A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for John Leverett
"The Leverett Memorial" by Charles Edward Leverett; Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1856, pp. 154-55 (obtained from Google Books):
John,(13) eldest son of Knight, was born in Boston, Jan. 28, 1726-7. Married Mary Greenleaf, Dec. 19, 1757. By papers in our hands, we find him a commissioned officer as early as 1758, "in the Regiment whereof John Phillips, Esq., is Colonel," and after sustaining various grades, appointed Lieut.-Colonel, and subsequently Colonel of the Boston Regiment. ... In 1762, he is made one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and was Overseer of the Poor, &c. Col. Leverett was a merchant, importer of British goods, and his warehouse, with its valuable contents, was destroyed by the King's troops when they took possession of Boston in the Revolutionary war. Notwithstanding this serious loss, and under such circumstances, he would not feel exonerated from the debt, and, with a just but very uncommon magnanimity, paid the full value to his English creditors. His justice or generosity di not, we are pleased to say, prevent his leaving, at his decease, a respectable fortune to his family. Some relics and traditionary reminiscences show that he lived in much style and luxury, not common in that century. He was a gentleman of such excellent spirit as to be ready and willing to serve his town in any capacity,--thinking it just as honorable to be the plain soldier or civilian, as the titled leader or magistrate. Col. Leverett is represented to have been of high temper, but of great integrity, capacity and energy. At the invasion of the English, he removed his family to Middletown, Conn., where he died, June 10, 1777, aged 51. His widow died at Windsor, Vt., July 8, 1795.
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