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Sarah Leighton

Sarah was born in 1744 in Goldsboro, Hancock, Maine. Sarah's father was Hatevil Leighton and her mother was Sarah Trickey. Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Leighton III and Deborah Bunker. She was an only child. She died at the age of 90 in 1834 in Tracy, New Brunswick, Canada.

General Notes
- d/o Hateril Leighton and Sarah Trickey.
  
  The Tracys had ten children, four of whom were born in Maine, the remainder in New Brunswick. Jeremiah served in the Revolution, and, after peace was declared, took his wife and four children, in 1784-85, in a sloop and sailed up the Saint John River (to the Oromocto River where he settled and remained. [NOTE: This is in contradiction to the data provided by Mr. N.B. Tracy but for my authority please see Jeremiah, the 6th child of Jeremiah Tracy and Sarah Leighton- C. Tracy MacFarlane). His eldest son Solomon, born in 1772, was thirteen when his father settled on the Oromocto River. Jeremiah and. Sarah had ten children as follows:
  1. Solomon, born in Maine in 1772
  2. Jonathan, born in Maine
  3. Israel, born in Maine
  4. Asa, born in Maine
  5. Samuel, born in New Brunswick
  6. Jeremiah, born in New Brunswick on November 27, 1786; married Mary Webb
  7. Lydia, born in New Brunswick
  8. Mary, born in New Brunswick
  9. Sarah, born in New Brunswick
  10. ---, a daughter, who married a Tucker
  Jeremiah built several saw mills and gave each of his sons a farm all stocked.

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Thomas Leighton
  - b.~  1604 in England d.22 Jan 1671 in Dover, Strafford, NH
  
  Thomas Leighton Jr.
  - b.~  1642 in Dover, Strafford, NH d.29 Oct 1677 in Dover, Strafford, NH
  
  Joanna ?
  - b.  1617 in Scotland d.15 Jan 1704 in Dover, Strafford, NH
  
  Thomas Leighton III
  - b.~  1671 in Dover, Strafford, NH d.  1744 in Newington, NH
  
  Edmund Nutter ^*
  - b.  1576 in Dover, Kent, England d.  1634 in Woodkirke Clerke,,Yorkshire,England
  
  Hatevil Nutter
  - b.  1598 in Bristol, England d.  1675 in Dover, Strafford, NH
  
  Elizabeth ?
  
  Elizabeth Nutter
  - b.~  1646 in Dover, Strafford, NH d.<28 Dec 1674 in Dover, Strafford, NH
  
  Anne Ayers
  - b.  1606 in Somersetshire, England d.  1675 in Dover, Strafford, NH
  
  Hatevil Leighton
  - b.  1712 in Dover,Strafford,New Hampshire d.  1782
  
  Deborah Bunker
  - b.  1681 in Newington, NH d.  1744 in Newington, NH
  
  Sarah Leighton
  - b.  1744 in Goldsboro, Hancock, Maine d.  1834 in Tracy, New Brunswick, Canada
  
  Sarah Trickey
  - b.  1714 in Dover, Strafford, NH d.07 Dec 1732 in Maine
  
  ^*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)

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