Person:Moses Leonard (2)

From Locomotive Engineers Journal, Vol. 23, p. 39, "An Old-fashioned Will"

Dated 2 May 1788, probated 6 May 1789

Being sick and weak yet of sound mind, I give and bequeath to my dear wife, Hannah, all my household furniture & as long as she remain my widow the sole use & improvements of the lower room & the chamber over it, the cellar under it, the use of the oven in the kitchen and fire-place to bake, brew & other necessary work. To pass through the kitchen & out of the South door at all times, the use of the well and the buttery under the chamber stairs.

My son, Samuel, not to sell the real estate while his mother-in-law Hannah, lives or remain my widow. Son Samuel to keep a horse for his mother to use to go to meeting or elsewhere and to keep one good cow for her use winter and summer and in every December to give her five score of good pork, five score of good beef, six bushels of Indian corn, 3 bushels of rye, two bushels good wheat, 1 bushel of salt, 1/2 bushel of malt, 1/2 bushel white beans & in every Oct 3 bushel of potatoes, two bushels of turnips & annually in June 5 lbs good washed wool.

In sickness she shall be provided with good & sufficient nursing & doctoring & at her decease she shall be buried in a Christian manner.

If son Samuel fails to provide for her as directed then 1/2 of my est shall be set off to her. If she shall marry again she shall be provided with 2 good cows.

I give to my daughter Beulah Marsh, to my son Moses & daughter Mary Moore to the heirs of daughter Lucy Bell & my son Noah son John & my daughter Sarah Conant wf of John Conant, 5 shillings each in addition to what I have already give them of my est. Son Samuel to have the residue.

Suriba Leonard, Samuel Reid, James Reid } Witnesses

[Attached annotation: "Copy of the will of Moses Leonard, second husband of Hannah Whipple Gassett [sic?, should say Hannah (Gassett) Rice^[2]], mother of Sarah (Green) Whipple [sic?, should say mother-in-law of Hannah (Whipple) Rice, daughter of Sarah (Green) Whipple], mother of Dorothy (Rice) Rand [Hannah (Whipple) Rice was mother of Dorothy who m. Ebenezer Rand], mother of Hannah Whipple Rudd [Ebenezer and Dorothy had dau. Hannah Whipple Rand, b. Greenfield, MA, 1814, m. Edward Rudd and had dau. Fanny, b. Wisconsin 1856, who m. Charles Schlagel], mother of Fannie Rudd Schlaggel, Treasurer of Crescent Div. No. 1, G. I. A. to B. of L. E."]

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

   Lennard, Moses, s. Moses and Marcy, Nov. 1, 1706.

2. ↑ 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.

   Children of Mercy Newton and Moses Leonard: 1) Moses Leonard, Jr., b. 1 Nov 1706, d. 1788, m. (1) Harriet Beulah ---, m. (2) 1782 Hannah (Gassett) Rice. Resided Worcester, Barre and Warwick.