Second Generation

3. Samuel LEONARD was born in 1755 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA. He died on 28 February 1776 at the age of 21 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. He was buried in North Taunton Common Cemetery, Taunton, MA. Or date of death 1 March 1776 in Raynham (Raynham VR's, p. 155)? He's listed both as 28 Feb and 1 Mar in Taunton VR's, which explicitly calls him son of Seth.

His gravestone is located in the North Taunton Common cemetery, approximating the graves of Zebulon Field and his wife Patience, Wealthea Leonard Lincoln and her husband, Elijah, and his mother, Ruth, wife of Seth Leonard.

Chesebrough Genealogy has Samuel marrying Martha Field.

Samuel LEONARD and Wealthy FIELD were married about 1774. Wealthy FIELD³, daughter of Zebulon FIELD and Patience WETHERELL, was born about 1757 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 10 January 1829 at the age of 72. The Field Genealogy says that Wealthy Field #784 was married to James Leonard, but that appears to be wrong -- she married Samuel Leonard. The Field Genealogy lays out the rational that she didn't marry either James or his son, James Jr. on page 236 -- if either had been, they would have had to sign off as Field descendants in a series of complex land transactions. She was apparently published to Nathaniel Britton September 21, 1779, 3 years after Samuel's death. She was the sister of Nathaniel, who married Samuel's sister Sarah Leonard. She was 72 years old when she died. According to the Field genealogy, she was probably the fourth child of Zebulon's second wife Patience, born about 7 years after they married. She's mentioned in Zebulon Field's will on p. 237 as Wealthy Leonard.

Samuel LEONARD and Wealthy FIELD had the following children: