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Laurentius Otter Svenonius and Helena Christoffersdotter were married in 1613 in Otterstad, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. She died in 1614.

Nathaniel Leonard and Diadame Hendrickson were married on 30 August 1807.

Philip Leonard was born on 18 April 1875 in MIddletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Philip Leonard had person sources.¹

Abigail G. Leonard was born on 23 March 1881 in MIddletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Abigail G. Leonard had person sources.¹

Deborah Grover Leonard was born about January 1850.

Name of husband revealed in destribution of the estate of James Grover. Deborah Grover Leonard had person sources.¹

John Stillwell Leonard was born on 6 December 1852 in MIddletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He and Jane ("Jennie") Frost were married on 11 December 1878. He died after 1900.

John Stillwell Leonard was also known as John S. Leonard.¹ He was a farmer. He had person sources.²

Annie Grover died before October 1899.

Jane ("Jennie") Frost was born in May 1855 in New Jersey. John Stillwell Leonard and she were married on 11 December 1878.

John Leonard was born about 1700 in Cape May, New Jersey. He died before 24 October 1771 in Cape May, New Jersey.

John Leonard, probably this one, appointed colonel of militia in Aug 1747, mentioned as justice of Cape May Co. in Dec 1770.

Will of John Leonard of Cape May County dtd. 10 Feb 1771, proved 24 Oct 1771. Wife Anne. Brothers Henry and Samuel. Cousins in Carolina: Samuel, John, Henry, and Jacob Leonard and John Robinson. Sister Sarah Robinson. Brother Samuel's daughter Jane Ludlam. Executor: wife Anne.

From his will, it appears he had no children, at least no children alive in 1771. He may have had a son, Henry, who died in 1760 in North Carolina and who willed his property to John.

Check: He had Leonard cousins in Carolina: Samuel, John, Henry, and Jacob, according to his will. Did he mean nieces and nephews rather than cousins? John Leonard had person sources.¹

Hilda Sjöberg was born on 11 December 1869 in Sweden.

Judge Samuel Leonard was born about 1705 in Cape May, New Jersey. He and Joan Williams were married on 27 June 1733 in Cape May County, New Jersey. He died on 12 July 1782 at age ~77 in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

Samuel Leonard received 140 acres in Lockwoods Folly from the Royal Governor on 27 Sep 1756 (same day as his brother, Henry).

The children need to be checked out carefully. Some information from jhirsch1890@sbcglobal.net and more from Rose Marie Mathews Hopkins . It appears the children of Samuel and Henry have been mixed up.

Was this the Samuel Leonard who went to Cape Fear, New Hanover Co., NC, in the 1750's?

From his brother John Leonard's will, we know he had four daughters and that John Robinson was a cousin. He had a cousin Samuel with a son John and a cousin Henry with a son John. Judge Samuel Leonard had person sources.¹ He and Joan Williams were married on 27 June 1733 in Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey.

Joan Williams was born about 1704 in Salem, New Jersey. Judge Samuel Leonard and she were married on 27 June 1733 in Cape May County, New Jersey.

Judge Samuel Leonard and Joan Williams were married on 27 June 1733 in Cape May, Cape May, New Jersey.

Jane or Joan Leonard had person sources.¹

Henry Leonard was born in 1702 in Cape May, New Jersey. He died after 1771 in Cape May, New Jersey.

Check: We know from his brother John's will that he was alive in 1771 and that they had four daughters. His son, Henry, predeceased him in 1759 or 1760. His father died in 1726.

Henry received land in North Carolina from the Royal Governors:

Patent Book 2 No. 970, p. 157 23 May 1757. To Joseph Hewitt and Henry Leonard 190 acres in New Hanover on the sound, adjoining Roger Moore, the marsh, Symmons Br., the path and the said sound.

Patent Book 15, No. 5014, p. 177, 27 Sep 1756, to Henry Leonard 100 acres in New Hanover opposite Lockwoods Folly Inlet joining the water...and the easternmost of three little hammocks.

