Percival Levett

Percival Levett (1560–1625) was an early merchant and innkeeper of York, England, Sheriff of the city,[1] member of the Eastland Company and father of English explorer Capt.

[2] His daughter Ann married another York Sheriff, Christopher Topham (father of Member of Parliament Christopher Topham), and on his death married Dr. Joseph Micklethwaite.

[3][4] The ancestors of Percival Levett came from Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, and they shared a coat-of-arms with the Levetts of Normanton,[5] High Melton and Hooton Levitt, Yorkshire, indicating that a cadet branch of the family probably relocated to Bolton Percy during medieval times.

Percival Levett was buried at St. Martin's Micklegate in York on 13 February 1625.

[9] Levett had done well enough as a merchant to acquire the title of gentleman, a title he assuredly was born without,[10] and sold his home in Coppergate, in central York, to Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York.