Leasen, Leasan, Leason, Lesan, Leasson, Leeson etc. & Pierce & Thompson
Some Lesan/Leasen/Leasan/Leasson Thomas Pierce genealogy, notes, and history. In progress, much to do. Click this link for the 'Harriet Leason and the Thompson Legend' story.
I have Samuel Thompson, Birth: ABT 1702 in Massachusetts, married to Martha ? in about 1721 in Massachusetts. His son, our ancestor, Joseph Thompson Birth: 6 Mar 1725 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma Death: Jan 1805 in Southport, Lincoln, Me married to Elizabeth Mary Andrews b: 21 Apr 1732 in Chebecco Parish, Essex, Ma Married: 26 Nov 1750 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma
Nothing about siblings of Joseph so far (William, Hannah, Mary?)
Ruth Blanchard Knudson seems to have found more than one marriage date. Also see children's dates; this needs more checking.
Joseph and Elizabeth Andrews had thirteen children: Elizabeth Thompson would have been our ancestor. Knudson writes, "Joseph took his silver cup to Maine before all the Chebacco families melted their family silver for the great bell cast for their church by Paul Revere." A LONG time before, 40 years!!
"Originally a part of Ipswich known as Chebacco, Essex was incorporated in 1819. Possibly the oldest shipbuilding site in the country, the land surrounding the Essex River was set aside for shipbuilding around 1668....The present church on the site was built in 1792, and the bell in the steeple was cast at Paul Revere's foundry in the late 1700's. Molded from silver collected from the parishioners, it still tolls on special occasions." from http://www.we2fax.com/downloads/Essex.txt
1793 New Meeting House constructed on site of third meeting house (present Congregational Church)
1797 Bell cast by Paul Revere installed in meeting house
From "Essex, Mass. Chronology of Roads and Buildings"
Children of Joseph Thompson and Elizabeth Andrews: 1 Elizabeth Thompson b: 3 Mar 1750 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Maine 2 Mary Thompson b: 29 Nov 1752 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 3 Samuel Thompson b: 30 Jun 1754 in Pemaquid, Lincoln, Maine 4 Joseph Thompson b: 2 Jan 1756 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 5 Sarah Thompson b: 28 Dec 1757 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts 6 Susanna Thompson b: 24 Jan 1761 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 7 Ruhama Thompson b: 11 Nov 1762 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 8 Joanna Thompson b: 29 Jul 1764 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 9 Jeremiah Thompson b: 9 Dec 1765 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 10 Lydia Thompson b: 29 Apr 1767 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 11 Jane Thompson b: 29 Aug 1769 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 12 David Thompson b: 29 Oct 1775 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me 13 John Thompson b: 7 Sep 1777 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me
Elizabeth married a Maine fisherman, Samuel Pierce in 1750 on Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Maine.
Death: 4 Nov 1834 in Southport, Lincoln, Maine Burial: Old Burying Grounds, Southport, Lincoln, Maine http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=coyote1&id=I11005 Marriage 1 Samuel Pierce b: 20 Jul 1741 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Death: BEF 10 Jun 1796 in Belfast, Lincoln, Maine Married: 10 Oct 1767 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me
They had 13 children too:
Children of Elizabeth Thompson and Samuel Pierce: 1 Elizabeth Pierce b: 16 Aug 1769 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 2 Jonathan Pierce b: 7 Jun 1771 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 3 Mary Pierce b: 24 Feb 1773 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 4 Sarah Pierce b: 17 Feb 1775 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 5 Abigail Pierce b: 16 Nov 1776 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 6 Susanna Pierce b: 13 Sep 1778 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 7 Rhuhama Pierce b: 15 Jul 1780 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 8 Joanna Pierce b: 15 Apr 1782 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 9 Samuel Pierce b: 8 Mar 1784 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Maine 10 George Washington Pierce b: 7 Feb 1788 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Maine 11 Harriet T. Pierce b: 22 Sep 1789 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 12 Edward B. Pierce b: 18 May 1792 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me 13 Thomas H. Pierce b: 23 Jan 1795 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me Mary Pierce is our ancestor: b: 24 Feb 1773 in Monhegan Island, Lincoln, Me Married 24 Nov 1791 in Boothbay to Edmund Leason b: 1771 in Boothbay,ME d: 1825 in Belfast ME Married: 24 Nov 1791 in Boothbay, Lincoln, Me Children of Mary Pierce and Edmund Leason: 1 John Lesan Birth: 3 AUG 1796 in Booth Bay, ME Death: 4 DEC 1874 in Lesanville, IA
From a newspaper obituary:
At the residence of his son, George W. Lesan, in Mout Ayr township, Dec. 4th, 1874, Mr. John Lesan aged 78 years and 4 months. He was born in Lincoln County, Maine, August 4th, 1796. He was converted and joined the Free-Will Baptist Church at the age of 19 years. In 1833, he moved to Licking County, Ohio, where he joined the M.E. Church and was appointed leader, which position he held until the year 1835, when a Free-Will Baptist Society was or- ganized. He then joined his own church and continued a member of same until the year 1839, when he moved to Knox County, Illinois, where at once he became identified with the church. In 1860 he moved to Mt. Ayr, Ringgold county, Iowa, and joined the M. E. Church, in which he remained a member until 1871, except an absence of two years in Illinois... In 1871 he moved to the country six miles east of Mt. Ayr, when he joined the United Brethern Church, in which he continued a member until his death.
