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John Adams Morgan

1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist

William Leete

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of John Adams Morgan — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2212 
  • Father:
  • John Leete 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Shute   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1613 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Dodington,Huntingdonshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Apr 1683 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Payne
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Aug 1636 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hail Weston, Huntingdonshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Leete (Ahnentafel No:1106 )

  Andrew Leete

  William Leete

  Abigail Leete

  Ann Leete

  • Notes: 

  • Colonial Governor of Connecticut

• Additional marriages for William Leete

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Apr 1670

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary - - - - - -

• Sources for William Leete

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/23/2020).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 7, p. 1709.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 26.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1955, Vol. 31, p. 117.
  • ⁶ Eliot, William Horace, Jr., et. al., Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Press (1905), 46.
  • ⁷ Hibbard, Augustine George and Lewis Mills Norton, History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with Genealogies and Biographies, Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1897), 442.
  • ⁸ Leete, Edward L., The Family of William Leete: One of the First Settlers of Guilford, Conn., and Governor of New Haven and . . ., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1884), 9.
  • ⁹ Mitchell, Donald Grant, The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge . . ., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers (1883), 12.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 539.
  • ¹² Trowbridge, Francis Bacon, The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1908), 60.
  • ¹³ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 25.
  • ¹⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 167-168.
  • ¹⁵ Wikipedia, "William Leete", (accessed 04/03/2015).