John Leggett1

M, b. circa 1600, d. 1675
FatherJohn Legatt de Chatham b. c 1575
     John was born circa 1600 in Hornchurch, County Essex, England. John left England for Barbadoas where he was a land owner between 1636 and 1640.2 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 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."4,5 John married 2nd Anne (?) in 1644 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.6,7 By 1649, he was back in Hampton where he was hired to instruct the children of the town.8 John departed this life in 1675 in New Hampshire.

Family 1
Children

Family 2

Anne (?)

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. [S2446] William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and family history of western New York; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume 1 page 70. - . . . had a son John [2],who came from Essex, England and settled in the West Indies, where he owned land from 1636-1640.
  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. [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].
  5. [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.
  6. [S2444] Early Settlers of Exeter and Old Norfolk, page 83.
  7. [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].
  8. [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.