By Tristram Frost Jordan 

The Leighton name occurs in some of the oldest annals of English and Scotch history. The spelling is various. This 1885 publication is a genealogical account of the descendants of Captain William Leighton of Kittery, Maine; with notes related to the Frost, Hill, Bane, Wentworth, Langdon, Bragdon, Parsons, Pepperrell, Fernald, Nason and other families of York County and its vicinity. Included are brief memoirs of Major Charles Frost, of Kittery, and Captain John Hill, of Berwick, as well as a brief history of the settlement of Maine and early Kittery. Captain William was born about 1625, and came to America settling in Kittery about 1650. 

(136p., Index, 1885)