| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Third Generation78. James LEONARD133 was born in 1690 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. He died on 9 May 1779 at the age of 89 in Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA. His father sold him 25 acres, one quarter of the family homestead October 25, 1739, when Uriah was 77 years old. He sold his property in Middleborough and moved to Wrentham in 1751. ECL assumes that after Mary died, he went to live near or with his daughter Elizabeth Ware. He would have been 39 when he married. Is this logical? Is this the right James Leonard? They were married by Rev. Wales. Court Records: Appt. of James Leonard the 2nd of Taunton, husbandman, to be guardian of his daughters Mary Leonard, Abigail Leonard, and Elizabeth Leonard (all under 14), grandaughters of Mary Dean, dcd, dtd. 16 March 1749 (12:199). Mary Dean, his wife, died before 1750. Mary Dean's mother was also a Mary Dean and died about 1750. See also will of Thomas Dean, will, Bristol Probate, vol. 11, page 333, in which he gave to Mary, wife of James Leonard, 28 acres in Middleborough near the dwelling house of Jacob Staples. James LEONARD and Mary DEAN were married on 27 September 1739 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.134,135 Marriage listed in manuscript Church of Christ, Raynham, records, on file at Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton. Mary DEAN136, daughter of Thomas DEAN and Mary KINGSLEY, died about 1750. She was born in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. James LEONARD and Mary DEAN had the following children:
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