Naomi Leffingwell
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Nov 1638 - Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay
Baptism:
Death: 28 Mar 1681 - Reading, Massachusetts Bay
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *James Stimson (Cir 1635 - Cir 1720)
Marriage: 18 Apr 1661 - Reading, Massachusetts Bay
Status:
Children:
1. Naomi Stimson (1663- )
2. Ruth Stimson (1664- )
3. Elizabeth Stimson (Cir 1668- )
4. Dr James Stimson (1669-1758)
5. Mary Stimson (1677-1677)
6. Mary Stimson (1679- )
7. Benjamin Stimson (1681- )
Oliver David LeGault
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1900 - Haverhill, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Myrtle Eva Harding (10 Feb 1901 - 30 Oct 1987) 1
Marriage: 16 May 1920 - Falmouth, Massachusetts 2
Status:
Daniel Legg
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1700 - of Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Hall (Est 1705 - )
Marriage: 12 Aug 1728 - Harwich, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Major Francis Legge
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1740
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
MAJOR FRANCIS LEGGE, a relation of the Earl of Dartmouth, was appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-chief of Nova Scotia in June, 1773. He was sworn in, October S, 1773. His administration was not successful. He left the province in 1776, but continued to hold the office for some years longer, during which its duties were administered successively by Lieutenant-Governors Mariot Arbuthnot, Richard Hughes, and Sir Andrew Snape Hamond. 4
Captain John Sinclair Leidel
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Feb 1919
Baptism:
Death: 14 Nov 1993 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial: in U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 320-34-5876, Illinois in Illinois
Spouses and Children
1. *Ann R Rutherford (29 May 1924 - 2 Mar 2009)
Marriage: Aug 1944 - Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts 5
Status:
Notes
General:
Annapolis graduate, class of 1941
brother Capt. Hugh Leidel, USMC, killed at Tarawa
brother Lt. Richard Leidel, USN, also served in WWII
sons of Adm. & Mrs. OW Lediel of Washington 6
Amos L Leigh
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1847 - Newbury, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Mercy Higgins Snow (28 Nov 1849 - ) 7
Marriage: 11 May 1867 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 8
Status:
Notes
General:
parents Hall J & Abigail
1867 cabinetmaker, Newbury
C C Leighton
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1845 - (Richmond, Maine)
Baptism:
Death: After 1913 - Richmond, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Laura Etta Leighton (1872-1954) 9
2. Nathaniel W Leighton (1870-1913)
Clare Veronica Hope Leighton
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Apr 1898 - London, England
Baptism:
Death: 4 Nov 1989 - Watertown, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number
Notes
General:
Princeton Univ. Library
Clare Veronica Hope Leighton
British, 1898-1989
Although known primarily for her work as a printmaker, Clare Leighton also designed numerous book illustrations, bookplates, engravings, illustrations, mosaics, and stained glass windows over the course of a long and productive career. She wrote seven books, among them Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle, illustrated with her own prints, and a treatise on wood engraving, her forté. She received her early training at the Brighton College of Art and also attended the Slade School of Fine Art and the Central School of Art and Design in London. During the 1920s and 1930s she taught, exhibited, and made several lecture tours of the United States. At the outbreak of World War II, she moved to America, and in 1945 became an American citizen. A teaching position at Duke University in 1943 brought her into contact with Professor Frank C. Brown's pioneering effort to collect North Carolina folklore. Eventually, the project grew to seven published volumes, all of which Leighton illustrated. Though some might have considered her an "outsider" in the matter of Southern folkways, she took her work seriously, making a research trip to the North Carolina mountains in 1946, where the customs, music, dance, and crafts of the early Scottish and Irish settlers still permeated the culture.
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Dickenson College exhibit
Clare Leighton was a British/American writer and artist who lived from 1899 until 1989. During her long life she wrote 15 books and illustrated 49 others, as well as creating stained glass windows for St. Paul's Cathedral in Massachusetts. Leighton is also recognized as the artist of the only portrait that Gandhi ever sat for. Although Leighton is skilled in painting and in drawing, wood engraving was her preferred medium. "Wood engraving would be her life--wood engraving, an art so English." August: Harvest Time is just one example of the many wood engravings and illustrations she created. She was most likely influenced in her choice of career by her father, Robert Leighton, who was the author of over fifty books. "Talent was to be expected in this child; poetry, music, art were family hallmarks; her home, the salon for London's literati, social reformers and intellectuals." Leighton made America her new home in 1928 when she came to the states on a lecture tour and decided to remain.
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CHAPTER XII in Provincetown Profiles, 1958
Clare Leighton
I FIRST met Clare Leighton, the author and wood engraver, during the summer of 1953 when she was writing and illustrating her Cape Cod book: "Where Land Meets Sea."
