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James Taylor

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Benjamin Leonard

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 704 
  • Father:
  • John Leonard 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Heald   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Sep 1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Dec 1724 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Meadow Cemetery, West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Scott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Feb 1679 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Margaret Leonard

  Abel Leonard (Ahnentafel No:352 )

• Sources for Benjamin Leonard

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/10/2016).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 59, Birth record for son Abel Leanard.
  • ³ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass., and his Descendants 1635-1900, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1900), 18.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ Bliss, Aaron Tyler, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, Vol. 1, Midland, Michigan: Published by the Author (1982), 32 [footnote].
  • ⁶ 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), 281-282.