Third Generation

12. Thomas LEONARD⁴³ was born on 22 January 1665 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. He died in 1740 at the age of 75 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. He lived after his marriage about a mile north of the Raynham Forge on the road to Whittinton. He was paid for work done for the forge, but there is little else about him. According to ECL, he seems to have died without male issue.

Fanny Leonard Koster ascribes male children Thomas, John, Philip, and Josiah to him in her charts. These are apparently in error, in that no other evidence has been found to support them and his will indicates he had only two daughters.

The Mayflower Society in the Thomas Rogers silver book notes that their earlier entry #281 Thomas Leonard was not the son of Thomas and Johanah Pitcher Leonard, whose only heirs were daughters Alice Leonard and Joanna Crossman (Bristol Co. PR 13:323).

GML makes note of a Boston Transcript article 10 Feb 1932: "John Barney, son of John and Mary (Throop) Barney, born 27 Sept 1698 at Bristol, RI, settled in Norton and married Mary Leonard, daughter of Thomas Leonard and Joanna Pitcher Leonard. No dates are found. His widow granted administration 7 Jan 1757. This is apparently an error: the above Mary Leonard was the daughter of John and Mary (King) Leonard.

Thomas LEONARD and Joanna PITCHER were married on 1 December 1699 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.⁴⁴ Joanna PITCHER, daughter of Samuel PITCHER and Alice CRAIG, was born on 13 April 1677 in Milton, MA.⁴⁵ She died on 6 March 1749 at the age of 71 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.

Thomas LEONARD and Joanna PITCHER had the following children:

89	i.	Alice LEONARD was born about 1701. She died after 1753 at the age of 52. Court records: Agreement between Alice Leonard (one party) and Thomas Crossman and his wife Joanna being daughters and only heirs of Thomas Leonard and Joanna, his wife, of Raynham, both dcd. intest., agreeing to division of estate, dtd. 21 February 1753. (13:323/4/5).
+90	ii.	Joanna LEONARD.