Samuel  LEONARD (LEONARDSON)

Samuel Leonard - was born in 1643 in Duxbury, Massachusetts and died about 1720 in Plymouth, Massachusetts . He was the son of John Solomon Leonard and Sarah Chandler.

Samuel married Abigail Wood in 1674. Abigail was born about 1655. She was the daughter of John Atwood and Sarah Masterson.

Abigail - It is interesting to note that Abigail's surname is shown as WOOD whereas her father's surname is shown as ATWOOD. (ADH Sr.)

'Samuel Leonard (Solomon) 1643-1720. He and Abigail removed from Plymouth to Worcester, where Samuel Jr. was an Indian captive for a time, then to Norwalk, Connecticut.'
Source: Ye Atte Wode annals, October 1929 : giving English history, descendants of Harman, Henry, John, Philip, Stephen, Thomas of Ipswich and Thomas of Wethersfield, sketch of John and James Astwood, of Henry Wood of Leyden and the story of Joshua 4 Bradford and the Indians, etc., with special articles bringing branches to date, Page 11.

Early at Duxbury, then of Bridgewater Massachusetts by the time of his marriage an early proprietor of Worcester to which he moved about 1688 his son Samuel was taken captive by the Indians in 1695 driven out of Worcester by Indians, he removed to Norwich and then Preston Connecticut where he bought land on the Shetucket River constituent member of the Preston church, formed 16 Nov 1698.
Author: Leonard, Manning
Title: Memorial, Genealogical, and Biographical Record of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater MA
Publication: Southbridge, MA
Location: in Allen Co, IN public library, Ft. Wayne
Media: photocopy
Text: pp.34-36
Author: General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Title: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations
Media: photocopy
Text: vol.2, p.21

'In his administrator's bond he calls himself 'carpenter', but in deed of later date 'husbandman' and 'planter'. He lived in Bridgewater at the time of his marriage, having built a house upon his father's land -

BOOK- GRISWOLD - A HISTORY - Being a history of the town of Griswold CT microfilm 1597788 item 5 book 975.65/ G3 H2p pp11,12,54
SAMUEL LEONARD
'About 1696 there came to the Pachaug country Samuel Leonard, who with his family settled on the banks of the Pachaug river, east of Appaquashosk hill. They had experienced to the full the savagery of the Indians, for their only son, a lad of 12years, also named Samuel, had just before been kidnapped and carried into captivity by the redskins, with whom he remained for nearly 2 years. It chanced that during this time he was brought into the company of Hannah Dustin and Mary Neff, the details of whose capture by the Indians at Haverhill, Mass., in 1697, had horrified all New England. The three, while in a wigwam occupied by 2 Indian families on an island in the Merrimac river, near Concord, planned their escape. The boy Samuel had been so long with the savages that, when he asked his master how to strike to kll instantly, and how to take a