Samuel Leonard (Leonardson)
(1683 - 11 May 1718)
Samuel Leonard (Leonardson) (1683,
Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
- 11 May 1718,
Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA
)
Pedigree Chart
Samuel was the child of Samuel Leonard (Leonardson) and Abigail Atwood (Wood)
Ancestor's Life Events
 1698 Preston, Connecticut First Congregational Church 1698 LEONARDSON SAMUEL LEONARDSON. MEMBER PRESTON, CONNECTICUT, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH RECORDS, 1698-1898. (ONLINE DATABASE. NEWENGLANDANCESTORS.ORG. NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 2009.) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS: FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PRESTON, CONNECTICUT, 1698-1898 : TOGETHER WITH STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH TAKEN FROM CHURCH RECORDS. PRESTON, CONN.: THE SOCIETY, 1900. |
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1698 ADMISSION & RENEWALS OF COVENANT EXTRACTED FROM THE BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PRESTON, CONNECTICUT, 1698-1898 STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH TAKEN FROM THE CHURCH RECORDS. ADMISSIONS & RENEWALS OF COVENANT PAGES 129 - 198 1698 - A CHURCH WAS EMBIDIED IN PRESTON, NOV'R 16TH, A.D. 1698. THE ELDERS WHO EMBODIED THE CHURCH & PREFORMED ORDINATION WERE THE REV'D JAMES NOYES, PASTOR OF STONINGTON, THE REV'D MOSES NOYES, PASTOR OF LYME, & THE REV'D GURDON SALTONSTALL, PASTOR OF NEW LONDON. THE MESSENGERS FROM NEIGHBOURING CHURCHES: DEACON GERSHOM PALMER OF STONINGTON, DEACON PECK OF LYME, DANIEL WITHERELL ESQ'R & DEACON DOUGLASS OF NEW LONDON & DEACON SIMON HUNTINGTON OF NORWICH. THEY WHO OFFERED THEMSELVES AS MATTER FOR A CHURCH, HAVING BEEN MEMBERS OF OTHER CH'HS, IN FULL COMMUNION WITHER BROUGHT INTO ORDER BY GIVING THEIR CONSENT TO ARTICLES OF FAITH & RENEWAL OF COVENANT. THE PERSONS WERE: THOMAS PARK THOMAS TRACY JOHN RICHARDS HOPESTILL TYLER JONATHAN TRACY SAMUEL LEONARDSON ROBERT PARK JOHN PARK CALEB FOBES JONATHAN MORGAN EBENEZER WITTER JOHN WELCH |
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Admissions - Nov 4, 1716 - The wife of Samuel LEONARDSON Renewal of Covenant - Nov 7, 1708 - Lydia, wife of Sam'l LEONARDSON Jun'r renewd cov't & submitted to discipline |
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Leonard Genealogy FROM "LEONARD GENEALOGY" "SAMUEL LEONARD, ONLY SON OF SAMUEL, ELDEST SON OF SOLOMON, WAS BORN IN BRIDGEWATER ABOUT 1683, DIED IN PRESTON, CONNECTICUT ON 11MAY1718. WHILE HIS FATHER'S FAMILY WERE LIVING IN WORCHESTER, SOMETIME IN THE AUTUMN OF 1695, HE WAS KIDNAPPED BY HOSTILE INDIANS, AND FOR A YEAR AND A HALF HIS ANXIOUS AND DISTRESSED FRIENDS COULD LEARN NOTHING OF HIS FATE. NO DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS CAPTURE, OR OF HIS SUFFERINGS FROM HUNGER, COLD AND EXPOSURE DURING THE 2 ENTIRE WINTERS HE WAS IN THE HANDS OF HIS SAVAGE CAPTORS HAS COME DOWN TO US, BUT HISTORY HAS FAITHFULLY DESCRIBED THE WONDERFUL HEROISM EXIBITED BY THIS YOUTH--THEN BUT 14 YEARS OF AGE---AND BY HIS ASSOCIATES IN CAPTIVITY, MRS. HANNAH DUSTON AND MRS. MARY NEFF OF HAVERHILL, IN SLAUTERING THEIR MERCILOUS CAPTORS AND THEIR ALMOST MIRACULOUS RESTORATION TO INTENSELY ANXIOUS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN THIS CONNECTION THE NAME OF THIS MODEST YOUTH, WRITTEN SAMUEL