Fifth Generation

433. Rev. Elijah LEONARD⁵⁷⁰ was born on 28 April 1760 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.⁵⁷¹ He died on 8 February 1834 at the age of 73 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA. Elijah graduated from Yale, 1783. He was minister at the Second Congregational (now Unitarian) Church in Marshfield for many years (Fanny Koster Leonard). He was said to be from Marshfield at the time of his wedding. Did he die in Marshfield or Mansfield (conflicting records)?

According to his Yale biography, he had two sons and two daughters. Both of the daughters died in infancy. All four of his children are accounted for here.

Whose daughter was Bathsheba Wales Leonard?

Rev. Elijah LEONARD and Polly Wales FOBES were married on 18 February 1792 at Church of Christ, in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.^47,572 Church of Christ records list her as Molly Wales Fobes. Polly Wales FOBES²¹¹, daughter of Perez FOBES and Prudence WALES, was born in 1772 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 29 October 1801 at the age of 29 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA.

Rev. Elijah LEONARD and Polly Wales FOBES had the following children:

+937	i.	Elijah LEONARD.
938	ii.	Polly LEONARD⁵⁷³ was born in 1795. She died on 1 October 1799 at the age of 4 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.
939	iii.	Laura LEONARD⁵⁷⁴ was born in 1798 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 13 January 1800 at the age of 2 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.
+940	iv.	Rev. George LEONARD.

Rev. Elijah LEONARD and Mary Brooks DELANO were married on 25 August 1804 in Scituate, Plymouth Co, MA.³⁴⁶ Mary Brooks DELANO, daughter of Benjamin DELANO and Mary BROOKS, was born on 15 December 1776 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. She died in April 1835 at the age of 58 in Mansfield, Bristol Co., MA.

Rev. Elijah LEONARD and Mary Brooks DELANO had the following children:

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Benjamin Delano LEONARD⁵⁷⁵ was born on 22 August 1805 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. He died on 17 April 1820 at the age of 14 in Drowned in North River, Marshfield, MA.