Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES, (i) John Leggett, the father of our author, was the son of William Leggett, of West Farms. His grandfather, Gabriel Leggett, the first of the name that settled in the State of New York, was born in England in 1635, and came to New York in the year 1661. He settled in that part of Westchester County, now known as West Farms, where he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Richardson, one of the first patentees of the place. She was still living in 1714. Gabriel Leggett's will is dated April 16, 1697. He left three sons--John, William and Gabriel--and one or more daughters. His son William had two sons--Abraham and John--the latter of whom was the father of our author, Major Leggett. The subject of this note was born in West Farms on the 4th day of Jan., 1732. His wife's maiden name was Sarah Alsop. She was the daughter of Thomas Alsop, of Newtown, L. I., who served for some years as a magistrate, and afterwards went into the mercantile business in New York, where he died in Sept., 1743, in his 56th year. Her mother was Susannah, daughter of Robert Blackwell. Mr. Leggett was married to Miss Alsop on the 5th day of June, 1753. On the death of her husband in 1762, Mrs. Leggett returned to Newtown, her native place, where she subsequently married a Mr. Lawrence, and it is believed that she died in that town. (2) These frigates were the Montgomery, of 24 guns, Copt. John Eodge, and the Congress, of 28 guns, Capt. Thomas Grennall. They were built at or near Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson river, in pursuance of a resolution of Congress of December 13, 1775. They never got to sea, as the British held the month of the river from August, 1776, to November, 1783. In the year 1777, when Sir Henry Clinton took the forts in the highlands, these two...
