 Among John Leavitt's English descendants was [[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]] [[Dudley Pound|Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Pound]], a torpedo expert who masterminded [[United Kingdom|Britain]]'s victory in the [[Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945)]].Other descendants of the Deacon became [[Germans|German]] citizens.David Leavitt Jr., son of the New York banker, moved to [[Dresden]], where daughter Louise Walcott Leavitt married Baron Franz Oswald Trützschler von Falkenstein.