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Toby Leach1 (M)
d. 13 November 1726
Last Edited=22 Mar 2003
| Toby Leach married Hester (?).1 Toby Leach died on 13 November 1726.1 The Leach family came to England in 1066 with William, Duke of Normandy, and settled in Cheltenham. Toby Leach, together wwith his wife Hester, came to America from Cheltenham, England, in 1682 with William Penn who gave them a lot on 2nd St. above Market St. where they built a house. Penn also gave them a large tract of land on Tacony Creek where they also erected a home which they called Cheltenham. Here Toby maintained the hospitality of an English gentleman, His hunting grounds, afterwards kept up by his son Toby and later by his grandson were famous. Toby and Hester had a number of children who married into the principal families of their day. One of his daughters was the mother of William White and of Mrs. Robert Morris.1 |
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| Her married name was Leach.1 Hester (?) married Toby Leach.1 Hester (?) died on 11 August 1726.1 |
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| Her married name was Leach.1 Mary Harrison married John Leach, son of Toby Leach and Hester (?).1 |
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| Capt. Peter Ward was born in 1676.1 He was the son of Andrew Ward.1 Capt. Peter Ward married Mary Joy, daughter of Jacob Joy and Elizabeth Spencer, on 3 March 1699.1 Capt. Peter Ward died in 1763.1 |
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| Mary Joy was born on 17 September 1680.1 She was the daughter of Jacob Joy and Elizabeth Spencer.1 As of 3 March 1699,her married name was Ward.1 Mary Joy married Capt. Peter Ward, son of Andrew Ward, on 3 March 1699.1 |
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| Andrew Ward married Tyrall Meigs, daughter of John Meigs.1 Andrew Ward was born in 1647.1 He was the son of Andrew Ward and Hester Sherman.1 Andrew Ward died in 1691.1 He was made a freeman in 1668 and settled in Killingsworth, Conn.1 |
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| Emigrated to this country with Governor Winthrop in 1630 and settled in Watertown, Mass. becoming a freeman in 1634. Later he accompanied the first settlers to Connecticut where, in Wethersfield, he was elected magistrate in 1638. In the same year the General Court of that State appointed him one of five worthies who declared war against the Pequots. Also in that year he was appointed, by the same court, with Roger Ludlow and six others to govern the Colony for one year. He was, therefore, one oft he Assistants of Judges of the Colony of the first Legislative body held in that state. In 1638 he was appointed with Captain John Mason and Mr. Allen to go to Agawam or Springfield to treat with the Indians of Warnock concerning the tribute toward the charges of the Pequot war to the value of one fathom and a quarter a man. He returned to New Haven soon after and his name is found there among the freeholders at the gathering of the church 4th of June 1639. On 27th of Oct. 1641 he was, with Francis Bell, Representative at Stamford and New Haven and both were admitted members of that Court and received the charge of freeman to treat with the Court about the Plantation. (Lately purchased by said town, called Toquams, or Stamford). At the assembling at the Gen'l Court at New Haven, April 15th, 1643, his letter was presented written in the name of the free planters, introducing Capt. John Underhill and Richard Gildersleeve as Deputies to the Court at Stamford, at the same time requesting that a magistrate might be chosen for the better administration of the affairs of that town. He, with Rob't Coe, was appointed to assist at the next Gen'l Court of election at New Haven, in counsel and advice for the more completely carrying of Public Affairs. He was again elected one of the Deputies from Stamford to the Gen'l Court of New Haven in 1644 and 1646. He may have gone to Hempstead, Long Island but he could only have remained there a short time, for on the 6th of October 1651 at the Sitting of the Gen'l Court at Hartford, he was appointed with John Banks of Fairfield to settle the Estate of Peter Johnson of Fairfield. At the same time he with George Hull and William Beardsley of Stamford, were nominated as Assistants to join with the Magistrates for the execution of justice in the towns of Conn. by the Sea Side, about 1657. He purchased Simon Hoyts home and house lot on the Ludlow Square. He was one of the most important and influential men in Fairfield. He died in Fairfield in 1665. His will is dated June 3rd, 1659 and probated in Fairfield. He left nine children. His will drawn by his own hand, declares himself to be strong, merry and well, both in body and in mind He gives to his wife Hestor 40Ls out of his movable estate and the use of one-third of his lands and housing in Fairfield during her widowhood; to his son John, 50 Ls at the age of 21; to his daughter Sarah (who afterwards married Nathaniel Burr), 40 Ls within one year of her marriage; to daughter Abigail, 40Ls at the age of 18; to sons Andrew and Samuel, housing and lands to be equally divided between when the oldest was 21 years of age. All the rest of his children he states had received their full portions, except Edmund who in case he came home was to receive 20Ls out of Andrew's and Samuels portions.1 Andrew Ward married Hester Sherman, daughter of Edmund Sherman and Joan (?).1 Andrew Ward was born in 1597.1 He was the son of Andrew Ward.1 Andrew Ward died in 1665.1 |
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| Andrew Ward was the son of Richard Ward and Ann Granville.1 Andrew Ward married Margaret (?).1 Andrew Ward married Susan (?).1 |
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| Margaret (?) married Andrew Ward, son of Richard Ward and Ann Granville.1 |
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| Susan (?) married Andrew Ward, son of Richard Ward and Ann Granville.1 |
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| Hester Sherman was the daughter of Edmund Sherman and Joan (?).1 Her married name was Ward.1 Hester Sherman married Andrew Ward, son of Andrew Ward.1 |
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| Edmund Sherman married Joan (?).1 |
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| Her married name was Sherman.1 Joan (?) married Edmund Sherman.1 |
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| Tyrall Meigs is the daughter of John Meigs.1 Tyrall Meigs married Andrew Ward, son of Andrew Ward and Hester Sherman.1 |
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| John Meigs is the son of Vincent Meigs.1 |
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| Jacob Joy married Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Samuel Spencer and Sarah Meakins, on 23 May 1672.1 Who settled in Fairfield, Conn, was a blacksmith, an occupation which in colonial days was greatly honored and respected. A village smithy in those days had his house by the Meeting House Green, near the church, and combined the arts of locksmith and gunsmith with that of horse shoeing. He later moved to Kenilworth, Conn.1 |
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| As of before 1672,her married name was Wellman.1 Elizabeth Spencer married (?) Wellman before 1672.1 Elizabeth Spencer married Jacob Joy on 23 May 1672.1 As of 23 May 1672,her married name was Joy.1 Elizabeth Spencer was born on 17 September 1674.1 She was the daughter of Samuel Spencer and Sarah Meakins.1 |
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| (?) Wellman married Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Samuel Spencer and Sarah Meakins, before 1672.1 |
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| Samuel Spencer married Sarah Meakins.1,2 Samuel Spencer was born in 1634 at Hartford, Conn.2 He was the son of William Spencer and Agnes Heane Pratt.1 Resided in Hartford, Conn.1 |
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