Abraham Leeman

Abraham Leeman

Birth: Aug. 15, 1723, Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Death: Mar. 23, 1804, Mont Vernon, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

Father: Samuel Leeman (1691 - 1756)

Mother: Mary Bryant Leeman (1696 - 1760)

Spouse: Elizabeth Hastings Leeman (____ - 1792)*

Children:

• Elizabeth, b. Monson, Feb 24, 1747, married 1) March 6, 1767, David Wallingsford, d. March 12, 1791; 2) March 17, 1799, Nehemiah Barker, d. August 4, 1822.
• Mary, born June 3, 1748
• Abraham, b. August 29, 1749, died same day
• Hannah, born July 26, 1750, died December 24, 1750
• Hannah, born October 1, 1751, married 1769, Jonathan Danforth, residence at Kendall Mills
• Submit, born June 4, 1753, no record
• Abraham, born September 8, 1754, died November 29, 1759
• Esther, born August 8, 1756, married Zebulon Cram, Dec 30, 1783, residence Wilton, and Andover, Vt.
• Abigail, born May 8, 1758, married Joseph Frost, July 28, 1785, residence Tewksbury; died July 21, 1786
• Dorcas, born July 13, 1760, drowned in Witch brook at Kendall mills, May 26, 1778.

ABRAHAM LEEMAN.

Abraham Leeman, son of Samuel and Mary Bryant Leeman, born in Reading, Mass., August 15, 1723, came to Souhegan West with his father in fall of 1735 and to West Dunstable in the spring of 1737. He married Elizabeth Hastings, January 30, 1745, and settled at what is known as the William Kittredge place on Witch brook at North Hollis, and engaged in farming. He became a noted bear hunter. He was a very eccentric man. At times he would leave the field where he was at work and run to the house for fear that he wouldn't live to get there. Then again he would get up in the night time and fry salt pork for fear he wouldn't live to eat it up. The spring of 1794 was a very early one. At the 19th of May there came a great frost, taking everything level with the ground. Corn was four inches, apples were as large as walnuts. This discouraged Mr. Leeman and he was induced to exchange real and personal estate with William Kittredge of Goffstown in the fall of 1794, residing here until in old age, when he lived with relatives in Mont Vernon.

Mrs. Leeman died January 26, 1792. Mr. Leeman married for his second wife, Olive Davis Jaquith, July 12, 1792, wife of Adford Jaquith of Dunstable, whom she married November 14, 1776. He died in Mont Vernon.

~ An Account of Some of the Early Settlers of West Dunstable, Monson and Hollis, N. H., by Charles S. Spaulding

Burial: Greenlawn Cemetery, Mont Vernon, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

Inscription: In Memory of Mr. Abraham Leeman died 23 March 1804 in the 80th year of his age

Sources:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66535304

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