♀ Agnes Leech

1730 - 1814

Agnes Leech
Spouse
Thomas Lackey Sr.
Thomas Lackey Sr.
1728 - 1801
Children
Margaret Lackey
Margaret Lackey
1767 - 1854

Among the passengers on board an immigrant ship sailing from Northern Ireland in 1748 were a Leech family of seven and Thomas Lackey.  Five of the Leeches died at sea, leaving only 18 year old Agnes and her 9 year old brother John.  Many of these immigrants settled in Lancaster, where Thomas Lackey married Agnes in 1754.  They and Agnes' brother John and his wife Martha (McComb) moved to the Shenandoah Valley, in what is now Rockbridge Virginia.

 

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1747


Age: 17y

immigration


Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
Five of the Leeches died at sea, leaving only 18 year old Agnes with her 9 year old brother John upon arrival in America.
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1747 October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.

1754


Age: 24y
1754 • Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in 1759 and finally Hillsborough in 1766.

1767


Age: 37y
1767 Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean is sighted from HMS Swallow by 15-year-old Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on a British Royal Navy expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret, the first definite European sighting.

1768


Age: 38y
Lackey Family Book Excerpt

residence


Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓
Thomas Lackey and Agnes Leech, along with her brother John and his wife Martha, moved to Shenandoah Valley, settling two miles west the Natural Bridge in what is now Rockbridge County. The large outside chimney of the old home still stands.
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1768 • A Secretary of State for the colonies is appointed in Britain.

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