According to his nephew, John Elwood Pigott, the sextant was brought back from New York and was given to Lige's brother John (Elwood's father), to give to Lige's brother Joe. Somehow or other, it wound up being given to Joe's son Murray. It is supposed that Murray's son, Joe now has this sextant.
One of the trunks has come into the possession of a great niece, Elizabeth Pigott Peeler. It contains a treasure trove of Lige memorabilia (lists of places he traveled to, notes taken when he was studying navigation, ships he captained around the world, etc.). It also contains the remnants of one of his blue uniforms. It is not known what happened to his other uniforms or his "princealbert" suit. One would assume he was buried in one of these suits, and since he was such a sea-faring man, one would assume he would have been buried in his white uniform (seeing as how it was summer time).
The story of how Elizabeth came by this trunk is interesting in itself. Seems that the task of clearing out brother Joe's attic after his last daughter's death, fell to grandson Charles. This attic must have contained all sorts of treasures. Anyway, Charles eventually tired of this monumental task and decided to put the remainder of the items on the auction block, sight unseen. Elizabeth got permission to look over these remaining items before the auction took place. She spied the trunk and took a gander in. When she saw what was in there, she slammed the lid shut and told Charles she would buy the trunk at whatever price it took. Elizabeth has been very gracious in allowing us all to view and read the contents of this trunk. We are very fortunate that it did not get out of family hands. The trunk now occupies center stage in the living room of her retreat on the banks of The Straits, not far from Uncle Lige's final resting place.
