Fourth Generation

163. Mehitable LEONARD²⁶¹ was born about 1705 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 2 September 1797 at the age of 92 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA.²⁶² Information about Mehitable and her two husbands is from Brad Clark of Sacramento, CA, a descendant, on July 19, 2004. He quotes main source as W. L. Chaffin's History of Easton (1886). She lived in Easton, MA. "Evin's Meadow is frequently named in early record. It is the low land west of the old Nathaniel Perry place, near the Mansfield line. It became the property of Lt. James Leonard, then of this daughter, Mehitable, who married John Willis, and on his death married Capt. Nathaniel Perry." (p. 15.) "Through her, Capt. Perry became owner of "Perry Place," so called, on Highland Street, west of the Furnace Village, this having been the gift of Lt. James Leonard to Mehitable, when she married John Willis." (p. 161) ECL gives Mehitable's birthdate was abt. 1713. She was 92 when she died.

Mehitable LEONARD and John WILLIS were married on 28 May 1728 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA. John WILLIS was born in 1702 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA. He died in 1735 at the age of 33 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA.

Mehitable LEONARD and John WILLIS had the following children:

494	i.	Mehitable WILLIS was born on 16 September 1728 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA.
495	ii.	Hannah WILLIS was born on 11 November 1730 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA.
496	iii.	John WILLIS was born on 26 November 1731 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA.
+497	iv.	Abiah WILLIS.

Mehitable LEONARD and Capt. Nathaniel PERRY were married on 2 December 1736. Capt. Nathaniel PERRY, son of Benjamin PERRY and Dinah SWIFT, was born on 2 July 1713 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co, MA.²⁶³ He died in 1756 at the age of 43 in Cape Breton, Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War.

Mehitable LEONARD and Capt. Nathaniel PERRY had the following children:

498	i.	Nathaniel PERRY was born on 20 July 1738 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA.
+499	ii.	Lydia PERRY.
500	iii.	Samuel PERRY was born on 21 July 1743 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA.
501	iv.	James PERRY was born about 1745 in Easton, Bristol Co., MA. James Leonard deeded 80 acres of land at Guinna in 1763 to James Perry on condition that said Perry lives with Mehibital Leonard Perry until he is 21, essentially her portion of James' estate.