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Hannah Leonard was born on 22 March 1713 in Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. She died on 1 June 1730 at age 17 in Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

ECL: unmarried. Hannah Leonard had person sources.¹

Uriah Leonard was born on 7 March 1717 in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts. He and Elizabeth Farley were married on 9 September 1736 in Billerica, Massachusetts. He died on 12 August 1766 at age 49 in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts. He was buried at Stoney Plain Cemetery in Taunton, Massachusetts.

According to ECL, he worked for Judge Zephaniah Leonard at the Hopewell Forge in 1764. In Judge Leonard's inventory of Uriah's estate, it showed that he owed 71 pounds 15 shillings and the house where he lived was put down in the inventory at 10 pounds. Uriah drops out of the Canton District tax list in 1739. He appears in Sharon in 1747 and stays there until 1751 and then disappears entirely. Taunton records show the death of Elizabeth, wife of Uriah, November 6, 1775. Uriah Leonard had person sources.¹ He was christened in May 1717 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Farley was born on 17 October 1711 in Billerica, Massachusetts. Uriah Leonard and she were married on 9 September 1736 in Billerica, Massachusetts. She died on 6 November 1775 at age 64 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. She was buried at Stoney Plain Cemetery in Taunton, Massachusetts.

Uriah and Elizabeth Leonard were ordered to appear at Cambridge March 19, 1743, in regard to the administration of the probate of Timothy Farley. Hazen in History of Billerica states that she married Jerathmell Bowers Jr. at Billerica March 17, 1735/6, but that seems wrong, given the probate case of her father.

Was she born in Stoughton or Billerica? OneWorldTree has her born in Stoughton. Elizabeth Farley had person sources.¹

Lt. Nathaniel Leonard was born on 7 March 1717 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ He and Mary Shepard were married on 26 January 1743 in Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He and Jerusha Wentworth Fenno were married on 14 February 1765 in Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 12 August 1766 at age 49 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel lived in that part of Stoughton known as "The Hardware District." He erected the first milestone in the town, just north of Massapoag Brook where Washington Street crosses a few rods from the original resting place of Colonel Gridley. He was in Col. Miller's Regt. in Old French War. (from History of Westmoreland, NH). He was baptized in Norton May 1717. The Suffolk County records mention him as a "gentleman" on February 22, 1772, in the settlement of his estate.

The Musical Society of Canton records note that Nathaniel and his brother, Walley, bought quite a bit of land in Canton and built the second iron works, called "London New," about 1740. Lt. Nathaniel Leonard had person sources.²

Jerusha Wentworth Fenno was born on 4 June 1734 in Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. John Fenno and she were married on 14 December 1752 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Lt. Nathaniel Leonard and she were married on 14 February 1765 in Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Ebenezer Capon and she were married on 25 December 1771. She died on 1 April 1816 at age 81 in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Did she marry (1) a Leonard? She died of smallpox.

Walley Leonard was born on 18 August 1720 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He and Meredith Lyons were married on 22 May 1744 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 14 June 1764 at age 43 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He was buried at Gridley Graveyard, near Kinsley Place, in Canton, Massachusetts.

Walley was an iron bloomer.

Walley caught the small pox from visiting a doctor in Boston to have a tooth extracted. The doctor used the same tools as he had used on another patient who had the small pox. Gridley Graveyard was used at that time for small pox deaths. His and the other graves are unmarked. Walley Leonard had person sources.¹

Meredith Lyons was born on 15 May 1719 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Walley Leonard and she were married on 22 May 1744 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. She died on 19 August 1802 at age 83 in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

Meredith Lyons had person sources.¹

Jacob Leonard was born in 1716 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Mary Wilde were married on 12 October 1737 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ He died on 14 March 1743 at age ~27 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.²

William Leonard of Taunton sold to his son Jacob 34 1/2 acres in Norton December 16, 1740.

Jacob Leonard sold his farm in Norton to John Wilde (his father-in-law?) January (?) 13, 1742. This would have been shortly before he died.

Since he died while his children were so young, there should be a court action to establish their guardianship.

