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• Birth	of Croxhall, England, U.K.   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UPD	14 AUG 2009 23:43:53 GMT-5
  Died	Abt 1710  [2]
  Person ID	I638	Alan Donald Vibber
  Last Modified	08 Dec 2009
  Family	Mary,   d. 06 Feb 1711
  Married	Y  [1]
  Children	1. Leffingwell Samuel,   b. Abt 1660,   d. Dec 1691, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F276	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Thomas Leffingwell the first, of Saybrook, was a native of Croxball, England, and one of the earliest planters of Saybrook, He was personally engaged in the Pequot War, a friend to Uncas, and gave him great assistance at the time the Mohegans were besieged by the Narragansetts in the spring of 1645. Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell was one of the proprietors of Norwich. He was active in the affairs of the town and state. He died at Norwich about the year 1710. Mary, his wife, died there Feb. 6, 1711. His descendants were numerous, and the name has been quite common in the vicinity of the first settlement of their first American ancestor. FORREST CURTIS LEFFINGWELL— There is a most interesting story to tell concerning the founder of the Leffingwell family in Connecticut, Thomas Leffingwell, the ancestor of Forrest Curtis Leffingwell, of Montville, Connecticut. Thomas Leffingwell, born in Croxhall, England, was one of the earliest planters of Saybrook, Connecticut, and a friend of the Mohegan chief, Uncas, whom he met in connectionwith a land grant along the sound and the river Thames, on which was a famous spring, near which the village of Uncas was located. Later the Mohcgans were attacked in overwhelming numbers by Narragansett Indians from Rhode Island, and would have exterminated them but for the aid furnished 'by Thomas Leffingwell, who brought provisions and help through the Sound and up the Thames to his Indian friends in distress. In gratitude for the timely aid which enabled him to defeat his enemies and slay their chieftain, Uncas deeded to his friend nine miles square of land in the present town of Norwich,but Thomas Leffingwell apparently placed little value upon the tract, for he never had the deed recorded. He was also given several hundred acres, the deed for which he did record, property which is now included in three towns of the county of New London — Montville, Norwich and Bozrah. Upon this property Thomas Leffingwell, known as Lieutenant Thomas, built five houses, one for each of his sons,these all within signaling distance of each other. Lieutenant Leffingwell was one of the original proprietors of the town of Norwich,and until his death there, about 1710, was active in the affairs of town and colony. Through his five sons and two daughters a numerous family has grown, and Leffingwell is a common name in New London county. The line of descent from Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell isthrough his son, Samuel Leffingwell, and his wife, Ann Dickinson; their son, Samuel Leffingwell, and his wife, Hannah Gif- ford; their son, Andrew Leffingwell, the first deacon of the First Baptist Church in Bozrah, and his wife, Mercy Nobles; their son, Gurdon Leffingwell. and his wife, Polly Avery; their son, Marvin Leffingwell, and his first wife, Abby Ann Chapman; their son, Daniel Chapman Leffingwell, and his wife, Anna Edith Curtis; their son, Forrest Curtis Leffingwell, of the eighth American generation of the family founded in Connecticut by Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell.

• Sources

  [S2] History of Montville, H.A. Baker, (Name: Press of The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company;), 307 (Reliability: 3). [S2] History of Montville, H.A. Baker, (Name: Press of The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company;), 306 (Reliability: 3).