This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LEECH, CAMPBELL, GOLDSBOROUGH, SHADDON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11772 Message Board Post: in Portland Sketches is listed one LEECH; Robert Was b. in Northumberland County, Pa., Nov. 4, 1768. His father’s given name is not remembered, but his mother’s maiden name was Sally Shaddon. Mr. L. lived for eight years in South Carolina and for some time in Cayuga and Genesee counties, in this state, after his majority. He m. Mrs. Margaret D. Goldsborough, wid. Of Joseph GGOLDSBOROUGH, dau. of Hugh and Mary Smith Campbell, and sister of Hon. Thomas B. CAMPBELL of Westfield, this county, march 26, 1811, at Scipio, Cayuga County. Mrs. L. was b. at Alexandria, Grafton County, N. H., May 3, 1781. They removed to this county from Batavia, this state, in 1823, and lived for a year and a half on the Vorce farm, west of Westfield, a part of that time keeping tavern, but removed to P. in March 1825, settling on p’t of lot 38, T. 5, buying of Philip Kane. They occupied a log house midway between the north and south roads, on the line of McMahan’s road. Mr. L. d. there Oct. 21, 1830, a! nd was bu. in Evergreen cemetery. The first marble stone placed in these grounds was at the head of his grave. After the death of Mr. L., the family built a frame house on the north road where they lived for many years. Mrs. L. d. there May 21, 1873, aged 92 years, lacking three days. Mr. L. was Presbyterian in religious sentiment; in politics a whig and anti-mason. Family of Mr. and Mrs. Leech – MARY ANN GOLDSBOROUGH: a dau. by Mrs. L’s first m.; b. in Scipio, Cayuga Co., Aug. 18, 1803; m. John S. Coon in P. May 5, 1837; settled upon the homestead; d. there April 28, 1873. SALLY LOUISA: an own dau.; b. in Genoa, Cayuga county, May 1, 1812; still living upon the homestead, the only remaining member of the family. NOTE: Robert kept a tavern and was a storekeeper. After his death, his wife Margaret kept a journal, which is at the Chautauqua County Historical Society in Westfield. Also the account book of Robert Leech is deposited at CCHS. Mary Ann and John S. Coon had adopted son Francis McGennis bc 1845 in Ireland. Sally Leech is on the 1875 census as Sally LUCH residing with her brother –in –law J S Coon and a male servant- R. McFadden