William LEFFINGWELL

                   BIRTH:
    Birth place also listed as White Colne, County Essex, England.

NOTES:
    1. Ensign or Lieutenant Leffingwell has made a place in history. He played a very important role in what is often referred to as the War for the Relief of Uncas. Chief Uncas of the Mohegan tribe, a valuable asset to the Colonists, was involved in a tribal war with a competing group of Indians. On a slab at the site of Uncas' old main fort, "Shantok", is written: Here stood the fort of Uncas Sachem of the Mogegans and friend of the English Here in 1645 when besieged by the Narragansetts he was relieved by the bravery of Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell - Erected by the Colonial Dames 1898.
    2. Leffingwell built and operated the Leffingwell Inn, a "house of public entertainment" sometime shortly after 1700. The house still stands at 348 Washington Street, and has been proclaimed the oldest in Norwich. In fact, George Washington, on april 8, 1776, "partook f the Hospitalities of Leffingwell Inn".
    3. In addition to the Inn, Thomas had paper and fulling mills, and a store that sold "lamb's gloves, sattin, cambricks and stuff shose; lute strings, palongs and humhums". It was noted in Trilogy that the Leffingwell house may have been built onto the old Backus residence; local historians say the house was build by Stephen Backus.