STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD of Owego, Tioga County, New York Prepared by his grandson WILLIAM ANDREW LEONARD. Printed for Private Circulation. 1909 LADY MARGARET FIENES, Baroness Dacre. Died 1611. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD. 6 THE LEONARD COAT OF ARMS. • . 11 JOHN LENNARD OF KNOLE. 17 SAM~ON LENNARD. 22 MARGARET FIENES ....................... 24 BELHUS •.............................. 28 FRANCIS AND HENRY LENNARD. 48 FIRST IRON FORGE TAUNTON .............. 68 FIRST LEONARD HousE ................... 74 CAPTAIN GEORGE LEONARD ............... 76 LEONARD HousE, TAUNTON. 77 DANIEL LEONARD. 78 CITY, HALL, NEW YORK ................•. 108 ESTHER HENRIETTA SPERRY ............... 138 EsTHER H.,s. LEONARD .........•........ 148 WILLIAM BOARDMAN LEONARD . ........... 173 RIVERBEND ............................. 175 HERMON C. LEONARD .................. , . 179 STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD, Owego, N. Y . FOREWORD. FOREWORD. THE material gathered together in this volume is the result of gleanings in many fields, separated by time and distance. It is entirely conglomerate, and cannot be presented in any very finished state. An expert genealogist will probably smile at the irreg­ ularity of the method employed, and it is evidently open to criticism. But it is not a genealogy. What has been accumulated will, however, prove of imme­ diate interest to those personally concerned, and they are generous and will be considerate. The arrangement following is after this plan­ first, an outlined history of the family of Lennards from early days and some descriptions of the English homes of the clan; then the history of the Colonial Leonards; then the more personal reminiscences of Stephen Banks Leonard, around whose life these papers will group themselves. Following this, is a sheaf of letters which will tell their own simple story; and then in conclusion the genealogical references and data which will be useful for any person who may desire to go more thoroughly into the genealogy of the family in its various departments. Some of the references and data made are valuable, and this contribution will be of service to those who are more skillful in such undertakings. With this explanation, this volume, which is not published, but privately printed, is sent forth to those who will sympathize with the endeavor. WILLIAM ANDREW LEONARD. Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, 1909. Arms-Or, on a fesse azure three fleurs-de-lis argent. Crest-Out of a ducal crown a wolf's head. Motto-Pour bien desirer. STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD. LEONARD LINE. (English) John Lennard of Knole, Kent, and son of John, Born, 1479; died, 1556. Born, 1508; died, 1590. Samson Lennard, son of Lady Margaret Fienes, John; 11th Baron Dacre. Baroness Dacre. Sister Born, 1545; died, 1615. of Gregory, 10th Baron Dacre. Died, 1611. Sir Henry Lennard, son of badJ Chrisogona, daugh­ Samson ; 12th B a r o n ter of Sir Richard Baker, Dacre. Born 1569, died of Sissinihurst, Kent. tl --. ///6 U,·y; hd" . Richard Lennard, son of 1..ee, Anne,. daughter of Henry; 13th B a r o n Sir Arthur Throckmor­ Dacre, seated at Chev­ ton, of Paulers Perry, ening. Died 1630. Northampton. 2d; Dor­ othy, daughter of Dud- ley, Lord North. Henry, son of Richard and batty Anae Throck­ morton, emigrated .to-~ · Thomas Leonard, of Pon- tipool, Wales, younger son of above and brother of Francis, 14th Baron Dacre. James and Henry and possibly another brother, John), sons above, came to America and settled in ssachuse first in Lynn, and later in Taunt . They established t t iron works in ~ca, at Saugus, near Lynn. 13 STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD. LEONARD LINE. (American) James Leonard, son of Margaret, was step-mother Thomas Leonard of Pon­ to all his children. tipool, Wales. Born in Great Britain. Came to America a b o u t 1645. Was not living in 1691. Captain James Leonard, Hannah, died Feb. 1674. Taunton, second son of 2nd wife, Lydia Gulliver, the above. Born about dau. of Anthony Gulli­ 1643. Died Nov. 1, 1726. ver of Milton, died July 24, 1705. He married 3d wife, Rebecca, died April 3, 1738. Stephen Leonard, Taun­ ton, son of Captain James Leonard. Was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Born Dec. ... Died 1743. Joshua Leonard of New Jersey, son of Stephen. Born .... Died in 1760. Silas L e o n a r d , son of Johanna Gregory, of Joshua. Born at Par­ Bridgeport, Conn. sippany, N. J. in 1756. Died at Owego in 1832. Stephen Banks Leonard, Esther Henrietta Sperry, son of Silas. Born in of New Preston, Litch­ Wall Street, New York field Co., Connecticut. 14 STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD. City, April 15, 1793. Born Sept. 6, 1798. Died, Died in Owego, May 8, Owego, April 19, 1879. 