Benjamin Leonard

Benjamin Leonard

• Born: about 1650
• Died: 1725

See the citations at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leonard-2732. Neither his birth date nor his birth location are known for certain. He was likely born in Braintree or in Lynn. His approximate birth year can be guessed, based on his position vis a vis his siblings.

"...Hannah (Leonard) Deane, who was Benjamin's sister, in which she stated that (according to the transcription) "her eldest Brother was Brother was Thomas Leonard, next was James, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Uriah. So Benjamin was younger than Joseph and older than John. According to his death record in Taunton, Joseph was born in 1648 according to "Early Vital Records of Massachusetts..." and John was born in 1652.

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Database online. Record for James Leonard Sr. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=3787 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pubmembertrees&h=6943409714&i...

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Database online. Record for JosepH Leonard http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=3787 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pubmembertrees&h=588912082&in...

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Database online. Record for JosepH Leonard http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=3787 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pubmembertrees&h=588912082&in...

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Database online. Record for JosepH Leonard http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=3787 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pubmembertrees&h=588912082&in...

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Database online. Record for Benjamin Leonard http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=3787 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pubmembertrees&h=1394477589&i...

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Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; @R1@

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Database online. Record for James Leonard Sr. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=3787 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pubmembertrees&h=6943409714&i...

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@R-993469111@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

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Category:Plymouth_Colony Category: Taunton, Massachusetts

Biography == Benjamin Leonard was born about 1650 to James Leonard and Mary Jane Martin. Author William Deane published an 1806 transcription of a document written by Zephaniah Leonard based on information given to him by his grandmother Hannah (Leonard) Deane, who was Benjamin's sister, in which she stated that (according to the transcription) "her eldest Brother was Brother was Thomas Leonard, next was James, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Uriah. So Benjamin was younger than Joseph and older than John.<ref>Deane, William Reed. Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard Family. Boston, MA: Self-Published for the New England Historic-Genealogical Register, 1851. Page 22. https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmemo00dean/page/19/mode/2up...</ref> From what we know of his father's whereabouts at the time, he was probably born in Braintree, Massachusetts, but possibly in Lynn.

On 15 January 1678 he married Sarah Thrasher in Taunton.<ref>Vital Records of Taunton Massachusetts to the Year 1850 Volume II-Marriages. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1928. Page 288. https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Bristol/Taunton/Images/Taunton_M288....</ref> They had seven children.<ref>Deane, 1851. Page 19. https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmemo00dean/page/19/mode/2up</ref>
Benjamin and his brothers Joseph and Uriah worked at James Leonard Iron Works, founded by their father on the Mill River in 1678. By agreement between James' heirs, Benjamin inherited land, tools and iron, withbrother Uriah remaining in control of the forge. <ref>Koster, Fannie Leonard. Annals of the Leonard Family. Brooklyn, NY: Self-Published, 1911. Page 44</ref> Benjamin supposedly died in 1725.<ref>Brad Leonard, "Second Generation: Benjamin Leonard," (http://bradsport.com/aJamesLeonard1620/b2633.htmand archived: accessed 12 September 2015); probably citing Elisha C. Leonard and G M. Leonard.</ref>

Children

1. Sarah b 21 May 1680; m ___Eddy
2. Benjamin b 25 Jan 1682
3. Hannah b 8 Nov 1685; died young
4. Jerusha b 25 Jun 1689
5. Hannah b 8 Dec 1691
6. Joseph b 22 Jan 1692/3
7. Henry b 8 Nov 1695

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