When Experience Leeds was born on 13 April 1738, in Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Leeds, was 23 and her mother, Mary Comstock, was 19. She married Major Richard Hewitt on 12 October 1760, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She registered for military service in 1831. She died on 21 August 1837, in Milton, Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 99, and was buried in Frink Cemetery, Milton Center, Saratoga, New York, United States.
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English: habitational name from either the city in Yorkshire or the village in Kent. The Yorkshire placename is recorded as Loidis in the 8th century and Ledes in 1086, and may derive from British Lātensēs or Lādensēs, meaning ‘the people of the river Lāt- (probably an old name for the river Aire, to be associated with Welsh llawd ‘heat, ardour, passion’)’. The origin of the Kent placename, which is recorded as Hledesc. 1100, is uncertain.
History: Daniel Leeds (1652–1720) was born in England, probably in Nottinghamshire, and emigrated to North America with his father, Thomas, some time in the third quarter of the 17th century. The family settled in Shrewsbury, NJ, in 1677. Daniel made almanacs and was surveyor general of the Province of West Jersey in 1682. He was married four times and had numerous children.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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