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[44414] Joel and his wife are from the unverified information in 2018 at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Allen-25369.
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[40609] Oliver's ancestry is from the unverified "Hancock County Maine Project" at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com in 2016. See Find A Grave memorial 100292675 for children.
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[51346] See the unverified file LHZP-XK3 in familysearch.org.
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| _John Thomas BOYDSTON _______|_Hannah Caroline REA __
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|_Amanda Palestine DANLEY ____|_Nancy Cathy ALLEN ____
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[4751] His father's will leaves to Richard, Jr. 250 acres of the 365 acres known as Isaac Park (the balance already having been given to son-in-law Westhall Ridgely), 110 acres known as Beale's Park, and 200 acres known as the Addition to Beale's Park. {Ref. Probate Records of Prince George's Co., MD, Liber 30, folio 691-2, which lists children, etc.} Richard Isaac, age 55, and wife Sarah, age 57 show in the 1776 census with daughters age 25, 22, 16 & 8 and with 5 Negros. Richard (Jr.), made his will 29 Sept 1791 and it was probated 25 June 1792 in Prince George's Co., MD. He was vestryman for Queen Anne Parish and Justice of the Peace. His children are Ruth (b. 1742/3), Elizabeth (b. ca. 1744), Sarah (b. ca. 1744, m. George Conn [b. 1732 to Hugh Conn and Jeane ____], Alice (m. Jonathan Church), Martha, Rachel, Jacob (b. ca. 1746), Jemima (b. ca. 1760) and Caroline Mathilda (b. ca. 1768, m. in 1795 Joseph P. Elson). "Revolutionary Patriots of Prince George's County, 1775-1783", Henry C. Peden, Jr. (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1997), p. 163: Isaac, Richard (Jan. 21, 1720/1 - 1792). Son of Richard and Sarah Isaac, of Queen Anne's Parish. Took the Oath of Allegiance before the Hon. James Beck in 1778. 'Richard Isaacs' married Sarah Jacobs. The estate of 'Richard Isaac' was probated on June 25, 1792."
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[36290] This person is from the unverified family tree by Carolyn Bonnot in Ancestry.com in 2014.
[57066] Frances is daughter of Charles Thomas Knight (1879-1949) & Priscilla Hopkins Leonard (1883-1913; m. 1 January 1902 in ME).
[10880] Henry was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and commanded the 3rd Battalion in the First World War. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Database/D0008/I8118.html states that Henry is son of Henry Ulick Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood, and Lady Florence Katharine Bridgeman, and provides their descendants. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/2179/Tattershall.html gives Henry's ancestry to Lord Eudo de Tateshall, Baron de Tateshall (b. by 1040).
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Mark Welchley submitted this to Welchley Family Tree 4 Mar 2009:
"The origin of the Iron Leonards in Britain, 1577-1650, Britain and Massachusetts"
This line of the Leonard family has been called the Iron Leonards because most members of the family were associated with the iron industry both in Britain and in America. There was an old expression in New England that said: "Where you can find an iron works, there you will find a Leonard."
There has been considerable speculation about the origin of James Leonard and his father Thomas Leonard in England. Some of the published genealogies of the early generations of the family are conflicting and undocumented. Below is a study of this ancestral problem.
Thomas Leonard is commonly cited as christened 23 May 1577 in Chevening, Kent, England. He was buried 16 Nov 1638. These dates would only be true if he were the son of Sampson Leonard of that place who was Lord of Dacre (d'Arce). There were iron works in the vicinity of Chevening, but that does not prove the theory. In any case Thomas Leonard who fathered the American immigrants could not be the son of Sampson Leonard because the latter never married and left all of his estate to his godson. Sampson Leonard did have a son Sir Henry Leonard about the right age for the Henry of the Deane letter, but this Henry Leonard did not have a son named Thomas. Sampson Leonard's grandson Richard Leonard and his wife Elizabeth Throckmorton did have a son Thomas, but there is no evidence that this Thomas is the same as the Thomas who was an ironworker. In any case, Richard's Leonard's son Thomas was reported to have been born in 1617 in Northampton, England and christened in 1620, too late to be the father of James Leonard the immigrant. Nevertheless, some genealogists have attached Thomas Leonard of our line to that of the Leonards who were Lords of Dacre often transferring the burial of Thomas Leonard in Kent to Pontypool Wales or even having him migrating to America. An understanding of the social structure of England in that period would also make it unlikely that the members of a family that included Barons, knights and sheriffs would have demeaned themselves by taking employment at iron foundaries.
Recently in Sussex, England the back of a grate was found that had been cast by Richard Leonard at Brede Furnace in 1636. It contains a representation of the founder with his dog and cups; a drawing of the furnace, with the wheelbarrow and other implements for the casting, and on a shield the pincers and other marks of the blacksmith. Richard Leonard was tenant of the Sackville furnace at Little Udimore. The Brede furnace was built in 1578 to produce cannons for the Royal navy. There is no indication, of course, that the two Richard Leonards are the same man.
We do have evidence that relates Henry, Thomas and James Leonard. On 2 Feb 1732/33, Hannah Deane, daughter of the immigrant James Leonard made a deposition to her grandnephew, Zephaniah Leonard. It indicated that her great-grandfather's name was Henry Leonard and her grandfather's name was Thomas Leonard. Her grandmother's name was White and her mother's name was Martin. She also listed the children of Thomas Leonard as: Henry, William, John, Phillip, Thomas, Margery, Joan and Sarah. She also gave some details about which of these had come to America, where they had settled and whom they had married. The genealogy above reflects this information.
