Thomas Leighton, The Immigrant
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Thomas Leighton was an immigrant and selectman in colonial Dover, Province of New Hampshire. - AsNotedIn
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- Son: Thomas Leighton II
Thomas Leighton was an immigrant and selectman in colonial Dover, Province of New Hampshire. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1604/00/00 | Thomas Leighton is born, possibly in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander Leighton, a medical doctor and puritan preacher. Thomas could be the son of Robert Leighton and Anne Leighton, daughter of Sir Edward Devereux. | Born | |||||
| 1630/00/00 | Joanna Hannah Silsby marries Thomas Leighton in Scotland. | Groom | |||||
| 1633/08/00 | Thomas Leighton sails from Gravesend bound for America on the ship JAMES. | Immagrant | Gravesend, ENG-KEN | Kent | |||
| 1633/10/13 | The good ship JAMES arrives in Salem, The Colony of Massachusetts Bay. John Damme, William Leverich and twenty-seven others will soon proceed to Hilton's Point, today's Dover Point in Dover, New Hampshire. | Immagrant | |||||
| 1633/10/15 | The First Parish is formed immediately after immigrants from Salem arrive at Hilton's Point in mid-October. The first meeting house (lost) probably built of logs stood on Low Street where the Spaulding Turnpike's Dover Point toll house is located. | Member | First Parish Church Site-Dover Point | Dover, NH | |||
| 1640/10/20 | Thomas Leighton (Tho Layton) signs with his mark the "Combination of the People of Dover to Establish a Form of Government". The original was in the Town Records c 1665. Gov Cranfield made a copy in 1682 which is in the Public Record Office in London. | Member | First Parish Church Site-Dover Point | Dover, NH | |||
| 1672/01/22 | Thomas Leighton dies in Dover, Strafford, Province of New Hampshire. | Died |
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