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Rebecca Peckham was born in October 1653 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. John Spooner and she were married on 11 March 1679. She died about 1699 at age ~46.

Clement Peckham was born in 1660 in Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island. He and Lydia Lawton were married about 1690 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. He died in August 1712 at age ~52 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Susanna Peckham was born in 1656 in Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island. Peter Barker and she were married. Peter Wells and she were married before 1674. She died in 1733 at age ~77.

Phoebe Peckham was born in 1663 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. She died on 15 December 1746 at age ~83 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Elizabeth Peckham was born in 1661 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. Peter Taylor and she were married. She died on 24 May 1714 at age ~53 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island.

William Clark was born about 1634. He and Sarah Wolcott were married on 1 March 1660 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He and Hannah Griswold were married on 7 March 1678 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut. He and Abiah Wilder were married on 3 August 1692 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Judge, Major George Leonard, was born on 18 April 1671 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Anna Walker Tisdale were married on 4 July 1695 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ He died on 5 September 1716 at age 45 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.² He was buried in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

ECL: The Hon. George Leonard, the third son of Judge Thomas, inherited from his father and from the Watson family untiring industry, ability, and sound common sense, which carried him successfully through his undertakings. He learned the bloomers art under his father at the Raynham Forge. Having married in 1694,he cast about for an opening for his enterprise. His father and Uncle James having obtained the grant in 1696 of the North Purchase for building there a bloomery, George moved there to supervise the building of the dam and ironworks. These works cost about 300 pounds besides other expenses for bridges, roads, etc. George Leonard was master workman and manager. He received some property by his wife Anna Tisdale; and we find him in the course of five or six years buying lands and rights in the North Purchase ( later Norton). On 28 Oct 1707 he bought of his uncle James his share in the ironworks at Chartley, the third lot in the division of the North Purchase, 100 acres with 3/4 of the land between the 3rd and 4th lot of the second division, already agreed upon to be laid out...

ECL goes on with more land purchases, the accounts of the Chartley Forge in some detail, his offices in government, and his death and rumored pact with the devil (!!). See manuscript, pp. 53-55.

The Forge burned down 3 December 1741.

George was the first settler of what later became the town of Norton in 1696. He was a slave holder, a major in the militia, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas. For a lot more information about him, see Fanny Leonard Koster, pp. 71-73. Also, Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard Family by William Read Deane in NEHGS, 1851, pp. 403 ff. Also in Chilton-More-Rogers Silver Book by the Mayflower Society.

His will, dtd. August 30, 1716, mentions wife Anna, 5 daughters: Phebe, Anna, Abigail, Marcy, and Mary; 3 sons: George, Nathaniel, and Ephraim (all under age), his grandfather Watson, his uncle James Leonard, his man Caleminco, his boy Dick, his sisters Elizabeth Williams and Mary Tisdale. Witnessed by John Leonard, Benjamin Ware, and Ephraim Lane. Judge, Major George Leonard, had person sources.^3,4

John Clarke was born in 1612 in Ipswitch, Suffolk, England. He died in 1649 at age ~37 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Rev. John Clarke of Newport.

William Clarke was born in 1610 in Westhorpe, Suffolk, England. He and Katherine Bunce were married. He died on 22 July 1681 at age ~71 in Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut.

William Kerrich was born in 1540 in Saxsted, Sussex, England. He died on 30 March 1593 at age ~53 in Saxsted, Sussex, England.

There's more on the Kerrich family in English Origins of New England Families, Series l, Vol. l, pp. 672-676.

Isabel Kerrich was born in 1565 in Suffolk, England. She died on 17 January 1578 at age ~13 in Devon, England.

William Kerrich was born about 1500 in Saxted, Sussex, England. He died on 13 April 1578 at age ~78 in Bedfield, Suffolk, England.

Wealthy yeoman in Saxsted, ancestry traced back through 1470.

John Clarke was born on 11 February 1541 in Westthorpe, Sussex, England. He and Katherine Cooke were married on 12 October 1567 in Westthorpe, Sussex, England. He died on 4 April 1598 at age 57 in Finningham, Suffolk, England.