The name Jacob ran in the Barney family. Jacob Leonard had person sources.³

Mary Wilde was born on 22 July 1721 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.¹ Jacob Leonard and she were married on 12 October 1737 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.² Seth Clark and she were married on 5 September 1744 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ She died about 1786 at age ~65 in Woodstock, Connecticut.

Was she born July 22, 1721 in Braintree or 1718 in Norton? ECL says Darius H. Leonard said on June 24, 1888, she married 2nd a Clark, and that is borne out by the Norton VR's. She was a Mayflower descendant of John Alden through her mother.

Note that her children by Jacob were young when he died. Were they raised with her children by Seth Clark?

A widow, Mary Leonard, was admitted to the Norton Church in 1743.

ECL: did she also marry (3) Seth John Hall in 1764? Answer seems to be "no;" she was alive for land transactions in 1783 in Woodstock, CT. Her son, John Clark, gave life use of the family homestead to "his honored parents Seth and Mary Clark." Mary Wilde had person sources.³

Hannah Leonard was born in 1718 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Daniel Lincoln and she were married on 12 April 1750 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ She died on 3 October 1811 at age ~93 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.²

Was she born in Taunton or Norton, MA? When did the two separate? Hannah Leonard had person sources.³

Jedidiah Leonard was born in 1730 in Easton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Sarah Baldwin were married on 28 April 1752 in Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey.¹ He died on 16 May 1776 at age ~46 in Bolton or Vernon, Connecticut.²

Sarah may have been married before (Thomas Price) and had a number of children by him.

ECL says Jedidiah probably married Sarah Baldwin of Hanover, NJ, probably at the First Church of Hanover. There were a number of Leonards in Hanover, Morris County, NJ, including not only Stephen of the James line, but Benjamin of the Solomon line and their descendants. One must be doubly careful to keep the Leonard lines straight in Morris County.

Jedidiah Leonard and his wife became members ("renewed their covenant") of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme 5 November 1759 and had their children Phebe, Eunice, Rebecca, and Asa baptized on the same date (per First Congregational Church records, CT State Library).

A Jebediah Leonard enlisted 8 September 1755, discharged 10 December 1755, Eighth Co., Capt. Harris, from CT Hist. Society Collections, Vol. IX, French-Indian War Rolls, Vol. 1, Vol. 2. He may also be the Jedidiah Leonard who served in Co. of Capt. Ellsworth, 1775.

A Jedidiah Leonard apparently lived in Bolton, CT, near Tolland. He and Sarah baptized all their children 5 May 1776, apparently just before he died. Info about Jedidiah from NEHGS Register, 58:197 and 59:213 and 60:201. Is this the same Jedidiah Leonard? Did they move from Lyme to Bolton? Was Jedidiah a stone-cutter? His son, Asa, seems to have been a stone-cutter in Stockbridge, MA, for some years, earning enough money at that to finance his purchase of land in Tioga Co., NY, and to move there.

Jedidiah's death is noted in the church records of Vernon, CT. He was 46 when he died. Jedidiah's will mentions only his wife, Sarah.

Jessie Deith from Illinois, a descendant of Jedidiah through Huldah, is researching this line and supplied the information on Hulda's descendants. Jessydeith@aol.com. 6 Sept. 2006.

Benjamin Leonard, a descendant of Jedidiah's son Asa, is researching this line and supplied the information on Asa's descendants.

Four children were baptized in Lyme, CT; 5 children were baptized in Vernon, CT; and 1 child died in Vernon, CT. ECL had no information on Jedidiah's children and had his death date as 1776. Jedidiah Leonard had person sources.³

Sarah Baldwin was born in 1734 in Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey. Jedidiah Leonard and she were married on 28 April 1752 in Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey.¹ She died on 27 June 1783 at age ~49 in Vernon, Connecticut.²

An NEHGS article, "Records of the Church in Vernon, CT", 1906, p. 265, notes that the wife of Jedidiah Leonard became a communicant May 25, 1776. There were a number of Sarah Baldwins, and Baldwins generally, in Morris County. Some of them came from Milford, CT. (Hanover Presbyterian Church records, Internet).

