Family of Thomas LEFFINGWELL and Mary WHITE

Husband:	Thomas LEFFINGWELL (1624-1714)
Wife:	Mary WHITE (1624-1711)
Children:	Thomas LEFFINGWELL (1649-1724)
Marriage	c. 1647	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA1

Husband: Thomas LEFFINGWELL

Wife: Mary WHITE

Name:	Mary WHITE1,2,3
Sex:	Female
Nickname:	"Singing Lark"
Father:	Edward WHITE (1600-c. 1641)
Mother:	Martha KING (1600-1667)
Birth	Mar 10, 1624	Cranbrook, Kent, England, United Kingdom2,3
Birth	1626	Croxhall, Derby, England, United Kingdom1
Arrival	1635 (age 10-11)	Connecticut, USA3
Death	Feb 6, 1711 (age 86)	Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA1,2,3

Child 1: Thomas LEFFINGWELL

Note on Husband: Thomas LEFFINGWELL

Thomas Leffingwell migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

 

In Saybrook, Connecticut by 1637. Relocated to Norwich about 1660. Lieutenant in King Phillip's war and the Pequot war.

 

Immigrated England to North America - Married Mary White 1647 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut - Helped Found the Town of Norwich, CT - Occupation: Military, Surveyor, Selectman, Deputy of the General Court for 53 sessions & Commissioner. Operated the Leffingwell Inn of which George Washington "partook of the hospitalities". According to Findagrave Memorial he was born in Derbyshire, England

 

Trumbull, in his "History of Connecticut," says:

"Uncas, with a small band of Mohegan Indians, was encamped on a point of land projecting into the river, and there closely besieged by their most inveterate foes, the Narragansetts. Finding himself in danger of being cut off by the enemy, he managed to send to his friends, the English colony at Saybrook, the news of his extremity, with perhaps some appeal for help. Upon this intelligence, one Thomas Leffingwell, an ensign at Saybrook, an enterprising, bold man, loaded a canoe with beef, corn and pease, and, under cover of the night paddled from Saybrook into the Thames, and had the address to get the whole into the fort. The enemy soon perceiving that Uncas was relieved, raised the siege. For this service Uncas gave Leffingwell a deed of a great part, if not the whole of the town of Norwich. In June, 1659, Uncas, with his two sons, Owaneco and Attawanhood, by a more formal and authentic deed, made over unto said Leffingwell, John Mason, Esq., the Rev. James Fitch, and others, consisting of thirty-five proprietors, the whole township of Norwich, which is about nine miles square."

Thomas Leffingwell was afterwards lieutenant. In 1659 he removed to Norwich and had several grants of land there. His home lot was on the highway next to Joseph Bushnell's land. He became a prominent man in the town, serving as selectman, surveyor, and on important committees. He was deputy to the general court for fifty-three sessions, 1662-1700; and was also a commissioner. He divided his property among his children before his death, which occurred about 1714-15, when he was about ninety-two years old.

 

Operated the Leffingwell Inn, a "house of public entertainment" sometime shortly after 1700. The house still stands and is a historic museum in Norwich. George Washington, on April 8, 1776, "partook of the Hospitalities of Leffingwell Inn"

Note on Wife: Mary WHITE

Family links:

Parents:

Edward White (1593 - ____)

Martha King White Dyer (1586 - ____)

Sources

1	Ancestry.com, "Public Member Trees" (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Database online. Text From Source: Record for Thomas Leffingwell
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2	Ibid. Database online. Text From Source: Record for THOMAS LEFFINGWELL

3	Ibid. Database online. Text From Source: Record for Mary White

4	Ibid. Database online. Text From Source: Record for Deborah Leffingwell