| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Second Generation5. James LEONARD2 was born on 8 October 1716 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA.3 He died before 6 February 1787 at the age of 70. His will mentions nine children. His son, James, was the sole executor. Only four children are listed, so more research needs to be done to identify the other five. Is a copy of his will available somewhere? Bristol Co. Probate Court? He left his house to wife Jemima and shoe making tools to his son James. His name was spelled Lennard in Bridgewater VR's. None of his children appear to be listed in the Bridgewater VR's. In the Genealogy of the Chesebrough Family, the children are listed as: #915 James, #916 Runy, #917 Susannah, and #918, Samuel, m. Anna Wetherell. He received land from his father via LR 37:461 on 4 Jan 1750. He sold land in Taunton to his son, James, May 1, 1774, countersigned by his wife Jemima. They were married by Isaac Johnson, Justice of the Peace. Field Genealogy, p. 236: "...Richard Field had sold to James Leonard, of Taunton, the deceased, all his share in the two farms, which was two-sevenths thereof, he being the eldest son and entitled to a double share; that said James Leonard had sold one half of said double share to his son, James, who had sold to Nathaniel Field one half of what he bought from his father...""...James Leonard, who bought the double share of Richard Field in the two farms, was the son of William and Sarah (Bolton) Leonard, b. in 1716, m. in 1737, Jemima Heiford, d. in 1787, leaving a widow, Jemima; James, the son, m. in 1770; Eunice Smith, his wife (Eunice) signed the deed which he gave to Nathaniel Field in 1792. Neither James could have been the husband of Wealthy Field." (Wealthy Field b. abt. 1753 was the daughter of Zebulon Field and Patience Wetherell.) The question, then, is who was the James married Wealthy. James LEONARD and Jemima HEIFORD were married on 17 February 1737 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA.2 Jemima HEIFORD, daughter of John HEIFORD and Lydia PIERCE, was born in 1718 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA. She died after 1787 at the age of 69. Her last name was also spelled Hefford in the records of Bridgewater. Other variations: Heyford, Heiford, Hayford. ECL's notes refer to her as Jemima Heiford. Mitchell's History of Bridgewater also refers to her as Jemima Heiford. She might be the daughter of John Heiford and Lydia Peirce, who married March 19, 1706, in Bridgewater. A widow Jemima Leonard died in Worthington, MA, August 20, 1825. A Jemima Leonard is listed in the 1790 Census for Taunton as head of a household of 6 females, no males. She is listed next to James Leonard 2nd with a household of 9 (l male over 16, 3 males under 16, and 5 females), and James Leonard 3rd (household of 3, 1 male over 16 and 2 females). In the same column are familes with whom this branch of the Leonards intermarried (Fields, Lincolns, Eddys, Smiths, Woodwards, etc.). On the same Census page are Benjamin Leonard (3 males over 16, 2 males under 16, 3 females), William Leonard (1 male over 16, 4 males under 16, 4 females), and Ichabod Leonard (4 males over 16, 4 females). James LEONARD and Jemima HEIFORD had the following children:
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