Leake family estate papers, 1773-1913 [manuscript].

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Leake family estate papers, 1773-1913 [manuscript].

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Papers relating to the legal dispute of claims to the land holdings in New York City, New Jersey, Florida, and England of John George Leake (1752-1827) who died intestate in New York. Among the claimants was Sarah Leake Spalding of Georgia. Papers include notes, memorials, interrogatories, genealogies, and other evidence supporting various claims; correspondence of lawyers in Scotland, New York, and New Jersey; and other material relating to the claims pressed by collateral descendants for over 70 years. Also included are about 90 items--business correspondence, bills, and receipts, chiefly 1790s, some relating to slaves--of Sarah Leake Spalding's father, Richard Leake (d. 1802) of St. Simons and Darien, Ga., and her husband, Thomas Spalding (1774-1851) of Savannah and Sapelo Island, Ga., cotton planters.

5,000 items (6.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Leake, John George, 1752-1827.

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Spalding, Sarah Leake.

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Spalding, Thomas, 1774-1851

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James Spalding (1735-1794) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to America circa 1760, first arriving in Charleston, South Carolina. He moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia, in 1763 and established the mercantile firms of James Spalding and Co. in East Florida, McKay and Spalding on St. Simons Island, and Spalding and Kelsall at Sunbury, Georgia. He was also a planted. In 1772, he married Margery McIntosh, daughter of Col. William McIntosh, with whom he had one son. Thomas Spalding (1774-185...

Leake family.

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Leake, Richard, d. 1802.

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