Ancestry of
Joseph Leonard

(c1672–1749)

Joseph Leonard

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Leonard 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1672 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jan 1749 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • Some publications give Joseph Leonard's father as Jacob Leonard. However, he is not listed in Jacob's will. The Mayflower Society's silver book for the descendants of Mayflower passenger James Chilton states that Joseph is the son of John Leonard. (see Mayflower Families for Five Generations, vol. 15 (2013), pp. 59-60)

    The book also states that there has been no proof found for his three children, Joseph, Ephraim and Martha. These children are mentioned only in publications that did not cite evidence. It has been reported that the Mayflower Society, as of 1991, no longer accepts descents through Joseph Leonard. (see also The Mayflower Descendant, 41:8)

• Marriages for Joseph Leonard

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  • Spouse:
  • Martha Orcutt
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1695
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Joseph Leonard

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 25920, Membership application for Jessica (Sherburn) Omohundro.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1879, Vol. 33, p. 246.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1887, Vol. 41, p. 249.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 1991, Vol. 41, p. 8.
  • ⁵ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 941.
  • ⁶ Goodenough, Caroline Leonard, Legends, Loves and Loyalties of Old New England, Rochester, Massachusetts: Published by the Author (1930), 276.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 69.
  • ⁸ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 21, 59-60.
  • ⁹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 104.