Patent Book 15, No 5027, p. 181, 27 Sep 1756, to Henry Leonard 300 acres in New Hanover between Benj. Holden & Mr. Quince, between Bacon's Inlet & Lockwoods Folly Inlet joining a swamp & a branch of Stanley's Creek.

Patent Book 20, No 3353, p. 719, 22 Nov 1771, to Henry Leonard 170 acres on the Northeast side of Little Shallote, joining the creek below the forks, the edge of the dry ground, Jno Daniel's supposed line, richard Quince, an open pond, a savannah, & Shallote River or Creek below the land bluff.

Patent Book 23, No 6982, 22 Dec 1768, to Henry Leonard 200 acres on the Royal Oak Br., a br. of Lockwood Folly, joining Walsen's corner.

Other land transactions:

A-158, 8 Jan 1758, Reuben Hewitt & Ezekiel Simpkins, yeomen of New Hanover to Joseph Hewitt & Henry Leonard, Jr., yeomen of New Hanover, 161 pounds for ___ acres beginning at the Southside of Joseph Hewitt's land, a corner tree standing by the sound side, a run near Holden's line, west to Joseph Hewitt & Henry Leonard, Sr.'s line. Witnessed by Samuel Leonard, Ebenezer Hewitt.

A-157, 7 Feb 1767, Joseph & Hannah Hewitt to Henry Leonard. ____ acres running up the sound to the Northeast br. of Shallot, northeast side Red Landing Run; part of a tract purchased from Wm. Boone. Withnesses: Jno Ludlam, Benj. Holden.. (Anne Hewett was Henry's daughter)

A-183, 29 Oct 1772. Last will & testament of Henry Leonard. To his wife Hannah, his grandson Job Holden, to his grandsons Henry & Jno Willets, sons of Saml Willets, ___ acres of land beginning at Jno Dement's line to the mount of a run & running along the sound, along Boone's line to Stephen Daniel's corner, on the southside of Gallaway Swamp. To his grandson Crauford Ludlam ____ acres of land beginning at Jno Dement's line, running along Little Shallotte River to Stephen Daniel's line in the southside of Galloway Swamp. Names daughters Rachel, Ann Willets, Ruth & Lydia Hewett. Witnesses: Jno, Chas, & Mary Dements, Hill Hewett (will proved 1774).

Will in 1771 names his 4 daughters and several grandchildren. Grandchildren Job Holden and Crawford Ludlam. Henry Leonard had person sources.¹

Sarah Leonard was born about 1690 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. John White and she were married before 1722 in New Jersey. She died in Frederick, Maryland.

Sarah Leonard had person sources.¹

John White and Sarah Leonard were married before 1722 in New Jersey.

On 22 May 1722 John White and Sarah, his wife, as heirs of Thomas Leonard, conveyed land on the East side of Mine Brook (Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co.) to John Throckmorton and Samuel Davis, Jr. In the following deed they quit claimed to the same parties land adjoining the above which had been bought by Hester Leonard, the mother of the said Sarah White and widow of the said Thomas.

Capt. John Leonard was born in 1670 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. He and Elizabeth Almy were married about 1696 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. He died in 1712 at age ~42 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Was he born in ca. 1661? His mother would have been about 50 by 1670. Or was she born later?

4 Nov 1687. Patent to John Leonard of Middletown for 194 acres in Monmouth County, S. and S.E. Lewis Morris, Sr., also N. and N.W., W., and S.W. unsurveyed land; also 6 acres of meadow at the N.W. corner of the first. (New Jersey Colonial Documents, p. 106)

Christopher Almy's will named his "daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Leonard of Henry and Mary." John Leonard's will, proved 2 May 1712, named his wife, Elizabeth, and children John (the oldest), Henry, Samuel, Christopher, Sarah, Ann, and stepson Lewis Morris. His wife was executrix of his will, but cousin Henry was empowered to dispose of real estate. Witnesses to will: William Lippincott, Francis Borden, Sarah Powell.

He was captain of the sloop, "Dolphin," sailing out of Perth Amboy to Rhode Island and other coastal points.

