratoga. At the approach of Burgoyne, the family crossed the river to Easton, Washington County. Two of his sons, Isaac30-g4Le6 and Thomas31-g4Le6, were taken prisoners by the British, and carried to the camp near Schuylerville; but later made their escape and returned home.
The history of Saratoga County states that Isaac30-g4Le6 and Gabriel26-g4Le6 Leggett were early settlers at Stillwater, and it seems likely that Thomas3 was only living there temporarily, those two sons remaining on his property, the other members of the family returning to New York.
The family of Thomas3 Leggett were Friends, the first members of the Leggett family to become members of that faith, and were the founders of the Friends' Society at Stillwater.
The line of Thomas17-g3Le1 is continued in Section 6 and 7
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This supposition as to the death date of Thomas Leggett is contradicted by information later received from Edgar P. Leggett, giving death dates for Thomas Leggett and his wife, Mary Embree:
Of all the death dates of the 15 generations in my line, Thomas Leggett's is the only one for which we did not have the precise year. We have always been able to say (although Early Settlers does not do so explicitly in its entry for him) that Thomas's death occurred "After 25 June 1781," for he is mentioned in his father, Gabriel's (1698-1786) will of that date.
The 1790 Census for Westchester County shows two Thomas Leggetts, one of whom owned one slave. By 1800, there is only one Thomas Leggett, who owned no slaves. Family history (the letters of Thomas Bogart Leggett) relates that Thomas Leggett's (1721-a.1781) son Thomas (1755-1843) had " a large retinue of colored help, some of whom had been slaves to his father, but were free persons now." We also know Thomas Leggett, Jr. to have been a staunch Quaker; as such he would have been extremely unlikely to own slaves. His father, Thomas, Sr. had become a Quaker as well, and no doubt raised his son in the sect. Thomas Sr. was one of the founders of the Stillwater Meeting sometime in the decade preceding the Revolution, and would probably have freed his slaves in the years before, during, or shortly after the Revolution, as so many Quakers did. The Thomas Leggett who died about 1800 (married Comfort Wiggins), about whom we know relatively little, would have been the one who owned the one slave in 1790.
Old Aunt Rose, whom Thomas Bogart Leggett (1823-1895) recalls as a servant in the Rose Bank house in the 1830s might have been born a slave, or she might have been born to former slaves. It is said she died in the 1840s, and if she died in 1845, for example, and was 70 at her death, she would have been born in 1775, probably/possibly as a free person.
DJL, 3 October 2002, with additions
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FROM THE 2000-2002 NEW YORK CITY LEGGETT TOMBSTONE PROJECT
Six granite markers placed by David John Leggett and John Milton Leggett:
I. AT THE OCTAVE OF ALL SAINTS':
Four 2' x 3' x 4" gravestones in the Bronx, the first one in Drake Park, the next two in St. Peter's Church Yard, Westchester, the last in the William H. Leggett Plot, Woodlawn Cemetery, were placed in November 2001, the one in Woodlawn on the 5th, and the remaining three on the 6th;
II. ON CHRISTMAS EVE:
2. Two smaller reference stones (1' x 2' x4") in the Pittsburgh area, the first in the William T. Leggett / Corbett Plot, Homewood Cemetery, the last in the Joseph Baltzell Showalter / Leggett Plot, North Cemetery, Butler, were placed on the 24th of December, referring to the New York City stones and to each other.
Following is the inscription on the Drake Park stone, which is placed by the eroded marble obelisk marking the graves of the Ebenezer Leggett family, the only legible Leggett stone as of 2001:
LEGGETT
OF ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND
AND WEST FARMS (BRONX), NEW YORK.
IN MEMORY OF
GABRIEL LEGGETT, 1637 - 1700,
WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 1661; HIS WIFE,
ELIZABETH RICHARDSON, c. 1656 - 1724,
AND THEIR KINDRED, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN,
BURIED HERE, INCLUDING THREE SONS:
JOHN, 1677 - 1707, CICILY HUNT, d. 1732,
HIS WIFE, AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, INCLUDING SON:
JOHN, 1700/1 - 1777; HIS WIFE, ANNA HUNT, AND SON:
JOHN, 1742 - 1780; HIS WIFE, MARY HAVILAND, AND SON:
EBENEZER, 1763 - 1833; HIS WIFE, MARY, 1769 - 1851,
AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN:
CORNELIA, 1792 - 1820, NANCY, 1794 - 1852, AND
ROBERT, 1797 - 1816.
THOMAS, 1678 - 1707/8.
GABRIEL, 1698 - 1786, BRIDGET WILLIAMS,
HIS FIRST WIFE, AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, INCLUDING SON:
THOMAS, b. 1721; HIS WIFE, MARY EMBREE, b. 1723, AND FIRST
WIFE OF THEIR SON THOMAS, 1755-1843, MARY HAIGHT, 1762-1804.
THIS LINEAGE CONTINUES AT ST. PETER`S, WESTCHESTER,
THEN WOODLAWN CEMETERY, L. 522-523, S. 9, SPRING LAKE.
THE NEARBY GRAVES OF FOURTH SON, WILLIAM, 1691-1763,
AND HIS FAMILY, WERE REMOVED TO ST. PETER`S, 1891.
A. D. 2001, J. M. L. +
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Letter from Thomas Bogart Leggett (1823-1895), to his son, Edward Howard Leggett (1845-1927), setting out some family history. The original is penned on six sheets of blue-lined writing paper, 5-1/4 by 8-1/4 inches. Transcribed electronically by great-great grandson of the author, David John Leggett, b. 1961, 22 January 2003.
Page 1.
New York Oct 2d 1889
To E. Howard Leggett
Your Great-Great-Grandfather Thomas Leggett was born in West-Farms West-Chester County, New York State June 3d 1721.