Miss Leighton, whose home is in Woodbury, Conn., has been summering on the Cape for some 15 years and she loves it.
"But I have been so busy with my book this summer," she told me, "that I have scarcely had time for anything else. It is to contain 50,000 words, plus 30 or 40 woodcuts, and I must have it completed by December 1. I still have 20,000 words to write and quite a bit of work to do on the woodcuts."
It was on a warm sunny afternoon that I visited her. At that time she had a tiny two-room cottage on Cove road in Wellfleet. I found her friendly, vivacious and altogether charming.
"I purposely have a cottage that is small," she said in her very British manner, waving a hand in the wind. "You see, this way no one comes here expecting to be put up for the night and no one expects me to give any cocktail parties. My principal purpose in being here this summer is to work. Did you see the sign I have tacked to my front door?"
I hadn't as I'd caught her in the yard . . . but I noted it later. It read: "No visitors this morning . . . but they're welcome the rest of the day."
"What sort of a Cape Cod book is it going to be?" she repeated my question as she went on musingly, fingering her chin. "Well, it's to be purely personal and subjective. I'm afraid to reread Thoreau's "Cape Cod" or almost anything Cape Coddish for fear it would interfere with my own thought.
"The book will be my feelings and impressions of the Cape. I'll have a chapter on sand . . . others on winter and summer . . . draggers, surf-casters and so forth."
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Edgar Waldo Leighton
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Dec 1907 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 12
Baptism:
Death: 1938
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 13
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Waldo Leighton (1875- )
Mother: Ida Savage (1887- )
Notes
General:
1930 US census, Orleans
crew
Elizabeth Leighton
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1634 - Dover, New Hampshire
Baptism:
Death: After Oct 1712 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Cape Elizabeth, Maine in Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Spouses and Children
1. *Francis Smalley (Abt 1625 - Abt 1713) 14
Marriage: Abt 1652
Status:
Children:
1. Edward Smalley (Abt 1653-1702)
2. Mary Smalley (Abt 1656-Abt 1715) 15
3. Francis Smalley (Abt 1659-Abt 1710)
4. Samuel Smalley (Cir 1664- )
5. Benjamin Smalley (Abt 1665-1721) 16
6. Elizabeth Smalley (Between 1668/1674- ) 15
7. Daniel Smalley (Abt 1670-1729)
8. Alice Small (1676-Bef 1734) 17
Notes
Marriage Notes (Francis Smalley)
Children, all said by one source to be born in Falmouth, Maine (but other sources disagree on the fine details - some say Casco Bay, some Sebascedegan Island)
Harvard Leighton
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Sep 1905 - Maine
Baptism:
Death: 4 Feb 1999 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Social Security Number, 007-09-1495, Maine in Maine
Parents
Father: Waldo Leighton (1875- )
Mother: Ida Savage (1887- )
Laura Etta Leighton
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Mar 1872 - Richmond, Maine
Baptism:
Death: 1954 - Richmond, Maine 18
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: C C Leighton (Est 1845-After 1913)
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Frederick Charles Lewis (4 Feb 1868 - 9 Dec 1960) 9
Marriage: 27 Dec 1894 - Richmond, Maine 19
Status:
Children:
1. Charles Irving Lewis M.D. (1897-1979) 20
2. Nettie Marie Lewis (1898-1996) 21
3. William Frederic Lewis (1900-1901) 22
Nathaniel W Leighton
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Jun 1870 - Richmond, Maine
Baptism:
Death: Nov 1913 - Richmond, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death: typhoid pneumonia
Parents
Father: C C Leighton (Est 1845-After 1913)
Mother:
Notes
General:
"Nathaniel W. Leighton, died early Thursday morning at the home of his parents, Mr. And Mrs. C. C. Leighton, on Maine Street, after an illness of about three weeks, death resulting from typhoid pneumonia. Mr. Leighton’s sudden death was cause for sorrow among his many friends here. He was born in Richmond, his age being forty-three years, five months. Although at intervals he was employed at Bath and in Massachusetts, the greater part of his life was passed in Richmond, where he had held positions of trust in many of the stores here, his last employment being in the meat market of James Sencabaugh. He was a polite clerk and a most obliging fellow and would invariably go out of his way to do a favor. He was a member of the Baptist church. He is survived by his parents, and one sister, Mrs. Fred C. Lewis of this town. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 12:45, from his late home, Rev. J. A. Wiggin of the Baptist church, officiating. Burial will take place in Cotton’s Cemetery" 23
Robert Leland Leighton
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Nov 1913 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 12
Baptism:
Death: 1 Jul 1987 - Falmouth, Massachusetts 24
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Waldo Leighton (1875- )
Mother: Ida Savage (1887- )
Waldo Leighton
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1875 - Jonesport, Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Ida Savage (1887 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Harvard Leighton (1905-1999)
2. Edgar Waldo Leighton (1907-1938)
3. Robert Leland Leighton (1913-1987)
Notes
General:
1907 assistant lightkeeper, Race Point LightMarriage Notes (Ida Savage)
1913 lightkeeper, Provincetown
1915 and later, lightkeeper at South Hyannis
1920 US census, Barnstable
11 jul 1929, Hyannis Patriot
"South Hyannis
After nearly 15 years of service at the Light Station, Waldo Leighton with his family has moved to Woods Hole. They will be greatly missed in the neighborhood."
