Capt. Leonard Proctor

Fought in the battle of Lexington.

Info adder per Mary S Lockwood's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" of the DAR: He was a soldier during the Revolution.

List of Freemen residing in the town on September 3, 1782 lists Capt. Leonard Proctor

Capt. John Coffin, Lt. Noadiah Russell, Lt. Abel Preston, Ebenezer Hardy, John Russell, John Gilbert, Salmon Dutton, Lt. Reuben Gilbert, Thomas Baldwin, Enos Gilbert, Abner Gilbert, Ely Gilbert, Thomas Gilbert, Isaac Baldwin, Captain Leonard Proctor, Abel Roby, Gideon Walker, Joseph Rice, Jonathan Atherton, David Wetherbee, capt. Joshua Parker, Shadrick Dodge, William Spaulding, John Stone, Ephraim Dutton, Jesse Spauliding, William Spaulding Jr., Josuah Fletcher, Salmon Hardy, James Hall, Samuel Chamberlain, Andrew Archibald, Asa Wheeler, Samuel Wyman.

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/vt/county/windsor/cavendish/index.htm

Leonard Proctor. Born at Chelmsford, Mass., Jan. 16, 1734; married first, in 1760, Lydia Nutting of Westford, who died Nov. 16, 1767; married second, Dec. 25, 1769, Mary, daughter of Capt. Jabez Keep. She died Sept. 3, 1827. He was one of the Selectmen of Westford in 1770, 1778 and 1779. He was an officer in the Revolution and took part in many important battles, including those of Lexington, Trenton and Monmouth. He was second lieutenant in Capt. Minot's company which marched from Westford in consequence of the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; was one of the Committee of Correspondence for 1780, and was chosen the same year one of a committee of thirteen "to take under consideration the new form of government.'" In 1781 he was a captain and was "head" of one of the five "classes" into which the town was divided for the purpose of procuring soldiers to serve in the Continental Army.

After the war Captain Proctor removed to Cavendish, Vt., where he founded in an unbroken forest the village of Proctorsville. He died there June 3, 1827. http://www.houseofproctor.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I135...

GEDCOM Source

@R300960519@ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60525::0 1,60525::85162046

GEDCOM Source

@R300960519@ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60525::0 1,60525::85162046

GEDCOM Source

@R300960519@ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60525::0 1,60525::85162046