Jacob Leonard (abt. 1647 - bef. 1717)

Born about 1647 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (King) Leonard — married about 1680 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died before 10 Dec 1717 before about age 70 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Birth

Jacob Leonard, born about 1647 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, was the son of Sarah (Chandler) Leonard and her husband Solomon Leonard.^[1]

Marriages

"LEONARD, Jacob (1647-1717) & 1/wf Phoebe ?CHANDLER (-1678); by 1670; Weymouth? {Leonard (,2) 33, 38; Leonard Anc. 276; Newton (,4) 41, 374; LBDF&P ,228, 331; Warner-Harrington 407; Reg. 41:249}"^[2] Key to Torrey Source abbreviations

Jacob's first wife died by 1680 and he m. (2) Susannah King.

Residences

Jacob served in the King Phillip's War of 1676. He was in Weymouth, MA by 1679, in Worcester by 1684 and returned to Bridgewater in 1693.

Death

Bridgewater: Between 14 Dec 1716 (Will) and 9 Sep 1717 (Inventory). Probate 19 Dec 1717.^[3]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Old Graveyard Near Unitarian Church, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA

Probate

Jacob's will is dated 14 December 1716 and proved on 19 December 1717 in Plymouth. He mentions his wife Susanna, his daughters, Abigail Washbourne (eldest), Susanna Hill, Experience Leonard, Mary Leonard, and Sarah Leonard, and his two sons, Solomon Leonard, and Jacob Leonard. His inventory was taken on 9 September 1717. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Wakefield, Robert S. (revised) Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Fifteen Family of James Chilton. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997) p. 8
2. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985.) Vol 2 p. 940 [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/940/426931853 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)]
3. ↑ Will and probate documents at Ancestry ($) https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9069/007637502_00037 https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9069/007051381_00548 https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9069/004864490_00808
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-FJBY?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-W68%3A337879301 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1717-1724 and 1854-1862 vol 4-4Q > image 36 of 485; State Archives, Boston.

• MF Vol. 15 p. 22-23
• Source: Memorial: Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637, Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of His Descendants. By Manning Leonard, Southbridge, Mass. Press of Knapp, Peck & Thomson, Auburn N.Y. 1896, p33 and p 38-43.