Fourth Generation

115. Deacon Abiel LEONARD^65,211,212 was born on 26 February 1710 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA. He died on 27 August 1802 at the age of 92 in Mansfield, Bristol Co., MA.¹⁹⁶ He settled in Mansfield, MA, according to ECL. He was a Deacon in the church in Mansfield (unless it was his son Abiel).

Deacon Abiel LEONARD and Abigail ELLIOTT were married on 4 December 1745 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA.²¹³ Abigail ELLIOTT⁶⁵, daughter of Joseph ELLIOTT and Hannah WHITE, was born on 9 January 1722 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA. Receipt by Abiel Leonard of Norton, yeoman, and his wife Abigail for legacy from estate of her father Joseph Eliot of Norton, paid by Nehemiah Eliot of Norton, dtd. 10 April 1753. (13:397).

Deacon Abiel LEONARD and Abigail ELLIOTT had the following children:

+408	i.	Deacon Abijah LEONARD.
409	ii.	Abigail LEONARD²¹⁴ was born on 26 October 1748 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA.⁵³ She died on 23 September 1836 at the age of 87.
+410	iii.	Samuel LEONARD.
+411	iv.	Hannah LEONARD.
412	v.	Abiel LEONARD²¹⁵ was born on 13 February 1755 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA.⁵⁵ He died on 8 May 1791 at the age of 36 in Mansfield, Bristol Co., MA.²¹⁶ He probably died unmarried, according to ECL. He was the twin brother of Nehemiah. He served frequently in the Revolutionary War. He was a private in Capt. Abiel Clap's Company of Minutemen that marched to the alarm of April 19, 1775, later enlisted July 4, 1775, for a month and 11 days. He served as Abiel Leonard 2nd at the alarm of December 6, 1776, in RI. He enlisted August 25, 1777 and served to January 2, 1778, at Rhode Island. He served in another alarm involving RI in July 1780. See Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, pp. 682-3. Mansfield VR's give his death date as 1791, listing him as Abial, Jr.
+413	vi.	Nehemiah LEONARD.
+414	vii.	Deacon Timothy LEONARD.
+415	viii.	Sophia LEONARD.