Esther Leach

Brief Life History of Esther

Esther Leach was born about 1772, in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States as the daughter of James Leach and Alice Freeman. She married Isaac Eastman on 8 October 1795, in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died in 1830, in Hancock, Hancock, Maine, United States, at the age of 59.

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Family Time Line

Isaac Eastman
1773–
Esther Leach
1772–1830
Marriage: 8 October 1795
William Eastman
1802–1877
Isaac Eastman Jr
1805–1884

Sources (8)

  • Ester Leach, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
  • Esther Leech, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
  • Easther Leach, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"

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World Events (8)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776

New Hampshire is 9th state.

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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