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voyages previous to that which brought him
to the New World for permanent settlement.
His home was in what was known as "Fore-
side," now known as Crooked Lane. He
had a grant of nineteen acres, June 13, 1659,
and soon settled in that part of Kittery
which is now Eliot. He married, in 1659,
Catherine, daughter of Nicholas Frost, born
in 1633. They had two sons and two daugh-
ters. The eldest son died in childhood.
John, son of Captain William and Catherine
(Frost) Leighton, born in May, 1661, died
November 10, 1724, in Eliot. He was en-
sign and later captain in the Indian wars;
a large land-holder, and held many offices in
what was then Kittery. He married, June
13, 16S6, Oner, daughter of Tobias and Eliza
(Sherburne) Langdon, and they had four
sons and two daughters. William, son of
John and Oner (Langdon) Leighton, was
born September 17, 1696, and died August
20, 1749, in Eliot. He was a merchant and
dealer in lumber and ship timbers ; active
in the establishment of schools; selectman
of the town, and jjrominent in other ways.
He married, in November, 1720, Sarah,
daughter of Major John and Mary (Frost)
Hill, born December 6, 1695. They had
three sons and one daughter. William (2),
son of \\'illiam (i) and Sarah (Hill) Leigh-
ton, born September 17, 1723, died January
II, 1793, in Eliot. He was the owner of
vessels trading with the West Indies and
making occasional trips to Europe. A
patriot, he helped raise and equip troops for
the revolutionary army, being himself too
old for service in the field. He served as
sheriff, justice of the peace, and deacon of
the church. He married (second) August
6, 1750, Mary, daughter of Captain Jonathan
Bane, and they had three sons and six
daughters. William (3), eldest child of
William (2) and Mary (Bane) Leighton,
was born April 29, 1751, died December 22,
181 1. He was a large landholder and
farmer, and had mills and timber lands in
various sections of Maine, and also engaged
in business as a tanner and currier. He
kept a large number of oxen and transported
goods to the interior of Maine, which were
ferried across the river at Portsmouth in
his own boats. He married. January 5,
1778, Miriam, daughter of Captain Dennis
and Sarah (Frost) Fernald, of Kittery, born
December 12. 1760. They had six sons and
six daughters. One of these daughters,
Sarah, born August 13, 1782, died Decem-
ber 15, 1863; married (first) Captain Wil-
liam Harrold, who died without issue ; and
(second) March 15, 181 5, Samuel Bradbury.
Samuel Bradbury was a descendant of a
very old English family, which had a rep-
resentative among the pioneers of New Eng-
land. This family has been traced to Robert
Bradbury, who was probably born as early
as 1400, and resided in Ollerset, Derbyshire,
England. He married a daughter of Robert
Davenport, of Bramhall, county Chester,
England. Their son, William Bradbury,
was the father of Robert (2) Bradbury,
whose son, William (2) Bradbury, was born
in 1480. He succeeded to the Manor of
Mancendem, and acquired the Manor of Cat-
mere Hall, in Littlebury, county Essex,
where he was buried in 1646. His son, Mat-
thew Bradbury, was the father of William
(3) Bradbury, whose son, Wymond Brad-
bury, resided at Wicken Bonant, and was
afterward of the parish of Whitechapel,
county Middlesex. He was baptized May
16, 1574, at Newport Pond; was of London
in 1628, and died in 1650. His wife Eliza-
beth was a daughter of William Whitgift,
and sister of the wife of his brother, Mat-
thew. Thomas Bradbury, son of Wymond,
was baptized February 28, 161 1, at Wicken
Bonant, and appeared at what is now York,
Maine, early in 1634, as the agent or steward
of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, proprietor of the
province of Maine. Thomas Bradbury was
an original proprietor of Salisbury, Massa-
chusetts, for more than half a century ; one
of its foremost citizens, filling nearly every
civil office, including associate judge, and
was captain of a militia company. He was
an educated man. wrote a clear hand, and
was appointed first clerk of the writs in
Salisbury. He died March 16, 1695. His
wife Mary was a daughter of John and
Judith Perkins, of Ipswich, Massachusetts,
and was accused as a witch at the age of
about eighty years, in 1692, during the ter-
rible delusion on the subject of witchcraft.
One hundred and eighteen of her neighbors
and her pastor testified to her high char-
acter, pure life, and sincere religion. She
died December 20. 1700. Wymond (2)
Bradbury, son of Thomas and Mary (Per-
kins) Bradbury, born 1637, died 1669 on the
island of Nevis, in the West Indies. He
married Sarah Pike, and they had two
daughters and a son. Wymond (3) Brad-
