Jonathan Leonard (1734 - 1813)

Born 29 Jul 1734 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Washburn) Leonard — married 25 Apr 1758 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 31 Dec 1813 at age 79 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts

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Biography

Massachusetts Colony

* From John Maltby:

Martha Washburn, dau. of Benjamin Washburn and Martha Kingman, married Jonathan Leon­ard, son of Joseph and Mary (Packard) Leonard Jr.,^[1] on 25 Apr. 1758 in Bridgewater.^[2] He was a twin, born supposedly on 29 July 1734 in Bridgewater,^[3] a grandson of Joseph and Martha (Orcutt) Leonard, and of Nathaniel and Lydia (Smith?) Packard.^[4] They were living in Bridgewater, MA, in the 1790,^[5] and 1800 federal censuses.^[6]

Jonathan Leonard was still living in Bridgewater in the 1810 federal census.^[7] He died intestate on 3 Dec. 1813 in Bridgewater, aged 79 years,^[8] and Silvanus Pratt, son of Deacon Seth and Hannah (Washburn) Pratt, was granted administration of his estate in 1814.^[9]

Jonathan Leonard and Martha Washburn had chil­dren:^[10]

• Martha Leonard, born on 27 Mar. 1759 in Bridgewater, married Lt. Cornelius Pratt, son of Jonathan and Elisabeth (French) Pratt, of Bridgewater, in ca. 1787, and they lived in Bridgewater.

• Dr. Jonathan Leonard Jr., born on 17 Feb. 1763, probably in Bridgewater, a physician, graduated from Harvard University in 1786, settled in Sandwich, MA, probably after 1790, and married Temperance Hall, of Sandwich, on 21 July 1799 in Sandwich.

• David Leonard, born on 10 Feb. 1766, married Abigail Clark on 17 Jan. 1796 in Bridgewater. Children not found. He died on 8 Jan. 1849 in Bridgewater, aged 82 years, 10 months, 29 days, but no probate records were filed for his estate in Plymouth County.

• Benjamin Leonard, born in ca. Sept. 1770, was possibly married by 1810. He died in Jan. 1849 in Bridgewater, aged 78 years, 3 months, 29 days, but no probate records were filed for his estate in Plymouth County.

Sources

1. ↑ Mitchell, Nahum, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Boston, 1840, reprint, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1983, [hereinafter Mitchell, History of Bridgewater], pp. 236, 237.
2. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 389.
3. ↑ His birth date from the FHL Ancestral File, but his birth was not recorded in the Bridgewater vital records.
4. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1987, p. 549, for Nathaniel Packard’s wife. Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 253, says Nathaniel probably married a daughter of John Kingman; Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 12: Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, Picton Press, 1996, p. 244, gives her name as Lydia Smith?/Kingman?, apparently unsure which is correct.
5. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 165, Bridgewater Town, Plymouth County, the Jona Leonard household had 3 free white males aged 16 or older, 1 free white female, and 1 other free person.
6. ↑ 1800 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 64, the Jonathan Leonard household had 1 male aged 26-44 years, 1 male aged 45 or over, 1 female aged 45 or over, and 1 other free person.
7. ↑ 1810 Federal Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA, p. 77, the Jona. & B. Leonard household had 1 male aged 26-44 years, 1 male aged 45 or older, and 1 female aged 26-44 years. The B. Leonard was probably his son Benjamin.
8. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 519, buried in the Old Graveyard in Bridgewater; Latham, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, p. 90, #439, which calls him “father of Jonathan, graduate of Harvard Univ., David, and Benjamin. All three died January, 1849, over 80 years of age.”
9. ↑ Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #12630; Vol. 46, p. 43.
10. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater p. 237, says they had Martha 1759, Jonathan, David and Benjamin.

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - Martha Washburn

• 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, p83 and p127.

• Find A Grave: Burial: First Cemetery, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA, Plot: Section C, grave 439, Created by: Nan, Record added: Nov 19, 2007, Find A Grave Memorial# 22992873

• 124-DeCoursey.ged on 14 September 2010.