John Peter Leonard

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John Peter Leonard (Leonardt)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: October 02, 1785 (37)
Indians, Mason, Kentucky, United States
Place of Burial: Kentucky, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Johan Paul Valentin Leonard, Sr. and Anna Elisabetha "Elizabeth" Leonhardt
Husband of Barbara Leonard
Father of Valentine Leonard; Michael Leonard and Girl Logan
Brother of Catherine Sowers; Anna Barbara Hage; Valentine John Paul Leonhardt, II; Michael Leonard, Sr.; Peter Leonard and 5 others

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About John Peter Leonard

I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before my family moved into Rowan County, North Carolina. I was baptized there on March 14, 1748 at the First Reformed Church in Philadelphia. While in Rowan County, North Carolina, I was a Revolutionary War Patriot and fought with my father and four brothers with General Nathanial Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. I went into Kentucky with Daniel Boone. In 1785, I was killed in an Indian massacre along with my wife Barbara and our two youngest children who were fifteen and thirteen at the time. Our son Valentine was captured by Indians but later released in a trade for Indian prisoners for white. We are buried in Mason County, Kentucky. This was a virtual "no man's land" of Kentucky's bloodiest era. The first twenty yuears of this county witnessed an Indian War that made of her the most notorious battleground of the west.



Possibly born in 1748

Religion: Old Reformed Church, 4th and Race Street

Baptized in Philadelphia.

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John Peter Leonard's Timeline

1748
March 14, 1748
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
1763
January 1, 1763
Rowan, North Carolina, United States
1766
1766
1769
1769
1785
October 2, 1785
Age 37
Indians, Mason, Kentucky, United States
1785
Age 36
Kentucky, United States