| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation47. Mercy LEONARD43 was born on 1 December 1714 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA. She died on 9 June 1795 at the age of 80 in Bennington, VT. Her children included to US Senators, one Vt. Governor, one Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, one major general and two colonels, and four sons who fought in the Battle of Bennington in the Revolutionary War. Mercy LEONARD and Samuel ROBINSON were married on 29 May 1732 in Hardwick, Worcester Co., MA. Samuel ROBINSON was born on 1 April 1707 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA. He moved to Hardwick, MA, in 1735 and from there to New Hampshire Grants, as Vermont was then known, in 1761, settling in Bennington. He was made a Justice of the Peace by NH Gov. Wentworth, which led to a struggle between NH and NY authorities over jurisdiction. Was it Samuel or Jonathan Robinson she married? |