Person:Leah Simmons (1)

Deane's History of Scituate states clearly that Leah Simmons is d. of Rachel Cudworth and Moses Simmons.

Also: Hist of the Simmons family, says clearly Leah b 1725, d. of Moses and RC http://search.ancestry.com/browse/bookview.aspx?dbid=14328&iid=dvm_GenMono000498-00207-0&rc=363,1237,488,1267;483,1238,654,1271;137,1319,255,1348;279,1629,399,1660&pid=347&ssrc=&fn=rachel&ln=cudworth&st=g

And there is a birth record:

Name Leah Simons Gender Female Baptism/Christening Date Baptism/Christening Place Birth Date 12 Feb 1725 Birthplace Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Fathers name Moses, Mother Rachel" https://beta.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_316705818%2Fp1&hash=MPAfKvgWGXfZ5STyuqUCQxOVNk8%253D This is from an original record, and is thus pretty convincing. P 323 in Vital Recs of Scituate

However, her brother Capt Joseph Mansell describes (Bangor Hist Mag 1894/5): http://www.archive.org/stream/mainehistoricalm18941895bang/mainehistoricalm18941895bang_djvu.txt

Text: Capt. Mansell says he lived in the family of Silas Harthorn, on the spot where Widow Webster lives. He also states, that "in 1774, Isaac Simons, my grandfather, "on my mother's side, went with me on to Fort Hill, in Bangor. and there said to me "thus: • When I was a small boy I was with the party that destroyed the Indian and "French village here*-:' but there was not an Indian there at the time." see my History of Maine, Vol. 2, p. 143.

I would be content to leave Moses and Rachel as the parents, but it was striking to see the testimony of Capt. Joseph Mansell as an old man statingthat his maternal grandfather was Isaac! I am at a bit of a loss here. Its hard to believe that the old fellow forgot his grandfather's name. Thereis also the key data that Isaac was live in 1774 according to this testimony (given in 1831). Its in here:

http://www.archive.org/stream/mainehistoricalm18941895bang/mainehistoricalm18941895bang_djvu.txt

There seem to be three possibilities: (1) LS is d of RC and Moses S (2) LS is d of IS (1701) and Abagail English (md 3 Jan 1725, Scituate). (3) LS is d of RC and Isaac Simons (but I find no record of their union, other than some appearances in later trees).

The Isaac Simons who *may* be the father is presumably this fellow: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/17106623/person/463405466?ssrc=

or perhaps:

https://beta.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_577348989%2Fp1&hash=MPAfKvgWGXfZ5STyuqUCQxOVNk8%253D

Another (probably irrelvant) fact: Now, there is another Leah Simmons, born 7 Sept 1728 @ Duxbury, parents John Simmons and Susanna Tracy, Familysearch.org: https://beta.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_577352207%2Fp1&hash=MPAfKvgWGXfZ5STyuqUCQxOVNk8%253D

My net conclusion is that (1) there is no original record that connects Isaac Simmons and Leah, (2) there are clear original records that make LeahSimmons d. of Rachel Cudworth and Moses Simmons, (3) the Mansell quote, while troubling, is hard to reconcile even internally, it seems unlikelythat any of the possible Isaac's could be alive in 1774. So I stick with some uneasiness to the conventional line given here.

This is a tree constructed from a variety of sources; some original work on New England, otherwise using NEHGS and other "respectable" sources. Medieval is from genealogics.org, (used as a check on) ancestry.com, and a few amendments from medieval genealogy -- soc.genealogy.medieval

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Births (1). (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.).

   Birth date: 12 February 1725 Birth place: Scituate, Plymouth, MA, USA _APID: 1,5769::4093661

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepoolb&h=4093661&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.)
   Birth year: 1725; Birth city: Scituate; Birth state: MA.

   Birth date: 12 February 1725 Birth place: Scituate, Plymouth, MA Marriage date: 29 November 1744 Marriage place: Scituate, Plymouth, MA _APID: 1,4725::2344790

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=2344790&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620–1988: [database on-line]. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

   Birth date: 12 Feb 1725 Birth place: Scituate, Massachusetts _APID: 1,2495::4798869

   http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=matownvital&h=4798869&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt