Isaac Leonard II (abt. 1676 - aft. 1737)

Born about 1676 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Gurney) Leonard — married 16 Apr 1701 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Isaac Leonard II, eldest son of Isaac and Deliverance Leonard, was born about 1678 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony.^[1]

1685 - Plymouth and Bristol counties were created by the Plymouth General Court.

1692 - The Plymouth Colony was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He married 16 Apr 1701 Mary (Bailey) Randall, dau. of Guido Bailey of Bridgewater, widow of Samuel Randall, son of Thomas Randall of Taunton North Purchase [Easton], Bristol Co. MA.^[2][3]

He settled in neighboring [North] Easton, Bristol County, purchasing land from Thomas Randall.^[4] His home was at the site of the Novelty Iron Works on Pond St. in 1886. [See map.]^[5] [There were no ponds there at that time.]

He was believed to be the first to discover bog-iron in present North Easton, the ore was on brother-in-law Nathaniel Manley's property near Lincoln Spring. In 1716 Manley gave him 1/3 part ownership of the ore with rights to dig and cart it away.^[6][7] In 1726 Isaac sold his homestead & in 1729 his 1/3 of iron-ore mine to Eliphalet Leonard of Easton and moved 60 miles west to Pomfret CT. In 1735/6 he sold his land in Pomfret CT.^{[8] [9]}

Eliphalet Leonard was not kin. This line emigrated, or rather was imported, from Wales in 1643 to work at the iron works in Lynn MA. In 1653, at the end of their obligation, they set up a bloomery/forge at Taunton.^[10]

In 1733 Isaac had received land due his father for serving in Narragansett fight of 1675.^[11]

Children:^[12]

1. Isaac Leonard III
2. David Leonard
3. Thomas Leonard
4. Others

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Sources

1. ↑ Leonard, Manning. Memorial, genealogical, historical, and biographical, of Solomon Leonard, 1637 : of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants (1896) p,66-7. https://archive.org/stream/memorialgenealog00leon#page/66/mode/2up.
2. ↑ Leonard 66,67. https://archive.org/stream/memorialgenealog00leon#page/66/mode/2up
3. ↑ Chaffin, William Ladd. History of the Town of Easton (1886), p.49: Says he was son of Solomon of Duxbury. It should say grandson. Solomon Jr. did not have a son Isaac. https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofe03chaf/page/47/mode/2up
4. ↑ Bristol Co. Deed Bk.13, pp.119, 120: 1713 4.5-acre meadow from Thomas Randall, 3.5 acres on Sawmill Bk from James Keith of Bridgewater.
5. ↑ Chaffin, p. 48, p. 465 map. https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofe00chaf/page/464/mode/2up
6. ↑ Bristol Co. Deed Bk.13, p.117.
7. ↑ Chaffin, p.48.
8. ↑ Bristol Co. Deed Bk.19, p.487: all my homestead, etc; Bk.20, p.50: late of Easton, now of Pomfret CT.
9. ↑ Leonard, p.66,67. https://archive.org/stream/memorialgenealog00leon#page/66/mode/2up
10. ↑ Samuel Eliot Morison, Builders of the Bav Colony (1930), p.279. [Not available on line.]
11. ↑ George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philips War (1906), p.428: of Bridgewater, his son Isaac received land. https://archive.org/details/soldiersinkingph1906bodg/page/428/mode/2up
12. ↑ Leonard, p.67.

See also:

• 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, p44