William Leonard was born in 1732 in Massachusetts.

No record of birth, marriage, death. ECL had no information about him.

Was he the William Leonard who married at Saybrook, CT, 26 August 1759, Mary Earle? William Leonard had person sources.¹

Deborah Leonard was born in 1734 in Massachusetts.

Deborah Leonard had person sources.¹

Jonathan Stewart Leonard was born in 1740 in Easton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Sarah Maria Dodge were married on 1 November 1764 in Granville, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. He died on 4 May 1802 at age ~62 in Wilmot, Nova Scotia.

Was he born in 1735/36 in Easton, MA? There was a Jonathan Leonard born 29 July 1734 in Bridgewater to Joseph Leonard and Mary Packard (Solomon Leonard line) who was not this Jonathan. James Chilton Silver Book has him born ca. 1740, Lyme, CT (his wife was a Mayflower descendant). He was age 61 when he died in 1802. The Dodge Genealogy may have more.

He went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 18 Mar 1760 (NEHGS 28:414). According to ECL, he served in a Connecticut regiment at the siege of Louisburg prior to that. He sold his land at Annapolis, NS, and moved to Wilmot, Nova Scotia, where he built a saw mill. (Source: NEHGS, 1874, p. 413-15, "Massachusetts Soldiers at Halifax in 1759," A List of Capt. Josiah Thacher's Company in Col. John Thomas' Regiment. Landed in Halifax May 11, 1759. Capt. Josiah Thacher, Yarmouth, MA.)

More information about the family is in the History of Annapolis.

A descendant of Jonathan's now lives on his former property in Wilmot. He and his wife are buried there.

A synopsis of how Jonathan came to Nova Scotia, courtesy of Barbara Leonard Bishop, a direct descendant (2005):

In 1755 the British colonial government, in cahoots with New England settlers who were constantly clashing with the French and native peoples, deported its Acadian population. In 1758, Nova Scotia was given responsibility for governing the former Acadian area, clearing the way for New Englanders to come and take possession of these empty and fertile lands. The first shipload arriving on May 17, 1760. These New Englanders, as well as some from Germany and elsewhere, whom Nova Scotians call "Planters," eventually grew to 8,000 in a year or so.

Jonathan fought at Louisbourg in 1758. He went home and was discharged, but in 1761 he re-enlisted and was again sent to Nova Scotia. In 1764 he married Sarah Dodge in Granville Township, Annapolis Co., NS. He apparently came alone, and the ship's passenger list, on which he took passage, has not been found. All of the other Granville planters came from Massachusetts. Family tradition is that he came from Lyme, CT. He and his wife lived on land that her father, Capt. Josiah Dodge, gave them. He bought and sold land there in Granville.

When the flood of loyalists from New England began in the late 1770's and early 1780's, many of the Planters in Granville sold their properties and moved to the newly opened Wilmot grant. Jonathan ran his mill and inn here. His homestead overlooks the Annapolis River and behind the property is the site of an old Acadian mill. The village on the site was called "Paradise Terrestre" by the Acadians, and hence the current name, "Paradise."



Jonathan is mentioned in History of Annapolis, p. 228, first as applying for rights in 1777, and also: "...Jonathan Leonard left descendants who still occupy the lot assigned to him; and it was Leonard's hotel, at Paradise, where the Duke of Kent lunched on a fine Sunday, while on his way to New Brunswick, via Annapolis, in 1794, an event which has become a tradition to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren..." (History of the County of Annapolis by W.A. Calsek, 1897.) Jonathan Stewart Leonard had person sources.¹

Sarah Maria Dodge was born on 24 May 1749 in Lunenburg, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. Jonathan Stewart Leonard and she were married on 1 November 1764 in Granville, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. She died on 15 July 1823 at age 74 in Wilmot, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.

Sarah Leonard's will was probated 23 Sept 1824.

Sarah Dodge is a Mayflower descendant through Susannah Knowlton, Susanna Dutch, Susanna More, Richard More. See Vol. 15, Mayflower Descendants through 5 Generations, p. 135.