He was a fisherman and foreman of a lumber camp in Maine. In 1831 he was in "Refugee Tract, Liberty Twp, Licking County, Ohio; then to Osceola Grove on the Spoon River in 1837".
John objected to slavery and let everyone know it; there is a story that he barely avoided being lynched at one point.
Knudson also relates the story that John was a hard driver who didn't allow his children to go to school as he wanted them to spend their time working for him as basket makers. In Illinois "on the Spoon River" he lost his first farm anyway when he couldn't come up with the money to "prove up" on his claim. He somehow got more land and was eventually able to bring out his other relatives from Maine.
Back to John Lesan: 1831 Moved near Columbus, Ohio 1837 Moved to Oceola Grove, Illinois Moved to Ringgold County, Iowa married 29 DEC 1818 in Lincolnville IL: Elizabeth C. Brooks
Elizabeth Brooks has a story in the Lesan book, as the family still has a piece of her wedding china. Her daughter Thankful was named after Elizabeth's mother Thankful Colamer, named for her grandmother Thankful Curtis (b.1707). Thankful Colamer's brother was said to be seven feet tall and a terrifying fighter, having caused a British ship to surrender in the war of 1812 when he threatened to board it.
She is buried in Osceola Grove.
Elizabeth C. Brooks b: 21 OCT 1799 in Waldoboro ME d: 15 JAN 1852 in Oceola Grove IL children of John Lesan and Elizabeth Brooks: a Mary E. Lesan b: ABT 1820 in ME b Thankful B. Lesan b: ABT 1821 in ME c Delilah Lesan b: ABT 1824 d John Alfred Lesan b: 15 APR 1826 in Goldsboro ME e David Martin Lesan b: 1 JAN 1828 in Goldsboro, ME married 1st cousin Sybil, daughter of Charles Lesan & Mehitabel Pratt f George W. Lesan b: 11 FEB 1830 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME married 1st cousin Melissa, daughter of Charles Lesan & Mehitabel Pratt g Harriet J. Lesan b: ABT 1831 in OH h Clarissa Lesan b: ABT 1834 in OH i James Lesan b: ABT 1836 j Solomon B. Lesan b: 1836 in OH d. St. Louis returning from the Civil War, one son k Martha Lesan b: ABT 1838 l Lavina Lesan b: ABT 1840 2 George P. Lesan Birth: 1798 in Southport ME Death: 1888 in Atkinson ME (photo in Knudson book) married Beulah Patterson b: 1806 d: 1882 children of George and Beulah: a. Clarissa Ellen Lesan b: 1832 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME (photo in Knudson book) married 1854 Love Hanson II in Atkinson ME 3 William Thompson Lesan b: Oct 9 1803 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME d: around 1880 in Stark Co. IL married 1830 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME to Hannah Blood b. 20 AUG 1804 in Merrimack Co. NH Death: 18 APR 1880 in Stark Co. IL William Thompson Lesan was born in Lincoln County, and Hannah Blood in Merrimac County, New Hampshire. They settled in Stark county 1844, and moved to Wisconsin in 1857 and after a few years returned to Stark County. children of William Thompson Lesan and Hannah Blood a Mary E. Lesan Knudson has her married to a Van Dyke. [is this the Mary M. Leasan 1831-1873 that was married to George Screeton? All info seems to be locked up behind the walls of those online "pay a fee-then a premium-then another fee and another premium and another fee and oops nothing here" online genealogy sites. But it says she was William Thompson Lesan's daughter. I'll wait to hear from relatives.] b Nancy E. Lesan ? c Hannah Celestia Lesan b: 16 AUG 1833 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME "who prophesied" d Harriet Lesan married Abner J. Sturm (see the Sturm page for more about