♀ 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.

 

Timeline

1730

1730 Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet (i.e., prime minister). In the new Walpole Ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington briefly becomes Lord Privy Seal.
about

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 • Canter of Coltbrigg – The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee the Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart.

1754


Age: 24y
1754 • The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 comes into force in England and Wales, placing marriage in that jurisdiction on a statutory basis for the first time.

1767


Age: 37y
1767 • Construction begins on Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. The construction proves more expensive than initially expected, leading the government to increase local taxes. This stirs resentment among some North Carolinians and helps prolong the War of the Regulation.

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 Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London.

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