He was living on 20 Jul 1786 when he was recorded in the Account Book of Tanning and Furniture Making. In 1799 court records record Roger and Augustus Leonard (two of his sons) ask for payment of $270 from "Elijah Leonard, late of West Springfield...otherwise called Elijah Leonard of Wrightsborough in the state of Georgia..." citing Hampshire probate court records. In the Leonard family bible in the hand of Granville Hall Leonard it is stated that after the birth of his children he removed to Conway. See also Thomas B. Warren, Springfield Families 2:426