Your Great-Grandfather Thomas Leggett was also born in West-Farms West-Chester County New York State on the land of his Father Jany 17th 1755, he lived as his Father did all his days in the same place and died there Oct 10th 1843.
He was twice married his first Wife was Mary Haight born Feb 7th 1762, married May 6th 1781, and died Nov 26th 1804.
"Copy of the obituary of the above
Page 2.
On Monday evening last, after a short but severe illness "Mrs. Mary Leggett, wife of Thomas Leggett, Merchant of this City; on the day following a numerous concourse of relatives and friends with unfeigned anguish, attended her remains to Friends Burying Ground. To say that in the different relations of Wife, Mother and friend she was conspicuous for conjugal affection, maternal kindness and sincere friendship will be doing of but impartial justice to this excellent woman. She has left a husband and eight children to lament her irreparable loss; Time, which wears out the traces of the deepest anguish, will pass over them in vain; the recollection of such a Wife and such a Mother must, while life remains, call forth the tears of regret. New-York
December 1st 1804
Page 3.
To them were born the following children which were your Great Uncles and Aunts-
Born Died
Samuel Oct 4, 1782
Joseph Jany 5, 1785
Charlotte Aug 12, 1787 Married W. W. Fox
Wm H. Apl 15, 1789 Dec 23, 1863
Mary Feby 23, 1791 Drowned June 4, 1802
Thomas Jany 30, 1793
Ann Aug 2, 1795 Married Saml F. Mott
Robert June 1, 1797
James Dec 26, 1800 Drowned June 4, 1802
Rebecca Married G. S. Fox
Mary Jany 13, 1803 m Thos. W. Pearsall
Thomas Leggett's second Wife was Mary Underhill, born Aug 17 1770 married Nov 3rd 1808, Died
To them were born
Elizabeth, Oct 24, 1809, died Jany 25, 1835
Jacob, April 15, 1815.
Page 4.
Your Grand-father Wm H. Leggett was born in the house of his Father "Thomas Leggett" West-Farms, April 15th 1789. Married Margaret Peck Wright Dec 28th 1814, and died December 23rd 1863 at No. 9 East 16th Street, New York City, aged 74 years - months and 8 days, and was buried at Wood Lawn in West-Chester Co. N. Y.
[handwritten in pencil on a blank line at the bottom, probably by E. Howard Leggett:
Grandmother died April 16, 1878 Aged 84]
[This was not the bottom of the original page. Page 4 has been cut in half, and the bottom half is missing. From the remaining tops of some of the letters at the edge of the crooked cut, one can see that there was at least one line of writing on the missing piece.]
Page 5.
Born Died
Augustus W. June 11, 1816
Cath Maria Nov 19, 1817 Wm M. Allen
Sam'l M March 27, 1820
Edward W. Sep 12, 1821
Thomas B. May 27, 1823
John W. Jany 1, 1826 Dec 24, 1887
Wm H. Oct 2, 1827 June 8, 1829
Geo F. Jany 14, 1829 Aug 31, 1887
Wm. H. July 14, 1831 Aug 6, 1832
Francis W. July 29, 1833
Edgar Dec 2, 1835 Feby 23, 1836
Your Father Thos. B. Leggett was born May 27th 1823 at Harlem Heights now about 70th Street, this was the year of yellow fever in the City, so my Father and Mother lived at their Country place to escape the epidemic.
Married Sarah Maria Huggins at St. Bartholomews Church New York City.
Your Mother Sarah Maria was born Augt 1, 1826 at 106
Page 6.
State Street New Haven Conn.
To them were born eight children
E. Howard, Dec 2, 1845 at Rose Bank West-Farms, West-Chester Co. N. York
Clinton H. July 26, 1847, same place as above
A Stillborn Son, July 8, 1849, same as above
Ella Bowman, Sep 2, 1850, Died July 8/54 born at the Hummock, Rose Bank, West-Farms, West-Chester Co. N. Y.
William T. born Nov 1, 1852, same place as Ella.
Norton W. born July 21, 1855, at West-Morrisania, West-Chester Co. died Dec 11, 1859
Florence H., born Aug 12, 1863 same place as above
Maud born April 25, 1867 at Elizabeth, N. J. died Aug 20, 1867
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The following has the first firm date I have ever seen for the death of Thomas Leggett and his wife. Having their birth to the day, but only the year of their deaths, is disappointing, though:
Thomas Leggett (First son of Gabriel & Bridget) was born at West Farms June 3rd.1721 Died 1785 Married Mary Embree March 4th 1743. She was born March.14th.1723 Died 1786. He purchased a farm at Stillwater, Saratoga County, N.Y. some time before the Revolutionary War. They had eleven children of which Joseph was our ancestor and he married Miriam Haight and his brother Thomas married her sister Mary.
From:
LEGGETT CONDENCES TREE DATA
By William Leggett
MUCH OF THIS DATA WAS SECURED FROM EARLY
SETTLERS OF WEST FARM WESTCHESTER COUNTY NEW YORK STATE
BY THE REVEREND THEODORE A. LEGGETT
Courtesy of Edgar Pearsall Leggett:
-----Original Message-----
From: Edgar P. Leggett [mailto:epleggett@anent.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 10:53 AM
To: Leggett, David
Subject: Leggett data
You should have this compiled record just for the sake of having it in many places. It is not completely edited, but the basic facts are there. The text material is from a genealogy of the Leggett family compiled by George Harold Leggett, my uncle. I have the carbon copies of the loose leaf book he left to me.
Note: 23. THOMAS3 LEGGETT (Gabriel2, Gabriel1), born at West Farms, June 3, 1
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