Leavitt family
Biography
Dudley Leavitt (1772 – September 20, 1851) was an American publisher. He was an early graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in his native town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and later moved to Gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school. Within a few years, Leavitt relocated to Meredith, where in addition to teaching school and farming, he began publishing in 1797 Leavitt's Farmers Almanack, one of the nation's earliest farmers' almanacs.
Judith Leavitt Jones (1815-1846) of New Hampshire was the wife of missionary John Taylor Jones.
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Leavitt Family papers
Leavitt Family. The collection contains correspondence, notebooks and business papers of the Leavitt family. Family members represented here include Dudley Leavitt, Dudley Leavitt, Jr., and Judith Leavitt Jones.