Fourth Generation

296. Charity LEONARD³⁸⁴ was born about 1735. Was she the Charity Leonard that Ward Leonard found in Old Lyme, CT, records? Were they married in New Haven Second Church? She would have been 15 when Seth died, but there's no record of a guardianship.

Charity LEONARD and Ebenezer STAPLES were married on 30 January 1755 in Lyme, New London Co., CT.³⁸⁵ Ebenezer STAPLES died before 1761. He was born in Lyme, New London Co., CT. There was an Ebenezer Staples in Smithfield in the 1774 RI Census, not this one.

Probate estate papers: Ebenezer Staples, town of Lyme, 1762, New London District, case # 5059, LDS# 1025050. Packet #5059 contains 1 bond, 1 inventory, and 1 order of court.

Charity LEONARD and Ebenezer STAPLES had the following children:

708	i.	Asa STAPLES was born on 7 September 1775. He would have been born 15 years after his father died, unless he was the son of Ebenezer, Jr.
709	ii.	Parthena STAPLES was born on 25 December 1757.
710	iii.	Lucy STAPLES was born on 17 July 1759.
711	iv.	Ebenezer STAPLES was born before 1761.