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James Taylor

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Granville Hall Leonard

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 22 
  • Father:
  • Elijah Lester Leonard 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Wing   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Mar 1833 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 9 Jun 1844 
  • Christening Location:
  • Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 22 Mar 1903 
  • Death Location:
  • Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Main Street Cemetery, Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eliza Ann Buffum
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Oct 1857 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Emily Roxanna Leonard (Ahnentafel No:11 )

• Sources for Granville Hall Leonard

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/23/2018).
  • ² Hampshire County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1660-1889, Case #88-22, Hampshire Box 88, pp. 1-16, Probate file for father Elijah L Leonard.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ashfield, Vol. 1, p. 69, Baptism record for Granville Hall Leonard.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Springfield, Vol. 517, p. 218, Death record for daughter Emily Rosanna [Leonard] Haynes.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Newton, Vol. 540, p. 704, Death record for Granville H Leonard.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Easthampton, Vol. 109, p. 9, Marriage record for Granville H Leonard and Eliza A Buffum.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Easthampton, Vol. 416, p. 14, Marriage of Stanford L Haynes and daughter Emily R Leonard.
  • ⁸ The Owl: Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, Kewaunee, Wisconsin: George Dikeman Wing, Publisher, 1918, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 1744, incorrectly gives marriage date as 18 OCT 1857.
  • ⁹ Haynes, Frances, ed., Walter Haynes of Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, England, and Sudbury, Massachusetts and His Descendants, 1583-1928, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Record Publishing Company (1929), 163.
  • ¹⁰ Lothrop, Thomas J., The Nicholas White Family, 1643-1900, Taunton, Massachusetts: C. A. Hack and Son (1902), 295.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 371.