Captain Benjamin Leach

Children of Abigail Woodbury and Richard Leach I are:

viii. Benjamin Leach I was born 02 JAN 1723 in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA, and died 1769 in Jamaica. He married Emma Knowlton 28 MAY 1749, daughter of Ezekiel Knowlton II and Emma Foster. She was born 24 JUN 1725 in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA, and died 16 JUN 1811 in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.

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" Let me state that some years ago my cousin, William Sanford Leach, son of Elbridge Gerry Leach, of Boston,
made the English ancestry of our family a matter of research, and it is said he traced the family back to John Leach, surgeon to King Edward the Third.

The coat of arms of the family has upon it three crowns, and the significance of these crowns is said to be this: that on one occasion while the kings of France and Scotland were prisoners of King Edward, the three kings dined at the ho-use of John Leach and, as a token of the incident, on leaving King Edward handed to Leach three crowns. Afterwards, when the king granted him a large landed estate, three crowns were placed on his arms.

The following is the history of the Leach family that descended from Giles Leach (son of Lawrence Leach, of Salem, Mass."), who settled in West Bridgewater before 1665, married Anne Nokes, of Weymouth, 1656. She lived in Deacon Bass' family, Braintree. Mitchel's history of Bridgewater says there was born to them the fol- lowing named children, and perhaps others: