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Margaret Ford was born about 1632. James Leonard and she were married before 1662 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ She died before 9 April 1701 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Will of Margaret Leonard of Taunton, widow, about the 68th year of her age, dtd. November 12, 1700, prob. April 9, 1701. Mentions son-in-law Uriah Leonard's wife Elizabeth and his daughter Margaret. Daughter-in-law Hannah Deane and her daughter Abigail Terry, son-in-law James Leonard's daughters Abigail and Prudence Lewis. Son-in-law Thomas Leonard's daughters Elizabeth and Johanah. Cousin Eleazer Carver to be exec. (She was probably step-mother, not mother-in-law). (2:30). Problem: Thomas Leonard, son of Thomas, Margaret's grandson, had two daughters, Alice and Joanna (not Elizabeth).

Was she Margaret Bourchier b. 1641 (or Buscher) in Taunton, niece of Oliver Cromwell and daughter of Edward Bourchier and Anne Godbertson/Cuthbertson, and died in 1707 in Taunton? Were both Benjamin Leonard and Uriah Leonard her sons? Or just Uriah b. 1662?