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Note: ied April 29, 1828; married Rebecca Wood, born Jan. 18, 1761, died Feb 20, 1849.
Children 10 (Leggett) 5 sons and 5 daughters.
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, p. 49-50.
Authorities:
Family record of Rev. Theodore A. Leggett.
Bolton, R., History of County of Westchester, vol. 2, p. 446.
Burial information on this family group is from LotLL 5-5 and 6.
LotLL 5-1:
Begin generation four
* 21-g4Le5 William4 Leggett, (Abraham3, William2, Gabriel1)
born August 4, 1759
died April 29, 1828
married Rebecca Wood
born January 18, 1761
died February 20, 1849.
Children (Leggett) 10: 5 boys, 5 girls
29-g5Le5 Abraham5
30-g5Le5 William5
31-g5Le5 Elizabeth5
32-g5Le5 Joseph5
33-g5Le5 Gertrude5
34-g5Le5 Cornelia5
35-g5Le5 Rebecca5
36-g5Le5 Abraham5
37-g5Le5 Margaret5
37a-g5Le5 John5 W.
38-g5Le5 Ebenezer5
William4, wife Rebecca, and daughters Rebecca35-g5Le5, Gertrude33-g5Le5, Elizabeth31-g5Le5, and Cornelia34-g5Le5 [and Margaret] are all buried in the Stillwater Union Cemetery at Stillwater, Saratoga Co., N.Y.
In the "History of the County of Westchester" pages 271 there is the following. At this time, with out proof, it would appear that the Abraham and William mentioned are this William4 and his cousin Abraham23-g4Le5:
"Although the inhabitants appear to have suffered much during the Revolution, they generally continued firmly attached to the interest of their country. In 1775 occurs the following petition to the Hon. Provincial Congress, from the subscribers, inhabitants of the manor of Fordham and West Farms, in the county of Westchester, which:
Humbly sheweth that we were summoned to appear at Westchester in order to choose officers, according to the resolution of the congress, it having been represented, as we understand, that there was not a competent number of men in our district to form a company, we therefore beg leave to inform you that the manor of Fordham and the West Farms have in the militia always been considered as a district by themselves, and that within their limits there are upwards of seventy men fit to bear arms, and that an attendance at Westchester upon the meeting of the company will be attended with great inconvenience to many of the inhabitants and therefore injurious to the service intended to be advanced; from which considerations your petitioners humbly pray the Hon'ble Congress will be pleased to order that the manor of Fordham and the West Farms have a company with themselves, and that they elect their own officers under such inspection as the Honorable Congress in their wisdom shall think best: and your petitioners shall ever pray.
Of the fifty-one signatures there are:
Abraham Leggett
William Leggett"
Authorities:
ï American Authors 1600-1900, A Biographical Dictionary;
ï Annals of America, The; 1834; Vol. 6 - 1833-1840, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ï Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club; Vol. IX, No. 7; New York, July 1882
ï Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Index to; Vol. 1-75 (1870-1948) compiled by Harold William Rickett, July 28, 1955
ï Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Appletons', Vol. III; published New York, 1888
ï Cyclopaedia of American Biography, The National; Vol. XLIII, James T. White & Co., New York, 1961
ï DAR Patriot Index
ï Dictionary of American Biography, Volume XI; published C. Scribner's Sons, N.Y.; 1933
ï Early Settlers of West Farm, Westchester County, N. Y.; Copied from the manuscript record of the late Rev. Theodore60-g7Le14 A Leggett, with additions by A. Hatfield, Jr., New York 1913
ï Historical Sketch of the Torrey Botanical Club; by John Hendley Barnhard; The New York Botanical Garden
ï Narrative of Major Abraham Leggett of the Army of the Revolution; contained in Crumbs for Antiquarians by Charles I. Bushnell, Vol. printed 1866
ï New York Commercial Advertiser; Mar 29, 1816
ï New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, April 1902, pg. 78
ï New York Evening Post; Jun 5, 1812;
ï New York Times, as listed
ï Northumberland, Town of, 1850 census
ï Saratoga County Historian, Ballston Spa, N.Y.