LEONARDSON IN THE ANNALS, HAS BECOME IMMORTALIZED, WHILE HIS PERSONAL IDENTITY HAS BEEN IN OBSCURITY FOR NEARLY TWO CENTURIES. MARCH 15, 1697, THE INDIANS ATTACKED THE TOWN OF HAVERHILL, MASS. AND AFTER MURDERING 27 OF THE INHABITANTS AND BURNING 9 DWELLINGS, CARRIED AWAY 13 CAPTIVES. AMONG THE LATTER THE 2 WOMEN PREVIOUSLY NAMED. A HISTORY OF THIS FORAY BY THE INDIANS, WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF THESE CAPTIVES, THE DARING AND INTREPID MANNER OF THEIR ESCAPE, ETC. WAS PUBLISHED SOON AFTER IT OCCURED BY COTTON MATHER IN HIS "MAGNALIA", PRINTED IN LONDON AND HAS BEEN REPEATED IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS MANY TIMES SINCE. (SKIPPING SOME TEXT)ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 30, 1697 THEY ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE. THE BOY AND 2 WOMEN SLAUGHTED THEIR CAPTIVES AND MADE THIER ESCAPE. THEY TOOK A CANOE AND EMBARKED ON A PERILOUS VOYAGE DOWN THE MERIMAC, FOR HAVERHILL. AFTER RESTING A LITTLE THEY SET OUT FOR BOSTON WHERE THEY ARRIVEDON APRIL 21ST. JUDGE SAMUEL SEWELL MAKES MENTION OF THEM IN HIS DIARY UNDER DATE APRIL 29 AND MAY 1ST. SOON AFTER THIS SAMEUL JOINED HIS FATHER AND SISTERS IN THE VICINITY OF NORWICH, CT. AT THAT TIME IT WAS A LONG AND TOILSOME JOURNEY AND TO HIM A DANGEROUS ONE. IT IS BELIEVED THAT HIS MOTHER HAD DIED DURING HIS CAPTIVITY, HER DEATH HASTENED BY INTENSE SOLICITUDE FOR HER LOST, ONLY SON.HIS SAFETY FROM THE VENGEANCE OF THE INDIANS REQUIRED THAT HE REMAIN IN OBSCURITY AND THIS MAY HAVE INFLUENCED HIS FATHER MAKING HIS HOME IN THE NORTHERLY PART OF PRESTON( WHICH IS NOW GROSWOLD, CONN.) A MONUMENT NOW STANDS ON THE SPOT WHERE THE INDIANS WERE SLAIN, DEDICATED 17JUNE1874 ON AN ISLAND CALLED PREVIOUSLY CONTOOCOOK, NOW CALLED DUSTON'S ISLAND." LYDIA COOKE MARRIED SAMUEL LEONARD 1706 IN PRESTON, NEW LONDON CO, CT. HER SECOND MARRIAGE WAS TO NICHOLAS WILLIAMS ON 05 DEC 1720 IN PRESTON, NEW LONDON CO, CT. HTTP:/WWW.ROOTSWEB.COM/%7ECTCGROTO/PRESTON_MARRIAGES.HTML |
Ancestor's Marriage(s) and Child(ren)
 married
Lydia Cooke
-- Date: 1706 Place:
Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA
  All Register of the Society of Mayflower descendants in the District of Columbia, 1970 in commemoration of the 350th anniversary -- ancestry.com Page 273-274  Source: Title The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 52 Authors Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society Publisher New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1898 Original from Harvard University Digitized Jan 30, 2008 Page 271 |
Family Group Record
for Samuel Leonard (Leonardson) and Lydia Cooke
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Children:
Lydia Leonard (22 Sep 1707, Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA - possibly June 6, 1777, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA)
Ebenezer Leonard (17 Mar 1710, Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA - , )
Samuel Leonard (18 Mar 1712, Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA - 24 Apr 1760, Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA)
Jane Leonard (05 Nov 1714, Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA - , )
Nathan Leonard (22 Aug 1717, Preston, New London, Connecticut, USA - , ) |
Added: 12/16/1999 12:00:00 AM - 1
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