Ancestors

Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell was born in 1772. As a young man he had a thriving business at Bath making shoes and dealing in East India goods, and there he married Mary Lemont, a deacon's daughter born in 1778. His brother Joseph had settled on Quaker Ridge Road in Leeds in 1800 and saw that the neighbourhood needed a mill; he persuaded Thomas to come. Thomas and Mary arrived at Leeds in 1802. He bought the land and water power at Coffin Brook on Quaker Ridge Road and built a dam and a mill. Both burned, and he built again with the help of Elias Lane. The War of 1812 killed the lumber trade and the mill stood idle that year, so he built his house instead; he also served, and his monument calls him a soldier of 1812. They had ten children, three of whom died young; Jesse, born 1810, was one of the seven. Thomas died at Leeds on 11 April 1849, aged seventy-seven, and Mary in 1860, aged eighty-one. Their monument at West Leeds Cemetery reads: "Thomas Mitchell died 1849 AET. 77. Mary Lemont his wife died 1860 AET. 81. MITCHELL. A Soldier of 1812." Who his parents were is disputed: a typewritten transcription of the Leeds town record made in the early 1900s calls him a son of Thomas Mitchell Sr., but the original handwritten entry names no parents, and descendants who have tested their DNA believe him a son of William and Hannah (Mayo) Mitchell.

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Cite: Heirology, "Thomas Mitchell (1772-1849)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/thomas-mitchell-1772-1849-29de0a.