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HELP! flag male ancestor  Samuel  LEONARD (LEONARDSON)

  (b. abt. 1683 Bridgewater, Massachusetts Bay Colony   d. 11 May 1718 Preston, Crown Colony of Connecticut )  

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Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) was born abt. 1683 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) was the child of Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON)   and   Abigail ATWOOD (WOOD) and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Solomon LEONARD (LEONARDSON) and Sarah CHANDLER (maternal)  John ATWOOD (WOOD) and Sarah MASTERSON

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Samuel  married  Lydia COOKE abt. 1706 in Preston, Crown Colony of Connecticut .  The couple had (at least) 5 children. Lydia COOKE  was born 27 April 1679 in Stonington, Connecticut, USA (Pawcatuck) (Lords Point).  Lydia died aft. 1721 in Connecticut, USA.  Lydia was the child of Richard COOKE and Grace LARABEE?.

Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) died 11 May 1718 in Preston, Crown Colony of Connecticut .
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1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England
1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay
1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay
February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state

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1698 Preston, Connecticut First Congregational Church
1698 LEONARDSON SAMUEL LEONARDSON. MEMBER

PRESTON, CONNECTICUT, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH RECORDS, 1698-1898. (ONLINE DATABASE. NEWENGLANDANCESTORS.ORG. NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 2009.) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS: FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PRESTON, CONNECTICUT, 1698-1898 : TOGETHER WITH STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH TAKEN FROM CHURCH RECORDS. PRESTON, CONN.: THE SOCIETY, 1900.
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ADMISSION & RENEWALS OF COVENANT
EXTRACTED FROM
THE BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
OF PRESTON, CONNECTICUT, 1698-1898
STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH TAKEN FROM THE CHURCH RECORDS.

ADMISSIONS & RENEWALS OF COVENANT
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1698 - A CHURCH WAS EMBIDIED IN PRESTON, NOV'R 16TH, A.D. 1698. THE ELDERS WHO EMBODIED THE CHURCH & PREFORMED ORDINATION WERE THE REV'D JAMES NOYES, PASTOR OF STONINGTON, THE REV'D MOSES NOYES, PASTOR OF LYME, & THE REV'D GURDON SALTONSTALL, PASTOR OF NEW LONDON. THE MESSENGERS FROM NEIGHBOURING CHURCHES: DEACON GERSHOM PALMER OF STONINGTON, DEACON PECK OF LYME, DANIEL WITHERELL ESQ'R & DEACON DOUGLASS OF NEW LONDON & DEACON SIMON HUNTINGTON OF NORWICH.

THEY WHO OFFERED THEMSELVES AS MATTER FOR A CHURCH, HAVING BEEN MEMBERS OF OTHER CH'HS, IN FULL COMMUNION WITHER BROUGHT INTO ORDER BY GIVING THEIR CONSENT TO ARTICLES OF FAITH & RENEWAL OF COVENANT. THE PERSONS WERE:

THOMAS PARK
THOMAS TRACY
JOHN RICHARDS
HOPESTILL...Read MORE...


Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) - All Register of the Society of Mayflower descendants in the District of Columbia, 1970 in commemoration of the 350th anniversary -- ancestry.com Page
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All Register of the Society of Mayflower descendants in the District of Columbia, 1970 in commemoration of the 350th anniversary -- ancestry.com
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Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) - All Register of the Society of Mayflower descendants in the District of Columbia, 1970 in commemoration of the 350th anniversary -- ancestry.com Page
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All Register of the Society of Mayflower descendants in the District of Columbia, 1970 in commemoration of the 350th anniversary -- ancestry.com
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Samuel LEONARD (LEONARDSON) - Title	The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 52 Authors	Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society P
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Title The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 52
Authors Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society
Publisher New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1898
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jan 30, 2008
Page 271
1707 Birth of Child
Lydia LEONARD was born 22 September 1707, Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
1710 Birth of Child
Ebenezer LEONARD was born 17 March 1710, Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
1712 Birth of Child
Samuel LEONARD was born 18 March 1712, Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
1714 Birth of Child
Jane LEONARD was born 5 November 1714, Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)

Admissions - Nov 4, 1716 - The wife of Samuel LEONARDSON

Renewal of Covenant - Nov 7, 1708 - Lydia, wife of Sam'l LEONARDSON Jun'r renewd cov't & submitted to discipline


1717 Birth of Child
Nathan LEONARD was born 22 August 1717, Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
1718 Death
11 May 1718
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Leonard Genealogy
FROM 'LEONARD GENEALOGY'

'SAMUEL LEONARD, ONLY SON OF SAMUEL, ELDEST SON OF SOLOMON, WAS BORN IN BRIDGEWATER ABOUT 1683, DIED IN PRESTON, CONNECTICUT ON 11MAY1718. WHILE HIS FATHER'S FAMILY WERE LIVING IN WORCHESTER, SOMETIME IN THE AUTUMN OF 1695, HE WAS KIDNAPPED BY HOSTILE INDIANS, AND FOR A YEAR AND A HALF HIS ANXIOUS AND DISTRESSED FRIENDS COULD LEARN NOTHING OF HIS FATE. NO DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS CAPTURE, OR OF HIS SUFFERINGS FROM HUNGER, COLD AND EXPOSURE DURING THE 2 ENTIRE WINTERS HE WAS IN THE HANDS OF HIS SAVAGE CAPTORS HAS COME DOWN TO US, BUT HISTORY HAS FAITHFULLY DESCRIBED THE WONDERFUL HEROISM EXIBITED BY THIS YOUTH--THEN BUT 14 YEARS OF AGE---AND BY HIS ASSOCIATES IN CAPTIVITY, MRS. HANNAH DUSTON AND MRS. MARY NEFF OF HAVERHILL, IN SLAUTERING THEIR MERCILOUS CAPTORS AND THEIR ALMOST MIRACULOUS RESTORATION TO INTENSELY ANXIOUS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN THIS CONNECTION THE NAME OF THIS MODEST YOUTH, WRITTEN SAMUEL LEONARDSON IN THE...Read MORE...


Added: 12/16/1999 12:00:00 AM - Updated: 8/15/2015 3:28:13 PM
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