1876. William Boardman Leon­ Louisa Dimon, Bulkley. ard, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Born September 7, 1823. son of Stephen B. Died March 11, 1900. Born June 17, 1820 at Owego, N. Y. Died July 1, 1893, at Owego. Married July 6, 1847. William Andrew Leonard, S a r a h Louisa Sullivan. R i g h t Rev., D. D., Born, Br9oklyn, N. Y., Bishop of Ohio, son of November 19, 1850. William B. B o r n at Southport, Conn., July 15, 1848. Married April 17, 1873. Lewis Hermon Leonard, Elizabeth DeWitt Robin- 2nd son of Wm. B. son. Leonard. Born, South­ port, Conn., August 13, 1850. Married in 1871. William Boardman Leon- Alice Holden Howell, of ard 2d; son of Lewis H. New York. Leonard. Born Brook- lyn, N. Y., August 14, 1873. Married Novem- ber 16, 1898. William Boardman Leon­ ard 3rd; son of Wm. B. Leonard 2d. Born New Rochelle, N. Y., January 13, 1908. 15 STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD. THE LENNARDS OF ENGLAND. ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF THE LEONARD FAMILY. BY 0, B. LEONARD, PLAINFIELD, N. J. " Tms family was primarily of Saxon origin. The name is found some twelve hundred years ago among the "forest smiths " of Germany, and spelled Leonard, which is old German of the sixth century. After the Saxon invasion of England some of the Leonards, workmen in met;i.ls, left the Continent and settled in Kent County and Sussex, among the iron hills. In the course of time, as these mines proved unpro­ ductive, great inducements were offered to laborers skilled in the business to remove to the western parts of England on the borders of Wales. The " Doomes­ day-Book" of 1086 mentions the existence of iron works at this time in the counties of Somerset, Glou­ cester, Hereford, and other counties adjacent to the Welsh, country. It was from the iron-mining districts of Monmouthshire, in Wales, that the branch of the Leonard family came who settled in the New England colonies, between 1625-50, and continued in the vicinity of Boston the hereditary business of their ancestors. During the fourteenth century King Edward III. greatly encouraged the iron industry, and old Sussex and Kent became again the principal seat of the iron 16 JOHN LENNARD, Knole, Kent. 1479- 1556. STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD. manufacture in Great Britain. It is to these counties that the Leonards trace back their pedigree to landed property holders and titled nobility. In fact, the fam­ ily are said to have descended in two lines from Edward III. through his two sons, John of Gaunt: Duke of Lancaster, and his youngest son, Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester. The name is found spelled two ways-Leonard and Lennard-but the coats of arms borne by all of them were the same, and early members of the family used both forms of orthography. The title of rank was not brought into the family till the latter part of the six­ teenth century, and then by Margaret Fynes, sister and heir of Gregory Fynes, Lord Dacre. Among the first found on record of the Le9nard name, who atM;ained t:o noted di:stirtction, and transmit­ ted a ¥ah:1e:b~e estate, was George Lo/nard, Esq., who. lived in the time of Henry VI., A. D. 1422-62. Ht-­ married Anna Bird, of the County of Middlesex, a~d was a man ofAproperty ctm:l inflttenee in England. ,Hi7fon John had a vast heritage, owning the Manor of Chevening in Kent County during the reign of King Edward VI., in 1551. Samson Lennard, Esq., son and heir of John Lennard by Elizabeth Harman, his wife, was member of,.._Parliament., ff'effl ,eussex in 1614, ~ married Margaret, Baroness Dacre, daughter of Thomas, sister and heir of Gregory Fynes, Lord Dacre. She died A. D. 1611, and her son, Sir Henry Lennard, Knt., W&S Lord Dacre in right of his mother. By Sir Henry's marriage to Chrysogona ( daughter of Sir Richard Baker, of the County of Kent, and grand­ daughter of Elizabeth, widow of George Barret, of Bel­ hus, in Essex) was born a son, Richard, thirteenth Lord Dacre; who married, for his first wife, ~ 17 STEPHEN BANKS LEONARD. daughter of Sir Arthur Throckmorton, of Northamp­ ton, and for _his second wife, Dorothy, daughter of Dudley, Lord North. By his first wife were four children, among whom was Henry, the eldest son, who emigrated to America, and, not returning before his father's death, the title descended to his brother Francis, who became fourteenth Lord Dacre, lii.ade Earl of Sur­ rey, and was father of Thomas Lennard, who suc­ ceeded to the title, and was created Earl of Sussex. Thomas married Lady Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, whose parents separated. She was adopted by King Charles II. as his natural daughter, and given the name of Fitzroy. Their second daughter, Lady Anne Lennard (by the death of eldest sister, Barbara, in 1741), became sole heir to her father, and, as such, Baroness Dacre in her own right. She had three hus­ bands, first, Richard Lennard Barret; second, Henry Roper, Lord Feynham; third, Hon.