Leah was the daughter of John Parker and Tabitha Truitt. Her father left her a bequest in his 1730 Will.
Notes
Leah predeceased her mother, and is not mentioned in Tabitha Parker's will. There is a grandchild John Turner who receives a bequest in that will, clearly the son of one of Tabitha's daughters. It may be Leah's child, or the child from one of the other daughters -- Sarah Dennis, Eleanor Dennis, Tabitha Nicholas -- from a previous marriage.
-Signed: 1 Dec 1730; Proved: 1 Apr 1731. Recorded in Worcester County 1808
-Bequests to: wife Tabitha Parker; son George Parker; other eight children – John Parker, Tabitha (Parker) Muholas [Nicholas?], Philip Parker, Charles Parker, Samuel Parker, Elinor Parker, Sarah Parker, and Leah Parker. Grandson John Turner (part of tract called Parker’s Adventure)
-Enslaved people listed in will: girl named Nan (to son George); Danae (to son John, a mulatto); man named Jack (to son Samuel); girl named Dinah (to daughter Elinor); girl named Hannah (to daughter Leah); girl named Jude (to daughter Sarah)
-Executors: wife Tabitha Parker and son Samuel Parker.
-Witnesses: Isaac Morris, Henry Jarman; James Muholson
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Leah by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leah: