Joseph Leavitt , great - great - grandson of patriarch John , was the son of a modest farmer in Pembroke .
The family originated at Hingham , some 17 miles away , in the seventeenth century when English settler deacon John Leavitt removed there from Boston .
Joseph Leavitt , great - great - grandson of settler deacon settler deacon , was the son of a modest farmer in Pembroke .
The family originated at Hingham , some 17 miles away , in the seventeenth century when English settler deacon John Leavitt removed there from Boston .