Leavitt Bay - Ossipee, NH

Undated postcard - GREEN MOUNTAIN, FROM LEAVITT'S BAY

Leavitt's (or Leavitt) Bay is located on the eastern side of Ossipee, New Hampshire, bordered by the towns of Freedom and Effingham, NH.

The 1859 map for Carroll County, NH shows the household of "J.M. & Sam'l Leavitt", located near the southern shore of the bay. This is James Monroe Leavitt (1821-1891) and his father Samuel (1786-1868), a Buxton, Maine branch from the Descendants of Thomas Leavitt. They were related to the Leavitt family from Hampton, NH, who were early settlers of Effingham (formerly known as Leavitt's Town). In 1850, they co-owned a 100-acre lot, bound on the northwest corner by the Ossipee town line. Samuel had, in 1838, sold a 50-acre lot on the town line to Jacob Tuttle (the "J. Tuttle on above map). Samuel and son John C. would leave Effingham for Andover, NH. James M. remained in town, where he died in 1891. Originally buried in the home cemetery, he was removed in 1930 and reinterred in the Parsons Cemetery (now in Effingham Falls Cem.). 

Sources:
Topographical Map of Carroll County (Library of Congress site)
United States Geological Survey maps of New Hampshire (USGS map site)
Carroll County Deeds: vol. 7, pg 571; Vol. 18, pg 428, 443
See also: 
Effingham, NH Cemeteries page for gravestone of J.M. Leavitt and family