Zephaniah Leonard

1704 - 1766  (62 years)

• Name	Zephaniah Leonard  [1]
  Birth	18 Mar 1704  [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Apr 1766	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Burial	Plain Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I39574	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Stephen Leonard,   b. 14 Dec 1680, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts d. Nov 1743, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F23256	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah King,   b. 28 Feb 1705, Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 23 Apr 1766, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	24 Apr 1724	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Notes	They were married by LD's ancestor the Rev. Samuel Danforth.
  Children	+ 1. Capt. Joshua Leonard,   b. 5 Jan 1725, Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 27 Nov 1816, Bristol County, Massachusetts (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F23253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was raised by his grandfather James Leonard after his father Stephen moved to New Jersey. His grandfather involved young Zephaniah in the family iron-forging business. In 1761 he was made a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He and his wife died on the same day and were buried in the same grave. The gravestone he shares with his wife reads: Parentibus Optimis bene Merentibus Zephaniah Leonard Esq who died Apl the 23rd in the 63d year of his age & Hannah his wife who died the same day in the 62d year of her age. To dust and silence so much worth consigned Sheds a sad gloom o'er vanities behind Such our pursuits! proud mortals vainly soar, See here the wise, the virtuous are no more. How mean ambition! How contemptuous state How dim the tinsel glories of the great While even Leonards undistinguished Fall and death and hovering darkness hide us all.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7073] Find a Grave page for Capt Joshua Leonard. [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. [S5509] "Brief Memoirs and Notices of Prince's Subscribers." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7:71, 1853. [S7075] Find a Grave page for Maj Zephaniah Leonard.