ï Saratoga Friends Meeting Records
ï Stillwater, Saratoga 1850 census
ï Torrey Botanical Club Reminiscences by Arthur Hollick, Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences
ï Torrey Botanical Club Reminiscences by N. L. Britton, The New York Botanical Garden
ï Westchester County during the American Revolution 1775-1783, by Otto Hufeland, 1982
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Chain of Title for Farm # 3, Great Lott 16
1769 Philip Schuyler leases Farm # 3 to John Freeman. (Schuyler Papers reel #10)
It was a freehold lease dated August 2, 1769 and was for three lives.
John Freeman, Efellanah Freeman * (presumably his wife), & Edward Freeman.
" Thomas Freeman, son of John, had a daughter named Efellanah. The name was also spelled Evalena and Efelana.
" Original lease is in the Schuyler Papers, New York Public Library, NY, NY.
1777 The first Battle of Saratoga is fought on Farm # 3. The Americans stop the British advance, but the British retain the battlefield at the end of the day. The second Battle of Saratoga is fought on Farm # 3 and Farm # 4. The British loose this battle and burn John Freeman's log house before retreating to the hill above the village of Saratoga & later surrendering.
John Freeman fights with the British and retreats with them.
1778 February 10, John Freeman, his wife and six of his nine children die in the small pox epidemic in St. Jean, P.Q., Canada.
1779 William Mead is the tenant on Farm # 3 with a term lease.
(1779 Saratoga District Tax List) 1782 William Mead enters into a freehold lease with General Schuyler for Farm # 3.
(Chancery Decree, Department of State Docket 35 page 312-315)
1804 General Philip Schuyler dies and a decedent's estate is raised.
1805 General Schuyler's decedent's estate is settled by a Chancery Decree, supra, and
Catherine Schuyler Malcom inherits Farm # 3.
At the time of the Chancery Decree is filed, Joseph Brown is the tenant, having
assumed William Mead's lease.
Catheine Schuyler Malcom sells the farms in her Allotment under the Chancery Decree, supra. Not all of her Grantees record their deeds.
1822 Thomas Leggett conveys title to Farm # 3 to William Leggett
(Saratoga County Deed Book RR at page 168)
This deed does not contain a "Being clause" and does not explain how Thomas acquired title to Farm #3.
William Leggett to Abraham Leggett
1838 Abraham Leggett to Ebenezer Leggett (SCDB RR p 170)
1883 Ebenezer Leggett to Esther A. Esmond (SCDB 162 p. 53)
19__ Ester A. Esmond to Jennie E. Wight
1923 Jennie W. Wight to Saratoga Battlefield Association (SCDB 327 p. 199)
1927 Saratoga Battlefield Association to the State of New York (SCDB 341 p. 258)
Above done by Leslie Barbara Potter and emailed to me. Here is a family tree showing the passage of title to Farm #3, Great Lott 16, within the Leggett family, David John Leggett, 4th great grandson of Thomas Leggett, 8 July 2004.
Gabriel
1637-1700
[________________________________________________
[ [
William Gabriel
1691-1763 1698-1786
[ [
[ [
Abraham Thomas
1728-1813 1721-a.1781
[ [
[ [
William Thomas
1759-1828 1755-1843 [issue]
(Farm #3 to Abraham bet. 1822-1828) (Farm #3 to William, 1822)
[________________________ (Thomas's grantee and date of purchase unknown)
[ [
Abraham Ebenezer
1798-1880 1805-1889
[issue] [no issue]
(Farm #3 to (Farm #3 to Esther A. Esmond, 1883)
Ebenezer, 1838)
From: Leslie Potter [mailto:lbp@axs2000.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 5:58 PM
To: Leggett, David; Alice Zetterstrom
Subject: Re: Leggett Deeds
Importance: High
Leggett, David wrote:
Barbara, thanks for sending these along.
You are welcome.
At one time, did you not think that there was some sign
that he came by it somewhat underhandedly, as John Freeman, as a
loyalist, was dispossessed?
No. The Leggetts' penchant for failing to record deeds drives me up a wall, but I believe that the Leggetts were bona fide purchasers for value both for Farm # 2, Great Lott 17 and for Farm # 3 Great Lott 16 of the Second Grand Division of the Saratoga Patent. They "bought" Farm # 2 Great Lott 17 before the Revolution. They "bought" Farm 3, Great Lott 16 after 1805. (Please note that I am putting "bought" in parenthesis because NO ONE in New York State gets good fee simple title to their land until 1841 when the New York Legislature finally gets around to abolishing the Patroon System.)
