Maj Thomas LEONARD^[1]

1641 - 1713  (72 years)

• Name	Thomas LEONARD
  Prefix	Maj
  Born	3 Aug 1641	Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Military Event	Militia
  Military Flag	Y
  Died	24 Nov 1713	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Buried	Buryng Ground at the Neck of Land, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I16732	Main
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2009

  
  

  Family	Mary WATSON,   b. 1642, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 1 Dec 1723, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts  (Age 81 years)
  Married	21 Aug 1662	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Children	1. daughter LEONARD,   d. ?   2. Ens Elkanah LEONARD,   b. 15 May 1677, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts ,   d. 29 Dec 1714, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 37 years)   3. Mary LEONARD,   b. 2 Aug 1663, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts ,   d. 1726, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 62 years)   4. James LEONARD,   b. 1679,   d. 1682  (Age 3 years)   5. Thomas LEONARD,   b. 1665   6. Seth LEONARD,   b. 1682,   d. 1682  (Age 0 years) + 7. John LEONARD,   b. 18 May 1668, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   8. Phebe LEONARD,   b. 1684,   d. 1685  (Age 1 years)   9. George LEONARD,   b. 1671,   d. 1716  (Age 45 years)   10. Samuel LENOARD,   b. 1673,   d. 1745  (Age 72 years)   11. Elizabeth LEONARD,   b. 1686
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F5442	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 21 Aug 1662 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Died - 24 Nov 1713 - Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  He came to New England with his father and mother, he was known as the Tubal-Cain of America, because he worked for his father at the forge and started so many other forges. He became a probate Judge, a field officer, town clerk, deacon of the church. Memories of the Leonard,Thopson and Haskill Families, by Caroline Leonard Goodenough, 1928. ----- Thomas Leonard came to America with his father as a young boy. He worked at his father's iron forge in Taunton/Raynham where he was clerk and manager for 30 years beginning in 1683, but was also a physician, major of the Bristol, Regiment, justice of the peace, town clerk, deacon, presiding justice of the county court 1685-1693, and judge of the Common Pleas Court, 1702-13. Thomas was a well-respected man in the community and a lengthy elegy to him was written and published at his death in the "Boston News Letter, "in late November, 1713, by Rev. Samuel Danforth, his pastor. A copy can be found in the NEHGS "Register," Vol 22, pg. 141.

  
  

• Sources

  [S44] Orcutt_001 gedcom file, Robert Waddell.