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Memoirs of the Leonard, Thompson, and Haskell MEMOIRS OF THE LEONARD, THOMPSON, AND HASKELL FAMILIES With Their Collateral Families of Alden, Andrews, Bell, Bourne, Brooks, Brown, Bryant, Chipman, Cooke, Crossman, Goodell, Goodenough, Gorham, }Iall, Hathaway, Hicks, Hinckley, Hodges, Howland, Jenny, Kingsley, Lincoln, Merrick, Otis, Packard, Paine, Pearl, Phillips, Price, Smith, Sturtevant, S"'·ift, Thomas, W ads\vorth, White, Wood and mar1y others By CAROLINE LEONARD GOODENOUGH ~ This shall be written for the generations to come. PSALMS 102 :18 If it is do-ne well a:nd fitting it is that 10hich I designed, but if slovenJ11 and mecinl11 it ia tha.t which I could attain to. MACCABEES II :38 Published By 'Ihe ~uthor 1928 COPYRIGHT 1928 AUBREY WARD GOODENOUGH Printed at THE ANTIOCH PRESS Y el/ow Springs Ohio MEMOIRS OF THE LEON ARD, THOMPSON AND HASKELL FAMILIES TO .\IY T.-\LEXTED SISTER :\!.-\RY HALL LEOX.-\RD whose indefatigable researches have furnished the data upon which this memorial is largely based, and To my Posterity now living and to come, in the hope that these pages will stimulate them to live ,rorthy of their memorable ancestry, this book is affectionately inscribed. ··After completing a book for one now dead. ( 0 earth and autumn of the setting sun, She is not hy to know my task is done) ( .... farewell .... fare\\·ell .... farewell) \ Ve dare not think too long on these who died \Vhilc still so ma:1\· \·et must come to birth." \VILLI.-\:\1 ELLERY LEOXARD in "I 11dia11 Summer."' TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER I Introductory . I CHAPTER II Our Leonard Quarter-Bridgewater Division 2 CHAPTER III Our Leonard Quarter-Taunton Division II CHAPTER IV Our First James Leonard Line . 25 CHAPTER V Our Second James Leonard Line . 28 CHAPTER VI Confluence of the Bridge,vater and Taunton Leonards 31 CHAPTER VII Children of David and Mary Hall Leonard . 35 CHAPTER VIII Our Haskell Quarter . • . 53 CHAPTER IX Confluence of the Leonards and Haskells . 7I CHAPTER X Our Isaac Thompson Quarter . 8 I CHAPTER XI Confluence of the Thompsons and Haskells . 88 CHAPTER XII Our Nancy Thompson Quarter . 103 CHAPTER XIII First and Second Confluences of the Leonards and Thompsons . I 20 CHAPTER XIV Third Confluence of Leonards and Thompsons ....... 129 CHAPTER XV Children of James and Jane Leonard . 133 CHAPTER XVI Later Descendants of James and Jane Leonard . l 54 CHAPTER XVII Our Baronial Ancestry . I 72 CHAPTER XVIII Our Royal Ancestry . CHAPTER XIX Our Lincoln Ancestry . 204 CHAPTER XX Our Huguenot Ancestry . 209 CHAPTER XXI Our Pilgrim Ancestry . 210 Index of Persons . 233 Index of Places . 245 ADDENDA CHAPTER XXII Summaries and Remarks . 249 CHAPTER XXIII A House of Memories . 261 CHAPTER XXIV Genealogical Tables . Epilogue-Oration by H. D. Goodenough . 342 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Picture and Autograph of Author .......... Frontispiece Picture and Autograph of Mary Hall Leonard ..... Dedication Page James Keith and Joseph Leonard House . opp. p. 7 Dr. Jonathan Leonard of Sand,vich ............. opp. p. 9 King Philip Signing Treaty at Taunton . opp. p. 13 T ,vo George Leonards of Norton . opp. p. 15 John Williams House at Deerfield ...........• opp. p. 17 Historic Green, Taunton ..................•.. opp. p. 19 Bishop Ahiel Leonard and Memorial Home .... opp. p. 21 Two Family Historians, Wm. A. Leonard and Fanny L. Koster . • • . • . • . • . • . • • . opp. p. 24 Heading of Thos. Leonard's Mourning Eulogy ... page 27 Lillian Russell (Helen Louise Leonard} .•....•. opp. p. 28 David, Mary, Geo. W. and Clementina Leonard, and John Hay .............................. opp. p. 37 Leonard Coat of Arms . page 52 George E. Haskell at Haskell Field . opp. p. 55 Lot Haskell House and Rochester Church . opp. p. 67 Front Door of Mrs. Louisa Nevius ............. page 70 Elkanah Leonard's House and Autograph ........ page So Cephas Thompson and Thompson Coat of Arms . opp. p. 83 Hon. Isaac Thompson ........................ opp. p. 86 Lucy Sturtevant Thompson ................... opp. p. 86 Joanna, Lucia, Zebulon, Abigail and Ezra Thompson . opp. p. 97 Haskell Coat of Arms ........................ page 102 Abigail Crossman . opp. p. 11 o Nancy Thompson and Caleb F. Leonard ....... opp. p. 118 The First Thanksgivir.g Day .................. page 119 Scotland Church, Ebenezer Gay, Howland Grave, opp. p. 123 Caroline Leonard Ward ..................... opp. p. 126 James, Jane, Jennie, Joseph, Charles and Richard Leonard . opp. p. 129 Emma, Elizabeth, Clara, Edith Leonard and Dr. Fisher . opp. p. 137 Sitting-room and Dining-room of Rochester Home ................................. opp. p. 146 Herbert and Charles Goodenough and Travelling in South Africa ............... opp. p. 151 Leonard Homestead by Nipenicket ............. page 153 Leonard, Harold, Aubrey, and Carolyn Goodenough . opp. p. 162 Edith Goodenough and Rochester Home ....... opp. p. 170 Ruin of Hurstmonceaux and Tcmb of Dacres .. opp. p. 174 John Leonard . opp. p. 177 Daniel Leonard and Hurstmonceaux Castle ... opp. p. 178 Samson Leonard and Lady Margaret ........ opp. p. 182 St. Leonard and Symbols ...................... page 183 Alfred the Great in Camp of Danes . opp. p. 189 The Huguenot Lovers . opp. p. 209 John Alden I-louse and Return of :i\1ayflov.~er ... opp. p. 211 Robinson Prayer at Embarkation of Pilgrims . opp. p. 218 Ho,vland House and Kingston Site . opp. p. 223 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." N SEPTEMBER 1842 a newly married couple, James Madi­ I son Leonard and Jane Thompson Leonard began their wedded life in the ancestral Leonard farm-house by the Lake Nipenicket in that part of Bridgewater, Massachusetts known as Scotland. With them lived for many years until her death in 1863, Nancy Thompson Leonard, the mother of the bridegroom. Eight children were born to this pair, of whom my sister, Edith Leonard, and myself are the only survivors. This book is an attempt to trace the various an­ cestral connections of this family, and to bring to light their most interesting details. Every human being has four grandparents. These have been collectively designated as his four quarters. Each of the four has long lines of ancestry, male and female, stretch­ ing back into the mysterious past. Each of us, although a composite of his ancestors, is yet a different individual from any of them, a new blending of inherited characteristics formed by a fresh turn of the kaleidoscope of life. Mary Hall Leonard has traced eighty-four of our ances­ tral lines, some for a few links only, others a long chain: some ancestors are colorless, our knowledge of them being limited to a name, in a succession of names, and one or more dates; of other ancestors we know sufficient to be stirred either to sympathy for their sorrows, or to a thrill for their achievements or nobility. We have a Leonard Quarter, a Haskell Quarter, an Isaac Thompson Quarter, and a Nancy Thompson Quarter, with each of which the following chapters deal, together ,vith their various confluences and collaterals. CHAPTER II OUR LEONARD QUARTER, BRIDGEWATER DIVISION "I have taken pains to leave something in writing that my children and their children may hafle a good degree of information of the family affairs that have taken place in my time and in the times of my ancestors as far as I could obtain information, and I very much regret that my ancestors did not pursue a similar method. I should have considered such documents and notations as a fiery valuable legacy. From tlze llfemoirs of ABRAHAM HOLMES HE Bridgewater Leonards were descended from the T immigrant Solomon Leonard who was born about 1610 in Monmonthshire, England, which was formerly a part of Wales, but ceded to England by King Henry VIII in the early part of the sixteenth century. Solomon was a dis­ senter from the church of England, who went in early life to Leyden, Holland, doubtless like the other separatist exiles there, to escape the religious persecutions then prevalent in England. Solomon came to America about 163<>-probably John Fobes from Scotland was on the same ship-and settled first in Duxbury, near Blue Fish Rock, where my sisters and I once had a happy summer outing in our girlhood. One of Solomon's near neighbors was another ancestor of ours, J oho Alden, M ayftower Pilgrim. Both these ancestors were among the fifty-four original proprietors of Bridgewater, which was bought in 1649 from the good Indian Chief Massasoit or Ousamequin, as his name is sometimes given. Miles Standish was also associated with this purchase. Solomon Leonard removed in 1656 from Duxbury to West_ Bridgewater when that settlement was actively under­ taken, with his wife Mary-we do not know her maiden surname-and their children. They occupied a six acre lot at about the centre of the compact group of houses, built near together as a mutual protection against Indians, who Our Leonard Quarter, Bridgewater Division 3 were a perpetual menace to the whole countryside for the next twenty years. They were also surrounded with woods which were infested with wolves. The houses were built of logs, with a chimney at one end, made of stones and sticks~ and plastered with clay. Their tables were planks laid on supports like saw-horses. Their dishes were pewter por­ ringers and trenchers, a man and his wife eating together from the same trencher; the salt-cellar was in the middle of the table, and it was more honorable to sit "above the salt" than "below the salt." This West Bridgewater settlement centered about the house of its famous pastor, Rev. James Keith. This house, which is still standing, was presided over by the pastor's wife, Susanna Orcutt, a woman of majestic beauty. James Keith came to his-·people from Aberdeen University when he was very young, and as there was then no church building he stood on a boulder, ever since known as pulpit rock, and preached there his first sermon, taking as his text, J er.
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