The family removed to Springfield, PA. In the 1850 Census, Theodore was living with his son Theodore Lafayette and family in Springfield. The Rynder family (no husband) was living with them.
Theodore learned the printer's trade, married and for a time edited a paper in Boston. He came to Springfield a few years after his father and in 1814 was engaged upon the Bradford Gazette. He was a man of fine intelligence and splendid information. In 1827 he was chosen county commissioner. He was father of the late Lafayette Leonard. (Source: The Chandler Family FTW)
Letter to Theodore Leonard, husband of Elizabeth Packard, from his sister-in-law, A. L. Packard
New Hartford, Nov. 9, 1825
Dear Brother,
Through the medium of the gentleman you employed to convey Nancy home I learned you had had a call to engage in the business of printing in the delightful village of Palmyra in this state. You know your situation in life as a husband and father calls upon you to exercise the surest and most respectable method of contribuint to and promoting the happiness of your family, and consequently your own. This State, if not already, will eventually be the pride of the Union. It offers a rich field for the able and finished politician. You have talents and you ought not to suffer them to languish in obscurity. This much I have ventured to say, and much more I would say if it would influence you to come and shine a political constellation, in our State. Perseverence will affect anything. This is not an age of fairies, good fortune doe not come by enchantment - we procure it by indeftigable application to the business of our several stations in life. You who are so well acquainted with human nature need not the frail counsel of a woman, therfore I forebear.
I am sorry to part with your excellent daughter Nancy so soon. Though our acquaintance has been but short. She has the character of being a most amiable girl, and her looks do not deceive her reputation.
Give my love to sister Betsey, and tell her I hope God will permit us to meet once more. If you shall remove to Palmyra you will certainly see me if my life is spared. I staid at Elisha's two weeks, last month. They were well. He commands the Alexander, the finest ship in the port of New York.
The rest of the news you will receive from Nancy. Mother lives upon the hope that she will once again see you all, if you take up your residence somewhere near the canal, she may, my love to all.
With respect,
A. L. Packard
Will of Theodore Leonard -- Leonard Hollow, 22 July 1855: I, Theodore Leonard, of Springfield, Bradford county, being of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of this frail and transitory life, do theremore make, ordain, and publish this to be my last will and testament; that is to say, First after all my lawful debts are paid I leave to my beloved Daughter, Hope I. Kenyon one hundred dollars, to my dear daugher Nancy, one hundred dollars, to my affectionate Deborah H. Runder one hundred dollars or theland two acres as she may choose. To my son Austin Leonard one hundred andfiftydollars. As Deborah's fortune has been hard I give per protection if she thinks proper to accept of it. Deborah maycome at any time and go to work with Fayette making butter and cheese and making up the wood and have a reasonable share thereof or she the said Deborah may live in a house by herself. If she lives by herself she may occupy a house and garden and keep a cow and some sheep on the Estate and have wood to keep her warm. The protection intended to Deborah mean to herself and two youngest children during her life. But if Deborah's prospects heighten up in another quarter and she does not come to Leonard Hollow then the above article is null and void. To Abner and Austin, my grandsons, the west pasture and west mowing lot. Austin must see to the farming of said lot of land during Abner's life. The land cannot be sold. Austin must use Abner most kindly on all occasions. At Abner's death the land is Austin's and Fayette's to superintend the managemnet of said land until Austin's twenty-one years old and at that time Austin's to pay Theodore A. Leonard fifty dollars and that payment makes Austin's title complete.
To Fayette Leonard who has always been by my side I give him the following landed property and lot from the old barn near Paul Ferman's to the East road it being the lot on which my house stands. I also give Fayette the saw-mill lot and thirty-eight acres on the west side of the Pisgah lot, making forty acres with thetwo acres survey to Deborah. Abner P. Leonard has a life interest in these lands sufficient for his support, is to be used tenderly by Fayette and family. At Abner's death his interest in these lands go to the benefit of Fayette and his. I give my son LaFayette my mare and colt, the mare to be kept on the farm during her life and teated withhumanity. The four cows, Dunny, Whitsey, Spuk and Johnson, I give to Fayette.
To Theodore Fanning and JamesWright I give the East end forty acres of an eighty acre lottoward Mount Pisgah bounded N by Fanning Cole, S.by Alanson Cole, E by Nathan Green, and W. by Fayette Leonard. Theodore and James in the case of the death of Fayette areto see to the interest of hisfamily. In the first place they are to keep Austin one year and during the year to instruct him for a man of business, learn him the value of time and punctuality that he may be able to render important assistance to his father in managing his personal affairs. Guard hismorals withgreat care. I give Theodore Rynder a cow. Theodore Kenyon a two year colt.
Executors: Theodore Wright, Austin Leonard, LaFayette Leonard. Theodore Leonard. Theodore Leonard had person sources.
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