Fourth Generation

82. William LEONARD³¹ was born on 17 December 1724 in Dighton, Bristol Co., MA.³⁰ He died in 1806 at the age of 82 in Knox Co., OH. He was buried in Beallsville, Washington Co., PA. He moved from Morris Co., NJ, to Greene Co., PA, about the summer of 1776 ("there was a migration of some 20 to 30 families who left their homes in Morris Co., NJ, in 1777, to come to North Tenmile, but that being the "Bloody Year" (Indian raids on settlements) were compelled to return back over the mountains until the following season, when they came back to ake a permanent settlement). They settled in an area that had become Westmoreland Co. in 1773, then Washington Co., in 1781, and finally Greene Co. in 1795. In 1799 William and others traveled by horse across wild Ohio Territory to Indian country to seek a place for a Presbyterian colony, of which he was the elder leader. Three sons moved also: Amos, Benjamin, and Ziba. Sons Lot and David stayed in Greene Co., PA. William moved into an area in 1804 that in 1808 was formed into Knox Co., OH. His will was probated in 1808. His group had bought 800 acres from speculators in Knox County. After he died, his son Amos became the leader of the group and the County overseer who built the road that passed by their farms to the southeast from what became Mt. Vernon, the county seat.

William LEONARD and Mary LOTT were married about 1745 in Mendham, Morris Co., NJ. Mary LOTT³¹ was born in 1730 in Northampton, Bucks Co., PA. She died after 1796 at the age of 66 in Bet, Washington Co., PA.

William LEONARD and Mary LOTT had the following children:

243	i.	Jesse LEONARD³¹ was born about 1746 in Mendham, Morris Co., NJ. He farmed on the north edge of the County -- Horn Map -- Morgan twp, Greene Co., PA, bordering Washington Co. Tax list, 1786. Washington Co. became Greene Co. in 1795 or 1796. He was in the Greene Co. militia during the Revolutionary War. He apparently stayed at his farm near Ten Mile Creek when his father, William, and brothers moved to Knox Co., Ohio. No further information about him.
244	ii.	Benjamin LEONARD³¹ was born about 1747 in NJ. Or was he born in 1758? Conflicting information. Allan Vaughan has 1747. Can't find a record of any marriage or children. Allan says he never married. He moved to Knox County in 1804 with his father. He's on the 1810 tax list -- Sec 4, R12, F5, Morgan twp.
245	iii.	Amos LEONARD³¹ was born about 1749 in NJ. He apparently never married. In 1782 he served in Capt. Benjamin Stite's Co. of the First Battalion of Pennsylvania Militia in the Revolutionary War. He was received as a member of the Lower Tenmile Presbyterian Church in Washington Co., PA, on 11 May 1783. He replaced as father as leader of their Presbyterian Church 2 or 3 years after their move to Knox County, OH (per N. N. Hill, History of Knox Co.).
+246	iv.	Sarah LEONARD.
+247	v.	Lot LEONARD.
248	vi.	John LEONARD³¹ was born about 1755 in Mendham, Morris Co., NJ. He died in 1813 at the age of 58 in Ellsworth, Trumbell, now Mahoning Co., OH.
+249	vii.	Ziba LEONARD.
+250	viii.	Rachel LEONARD.
+251	ix.	David LEONARD.