John Freeman, who is my first cousin 5 times removed, leased the Farm # 3 Great Lott 16 from General Schuyler. It was a freehold lease. That means that the term of the lease was for an indefinite period of time. In this case the term of the lease was for three life times, i.e the life of John Freeman, Effelhannah, his wife and his son, Edward. The lease required John Freeman to pay yearly rent to General Schuyler. John Freeman broke his lease by not paying the required rent in 1777 and then by dying in the small pox epidemic in St. Johns, P.Q. Canada in February, 1778. (Actually John, Effelhannah and six of their nine kids died. Two daughters and one son, Thomas Freeman, survived. But Thomas Freeman was not the son named in the freehold lease so the lease was broken.) In addition in 1783, the U.S. authorities confiscated John's interest in Farm # 3, Great Lott 16. However, since legal title to Farm # 3, Great Lott 16 rested in Philip Schuyler and since John Freeman had broken his lease, John Freeman's interest in the property was equal to zero. Schuyler had to go to court and present those facts in open court, which may account for the fact that John Freeman's lease was retained in Schuyler's papers that are housed in the Schuyler papers in the New York Public Library, NY, NY.
General Schuyler leased Farm #3, Great Lott 16 to another tenant in short order. The information on the succeeding tenant farmers is to be found in the Chancery Decree that settled General Schuyler's decedent's estate. I have included an annotated copy of the Chancery Decree as an attached file.
In 1805, General Schuyler's daughter, Catherine Van Rensselear Schuyler Malcom, inherited Farm # 3, and a number of other farms in Great Lott 16. Catherine started selling off her father's interest in the land that she had inherited under his will. I can find deeds from Catherine to a number of subsequent purchasers. I can not find a deed from Catherine to anyone named Leggett. I do not know how the Leggetts get title to the property. I just know that no one ever challenged their right to sell the property. I suspect that one of the Leggetts bought Farm # 3 Great Lott 16 from either Catherine or Catherine's successor in title, but failed to record the deed. (That was really very 'un-Quakerly' of them.)
The problem that I have with the Leggett family's oral tradition is that it claims that the Leggetts "owned" Farm # 3, Great Lott 16 at the time of the Battle of Saratoga. They did not. For some reason everyone with a connection to the Saratoga Battlefield area during the Revolution wants to claim that their ancestor was the tenant on that farm and John Freeman was not. I just went through this exercise with a genealogist from John McCrea's family earlier this week. In 1777 the Leggetts were holding forth on Farm # 2, Great Lott 17, which was next door to Farm # 3 Great Lott 16, which abutted it on the south.
I still have to dig out Benjamin Leggett's lease for you. I'll try and get that done this weekend.
Later,
Barbara
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-----Original Message-----
From: Azetter@aol.com [mailto:Azetter@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:49 PM
To: Leggett, David; dickjanenospot@webtv.net
Subject: 1828 William Leggett estate
Saratoga County, NY, Surrogate's Court files:
a quick look at the earliest Leggett estate papers:
1828 William Leggett estate
widow, Rebecca Leggett renounces right to administer
witness to document: Cornelia Leggett
sons Joseph Leggett and Ebenezer Leggett, of Stillwater, named administrators
Letters of Administration Book 1, page 281 - Saratoga County
$2,000 (!!!) Admin. bond on May 16, 1828 names:
Joseph Leggett Ebenezer Leggett Rebecca Leggett William Leggett Abraham Leggett Elizabeth Leggett Gertrude Leggett Cornelia Leggett Rebecca Leggett Margaret Leggett relationships unstated
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<b>William Leggett
</b>Birth 1759
Death 29 Apr 1828 (aged 68-69)
Burial Stillwater Union Cemetery Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York, USA
Plot Union, lot 83, grave 1
Memorial ID 46147894
Inscription
William Leggett died Apr. 29, 1828, 68y. 8m. 25d. (C.E.Durkee's Epitaphs page 561)
Note: 48. WILLIAM4 LEGGETT (Abraham3, William2, Gabriel1), born Aug. 4, 1759; d
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