Born about in Leigh, St Stephens, By Launceston, Cornwall
Daughter of William Leigh
and Phillipa Prest
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Richard Bonython
— married
about 1609 in St Breage, Cornwall, England
Descendants 
Mother of
John Bonython, Gracia Bonython, Susanna (Bonython) Foxwell and Elizabeth Eleanor (Bonython) Cummings
Died after
after about age 63
in Saco, York, Maine [uncertain]
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Biography
Lucretia Leigh, daughter of William Leigh and his wife Phillipa (Prest) Leigh, of St. Thomas by Launceton, Cornwall, married Richard Bonython by 1607.[1]
On April 4, 1637, Margery Batson, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Batson, was bound by consent to Richard Bonython and his wife Lucretia (Leigh) Bonython until the age of 21.[2]
On July 14, 1647, Richard Bonython of Saco, exchanged land with Robert Child; Lucretia Bonighton (sic) was one of the witnesses.[3]
Sources
- ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume I, A-B, page 345. Link by $ubscription.
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Reference Page 101, referencing Province and Court Records of Maine 1:6 $Subscription
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. Reference page 344, citing York Deeds 1:1:40 (Link by $ubscription)
- See also:
- Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, pg 99 FamilySearch.org
Ancestral File Numbers
- 1DFM-27L
- 1R1T-48H
- 1K64-NT0
- XF2S-0C
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