| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation243. Joseph LEONARD322 was born in 1718 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA. He died in 1813 at the age of 95 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA. This Joseph is mistaken for the Joseph, son of Elkanah, in the genealogies submitted by subscribers to Ancestry.com. The ECL-GML papers are quite explicit that the Joseph who married Ruth White was the son of Joseph, grandson of Benjamin, great-grandson of James. This Joseph was known as Joseph Leonard 2nd, being the second Joseph born in Middleborough during this period. Joseph 1st was the son of Elkanah, born in 1705. This Joseph could be the Joseph, 45+, living in Middleborough in the 1800 Census with one female, 26-44 (a daughter?). (No marriage is listed for daughter Hannah, b. 1766, who may have been living at home.) Joseph Leonard's sons Archippus, George, Samuel, Rowland, and Ichabod were all in a company with a Corporal Joseph Leonard (this Joseph?) during the Revolutionary War. Born 1718 or 1722? Birth not in Middleborough VR's. Death doesn't appear there either. See the notes for Joseph Leonard 3rd who married Abigail Raymond for a description of the "multiple Joseph" problem in Middleborough in the 1700's. Joseph LEONARD and Ruth WHITE were married on 27 March 1746 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA.323 Ruth WHITE324, daughter of Benjamin WHITE and Ruth REED, was born on 6 February 1727 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA.71 She died on 27 September 1793 at the age of 66 in Carver, MA.325 Doublecheck Ruth White. There were a number of Ruth Whites. Benjamin White, her father, had two or three wives. Ruth White is sometimes given the children of Joseph Leonard and Abigail Raymond, but the names don't fit with those used in the White family and Ruth would have been too old to have some of the children. Death in Carver VR's. Joseph LEONARD and Ruth WHITE had the following children:
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