Person:Leander Terry (1)

Watchers
m. 17 Oct 1806
  1. Leander Terry1818 - 1862
  2. Alfred Gove Terry1824 - 1864
  3. Charles Carroll Terry1828 - 1867
  • HLeander Terry1818 - 1862
  • WMaria Abbe1819 - 1891
m. 2 Aug 1841
  1. John Gilbert Terry1843 -
  2. Everett Lee Terry1846 - 1926
  3. Alice Maria Terry1854 -
Facts and Events
Name Leander Terry
Gender Male
Birth[5] 25 Mar 1818 Sangerfield, Oneida, New York, United States
Marriage 2 Aug 1841 New Yorkto Maria Abbe
Census[2] 17 Aug 1850 Madison, Madison, New York, United States
Residence[4] 13 Nov 1851 Alki, King, Washington, United Stateswith Denny Party
Census[3] 17 Aug 1860 Madison, Madison, New York, United States
Death? 6 Jun 1862 Madison, Madison, New York, United States
Burial[1] Waterville, Oneida, New York, United StatesWaterville Cemetery

Lee was the only member of the original Denny party who did not stay in Washington. He had left his family behind when he and his brother went to California in search of gold, and he returned home to New York in the early 1850s.

Founders of Seattle, Washington
The founding of Seattle is usually dated from the arrival of the Denny Party on November 13, 1851, at Alki Point. The group had travelled overland from the Midwest to Portland, Oregon, then made a short ocean journey up the Pacific coast into Puget Sound, with the express intent of founding a town. The next April, Arthur A. Denny abandoned the original site at Alki in favor of a better-protected site on Elliott Bay, near the south end of what is now downtown Seattle. Around the same time, Doc Maynard began settling the land immediately south of Denny's. The first plats in Seattle were filed May 28, 1853, and Seattle was incorporated as a town in 1867, by which time it had 350 inhabitants. Credit:Wikipedia, "History of Seattle before 1900"
Denny Party: Arthur A. Denny, his wife Mary, and children; David T. Denny; Carson D. Boren, his wife Mary, their daughter, and Carson's younger sister Louisa; William N. Bell, his wife Sarah, and children; John Low, his wife Lydia, and children; Lee Terry; Charles Terry.
Additional Settlers by 1852: Dr. David S. "Doc" Maynard (1808-1873); Henry Yesler (1810-1892); Luther Collins (1813-1860), Henry Van Asselt, and Jacob and Samuel Maple.
Current Location: King County, Washington  
References
  1. Find A Grave
    Leander Terry.
  2. Madison, New York, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    Leander L. Terry 32 NY, Maria 31 NY; John G. 7; Edward S. 4 (Madison, p. 67B, 8/17/1850)

  3. Madison, New York, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    Leander Terry 43 NY farmer 3000/2000; Mariah 41 NY; John G. 18; Everett 14; Alace M. 6; Ruth Abby 79 CT; Henry Johnson 23 NY (laborer) Am Watters 18 NY (Madison, p. 1096, 8/17/1860)

  4. Seattle Times: Nominees for Most Influential People in the first 150 years
    [1].

    LEANDER TERRY: Member of the original Alki landing party, he stayed only a winter and then left for New York.

  5. Abbe, Cleveland, and Josephine Genung Nichols. Abbe-Abbey genealogy : in memory of John Abbe and his descendants. (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Co, 1916)
    p. 198.

    Children of Horace Terry and Elizabeth Chambers: ... Leander Terry, b. Mar. 25, 1818. Farmer in Madison, NY. Died there June 6, 1862. Married August 2, 1841 Maria Abbe....

  6.   AGBI cites Abbe-Abbey gen., John Abbe des. By Cleveland Abbey, et al. New Haven, 1916. (511p.): 198