Samuel  LEONARD (LEONARDSON)

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.

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
PAGES 129 - 198


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

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

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