Benson Leavitt

[5] Later, under President Andrew Jackson, the Democratic party came to control Hampton Falls, and Thomas Leavitt was chosen Town Clerk.

[6] In 1814, when Thomas Leavitt's son Benson was 17 years old, the future mayor served with 40 men from Hampton Falls who marched to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, then under threat of attack by British forces during the War of 1812.

[9] Leavitt also served as a director of the Granite Bank, a founder of the Fishing Insurance Company [10] and for several years was a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court from Suffolk County,[11] where he was a member of the Joint Committee on Fisheries.

[15] On October 1, 1845, Mayor Thomas Aspinwall Davis wrote Board of Aldermen chairman Benson Leavitt from his home in Brookline.

But Providence has seen fit to order otherwise, and I find myself now, by great prostration of strength, quite unfit for service of any kind, either public or private.