In Nov 1687 S.E. Morris, Sr. sold land to John Leonard of Middletown, Monmouth Co. A few years later, John Leonard married Elizabeth Almy Morris, widow of Lewis Morris in Monmouth Co, per records of the First Church of Morristown, NJ.

Bill Barton: "Capt. JOHN LEONARD, born 1670 in Massachusetts Bay colony,[Clarence Torrey, New England Marriages prior to 1700, (1985), p. 401)] married ELIZABETH (ALMY) MORRIS, died between 28 Feb. 1711/12 and 27 Mar. 1712 in Spottswood, Monmouth Co. Elizabeth was born 29 Sept. 1663 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, daughter of Christopher & Elizabeth (Cornell) Almy, died 12 Jan. 1714/5. Christopher lived on an estate at the East end of the neck of land between the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers, later the property of his son-in-law Lewis Morris. Christopher Almy was engaged in coastal shipping.[Genealogies of New Jersey Families from the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey" (1996), 2:273] Elizabeth married (1) by Apr. 1679 Lewis Morris, son of Capt. Thomas & Sarah Morris. Lewis Morris of Passage Point, Shrewsbury was born ca. 1655, was killed by one of his Negroes in 1694/5.[John E. Stillwell, Historical & Genealogical Miscellany, Data Relating to the Settlement & Settlers of New York and New Jersey (1916), 4:25 & 35-36] Elizabeth died in 1712 in Shrewsbury. [Abstracts of Wills, 1670-1730, New Jersey Archives, 1st series, 33:290] Note that in her 2 Feb. 1732/3 account Hannah Deane stated that John married A. Almy (originally). ["Brief Memoirs of the Notices of Prince's Subscribers," NEHGS Register, 1953, 7:72]

On 20 May 1699 John Leonard of Shrewsbury conveyed to Benjamin Cook of Middletown 60 acres on the north side of the Manasquan River (near Freehold, wsw of Shrewsbury).

On 5d 10m 1700, a John Leonard was a witness to the Quaker marriage of Joseph Wing and Ann Lippincott, both of Shrewsbury, at the house of John Lippincott. On 17 d 8m 1701 a John Leonard was a witness to a Quaker marriage of Joseph Lippincott and Elizabeth White, both of Shrewsbury, at a public meeting of the Friends [Stillwell, (1903), 1:251-2]

In 1710 John Leonard, Esq., bought from his stepson Lewis Morris for £600 Passage Point. This land had originally belonged to Christopher Almy. [Stillwell (1916) 4:38-39]

On 28 Feb. 1711/12 John Lenard wrote his will: do Empower my Cousin Henry lenard of the county of Monmouth present thereof, to sell so much of my lands and personal Estate as is sufficient to pay the debt which I owe to my wife's son Lewis Mores and ? the remainder of my Lands and real estate to my four sons John, Henry, Samuel and Christopher and their heirs to be Equally divided excepting only that the said John shall have the first choice and twenty pounds worth of the said land more than any of the other three sons one Heifer; to my two daughters sarah and ann to each one Bed and one Heifer and all the rest of my goods chattels and personal Estate to my loving wife Elizabeth whom I appoint my whole and only executrix. Will proven 2 May 1712.

John lenard [his mark]

Wits.:

William Lippincott

francis Borden

Sarah Powell[159]

An inventory of John Leonard's personal estate (£100.1.4) was made 27 Mar. 1712 by Richard Chambers and Cornelius Lane. The will was proved 2 May 1712 (I:348)."

Bill was probably mistaken in thinking this was the John killed by Wequalia. John, son of Henry, married Elizabeth Almy and died in 1712. John, son of Samuel, married Margaret and was killed by Wequalia in 1727. Capt. John Leonard had person sources.¹

Sidney Howland was born on 30 August 1788 in Poultney, Rutland County, Vermont. Asaph Dewey, Jr., and she were married on 28 September 1809. She died on 18 April 1873 at age 84 in Lenox, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.¹ She was buried in New Lenox Cemetery, North Lenox, Massachusetts.

She was "of Pittsfield" at the time of their bans. Sidney Howland had person sources.²