us.) e Henrietta Maria Lesan b: 10 JUL 1838 in Newark, Licking Co. OH married Charles Lee Gerard 1833-1914 born in NH buried Osceola Grove children 1 Hannah E. Gerard 2 Martha (Mina) F. Gerard 1860-1933 in Elmira married Charles F. Omanson in March 1880 (same one?) Children Amanda, Walter, Charles, Lee, Isaac, James, Mary 3 Mary M Gerard married Charles F. Omanson in 1877 died in childbirth 4 Caroline Gerard 5 Ellen Sylvia Gerard 1866-1949 buried Osceola Grove married 1892 Anthony C. Loudenburg (son of the one in Ruby's story) children Bliss, Ruby, Lovell 6 Anna L. Gerard b. 1869 7 Charles Nathan Gerard 1871-1957 buried Osceola Grove 8 James L. Gerard 1873-1914 married Minne Tracy "a highly educated woman"; children James Frank, Charles Nathan, Paul Tracy and Verna Florence had "a farm of eighty acres on section 36, Elmira township." 9 Edith Marena Gerard 1878-1977 born in Modena buried in Kewanee Cemetery, Henry "has 105 greatgrandchildren" (Knudson) married Clifford Walter IMES born in Bradford children Children Lena May, Clifford Walter (m. Vera June Sturm), Myrtle Lavona, Ralph Leonard, Oliver Gerard, Velma Anita, Gerald Homer, Glenn Arnold Imes. f James W. Lesan b: 6 MAR 1845 (?) in Bennington, Licking Co. OH (there is a James W. listed 1858-1909 in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Sigourney, Keokuk County Iowa)
Obituary by Edith Marena Gerard, Daughter of Charles Gerard. "Charles L. Gerard, son of Nicholas and Frances Lignon Gerard, both natives of France, was born in Lewis County, NY Jan 24, 1834. The grandfather's family came to the US in 1829 and settled in Lewis County NY in 1834. They moved to Calumet County, Wisconsin where grandfather was engaged in farming until his death in 1862, age 110 years old. In 1856 he walked three miles to cast his vote for Buchanan. In religion, he belonged tot he Catholic church. With his wife and 8 children, one of his sons Nicholas, father of Charles L., was married in France and settled in Lewis County NY in 1826. Resided for some time at Albany and Cleveland, dying in the last named city. In 1844 his widow remarried and resided in Kansas like his father. He was the parent of 8 children, 2 died in infancy. Eugene and Joseph are among the dead. John resides in Minnesote, Charles L. in Elmira, Frank in Wisconsin, and George in Elmira. He served under Napoleon at Waterloo. Charles L. Gerard passed away his early years in Ohio, moving from Cuyahoga county to Huron County, OH at the age of 15. To Fon Du Lac, WI, 2 years later, where he learned the carpenter trade. On Aug 23, 1855, he married Miss Henrietta M., daughter of William and Hannah (Blood) Leasan. Her father was born in Lincoln County, Maine Oct 9, 1803 and her mother in Merrimac County, New Hampshire Aug 20, 1804. They settled in Stark county 1844, and moved to Wisconsin in 1857 and after a few years returned to Stark County. Mrs. William Leasan died in 1880. To Mr. Gerard and wife, 9 children were born - Hannah E. of Oscaola, Mary M. deceased, Martha F. of Elmira, Caroline A., Sylvia E., Anna L., Charles N., James L. and Edith M. (Dad's gram). In 1857, he and family came to Stark County. In 1864 he purchased a small tract of section 36 of Elmira and now owns 200 acres, mostly improved. In 1861 he became a Republican, at one time he was a member of the United Bretheren Church, but now supports all Christian churches. He is an Odd Fellow, has served as school director. Since 1860 when he made an overland trip to Pikes Peak, has been steadily engaged in building up the agricultural and social interest of his township."
