Major James Frisby Leitch, Merchant in Virginia

JAMES FRISBY LEITCH

Merchant and Landowner in Maryland

James Frisby Leitch was six feet 2 inches tall, and had dark hair and eyes. [5], copy of handwritten letter by Mary Sydbotham, daughter of his father Andrews widow, (passport application).

Major William Leitch's home in Bladensburg:

James lived at "Deakins Hall", shown in the picture.Deakins Hall is a two story frame build in the Greek revival style. ·The main south five-bay facade is covered oy a massive two-story pedimented portico, supported by four Roman doric columns and two engaged pillars. The central door has narrow transom and side-lights: the central second story Window has bean converted into a door Which opens onto a small balcony over the front door. The homne was originally a simple five .... bay gable-roofed structure, with two interior chimneys south of the ridge, and one exterior chimney (on the east gable end) north of the ridge. In 1923, the house 'NP.S Di voted 30° clockwise so it would face queen's Chapel Road and major alterations were undertaken at that time. The eastern chimney was removed, and a new one added on the west gable end; the south portico was added also. Deakins Hall was for over 100 years the home o: the prominent Deakins family.

University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 282–283]

National Archives of the United States of America: Founders Online

County: Army Lands Township: VA Millitary Dist
Year: 1801 Record Type: Tax list Page: 050 Database: VA Early Census Index

The Virginia Military District was an approximately 4.2 million acre (17,000 km²) area of land in what is now the state of Ohio that was reserved by Virginia to use as payment in lieu of cash for its veterans of the American Revolutionary War.

Virginia had historic claims to much of the Northwest Territory, which included Ohio, dating from its colonial charter. Virginia and the other states ceded their claims over western lands to overcome other states' objections to ratifying the Articles of Confederation. In return for ceding its claims in 1784, Virginia was granted this area to provide military bounty land grants. The Ohio district was a surplus reserve, in that military land grants were first made in an area southeast of the Ohio River, in what is now Kentucky. The Ohio land was to be used only after the land southeast of the river was exhausted.

U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 Report issue Name: Mr James Frisby Leitch

Passport Issue Date: Dec 1812

MERCHANT

LANDOWNER IN MARYLAND

COMMISSION OF BANKRUPT (previously Gordon Trokes & Co. a mercantile firm in Richmond, Virginia.)

16th August 1819, Issued against Maxwell Trokes, late of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster. Merchant, partner with James Frisby Leitch of the city of London, and Robert Graham,of Manchester Virginia,in the United States of America,all carrying on business at Liverpool,aforesaid, in partnership, under the firm of Maxwell Trokes and company,intend to meet on the 21st day of August next,at 1 o'clock in the afternoon,at the George Inn, in order to make a dividend of the joint estate and effects, of the foresiad Maxwell Trokes and Company; and also of the joint estate and effects of the firm James Frisby Leitch and company,when and where the creditors,who have not already proved their debts, are prepared to come and prove the same, or they will be excluded

the Benefit of said dividend.[4]

Robert Graham of Manchester, Virginia was a business partner. Maxwell Trokes, Liverpool, business partner with James Frisby Leitch, City of London.

The disposition of John Leitchs' estate (brother) was reviewed in the House of Lords.[1],[2]

[1] Cases Decided in the House of Lords: On Appeal from the Courts of ..., Volume 3, p665-p679 [2] Scottish Jurist, Feb 17th 1829,p-101 [3] The Athenaeum Magazine, Jan-Jun 1808, Volume III, London [4] The London Gazette, Volume 2 [5] NARA M1372. Images of handwritten letters and application forms for U.S. passports, 1795-1905. [6] [The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 1 December 1790 – 21 March 1791, ed. Jack D. Warren, Jr. Charlottesville: