John Leggett1

M, b. circa 1600, d. 1675
     John was born circa 1600 in Hornchurch, County Essex, England. He was the son of John Legatt de Chatham. John Leggett immigrated from England to Barbados where he, Samuel Richardson, Lewis Morris, Phillipse, Needham and other New Engalnd families are found as inhabitants and land owners of Barbados, West Indies in 1638. He later settled in New Hampshire and was a teacher there.2 He is next found in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire where on the 30th day of the 8th month 1640, he was admitted as an inhabitant. He then removed to Exeter where he was town clerk and teacher. Also on the 9th day January 1643, he along with John Smart, Edward Hilton & John Richardson witnessed the will of Thomas Wilson . Then on the 18 February 1643, John, Edward Hilton and John Richardson filed in court their concerns on the intent of Thomas Wilson in his will.3 On the 9th day of the 11th month 1642, Thomas Wilson of Exeter wrote his will. Two of the witnesses of this will were John Legat and John Richardson.4,5 On 9 January 1643, John, along with John Richardson, John Smart and Edward Hilton, witnessed the will of Thomas Wilson, husband of Anne. On 18 February, John, John Richardson and Edwartd Hilton "filed an "explication" of the will of Thomas Wilson, in which they presented "our best understanding & apprehension" of "the true intent & meaning of his last will & testament."6,7 John married 2nd Anne (?) after 9 January 1644 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.8,9 By 1649, he was back in Hampton where he was hired to instruct the children of the town.10 John departed this life in 1675 in New Hampshire.

Children of John Leggett

Citations

  1. [S2449] A. Harfield Jr. from manuscript of Theodore Leggett, Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N.Y., page 25 - John Leggett of Hampton 1640 - 1642-1649 Town Clerk at Exeter - 1649 teaching at Hampton until at least 1652 - signed will of Thomas Wilson 11 November 1642 along with John Richardson.
  2. [S2469] A. Hatfield Jr., Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, New York, Page 85 - John Leggett, Samuel Richardson, Lewis Morris, - - - Phillips - - - Needham and other New England names are found as inhabitants of Barbados, West Indies owning 10 acres, in 1638. [Note: it is possible that John Richardson was the son of Samuel Richardson. - KLM]
  3. [S2445] Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Volume 2, page 384 - On the 9th day of the 11th month 1642 [9 January 1642/43] Edward Hilton, John Richardson, John Leggett & John Smart witnessed the will of Thomas Wilson.
    On "the 18th day of the last month 1642" [i.e., 18 February 1642[/43] Edward Hilton, John Richardson and John Legat filed an "explication" of the will of Thomas Wilson, in which they presented "our best understanding & apprehension" of "the true intent & meaning of his last will & testament" [SPR 1:29].
    *He was admitted an inhabitant of Hampton, N.H., 30:8:1640, but was of Exeter in 1646, and in Hampton again in 1649. At this last date he agrees “to teach & instruct all the children of or belonging to our towne, both male & female [which are capiable of learning ], to write & read & cast accounts [if it be desired], - This yeare insuinge, as the weather shall be fitting for the youth to come together to one place; & also to teach & instruct them once in a week or more in some orthodox Chatechise provided for them by their parents or masters” – His wife’s name was Ann.
  4. [S2472] Abstracts of Earliiest Wiills, page 384 - In the name of God Amen. I Thomas Wilson of Exeter being sick, yet in my right witts. My loving wife & deard children I commend unto the grace of God & to the oversight & watchful eye of my Chistian brethren of the church of Roxbury, Hampton & Exeter, or where it shall please God to call them. To wife my dwelling house & new frame with the mill & the use of all my cattle & moveables thereunto belonging, during her widowhood: & the use of all my cattle & moveable goods for the bring up of my children. If she marry again, then to have her thirds, & to leave them to my son Humphrey. To son Samuel & son Joshua, to my daughter Deborah & my daughter Liddy, either of them ten pounds at the age of 21, or the day of marriage, out pf the mill goods. To son Humphrey my right & interest in house & land which I bought of Mr. Needam. And if wife die before my four younger children come to age, or any of them, then son Humphrey to provide for their nuture & bringing up out his owne dowery. To sons Samuel & Joshua, 4000 staves, to buy either of them a bullock. - - - This 9th day of the 11th mo 1642.- - - Witnesses: Edward Hilton, John Smart, John Legat, John Richardson - - - Deposed in court the 20th of the 7th , 1643.
  5. [S2473] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, On "the 18th day of the last month 1642" (i.e., 18 February 1642[/3]), Edward Hilton, John Richardson and John Legat filed an "explication" of the will of Thomas Wilson, in which they presented "our best understanding & apprehension" of "the true intent & meaning of his last will & testament" [SPR 1:29].
  6. [S457] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 Volume I -III, Voume I-III, pages 2017-2018 - On "the 18th day of the last month 1642" (i.e., 18 February 1642[/3]), Edward Hilton, John Richardson and John Legat filed an "explication" of the will of Thomas Wilson, in which they presented "our best understanding & apprehension" of "the true intent & meaning of his last will & testament" [SPR 1:29].
  7. [S2445] Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Will of Thomas Wilson of Exeter – mentions his wife and children, Humphrey, Samuel, Joshua, Deborah and Liddey. Witnesses: Edward Hilton, John Smart, John Legat* & John Richardson
    *He was admitted an inhabitant of Hampton, N.H., 30:8:1640, but was of Exeter in 1646, and in Hampton again in 1649. At this last date he agrees “to teach & instruct all the children of or belonging to our towne, both male & female [which are capiable of learning ], to write & read & cast accounts [if it be desired], - This yeare insuinge, as the weather shall be fitting for the youth to come together to one place; & also to teach & instruct them once in a week or more in some orthodox Chatechise provided for them by their parents or masters” – His wife’s name was Ann.
  8. [S2444] Early Settlers of Exeter and Old Norfolk, page 83 - Legat, John Hampton 1640 - - - John m. Ann Wilson, mother of Deborah.
  9. [S457] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 Volume I -III, Voume I-III, page 2018 - She married [2] by 1644 John Lagate [in 1644, as Ann Legate, she deeded cattle to Anthony Stanyan for the benefit of her daughter Deborah [note Deborah born in Roxbury in August 1634].
  10. [S2445] Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register: On the 9th day of the 11th month 1642 [9 January 1642/43] Edward Hilton, John Richardson, John Leggett & John Smart witnessed the will of Thomas Wilson.
    On "the 18th day of the last month 1642" [i.e., 18 February 1642[/43] Edward Hilton, John Richardson and John Legat filed an "explication" of the will of Thomas Wilson, in which they presented "our best understanding & apprehension" of "the true intent & meaning of his last will & testament" [SPR 1:29].
    *He was admitted an inhabitant of Hampton, N.H., 30:8:1640, but was of Exeter in 1646, and in Hampton again in 1649. At this last date he agrees “to teach & instruct all the children of or belonging to our towne, both male & female [which are capiable of learning ], to write & read & cast accounts [if it be desired], - This yeare insuinge, as the weather shall be fitting for the youth to come together to one place; & also to teach & instruct them once in a week or more in some orthodox Chatechise provided for them by their parents or masters” – His wife’s name was Ann.