Ezekiel was the 2nd of eight children born to Benjamin Leighton and Jane Webber. His siblings: Ephraim, Isaac, Timothy, Susannah, Lydia, David and Polly.
He married Lydia Pearl, daughter of Simeon Pearl and Mary Leighton, at Mount Vernon on 8 Nov 1791. The couple's fathers certainly knew each other as Simeon's land on Salt Marsh Cove (Edgecomb) adjoined Benjamin's.
Beginning in 1792, they had eleven children. The last was born after Ezekiel came back from his war service. They are: Simeon, Silas, Charlotte, Kate (or Caty), Timothy, John, Edya, Hiram, Warren, Lorenzo and Charles.
War of 1812:
Ezekiel enlisted as a Private, 17 Oct 1813, discharged 6 Dec 1813. Capt James Farmer's Co., Lt Col. M. Nichol's 3rd Regt, stationed at Jordan's Point and Portland. Re-enlisted 8 Sep 1814 discharged as a Corporal 20 Sep 1814. Capt. Alpheus Field's Co., Lt. Col. Josiah Hobb's 1st Regt.
Cemetery Records: War of 1812, Post 52 GAR
Sources: A Leighton Genealogy, vol 1, pg 64, 136; U.S. Census Records
He married Lydia Pearl, daughter of Simeon Pearl and Mary Leighton, at Mount Vernon on 8 Nov 1791. The couple's fathers certainly knew each other as Simeon's land on Salt Marsh Cove (Edgecomb) adjoined Benjamin's.
Beginning in 1792, they had eleven children. The last was born after Ezekiel came back from his war service. They are: Simeon, Silas, Charlotte, Kate (or Caty), Timothy, John, Edya, Hiram, Warren, Lorenzo and Charles.
War of 1812:
Ezekiel enlisted as a Private, 17 Oct 1813, discharged 6 Dec 1813. Capt James Farmer's Co., Lt Col. M. Nichol's 3rd Regt, stationed at Jordan's Point and Portland. Re-enlisted 8 Sep 1814 discharged as a Corporal 20 Sep 1814. Capt. Alpheus Field's Co., Lt. Col. Josiah Hobb's 1st Regt.
Cemetery Records: War of 1812, Post 52 GAR
Sources: A Leighton Genealogy, vol 1, pg 64, 136; U.S. Census Records
Ezekiel was the 2nd of eight children born to Benjamin Leighton and Jane Webber. His siblings: Ephraim, Isaac, Timothy, Susannah, Lydia, David and Polly.
He married Lydia Pearl, daughter of Simeon Pearl and Mary Leighton, at Mount Vernon on 8 Nov 1791. The couple's fathers certainly knew each other as Simeon's land on Salt Marsh Cove (Edgecomb) adjoined Benjamin's.
Beginning in 1792, they had eleven children. The last was born after Ezekiel came back from his war service. They are: Simeon, Silas, Charlotte, Kate (or Caty), Timothy, John, Edya, Hiram, Warren, Lorenzo and Charles.
War of 1812:
Ezekiel enlisted as a Private, 17 Oct 1813, discharged 6 Dec 1813. Capt James Farmer's Co., Lt Col. M. Nichol's 3rd Regt, stationed at Jordan's Point and Portland. Re-enlisted 8 Sep 1814 discharged as a Corporal 20 Sep 1814. Capt. Alpheus Field's Co., Lt. Col. Josiah Hobb's 1st Regt.
Cemetery Records: War of 1812, Post 52 GAR
Sources: A Leighton Genealogy, vol 1, pg 64, 136; U.S. Census Records
He married Lydia Pearl, daughter of Simeon Pearl and Mary Leighton, at Mount Vernon on 8 Nov 1791. The couple's fathers certainly knew each other as Simeon's land on Salt Marsh Cove (Edgecomb) adjoined Benjamin's.
Beginning in 1792, they had eleven children. The last was born after Ezekiel came back from his war service. They are: Simeon, Silas, Charlotte, Kate (or Caty), Timothy, John, Edya, Hiram, Warren, Lorenzo and Charles.
War of 1812:
Ezekiel enlisted as a Private, 17 Oct 1813, discharged 6 Dec 1813. Capt James Farmer's Co., Lt Col. M. Nichol's 3rd Regt, stationed at Jordan's Point and Portland. Re-enlisted 8 Sep 1814 discharged as a Corporal 20 Sep 1814. Capt. Alpheus Field's Co., Lt. Col. Josiah Hobb's 1st Regt.
Cemetery Records: War of 1812, Post 52 GAR
Sources: A Leighton Genealogy, vol 1, pg 64, 136; U.S. Census Records
Inscription
EZEKIEL LEIGHTON
DIED
Aug. 21, 1858
Aged 89 yrs. 3mos.
LYDIA
his wife
died Aug. 9, 1851
Aged 80yrs. 2mos, 21 ds
To gather here our bodies lie
to molder and decay;
And rest awhile with mother earth
Until the judgment day.
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