Seventh Generation

2508. Ebenezer LEONARD Jr.²³⁵⁰ was born on 10 April 1814 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. He died on 24 May 1891 at the age of 77 in Acushnet, Bristol Co., MA. He was a shipbuilder. He learned boat-building from William E. Carver. He started his own shipbuilding company 1 January 1852. He specialized in whale boats, constructing some 927 of them for New Bedford shipping, carrying them the six miles to New Bedford on trucks. In the 1860 Census, they were living in Acushnet, MA, where both Ebenezer and Thomas were boat builders. He was a consistent Democrat in politics, a regular attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, although he was a believer in universal salvation.

According to data given to Lois Badger by the mother of Harriotte Leonard Standish, Ebenezer had 12 children, but census and other records mention only those named. He was born in Raynham, moved to Taunton when he was 16, and was a farmer.

Ebenezer LEONARD Jr. and Mary Jane HANLEY were married on 29 November 1835 in New Bedford, Bristol Co., MA. Mary Jane HANLEY, daughter of James HENLEY and Mary BARNSTABLE, was born on 26 October 1817 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA. She died on 17 October 1899 at the age of 81 in Bourne, Barnstable Co., MA. Henley or Hanley? New Bedford VR's have Henley.

Ebenezer LEONARD Jr. and Mary Jane HANLEY had the following children:

4254	i.	Thomas Wells LEONARD²³⁵¹ was born on 3 July 1839 in New Bedford, Bristol Co., MA. He died on 14 July 1863 at the age of 24 in New Orleans, LA. He was in Co. D, 47th Mass Infantry Volunteers in the Civil War.
4255	ii.	Daniel LEONARD was born about 1842. He died in infancy.
+4256	iii.	Ebenezer Francis LEONARD.
+4257	iv.	Charles Frederick LEONARD.
+4258	v.	Adelaide Gibbs LEONARD.
4259	vi.	Mary E. LEONARD²³⁵² was born on 22 October 1856 in Acushnet, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 27 August 1876 at the age of 19 in Acushnet, Bristol Co., MA.