Person:Lawrence Leach (1)

Will

Larance Leach Aged 85 years or thereabouts beinge parfitt in memory neer a yeare befoe his death expressed himselfe vnto vs whose names are heervnder written in the disposing of that wch hee had, we being vrgent wth him to make his will his expressions tp vs was this first he said that he did owe thirtie II pounds II for the mill & his will was that his wife should pay his debts and when his debts ware paid that shee should take all hee had. John Porter John bacheller

Source: The nuncupative will of Lawrence Leach of Salem was proved in the court at Salem 25:4:1662.. The above is a copy of the orignal paper on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, volume VIII, leaf 33. "The Essex Antiquarian" Vol. X p 168

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Lawrence Leach, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   2:1161-64, Apr. 2008.

   "ORIGIN: Unknown"
   "CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: In the list of Salem Church members compiled late in 1636 [SChR 5].
   FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366]."
   "BIRTH: About 1583 (estimated by splitting the difference between his age as stated in his nuncupative will and the year of birth that would result from assuming he was twenty-five when he married.
   
   Subsequent research has determined that Lawrence Leach married Elizabeth Mileham at Hurst, Berkshire, on 2 February 1605/6.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Henderson, Robert F., and James R. Henderson. English Origins of Lawrence¹ Leach of Salem, Massachusetts. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 2008)
   162:98-100.

   "Lawrence¹ Leach was born about 1577, based on his stated age when he made his will …. He married at Hurst, Berkshire, on 2 February 1605/6, Elizabeth Mileham. … Lawrence and Elizabeth … immigrated to Massachusetts in 1629 or 1630 and settled at Salem. He left a nuncupative will, proved 25 June 1662, as 'Laurence Leach aged 85 years or thereabouts.'"

3. ↑ "He received one hundred acres in the freeman's land at Salem in 1636 [STR 1:19, 27]. He was granted three-quarters of an acre of marsh on 25 Decejavascript:void(0);mber 1637, with a household of five [STR 1:105]."