Fourth Generation

289. Uriah LEONARD³¹² was born on 9 Nov 1715 in Stoughton, Norfolk Co., MA. He died after 1751 in Sharon, MA. He was buried in Stoney Plain Cemetery, Taunton, MA. According to ECL, he worked for Judge Zephaniah Leonard at the HopewellForge in 1764. In Judge Leonard's inventory of Uriah's estate, it showedthat he owed 71 pounds 15 shillings and the house where he lived was putdown in the inventory at 10 pounds. Uriah drops out of the CantonDistrict tax list in 1739. He appears in Sharon in 1747 and stays thereuntil 1751 and then disappears entirely. Taunton records show the deathof Elizabeth, wife of Uriah, November 6, 1775.

Uriah LEONARD and Elizabeth FARLEY were married on 9 Sep 1736 in Billerica, MA. Elizabeth FARLEY¹²⁰ (daughter of Timothy FARLEY and Elizabeth SHEDD) was born on 17 Oct 1711 in Billerica, MA. She died on 6 Nov 1775 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. She was buried in Stoney Plain Cemetery, Taunton, MA. Uriah and Elizabeth Leonard were ordered to appear at Cambridge March 19,1743, in regard to the administration of the probate of Timothy Farley.Hazen in History of Billerica states that she married Jerathmell BowersJr. at Billerica March 17, 1735/6, but that seems wrong, given theprobate case of her father.

Was she born in Stoughton or Billerica? OneWorldTree has her born inStoughton. Uriah LEONARD and Elizabeth FARLEY had the following children:

686	i.	Solomon LEONARD313 was born on 14 Oct 1736 in Canton, Norfolk Co., MA. He died on 20 Oct 1740.
687	ii.	Hannah LEONARD314 was born on 14 May 1738 in Canton, Norfolk Co., MA. She may have been the Hannah who married Joseph Boodry, according to ECL.
688	iii.	Uriah LEONARD315 was born on 14 Mar 1738/39 in Billerica, MA.316 He married and may have moved to New York State--GeneseeCounty--according to ECL.
+689	iv.	Lydia LEONARD.
690	v.	Elizabeth LEONARD317 was born in 1745. OneWorldTree has this Elizabeth Leonard marrying David Britton, ratherthan Lydia Leonard.