Fourth Generation

310. Charity LEONARD³³⁸ was born about 1735. Was she the Charity Leonard that Ward Leonard found in Old Lyme, CT,records? Were they married in New Haven Second Church?

Charity LEONARD and Ebenezer STAPLES were married on 30 Jan 1755 in Lyme, CT.³³⁹ Ebenezer STAPLES died before 1761. He was born in Lyme, CT. There was an Ebenezer Staples in Smithfield in the 1774 RI Census, notthis one.

Probate estate papers: Ebenezer Staples, town of Lyme, 1762, New LondonDistrict, case # 5059, LDS# 1025050. Packet #5059 contains 1 bond, 1inventory, and 1 order of court. Charity LEONARD and Ebenezer STAPLES had the following children:

732	i.	Asa STAPLES was born on 7 Sep 1775. He would have been born 15 years after his father died, unless he was theson of Ebenezer, Jr.
733	ii.	Parthena STAPLES was born on 25 Dec 1757.
734	iii.	Lucy STAPLES was born on 17 Jul 1759.
735	iv.	Ebenezer STAPLES was born before 1761.