Individual Details
Leonard Langston Sr.
(Abt 1680 - 1762)
[[Category: Hertford County, North Carolina]]
== Biography ==Birth date est. 1648-1681 in New Kent or Nansemond County, Virginia, Leonard was a son of [[Langston-82|John Langston]]. His mother may have been Katherine Mulford Mountford.[https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/r/a/Gail-Brandolino/GENE3-0008.html Langston Gen. 8 on Genealogy.Com]
He married [[Yates-4454|Martha Yates]] in Virginia, and had five children:[https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/r/a/Gail-Brandolino/GENE3-0009.html Langston Gen. 9 on Genealogy.Com]
# Leonard, Jr. (1754-?), m. Jerusha Knight
# William
# Francis
# Rachel, m. Thomas Wills
# Luke (1754-?)
From Colonial Bertie County, North Carolina, Deed Books A-H, 1720-1757, by Mary Best Bell, page 231:
Deed Book H, page 60, 6 Feb. 1754. LEONARD LANGSTON to WILLIAM LANGSTON, FRANCIS LANGSTON, THOMAS and RACHEL WILL, LUKE LANGSTON. Deed of gift. (1) To Leonard [sic] "...for affection which I bear toward my well beloved son WILLIAM LANGSTON...the plantation whereon I now live...(and) also a negro boy called Coffee and the still which is now on said plantation as also four cows and calves..." (2) "...to my son FRANCIS LANGSTON in the County of Johnson...a tract of land in the said county whereon he now lives...above the Fork of Marry(?) Branch..." (3) "...to my son-in-law THOMAS WILLS and my daughter RACHEL WILLS one hundred acres of land...in Johnson County on the Wattry(?) Branch...and after their deaths to the lawful heirs of my daughter RACHEL..." (4) "...to my grandson LUKE LANGSTON son of LEONARD LANGSTON my negro girl called Lucy..." (5) "...and to my grandson LUKE LANGSTON I freely give my negro girl called Charity..." (6) "...and to my well beloved son FRANCIS LANGSTON my Negro woman called Judith..." Witnesses: James Deuson(?) (Dawson?), John Brown. May Court 1754.Mary Best Bell, Colonial Bertie County, North Carolina, Deed Books A-H, 1720-1757, page 231.
Leonard passed away in Hertford County, North Carolina, in 1763.[https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZYG-L5D/leonard-langston-1763 Leonard Langston on FamilySearch.com]
== Sources ==
==Acknowledgements==Thanks to [[Dinges-15 | Crystal Hatch]] for creating this profile through the import of Crystal_s Family Tree (2).ged on Oct 17, 2011.
== Biography ==Birth date est. 1648-1681 in New Kent or Nansemond County, Virginia, Leonard was a son of [[Langston-82|John Langston]]. His mother may have been Katherine Mulford Mountford.[https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/r/a/Gail-Brandolino/GENE3-0008.html Langston Gen. 8 on Genealogy.Com]
He married [[Yates-4454|Martha Yates]] in Virginia, and had five children:[https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/r/a/Gail-Brandolino/GENE3-0009.html Langston Gen. 9 on Genealogy.Com]
# Leonard, Jr. (1754-?), m. Jerusha Knight
# William
# Francis
# Rachel, m. Thomas Wills
# Luke (1754-?)
From Colonial Bertie County, North Carolina, Deed Books A-H, 1720-1757, by Mary Best Bell, page 231:
Deed Book H, page 60, 6 Feb. 1754. LEONARD LANGSTON to WILLIAM LANGSTON, FRANCIS LANGSTON, THOMAS and RACHEL WILL, LUKE LANGSTON. Deed of gift. (1) To Leonard [sic] "...for affection which I bear toward my well beloved son WILLIAM LANGSTON...the plantation whereon I now live...(and) also a negro boy called Coffee and the still which is now on said plantation as also four cows and calves..." (2) "...to my son FRANCIS LANGSTON in the County of Johnson...a tract of land in the said county whereon he now lives...above the Fork of Marry(?) Branch..." (3) "...to my son-in-law THOMAS WILLS and my daughter RACHEL WILLS one hundred acres of land...in Johnson County on the Wattry(?) Branch...and after their deaths to the lawful heirs of my daughter RACHEL..." (4) "...to my grandson LUKE LANGSTON son of LEONARD LANGSTON my negro girl called Lucy..." (5) "...and to my grandson LUKE LANGSTON I freely give my negro girl called Charity..." (6) "...and to my well beloved son FRANCIS LANGSTON my Negro woman called Judith..." Witnesses: James Deuson(?) (Dawson?), John Brown. May Court 1754.Mary Best Bell, Colonial Bertie County, North Carolina, Deed Books A-H, 1720-1757, page 231.
Leonard passed away in Hertford County, North Carolina, in 1763.[https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZYG-L5D/leonard-langston-1763 Leonard Langston on FamilySearch.com]
== Sources ==
==Acknowledgements==Thanks to [[Dinges-15 | Crystal Hatch]] for creating this profile through the import of Crystal_s Family Tree (2).ged on Oct 17, 2011.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1680 | Virginia | |||
| Death | 1762 | Hertford Couny, North Carolina | |||
| Reference No | 3006438 | ||||
| Reference No | 3048677 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | John Langston (1620 - 1694) |
| Sibling | Mulford Langston (1665 - 1741) |