4 Charles Lesan b: 5 OCT 1806 in Waldoboro ME Death: 26 NOV 1889 in Lesanville IA ABT 1853 Moved to Spoon River Valley, Illinois after nearly starving (and his wife dying) in the winter of 1862. Moved to Ringgold County, Iowa married 7 AUG 1831 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME to Mehitable Pratt Birth: 29 MAR 1813 in Hebron ME Death: 29 MAR 1852 in Atkinson ME
Charles and children were brought west by his older brother John after Mehitable died. Charles is remembered as an amiable goof-off... "Melissa's children remembered years later that the grandpa that they adored and who amiably mended their shoes could not handle a team, and ax, or a hoe, and could not take produce to market without someone to count his drinks and bring him home.) There is a grave -- or at least a marker -- for Mehitabel in Iowa. Findagrave
children of Mehitabel Pratt and Charles Lesan a John Alfred Lesan b: 10 JUL 1832 in Bangor, ME Death: 24 FEB 1905 in Mount Ayr IA Married: 23 SEP 1858 in Stark Co. IL Margaret Ann Coon b: 1837 in Hamilton, Canada Children 1 Charlie W. Lesan b: 20 DEC 1860 d: 11 OCT 1861 in Ringgold Co. IA 2 Hattie M. Lesan b: 10 JUL 1862 in Ringgold Co. IA d: 10 MAY 1949 in Ringgold Co. IA 3 Merton Lesan b: 12 JUL 1864 in Ringgold Co. IA d: 7 AUG 1875 in Ringgold Co. IA 4 Nellie Blanche Lesan b: 3 OCT 1876 in Lesanville IA d: 2 APR 1925 Married 1897 Willis M. McCandless in Ringgold Co. IA b Beulah Ann Lesan b: 5 NOV 1833 in Sebec ME d: 1914 in Ringgold Co. IA Married: 13 MAR 1853 in Stark Co. IL Sylvester H. Jackson 8 children born in Stark County c Sybil Pratt Lesan 1835-1919 "wittiest of Charles' children" (married 1st cousin David son of John Lesan & Elizabeth Brooks) b: 28 FEB 1835 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME d. 3 APR 1919 in Eagleville, MO Burial: 1919 Sweet Home Cemetery, Lesanville, IA Married David Martin Lesan b: 1 JAN 1828 in Goldsboro, ME Children 1 Arthur Lewis Lesan b: 22 Nov. 1855 in Lesanville IA; married Feb. 1879 to Margaret Louella Foxworthy, b. 1859, Mercer Co. MO Five children, Hugh, Bert, Charles Ray, Roe and Helen 2 Albert L. Lesan 1857-1858 in Ringgold Co. IA, 3 George Frank Lesan 1859-1937, born in Lesanville, IA married March 1884 Harriet Ingram b: 1858 in Galesburg, IL 9 children 4 Zaidee M. Lesan 1861-1948 born in Lesanville IA married David Durham Beard 5 Hittie Cora Lesan b. 1863 in Lesanville IA married in IA John Edward Main b. 19 Apr 1863, Stark Co. IL Ê2 children 6 Chester Ray Lesan 1868-1944 born in Lesanville IA married Lura Ellen Short b. 1869 seven children born in Iowa 7 Charles Walter Lesan 1870-1963 born in Ringgold Co. IA married Clara R. Middleton in 1891 five children 8 Roy Burdette Lesan 1877-1891 born in Ringgold Co. IA d Mary Melissa Lesan 1837-1927 (married 1st cousin George, son of John Lesan & Elizabeth Brooks) b: 27 FEB 1837 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME d: 4 MAY 1927 in Ringgold Co. IA Married 1853 in Stark Co. IL to George W. Lesan b: 11 FEB 1830 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME Children 1 Infant Daughter Lesan b: ABT 1854 2 Walter Lesan b: 1855 in Lesanville IA 3 Burritt Marion Lesan b: ABT 1861 in IA 4 Laura Ellen Lesan b: 27 JAN 1857 in Lesanville IA 5 Owen Lovejoy Lesan b: 17 FEB 1859 in Ringgold Co. IA 6 Wallace Lesan b: 1863 in Ringgold Co. IA 7 Cassius True Lesan b: 2 APR 1874 in Ringgold Co. IA e Harriet E. Lesan (1838-1926) b: 26 NOV 1838 in Sebec, Piscataquis Co. Maine d: 10 APR 1926 in Mt. Ayr Iowa Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Ringgold County Iowa married 1861 in Stark County, Illinois William Clark b: 26 SEP 