Ancestry of
Elihu Root

38th U.S. Secretary of State

John Leonard

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Elihu Root — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 132 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1618 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Heald
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Nov 1640 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Leonard

  Martha Leonard

  Benjamin Leonard

  Josiah Leonard (Ahnentafel No:66 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Leonard was killed by Indians in early 1676.

• Sources for John Leonard

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1851, Vol. 5, p. 168.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1919, Vol. 73, p. 294.
  • ³ Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 12, Birth record for daughter Mary Leonard.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1943, Vol. 20, p. 230.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1950, Vol. 26, p. 69.
  • ⁶ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass., and his Descendants 1635-1900, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1900), 18.
  • ⁷ Allen, Orrin Peer, Descendants of William Scott of Hatfield, Mass., 1668-1906: And of John Scott of Springfield, Mass., 1659-1906, Palmer, Massachusetts: The Press of C.B. Fiske and Company (1906), 182.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 207.
  • ⁹ Bliss, Aaron Tyler, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, Vol. 1, Midland, Michigan: Published by the Author (1982), 43.
  • ¹⁰ Bliss, John Homer, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the Year 1550-1880, Boston, Massachusetts: Printed by the Author (1881), 37.
  • ¹¹ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 74.
  • ¹² Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 480, 678-682.
  • ¹³ Vinton, John Adams, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison . . ., Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son (1864), 280-281.