Samuel  LEONARD (LEONARDSON)

Biography
Samuel Leonard - was born in 1643 in Duxbury, Massachusetts and died about 1720 in Plymouth, Massachusetts . He was the son of John Solomon Leonard and Sarah Chandler.

Samuel married Abigail Wood in 1674. Abigail was born about 1655. She was the daughter of John Atwood and Sarah Masterson.

Abigail - It is interesting to note that Abigail's surname is shown as WOOD whereas her father's surname is shown as ATWOOD. (ADH Sr.)

'Samuel Leonard (Solomon) 1643-1720. He and Abigail removed from Plymouth to Worcester, where Samuel Jr. was an Indian captive for a time, then to Norwalk, Connecticut.'
Source: Ye Atte Wode annals, October 1929 : giving English history, descendants of Harman, Henry, John, Philip, Stephen, Thomas of Ipswich and Thomas of Wethersfield, sketch of John and James Astwood, of Henry Wood of Leyden and the story of Joshua 4 Bradford and the Indians, etc., with special articles bringing branches to date, Page 11.

1644 Birth
20 May 1644
Duxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Biography
Early at Duxbury, then of Bridgewater Massachusetts by the time of his marriage an early proprietor of Worcester to which he moved about 1688 his son Samuel was taken captive by the Indians in 1695 driven out of Worcester by Indians, he removed to Norwich and then Preston Connecticut where he bought land on the Shetucket River constituent member of the Preston church, formed 16 Nov 1698.
Author: Leonard, Manning
Title: Memorial, Genealogical, and Biographical Record of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater MA
Publication: Southbridge, MA
Location: in Allen Co, IN public library, Ft. Wayne
Media: photocopy
Text: pp.34-36
Author: General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Title: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations
Media: photocopy
Text: vol.2, p.21

'In his administrator's bond he calls himself 'carpenter', but in deed of later date 'husbandman' and 'planter'. He lived in Bridgewater at the time of his marriage, having built a house upon his father's land - ...Read MORE...

Biography
BOOK- GRISWOLD - A HISTORY - Being a history of the town of Griswold CT microfilm 1597788 item 5 book 975.65/ G3 H2p pp11,12,54
SAMUEL LEONARD
'About 1696 there came to the Pachaug country Samuel Leonard, who with his family settled on the banks of the Pachaug river, east of Appaquashosk hill. They had experienced to the full the savagery of the Indians, for their only son, a lad of 12years, also named Samuel, had just before been kidnapped and carried into captivity by the redskins, with whom he remained for nearly 2 years. It chanced that during this time he was brought into the company of Hannah Dustin and Mary Neff, the details of whose capture by the Indians at Haverhill, Mass., in 1697, had horrified all New England. The three, while in a wigwam occupied by 2 Indian families on an island in the Merrimac river, near Concord, planned their escape. The boy Samuel had been so long with the savages that, when he asked his master how to strike to kll instantly, and how to take a...Read MORE...

1674 Birth of Child
Elizabeth LEONARD was born 15 January 1674, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel was 29 years old.

1674 Birth of Child
Mary LEONARD was born 13 December 1674, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel was 30 years old.

1676 Marriage / Partner
Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) and Abigail ATWOOD (WOOD) 7 May 1676, Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA (Cedar Crest) (South Duxbury) (West Duxbury)

He was 31 years old.

1684 Death of Spouse/Partner
Abigail ATWOOD (WOOD) died 17 August 1684, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA

1684 Birth of Child
Mercy LEONARD was born 6 November 1684, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel was 40 years old.

1700 Marriage of Child
Mary LEONARD married 23 December 1700, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA (Marlboro) to Edward NEWTON

1703 Marriage of Child
Elizabeth LEONARD married 10 July 1703, Norwich, Connecticut, USA (Norwichtown) (Yantic) (Greeneville) (Occum) (Taftville) to Thomas CLARK

1703 Birth of Child
Phebe LEONARD was born 7 October 1703, Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)

Samuel was 59 years old.

1709 Marriage of Child
Mary LEONARD married 21 October 1709, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA (Marlboro) to David BRIGHAM

1718 Death of Child
Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) died 11 May 1718, Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)

Samuel was 74 years old.

1720 Death
20 November 1720
Preston, Crown Colony of Connecticut

He died at the age of 76.