Person:Moses Leonard (1)

They lived in Marlborough, where their three children were born.

He married (2), possibly at Marlborough, Aug. 8. 1716, Mrs. Hannah (Woods) Witherbee, who bore him two children, and died Sept. 7, 1751, and he married (3) (int. in Dudley, Nov. 12, 1757), Sarah Hall, "widow of Thomas Hall late of Dudley." She was living in 1770. While in Marlborough Moses Leonard lived in that part which became Southborough.

In the Indian troubles his family was assigned to No. 25, Jonathan Newton's Garrison—brother of Mercy'. After the death of Mercy, his wife, Moses Leonard bought land in Worcester and removed there in 1717, where he became prominent in the affairs of the town, and Ensign of militia. He was a person of energy and thrift, as the number of conveyances by him would indicate. In these conveyances he is styled farmer, Yeoman, Innholder, Gentleman. He bought in, and removed to, in .succession, Brooklield, Hardwick, Leicester, Rutland (and its several "Districts") and last Barre, where he died.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Barre, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903)
   253.

   Leonard, Lt. Moses, Dec. 10, 1775, a. "about 98". GS
   [Birth about 1677.]

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 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)
   41.

   Mercy Newton m. Marlborough 15 May 1705 Moses Leonard, s/o John Leonard and Sarha Chandler of Bridgewater, b. abt. 1677, d. Barre, MA 10 Dec 1775. He m. (2) possibly at Marlborough 8 Aug 1716 Hannah (Woods) Witherbee, m. (3) (int) Dudley 12 Nov 1757 Sarah Hall, widow of Thomas Hall.

3.   Source:Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 records the intentions of "Lt. Moses Lenard" and "Wid. Hannah Beeman of Westborough" on 3 Mar 1757. Since Moses published his intentions to marry "Wid. Sarah Hall of Dudly" a few months later on 12 Nov 1757, it seems the first engagement was broken off. Source:Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records to the End of the Year 1849 records the death of Eleazer Beeman on 7 Nov 1750, and then Hannah, wid. Eleazer, on 8 Sep 1782, which suggests, if this is the widow Hannah referred to, that Hannah never ended up remarrying.