John Leland Esq
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1784 - (Sherborn, Mass.)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sally Bickford (15 Jul 1790 - ) 25
Marriage: 12 Nov 1809 - Sherborn, Massachusetts 26
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Sally Bickford)
family details Sherborn-Holliston 27
William Leland
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1829 - Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
1850 US census, Wellfleet
Wm Leland, 21, mariner, b Mass., at Hannah Dill's hotel
John Lelandine
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1826 - England
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
1850 Wellfleet census:
in the household of Samuel & Abigail Higgins were
Richard C Ellen, 24, mariner, b Ireland
John Lelandine, 24, mariner, b England [surname uncertain]
Beatrice Lema
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Frank Lema (Est 1880- )
Mother: Wilhelmina Souza ( - )
Notes
General:
2006: Beatrice Packet of Chatham
Frank Lema
Sex: M
AKA: Frank Lima
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1880
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Wilhelmina Souza ( - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Vivian L Lema (1916-2006)
2. Beatrice Lema ( - )
2. Wilomena (Est 1880 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Beatrice L Lima (1913-2007)
Sources
1. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1901 births.
2. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1920.
3. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 42, 44. Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no 'Harwick.'
4. Arthur Wentworth Eaton, The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution (1891. New York: Thomas Whittaker. online: http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/ns/eaton/), ch. 16.
5. Provincetown Advocate (Provincetown, Mass. [1918-1967 archives online at Provincetown Library]), 10 Aug 1944, p. 4.
6. Provincetown Advocate (Provincetown, Mass. [1918-1967 archives online at Provincetown Library]), 10 Aug 1944, p.4.
7. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 22.
8. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Marriages 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 10.
9. Rootsweb.com, ricktallman. .... Cheryl Cunney, Curtis Cemetery (Swan Island) (2001. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mesagada/richmond/CurtisCemetery.htm).
10. US Social Security Index.
11. Frank Crotty, Provincetown Profiles. and others on Cape Cod (1958. Barre MA: Barre Gazette), 53-57.
12. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Provincetown.
13. index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
14. Rootsweb.com, lalonde-clark (Raquel Knott).
15. Rootsweb.com, :2226738 (Lloyd Cunningham).
16. Rootsweb.com, 6105338 (Nancy Jacobsen).
17. Marilyn Maxwell Strout, "Descendants of James Maxwell and Christopher Strout" (2001. freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~strout/geneal.html). unreferenced but generally plausible
18. Rootsweb.com, :645132 (Cheryl Cunney).
19. Ruie L. Curtis, Perkins (formerly Swan Island) (1935. Richmond, Maine: Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Richmond Chapter). typewritten manuscript. The 1850 census transcription seems error prone.
20. Rootsweb.com, :645132 (Cheryl Cunney). .... Ruie L. Curtis, Perkins (formerly Swan Island) (1935. Richmond, Maine: Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Richmond Chapter).
21. Rootsweb.com, ricktallman. .... Ruie L. Curtis, Perkins (formerly Swan Island) (1935. Richmond, Maine: Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Richmond Chapter).
22. Curtis cemetery, Swan Island, Maine (records at Patten Library, Bath Maine). .... Ruie L. Curtis, Perkins (formerly Swan Island) (1935. Richmond, Maine: Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Richmond Chapter).
23. Rootsweb.com, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mesagada/richmond/NathanielW.htm. newspaper unsure, date 13 Nov 1913.
24. Massachusetts death index 1970-2003 (FamilySearch.org).
25. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1:44.
26. Abner Morse, A genealogical register of the inhabitants and history of the towns of Sherborn and Holliston (1856. Boston: Damrell & Moore [online]), 15. .... Thomas Williams Baldwin, editor, Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (1911. Boston: Stanhope Press), 106.
27. Abner Morse, A genealogical register of the inhabitants and history of the towns of Sherborn and Holliston (1856. Boston: Damrell & Moore [online]), 169.