Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Stephen Leonard
1680 - 1743 (62 years)-
Name Stephen Leonard [1] Birth 14 Dec 1680 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
[2, 3] Gender Male Death Nov 1743 Morristown, Morris, New Jersey [3] 
Siblings1 sibling Person ID I39581 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD Last Modified 3 Jan 2024
Father Capt. James Leonard, b. 1642, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 1 Nov 1726, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 84 years) Mother Lydia Gulliver, b. Abt 1659 d. 24 Jul 1705 (Age ~ 46 years) Marriage Oct 1675 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts [4, 5] Family ID F23257 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Children + 1. Zephaniah Leonard, b. 18 Mar 1704 d. 23 Apr 1766 (Age 62 years) Family ID F23256 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Jan 2024
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Notes - His Find a Grave page states that his wife was named Comfort, but no source for this is given.
As a young man, he was a master iron workman at his family's Raynham Iron Works in Taunton. Sometime before 1723 he was town treasurer for Taunton, and later, judge of the court of common pleas. UIn 1723 he and his family moved to what is now Morris County, New Jersey, where he established his own ironworks.
His date and place of death appear to be unknown. His Find a Grave page, and familysearch.org, say he died in 1743 in Hanover, New Jersey, which is now Morristown. His Wikitree page says 1732 in Hanmer, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. None of these provide a source. His burial place is unknown.
- His Find a Grave page states that his wife was named Comfort, but no source for this is given.
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Sources - [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.
- [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., date only.
- [S7077] Find a Grave page for Stephen Leonard.
- [S2889] Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929.
- [S7078] Find a Grave page for Capt James Leonard Jr., year only.
- [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.