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Hello James,
I have seen some of your postings before and tried to contact you about a year and a half ago without success.
The news letters for the Leighs of the Albemarle are produced by Dick Leigh of Raleigh, NC., leighsof albemarle@ earthlink.net. I believe that is current. The newsletter centers around the family of Gilbert Leigh of Perquimans Co., NC and other related Leighs in the area of Albemarle Sound, NC. I do not believe there are any copies in libraries. This started after a reunion in 2000, and there have only been about 8 to 10 issues. I have read all of these, contributed many articles, and there are no articles about William Leigh of Amherst. There have been very few newsletters recently.
I do know about William Leigh of Amherst and have done some research on him. What I know:
I had something form a friend saying he had found a note that William Leigh of King and Queen had bought some wine in 1771. I con't find my notes on that. Will try to track it down.
William Leigh of King and Queen Co VA bought 400 acres in Mecklengurg Co. VA from Gabriel Mitchell and Elizabeth Mitchell 9 Sept 1771.
In April 1772 Richard Leigh bought 152 acres in Mecklenburg Co. from same Gabriel and Elizabeth. Who was Richard? I don't know. Possibly a brother or nephew? Maybe even a son?
In 1773 Richard sells his land (at a loss) and returns to Va,(James City County), not married at the time.
In 1773 William and wife Diana sell 100 Acres of his land plus the mill, and mortgages the rest but they remain in Mecklenburg Co. Diana witnesses will in 1775, and William appraises estate in 1778.
William was elected to Committee which chose representatives to Constitutional Convention. He was also a Captain in the Militia of Mecklenburg Co during the Revolution.
In Nov. 1778 William and Diana sold their land in Mecklenburg(at a profit). The deed was not accepted in Court in December because Diana was not there to be questioned by the Commissioners, and was not entered until spring of 1779. I believe it was because Diana was already in North Carolina. Indeed, there is a record of William purchasing goods from an estate sale in Caswell Co. NC in Dec. 1778. He purchased land in Caswell Co. in April of 1779. (Caswell Co. former from Orange Co. NC)
In February 1781 William does a land swap with Matthew Mills of Gilford Co. NC. Matthew had inheirited some land in Albemarle Co. VA. Diana is not involved in this, so we assume she has died. The Albemarle deed was witnessed by Richard Leigh, Rachael Leigh and John "X" Leigh and they were in court to testify. This seems to have been the Richard from Albemarle who went back east, marrried Rachael Bingham, and then went to Orange County North Carolina before or with his brother, John Leigh, who married Rachael's sister Leah Bingham. (Richard later went to Montgomery Co. TN where he died in 1814.)Why does John sign with an "X"?
William apparently later purchases additional land straddling the Albemarle/Amherst line from Thomas Bell. There is no record of the purchase deed that I can find in either the records of Amherst or Albermarle Counties, but Thomas Bell's will mentions money owed to him from William Leigh. Also There are deeds entered in in 1793 in the Charlottesville District Court Deed Book (1790-1806) pp 29 - 32 for the sale of this property. Perhaps the original deeds were never entered. William paid taxes on the land he bought from Matthew Mills. Maybe he never entered the deed for the Bell land so as not to pay taxes. When the Amherst tax guy came around he claimed the land was in Albemarle; when the Albemarle guy came, he said it was in Amherst. Who knows?
I am sure you have his will which was written in 1788 and proved 1794 naming wife Ann and 2 sets of children. It seems that John Leigh and Betsy Kinsolving are older than the rest: William Henry Leigh, George Ware Leigh, Ferdinand, Patsy Moore, Mary, Jane and Ann Pendleton. (The names "Ware" "Moore" and "Pendleton" are all names prominent in King and Queen County.)
There is no mention of John in the Estate papers of William Leigh. William Henry and Ann qualified as administrators.
William Henry Leigh married Millie? and sold property in Nelson Co. (formerly Amherst) in 1814. More later.
George Ware Leigh married Wilmarthe Howerton in 1898 and went to Tennessee. I have a lot of information on this line mostly from Ruth Pennington. If you have Family Tree Maker I will send. It may be on our website http://leigh.editme.com. We recently got permission form the Pennington family. She unfortunately assumed that the "W." in George W. Leigh was for Washington, not Ware, because he named one of his sons Washington.
Betsy married James Kinsolving and had many children, one of whom married the son of Ferdinand.
Ferdinand Married Elizabeth Cash. They had one son, James Walker Leigh who married Mary "Polly" Kinsolving. James and Polly had Parthenia, Martha E., William Henry, Mary I, George E. and Van Buren Leigh. James, Polly, Ferdinand and Elizabeth moved to Caldwell Co. Ky in the early 1820's. James and Polly died the same night in 1833 of cholera, leaving Ferdinand ad guardian of the children.
A descendand of this line had the exact same DNA 37 for 37 as the descendants of the Gilbert Leigh line from Perquimans Co. NC.
Ann, wife, dies 1832.
Jane dies unmarried 1834--leaves all to sister Ann, unmarried at the time.
I believe that William Henry Leigh, son of William of Amherst was the father of Lilburn Leigh and James Madison Leigh who show up in Tennessee in the mid -ninteen century. James Madison's family eventually go to Mississippi, Lilburn's to Arkansas. A descendant of James Madison Leigh also has the exact same DNA as the descendants of Gilbert and the descendant of Ferdinand.
We also now believe that Thomas Jefferson Leigh and Diana Leigh (they married siblings in Maury Co. TN ? date)were probably children of William Henry, son of William of Amherst. We have been unable to locate a male descendant of Thomas to test.
I would be happy to talk more to you about this and other Leigh projects. My e-mail address is vrefo@verizon.com. I would be very interested in the information you have on William Leigh.
Virginia
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