Nielsen Hayden genealogy
James Leonard

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Name James Leonard [1, 2] Birth Abt 1616 [3] Gender Male Death Bef 5 Nov 1691 [3, 4, 5] Person ID I22718 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 14 Aug 2021
Father Thomas Leonard Mother Elizabeth White Family ID F20259 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jane Martin d. 25 Feb 1664, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Children + 1. Abigail Leonard d. Aft 12 Dec 1698 + 2. Hannah Leonard d. Aft 1710 + 3. Capt. Thomas Leonard, b. 3 Aug 1641 d. 24 Nov 1713, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
+ 4. Capt. James Leonard, b. 1642, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 1 Nov 1726, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts
(Age 84 years)
Family ID F13694 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Jan 2024
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Notes - At Lynn in 1651; of Braintree, 1652, and settled the same year in Taunton. At each of these places he and his brother Henry established forges, the first in Plymouth colony.
He was survived by a wife, Margaret, who was not the mother of his children.
On 2 Feb 1733, Hannah (Leonard) Deane, a daughter of James Leonard and the wife of Isaac Deane (d. 1710), wrote down an account of several generations of her family, which she gave to her great-newphew Zephaniah Leonard (Stephen3, James2, James1) (1704-1776). An abstract of Hannah (Leonard) Deane's account was published in the The New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1853 ("Brief Memoirs", citation details below). Pertinent portions of the abstract are shown below:
1st. Namely her Great Grandfather's name was Henry Leonard
2nd. Her own Grandfather's name was Thomas Leonard
3rd. Her Father's name was James Leonard
Her Grandmother's name was White
Her Mother's name was Martin
- At Lynn in 1651; of Braintree, 1652, and settled the same year in Taunton. At each of these places he and his brother Henry established forges, the first in Plymouth colony.
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Sources - [S5509] "Brief Memoirs and Notices of Prince's Subscribers." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7:71, 1853.
- [S5888] Staffordshire baptisms, on findmypast.co.uk.
- [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.
- [S2892] A Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard Family, Containing a Full Account of the First Three Generations of the Family of James Leonard, Who Was an Early Settler of Taunton, MS., with Incidental Notes of Later Descendants by W. R. Deane. Boston: Office of the New England Historic-Genealogical Register, 1851., year only.
- [S3989] Ancestors of Henry Rogers Winthrop and His Wife Alice Woodward Babcock by Josephine C. Frost. 1927.
- [S5509] "Brief Memoirs and Notices of Prince's Subscribers." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7:71, 1853.