Noah, with his wife Mary Merrill, began finely. He started a home on the apex of Killingly Hill, on lands taken no doubt from his father's possessions. A new house was built and children were born rapidly. But he was stricken with sickness. Conscious that the end was near he wrote a Will of singular beauty and hopefulness. He seemed to expect that his estate would go forward after his death as he would have carried it by his own strong hand, and that it would be able to turn out bountilful legacies to his children when in the distant years they should one by one become of age. Little did his closing eyes foresee in 1751 the two devastating wars that would be waged within the next thirty years. The little flock left fatherless consisted of three boys and two girls. The babe Joseph died the next year.
We have observed how Noah Leavins (son of JOSEPH) at his premature decease on Killingly Hill, 1751, left young children; and we have traced his son Abel to Oxford, Mass., and thence in 1772 to Walpole, N. H. There was he living during the Revolution. His son Noah served, first in the independent forces of the Colony and afterward in the "Continental Army". The soldier's name is conspicuous in the Revolutionary rolls of New Hampshire, where it in sometimes written LEVINGS. Perhaps this is the fact which led the entire stock descending from the Walpole home to adopt that spelling.
The father died in 1793; the commission for appraising his estate was issued Oct. 17 of that year. His life-work was ended at the early age of fifty-two. The public records show that the little property was distributed to the four children, Noah, Rebecca, Abel and Elijah. The share of Elijah was sold by him to Constantiue Oilman in 1795 for £18. Rebecca, who had married Ebenezer Wellington of Sturbridge, Mass., sold her share to her brother Abel, in Feb., 1795, for £17 5s; and next month he re-sold it with his own share, making 17 acres, to S. Weir for £36. This would seem to end the Walpole home. We are to follow these three sons and their posterity as closely as we are able.
Noah (Abel) appears in Westmoreland, which is adjacent to Walpole. There some of his children were born, and all of them for aught we know. It is clear that he removed to Troy, N. Y., early in the nineteenth century. But there was still another move later in life, which took him to Western New York to die. We trace the course of two SODS, but two others are lost to our sight.
Source: “THE LEAVENS NAME”
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We have observed how Noah Leavins (son of JOSEPH) at his premature decease on Killingly Hill, 1751, left young children; and we have traced his son Abel to Oxford, Mass., and thence in 1772 to Walpole, N. H. There was he living during the Revolution. His son Noah served, first in the independent forces of the Colony and afterward in the "Continental Army". The soldier's name is conspicuous in the Revolutionary rolls of New Hampshire, where it in sometimes written LEVINGS. Perhaps this is the fact which led the entire stock descending from the Walpole home to adopt that spelling.
The father died in 1793; the commission for appraising his estate was issued Oct. 17 of that year. His life-work was ended at the early age of fifty-two. The public records show that the little property was distributed to the four children, Noah, Rebecca, Abel and Elijah. The share of Elijah was sold by him to Constantiue Oilman in 1795 for £18. Rebecca, who had married Ebenezer Wellington of Sturbridge, Mass., sold her share to her brother Abel, in Feb., 1795, for £17 5s; and next month he re-sold it with his own share, making 17 acres, to S. Weir for £36. This would seem to end the Walpole home. We are to follow these three sons and their posterity as closely as we are able.
Noah (Abel) appears in Westmoreland, which is adjacent to Walpole. There some of his children were born, and all of them for aught we know. It is clear that he removed to Troy, N. Y., early in the nineteenth century. But there was still another move later in life, which took him to Western New York to die. We trace the course of two SODS, but two others are lost to our sight.
Source: “THE LEAVENS NAME”
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Noah, with his wife Mary Merrill, began finely. He started a home on the apex of Killingly Hill, on lands taken no doubt from his father's possessions. A new house was built and children were born rapidly. But he was stricken with sickness. Conscious that the end was near he wrote a Will of singular beauty and hopefulness. He seemed to expect that his estate would go forward after his death as he would have carried it by his own strong hand, and that it would be able to turn out bountilful legacies to his children when in the distant years they should one by one become of age. Little did his closing eyes foresee in 1751 the two devastating wars that would be waged within the next thirty years. The little flock left fatherless consisted of three boys and two girls. The babe Joseph died the next year.
We have observed how Noah Leavins (son of JOSEPH) at his premature decease on Killingly Hill, 1751, left young children; and we have traced his son Abel to Oxford, Mass., and thence in 1772 to Walpole, N. H. There was he living during the Revolution. His son Noah served, first in the independent forces of the Colony and afterward in the "Continental Army". The soldier's name is conspicuous in the Revolutionary rolls of New Hampshire, where it in sometimes written LEVINGS. Perhaps this is the fact which led the entire stock descending from the Walpole home to adopt that spelling.
The father died in 1793; the commission for appraising his estate was issued Oct. 17 of that year. His life-work was ended at the early age of fifty-two. The public records show that the little property was distributed to the four children, Noah, Rebecca, Abel and Elijah. The share of Elijah was sold by him to Constantiue Oilman in 1795 for £18. Rebecca, who had married Ebenezer Wellington of Sturbridge, Mass., sold her share to her brother Abel, in Feb., 1795, for £17 5s; and next month he re-sold it with his own share, making 17 acres, to S. Weir for £36. This would seem to end the Walpole home. We are to follow these three sons and their posterity as closely as we are able.
Noah (Abel) appears in Westmoreland, which is adjacent to Walpole. There some of his children were born, and all of them for aught we know. It is clear that he removed to Troy, N. Y., early in the nineteenth century. But there was still another move later in life, which took him to Western New York to die. We trace the course of two SODS, but two others are lost to our sight.
Source: “THE LEAVENS NAME”
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We have observed how Noah Leavins (son of JOSEPH) at his premature decease on Killingly Hill, 1751, left young children; and we have traced his son Abel to Oxford, Mass., and thence in 1772 to Walpole, N. H. There was he living during the Revolution. His son Noah served, first in the independent forces of the Colony and afterward in the "Continental Army". The soldier's name is conspicuous in the Revolutionary rolls of New Hampshire, where it in sometimes written LEVINGS. Perhaps this is the fact which led the entire stock descending from the Walpole home to adopt that spelling.
The father died in 1793; the commission for appraising his estate was issued Oct. 17 of that year. His life-work was ended at the early age of fifty-two. The public records show that the little property was distributed to the four children, Noah, Rebecca, Abel and Elijah. The share of Elijah was sold by him to Constantiue Oilman in 1795 for £18. Rebecca, who had married Ebenezer Wellington of Sturbridge, Mass., sold her share to her brother Abel, in Feb., 1795, for £17 5s; and next month he re-sold it with his own share, making 17 acres, to S. Weir for £36. This would seem to end the Walpole home. We are to follow these three sons and their posterity as closely as we are able.
Noah (Abel) appears in Westmoreland, which is adjacent to Walpole. There some of his children were born, and all of them for aught we know. It is clear that he removed to Troy, N. Y., early in the nineteenth century. But there was still another move later in life, which took him to Western New York to die. We trace the course of two SODS, but two others are lost to our sight.
Source: “THE LEAVENS NAME”
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