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. To liis dauc:hter Martha, he bequeathed his little colored boy; to his daughters Mary, Sarah, Alice and Elizabeth, twenty pounds each."ii

John Leggett, the eldest son of the above testator, was the great grand-father of the late Thomas Leggett. The following incidents are related of ]Mr. Leggett, whose activity, energy and fearlessness of character are well known.

While a youth, at the commencement of the revolutionary war, he was li\'ing with his father on the farm adjoining Morrisauia. All he possessed at this time was a very fine young mare, the gift of his parent. Prior to Colonel De Lance/s taking possession of his father's house, a party of British refugees took, with other property, his favorite animal, whilst he, being unarmed, could only bluster and threaten. He refused, however, to leave them, and actually accompanied tlie robbers two miles on their route to head-quarters. As the party were passing tlie soot which now makes the southern entrance to West P'arms, two Continen-, tal soldiers rose up from behind a stone wall and fired.