Isaac Leonard, Jr.

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Isaac Leonard II

• Born about 1676 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony
• Son of Isaac Leonard and Deliverance (Ames) Leonard NOT Hannnah Randall
• Brother of Hannah (Leonard) Manley, Deliverance (Leonard) Washburn, Benjamin Leonard and Joseph Leonard
• Husband of Mary (Gurney?) Leonard [should be Mary Bailey, widow Randall - see below]— married 16 Apr 1701 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
• Father of David Leonard, Isaac Leonard Jr. and Thomas Leonard
• Died after 2 Mar 1737

Biography

Isaac Leonard II, eldest son of Isaac and Deliverance Leonard, was born about 1678 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony.[1]

1685 - Plymouth and Bristol counties were created by the Plymouth General Court. 1692 - The Plymouth Colony was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He married 16 Apr 1701 Mary (Bailey) Randall, dau. of Guido Bailey of Bridgewater, widow of Samuel Randall, son of Thomas Randall of Taunton North Purchase [Easton], Bristol Co. MA.[2][3]

He settled in neighboring [North] Easton, Bristol County, purchasing land from Thomas Randall.[4] His home was at the site of the Novelty Iron Works on Pond St. in 1886. [See map.][5] [There were no ponds there at that time.]

He was believed to be the first to discover bog-iron in present North Easton, the ore was on brother-in-law Nathaniel Manley's property near Lincoln Spring. In 1716 Manley gave him 1/3 part ownership of the ore with rights to dig and cart it away.[6][7] In 1726 Isaac sold his homestead & in 1729 his 1/3 of iron-ore mine to Eliphalet Leonard of Easton and moved 60 miles west to Pomfret CT. In 1735/6 he sold his land in Pomfret CT.[8] [9]

Eliphalet Leonard was not kin. This line emigrated, or rather was imported, from Wales in 1643 to work at the iron works in Lynn MA. In 1653, at the end of their obligation, they set up a bloomery/forge at Taunton.[10]

In 1733 Isaac had received land due his father for serving in Narragansett fight of 1675.[11]

Children:[12]

• Isaac Leonard III
• David Leonard
• Thomas Leonard
• Others

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References

• Source: Memorial: Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637, Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of His Descendants. By Manning Leonard, Southbridge, Mass. Press of Knapp, Peck & Thomson, Auburn N.Y. 1896. Page 44-45. < Archive.Org >