James Leonard

Abt 1616 - Bef 1691  (~ 75 years)

• Name	James Leonard  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt 1616  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef 5 Nov 1691  [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I22718	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of GFS
  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. Capt. Thomas Leonard,   b. 3 Aug 1641,   d. 24 Nov 1713, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F13694	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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

  
  

• 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] William Reade Deane, "Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5:403, Oct 1851., year only. [S3989] Ancestors of Henry Rogers Winthrop and His Wife Alice Woodward Babcock by Josephine C. Frost. 1927.