Misfortunes of Wealth

The title is of a book by James Oliver Goldsborough.  It describes his own family from the Revolutionary War to the present, through his own ancestors, starting with Eliza Leet, daughter of Daniel Leet.  From that point, of course, the Leet name is (only) a middle name of some of his ancestors.  BUT, I have a secret in an epic story that won't be a secret once I tell it.  It starts in western VA/W Va/Pa/OH/NY contemporaneous with the beginning of the "Misfortunes of Wealth" and leads south and west.  All the Leet and Leete branches crossed at a point in time and place, and arguably impacted the course of history, for the family and the continent. But I do need to close some gaps, starting with Cruttenden, Crittenden, Chittenden.