Person:Mercy Leonard (5)

Mercy Leonard

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m. 15 May 1705

Facts and Events

Name	Mercy Leonard
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[2]	1 Dec 1714	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[2]	5 Jun 1795	Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States

References

↑ Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
122.

Lenard [Leonard, CR], Mercy, d. Moses and Marcy, Dec. 1, 1714.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 85. 3. Mercy Leonard, in Leonard, Ermina Elizabeth (Newton). Newton Genealogy: Genealogical, biographical, historical, being a record of the descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, with genealogies of families descended from the immigrants Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, Connecticut, Thomas Newton of Fairfield, Connecticut, Matthew Newton of Stonington, Connecticut, Newtons of Virginia, Newtons near Boston. (De Pere, Wisconsin: B. A. Leonard, 1915)
pp 41, 42.

"85. 3. Mercy Leonard, b. Dec. 1, 1714; d. June 5, 1795, at Bennington, Vt.
We seem to be more interested in this child of Mercy (Newton) Leonard, because the mother died at her birth and gave the child to Moses Newton, who brought her up, and had her with him until she married—a child, as it were, of his old age. He gives to her in his will about the same portion that it was then usual to give to a daughter when she marries, and provides that she shall be maintained from his substance until she does marry. But he lived to see her settled in life. She married May 29, 1732, Samuel Robinson, Jr., son of Samuel and Sarah (Manning) Robinson of Cambridge, where he was born 1707."