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Mary Allen was born in 1716 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Benjamin Briggs and she were married on 21 December 1739 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. She died on 16 February 1783 at age ~67 in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Wadsworth Graves Leonard was born on 23 June 1910 in Walpole, Massachusetts. He and Irona Blanche Bailey were married. He died on 22 June 1984 at age 73 in Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island.

He was a Superintendent at Brown & Sharpe in Providence.

Source: Obituary, Providence Journal, 21 Oct 2012.

Irona Blanche Bailey was born on 16 November 1911 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island. Wadsworth Graves Leonard and she were married. She died on 13 October 1912 at age 0 in Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island.

Charles Leonard was born on 29 September 1800 in Jefferson County, New York. He and Rosina Estes were married on 5 July 1824 in New York. He died on 26 April 1865 at age 64 in New York.

In the 1850 Census, the family was living in Lyme, Jefferson Co., NY. Charles was a clothier. His father, John, was living with the family. He was a laborer, born in NY.

Rosina Estes was born in 1805. Charles Leonard and she were married on 5 July 1824 in New York. She died in 1844 at age ~39.

Rachel Leonard was born on 30 March 1825 in New York.

Amasa Leonard was born on 30 April 1829 in New York. He died in 1880 at age ~51.

Sally M. Leonard was born on 30 March 1830 in New York.

Edgar Leonard was born on 15 August 1832 in Lyme, Jefferson County, New York. He and Mary A. Huntington were married in 1853. He died after 1898.

Edgar worked at wool carding and cloth dressing with his father until 1850, when he went with him to Dexter, NY, and continued in the same business. In 1860, he went into the lumber business with his father-in-law. He was clerk of the down of Brownville in 1862 and 1863 and was deputy marshal of the town in 1863. In the fall of 1863 he was appointed by James K. Bates (state prison inspector) as keeper in the Auburn Prison. He was promoted to the commissary department the same year. He returned to Dexter in 1870 and engaged again in the lumber, sash, door and blind business with Mr. Huntington. He purchased the latter's share in 1874. In 1882 his two sons and son-in-law, James A. Gilmore, came into the business with him under the firm name of Leonard, Gilmore, & Co. In 1886 they purchased the old Dexter woolen mill. Source: Edgar C. Emerson, Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Wok on Jefferson County, NY, 1898.

Edgar Leonard and Mary A. Huntington were married in 1853.

Addie E. ("Lucy") Leonard was born in 1856 in Dexter, Jefferson County, New York. James A. Gilmore and she were married.

William B. Leonard was born in 1859 in Dexter, Jefferson County, New York.

James A. Gilmore and Addie E. ("Lucy") Leonard were married.

Mary Jane Leonard was born on 12 March 1835 in Lyme, Jefferson County, New York.

Lafayette Leonard was born on 18 March 1837 in Lyme, Jefferson County, New York.

Caroline Leonard was born on 11 August 1839 in Lyme, Jefferson County, New York. She died in 1910 at age ~71.

Charlotte Leonard was born on 20 March 1842 in Lyme, Jefferson County, New York.

John Leonard was born about 1775 in New York.

Margaret Frasier was born in 1589 in Scotland.

Adam Thurston was born in 1591 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He died on 12 August 1661 at age ~70 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.