We do know that Thomas Leonard was in the small village of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, England from 1625-Nov 1628, because there are baptismal records of 3 of his children there. In these records Thomas Leonard is called a "forgeman" or "of the forge, fyner". A fyner is a person in charge of the hearth. Thus there is an early association of the Leonard family with iron making. Cleobury Mortimer is a small village located on the Rea River. There two ancient furnaces in the town that converted iron ore into pig iron and two water-powered forges that converted pig iron into wrought iron. Cleobury Mortimer is not far from Kinver on the Stour River, another town associated with iron and Leonards. The Cleobury Moritmer parish church where the baptisms were celebrated is St. Mary's, located in the town center, that dates from the 12th century. Today it is noted for having a crooked spire.
From at least 1634 to 1636 Thomas Leonard's family was in Publow Parish, Somerset, England, where ancient ironworks also existed. Publow is a parish in the hundred of Keynsham, Somerset, England 5 miles S.E. of Bristol and a half mile N.E. of Pensford. The village is on the River Chew, a branch of the Avon. There is a medieval stone bridge over the river at Publow, which still stands. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The church edifice is an ancient structure, though it was repaired in 1860.
<><> After 1636 we lose track of Thomas Leonard. We know that Thomas Leonard, his grandson, and son of James Leonard was born in Kinver, Staffordshire in 1641 and that another son of James Leonard, James Leonard Jr. was possibly born in Bilston, Staffordshire, England in 1643. The Leonard brothers, James and Williams were also supposed to have come to America from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, England (Wales). When and if their father or mother was with them in these towns is unknown. Certainly the family had a tendency to move around seeking work at various iron foundries.
Most published genealogies indicate that James Leonard was born in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is generally accepted that James and his brother Henry came to America from Pontypool, but there is no firm indication that they were born there. There have been members of the Leonard family in the area of Pontypool Wales since the early 1600's, but no birth or baptism record can be directly connected with the family that came to America. As in America the Leonards in England and Wales were involved in the trade of iron manufacturing. There was an ironworks in operation at Pontypool as early as 1588. Members of the Leonard family were still there after James and his brother Henry left the area, but there is no evidence in parish records that Thomas, James or Henry Leonard were born, married or died in Pontypool.
It seems likely that James Leonard did not stay in Pontypool very long into their adult life. James Leonard was likely an ironworker in the Bilston, Staffordshire area prior to his immigration. Bilston was the center of the Black Country Iron Industry. He may have had an interest in the works there when he left them heavily mortgaged, but later decided not to follow up on the legal procedures necessary to solidify their claims in England after they arrived in America. Apparently the works at Bilston had become profitable since James Leonard left, but the time and money needed to pursue the claim in England would have been excessive.
James Leonard's son Thomas was baptized at Kinver, Staffordshire in 1641. Kinver is located on the Stour River, 7 miles Southwest of Dudley. Immediately across the river is Whittington. This may have inspired James Leonard to name his forge on the Mill River in Taunton, Massachusetts, the Whittington or Whittington Iron Works. Kinver is positioned in a narrow finger of land in southernmost Staffordshire, surrounded by territory of Shropshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands. The Parish Church at Kinver is St. Peters. The current building dates from the 12th century. It is known that a fulling mill existed at Kinver as early as 1590, followed later by a slitting mill.
<><>The pathway of Leonard from Great Britain to America is a bit obscure. There were many reasons that might have caused the Leonards to leave Britain. The 1840's were a time of civil war and the western country where they lived was a royalist stronghold. As a result Cromwell's troops destroyed, when they could, many of the iron works there. There were, also, many opportunities for both religious freedom and economic opportunity in America.
There is a record of a James Leonard transported to Virginia in 1635. There is a theory that, if this is the same James Leonard that he went from Virginia to Maryland and from there to Providence, Rhode Island, but this pathway is unlikely, especially since James Leonard was still in England in the 1840's. On Jan 10 1645/46 there is a record of a grant of 25 acres of land to a James Leonard in Providence, Rhode Island, but his name had been crossed out. He seems to have been in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts in 1645 and 1646 as 2 of his children were born there. The land grant in Providence may have been a failed attempt to entice him there.1 He was apparently enticed to come to the Lynn/Saugus Ironworks in Massachusetts in 1651. In that same year he was paid at Lynn for bringing goods from Providence, Rhode Island.
James Leonard's brother Henry Leonard also settled in this area. On 27 Oct 1655, Henry Leonard of Saugus age 37 made a deposition regarding a heap of spoiled coal at the Braintree Forge about 9 years previous. That would indicate that Henry was born about 1618 and that he was in Braintree at least by 1646. This correlates with the first formation of the iron works in Braintree in 1645. It is unlikely that the Leonards were dedicated Puritans when they came to New England, but their skills at iron-making was probably more important than their theology. James Leonard went on to Taunton in Plymouth Colony where he established the Iron Industry there and passed his trade on to his children and grandchildren. Henry Taunton spent some time in the area around Lynn Massachusetts before moving to New Jersey to build and work forges there.
SOURCES:
Banks, Charles Edward, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1963, 3rd edition, p. 148.
Bristol County, Massachusetts deeds.
Essex Institute, Peabody Essex Museum, Essex Institute Historical Collections, Essex Institute 1889, pp. 297-298.
Leonard, Brad, "Descendants of James Leonard", 1620-91 of Taunton,
Leonard, Brad, "Origin of the Massachusetts Leonards",
Nowak, Maryan "Iron Making in Colonial Taunton," The Taunton River,
Paine, Sarah Cushing, Paine Ancestry, the Family of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, including Material Lines, Boston, 1912.
"Taunton's Two Old Houses: An Antiquarian On The History of the Leonard Mansions," New York Times, 19 Jan 1890, p. 20.
Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts to 1850
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