Col
William
Leigh
[uncertain]
Born about in Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia
Son of William (Lea) Leigh
and Catherine (Ironmonger) Lea
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Greene) Leigh
— married
21 Sep 1686 in Middlesex, VA
Descendants 
Father of
John Lea Sr., Sarah (Lea) Ware, Elizabeth Lea, Mary (Leigh) Harris, William Lea and Philadelphia Ludwell (Lea) Ballard
Died
at about age 49
in St. Stephens Parish, King and Queen, Virginia
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Biography
William Leigh is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society
Col. William Leigh[1] was a chairman for the House of Burgesses, Militia Commander-in-Chief, member of the Virginia Council, and first Judge of the Admiralty Court in Virginia.[2]
On 28 May 28 1703, Benjamin Harrison wrote to Philip Ludwell: "Coll' Leigh fell from his horse lately and crack'd his Scull and is dead. Tis said he was Drunk at Parson Bookers of the Sabboth day, and going home home hapen'd to that Accident."[3]
Research Notes
- Needs Biography: Notable individual, develop biography. Spratlin-29 17:55, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Sources
- ↑ Leigh, William - A4811; born 1654, died 1703/4 King and Queen Co.; New Kent Co.: 1691, King and Queen Co.: 1692-1703 (Burgess). 1 October 2021
- ↑ New River Notes, Colonial Virginia Register
- ↑ Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonia Abstracts, 34 vols., (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1961), : 7:30; digital images, Hathitrust, (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009915585 : accessed 21 Jan 2021).
- In the mid-fifties, Albert Eugene Casey wrote a book in collaboration with Francis Powell Oetken about the Luke Lea family of Amite County, Luke was the son of James Lea of Country Line Creek who died 1792 in Caswell County, NC. In this book, they attributed the parents of James Lea of Country Line Creek. to be William Lea and Frances Major, descendants of William Lea of New Kent County b 1654. The Jamestown Society of VA stopped receiving applicants on this line over twenty years ago. I am the administrator for the Leas of Caswell County YDNA Project that shows the Caswell Leas are not related to this line, and that includes all of the Leas of Caswell County.
- Raquel Lindaas, AG, Heritage Consulting, William Lea and Frances Major.
- Family Ties of Lea Family to Russell County VA.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~0.39%
Les LeMay
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lemay22ll
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~0.39%
Anita Moore :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T630372 [compare], Ancestry member quilterwannabe14
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch R1b1a2 [compare], FTDNA kit #206322
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~0.39%
Judy (Goodman) Wardlow :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A360019 [compare], Ancestry member judywardlow
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~0.39%
Ruth (Ware) Spaulding :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A779834 [compare], Ancestry member Baberws
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~0.39%
Bill Ware :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Baberws
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~0.39%
Arrean (Reffitt) Murphy :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ekybanjo
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