1829 in Glanford Twp, Ontario, Canada two children born in IA f William P. Lesan b: 13 Nov 1840 d: 12 May 1841 g Charles William Lesan Sept 1841-Dec 1862 died in the Civil War h (twin)Joseph Edmund Lesan 1844-1917 b: 29 DEC 1844 in Bangor ME d: 25 JAN 1917 in Mount Ayr IA married 1877 in Ringgold Co. IA Emma R. Pierson b: 1856 in OH d: 18 FEB 1929 in Ringgold Co. IA Children 1 Goldie E. Lesan b. and d. 1879 in Ringgold Co. IA 2 Howard P. Lesan 1881-1952 born and died in Ringgold Co. IA married Myra F. Bowles b. Midland City IL, two children 3 Mary Lesan 1883-1889 in Ringgold Co. IA 4 Charles Karr Lesan 1886-1889 in Ringgold Co. IA i (twin) Josiah Pratt Lesan 1844-1922 b: in Bangor ME d: in Seattle WA Findagrave - photo! married 853 in Marion Co. IA Mary Ennis Beard Birth: 9 SEP 1853 in Marion Co. IA Death: 14 OCT 1939 in Courtney ND 1 Iola Lesan b/d 1872 in Ringgold Co. IA 2 Winnie Esther Lesan 1872-1950 b.in Ringgold Co. IA married Absolem Adinijah Hoffman After the death of her husband Winnie remained in Courtney, ND, and lived by herself. 3 Harry Edmund Lesan 1874-1932 b.in Ringgold Co. IA married 1902 in Eureka Springs AR to Rosina Locke, four children 4 Jessie Chloe Lesan 1876-1935 b.in Ringgold Co. IA married 1903 in Courtenay ND James Henry Wilson; two children 5 William Carl Lesan 1880-1911 b.in Ringgold Co. IA d. Ottumwa IA 6 Robert Parish Lesan 1883-1955 b.in Ringgold Co. IA d. Kansas City MO married 1913 Eureka Springs AR to Lilla J. Jordan one son born in Texas 7 Lena H. Lesan 1887-1889 in Ringgold Co. IA 8 Luella F. Lesan b. 16 MAR 1891 j George Micaja Drinkwater Lesan 1850-1911 b. in Atkinson ME d. May 1911 in St. Joseph MO he was a teacher for seven years. Married: 18 APR 1874 in Ringgold Co. IA Elsie Green b. 1853 in NY d. 1910 Children 1 Mabel Lesan b: 1874 2 Emery E. Lesan 1878-1955 b. in Kellerton IA d. San Fernando CA m. Addie B. Van Slyke four children 3 Cora E. Lesan b: 2 SEP 1880 in Ringgold Co. IA 4 Bertha Lesan 1882-1884 5 Walter Glenn Lesan 1885-1964 b. in Kellerton IA married 1905 Ringgold Co. IA Lucy Mosier b. Ringgold Co. IA four children 6 Edith Lesan infant 1886 5 James Edmund Lesan b: ABT 1811 (?) 6 Harriet Purse Lesan 1811-1893 (married her brother-in-law, the brother of Hannah Blood our ancestor) b: 26 MAY 1811 in Belfast, Waldo Co. ME Death: 23 SEP 1893 in Runnels IA Burial: 26 SEP 1893 Mitchellville, Polk Co. IA Married: 13 APR 1830 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME Nathan H. Blood b: 14 APR 1807 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME Children of Harriet P and Nathan H Blood 1 Harriet Mahala Blood b: 18 DEC 1831 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME 2 Gorham Parks Blood b: 31 MAR 1833 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME 3 Charles Freeman Blood b: 1 MAY 1835 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME 4 Lewis Phillip Blood b: 4 FEB 1838 in Sebec, Penobscot Co. ME 5 Mary Elizabeth Blood b: 28 MAR 1840 in Sebec, Piscataquis Co. ME 6 Lenora Ellen Blood b: 14 NOV 1842 in Salem, Wayne Co. PA 7 Henrietta R. Blood b: 8 NOV 1844 in Salem, Wayne Co. PA 8 Cynthia Jane Blood b: 11 MAR 1847 in Salem, Wayne Co. PA 9 Laura Ann Blood b: 16 APR 1850 in Salem, Wayne Co. PA 10 Lovina Melitta Blood b: 25 APR 1853 in Greenbush, Sheboygan Co. WI 11 Mallissa Celesta Harriet Blood b: 26 APR 1855 in Greenbush, Sheboygan Co. WI 7 Joseph Lesan b: ABT 1813 d: 4 JUL 1854 in Wintersport ME Married ? child Albert Lesan b: ABT 1850 8 Mary Lesan b: ABT 1815 in ME d: in ME married: Micajah Drinkwater in ME (see name of Charles' child b 1850)
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