Individual Details

Probate

In his will written 14 December 1841 (probate 4 December 1848), Samuel Leighton bequeathed to beloved wife Frances Usher Leighton the use and improvement of all the estate during her natural life except for that needed to pay debts and the specific legacies. Son Samuel Leighton receives thirty dollars, the sword and belt, his small gun and bayonet, and the wearing apparel if Samuel calls for it at the house in Alfred, Maine within two years of his decease. Daughter-in-law Rachel widow of his son William Parsons Leighton receives twenty dollars to be paid to Rachel’s daughter Frances Leighton Ferden when she arrives at age eighteen years. Son Usher Parsons Leighton receives thirty dollars which completes his portion. Daughter Oner Jones wife of Dr. William Jones of Ohio receives a good feather bed. Daughters Frances Leighton, Mary Leighton, and Ann B. Leighton receive fifty dollars each and a feather bed. They each also have privilege of the so-called Howard house while they are single. That house is then to go to son George Frost Blunt Leighton. The Balch mill lot of thirty acres is to be sold for the payment of debts. The residue of the estate goes to son George Frost Blunt Leighton. Wife Frances Usher Leighton and George Frost Blunt Leighton were named executors.1

Samuel Leighton has a will – Case 11342
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1 Maine Probate, York County Estate Files, Estate of Samuel Leighton, Case 11342

Biography

Some information on Samuel at Marker # 23 in the historical marker brochure – last one
https://eliothistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/HISTORIC-MARKER-BROCHURE.pdf

Leighton genealogy
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/11951/images/dvm_GenMono001445-00037-1?pId=66
Old Kittery and Her Families – says children all born at Eliot
https://archive.org/details/oldkitteryherfam00staciala/page/578/mode/2up?q=%22samuel+leighton%22