Second Generation

6. Benjamin LEONARD²⁶ was born in 1650 in Braintree or Lynn, MA. He died in 1725 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. Benjamin was 13 or 14 when his mother died. He became errand boy for hisolder brothers. He spend many hours hunting and trapping game in thesurrounding forests, perhaps with King Philip at Fowling Pond. He waseventually put to work in the ironworks and learned the bloomery trade.He worked at the Raynham works until his father died. He owned a sharein the new hearth at Whittinton, where he and his son Benjamin worked inlater years. ECL says that his wife, Sarah Thrasher, according totradition was an incessant scold.

Benjamin LEONARD and Sarah THRASHER were married on 15 Jan 1678/79 in Taunton, Bristol, MA.²⁷ Sarah THRASHER (daughter of Christopher THRASHER and KATHERINE) was born in 1658 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. She died in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. She was said to be a great scold. Benjamin LEONARD and Sarah THRASHER had the following children:

+51	i.	Sarah LEONARD.
+52	ii.	Benjamin LEONARD.
53	iii.	Hannah LEONARD was born on 8 Nov 1685 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.28 She died on 8 Dec 1691 in Taunton, MA.29 It's strange that an earlier Hannah died the same day. Transcription orresearch error?
+54	iv.	Jerusha LEONARD.
55	v.	Hannah LEONARD was born on 8 Dec 1691 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.28 ECL-GML Genealogy does not have this second Hannah.
+56	vi.	Joseph LEONARD.
57	vii.	Henry LEONARD30 was born on 8 Nov 1695 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.31 He died in 1714. He died unmarried. Alternate death date in OneWorldTree is 1725.