Upon JVaddingion Point, the south-west projection of the PLzniing Neck, is situated Blythe place-- formerly belonging to Francis Barretto, Esq. The house is a handsome edihce of stone. The grounds are richly wooded, and the views of the river extensive, and singularly beautiful. Mr. Barretto for many years represented this county in Assembly. In the immediate \icinity of Blythe place stood the residence* of the late Thomas Leggett, whose ancestors had been resident proprietors of the great Planting Neck, since the year 1690, if not before.

The Leggett family were formerly seated in Essex County, England, and probably dciicend from Helmingius Legat, high sheriff of that county, in 1.104. As early as 1661, Gabriel Leggett emigrated to this country; and in right of his \\'ife.Ehzalieth Richardson, daughter and

a Tliis tuuse occiiijiea the site of the old Lcg^jett homesteaJ.

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fohcircss cf John Richardson, (one of the joint patentees,) became pos- M-'.-vScd of a large portion of the Neck. Ey liis last \dll dated

" lGt!i of April, 1676, Gabriel Leggett of the Wast Farms, bequeathed to his wife* Kiizabcth, all his household goods, &c., &c. To his sou John, all his house iu;ii out-houses, orchard, land and the meadows in the Planting Xeck. and the tntndow, ice, also that messuage and tenement Avhich Thomas Williau;s dwells u'v-a, and was formerly my father-in-law's, John Richardson, his uow dwelling h'ju.-e, and orchard aud out houses with the land and meadow which I bo;i:::ht (jf John Ferguson, Sen., and Robert Manning, together with fifty acres of wood lind, lying within the bounds of the patent of West Farms, &c. ' I say to my fi)n Thomas,' to bis sou "William one hundred acres of woodland, and five acres of meadow, lyiJig behind the field, within the bounds of the patents of West Farms together with all the undivided meadow, as also my house and house lot, with an orchard thereon, Ijing in the town of Westclicster.