Silas LEONARD^[1]
1755 - 1851

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• Birth	1755	Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	06 Nov 1851	Trumbull County, Ohio   [3]
  Death	11 Nov 1851	Columbiana County, Ohio
  Buried	Boatman Cemetery, Trumbull County, Ohio   [3]
  Person ID	I122	Leonard
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	Caleb LEONARD,   b. 23 Sep 1726, Dighton, Bristol, MA. ,   d. 1814, Washington Co. PA., Bealsville cemetery
  Mother	Jemima MINTHORN,   b. Between 1720 and 1730,   d. 1768
  Married	27 Jan 1748	Mendhan, Morris, NJ
  Family ID	F00048	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	SARAH,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. Bef 1850
  Married	UNKNOWN
  Children	1. Jane LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   2. Mary LEONARD,   b. 1785,   d. 1851   3. Caleb LEONARD,   b. 1790,   d. 1829   4. Robert LEONARD,   b. 08 Apr 1792,   d. 04 May 1867   5. Silas LEONARD,   b. 09 May 1797,   d. 07 Nov 1877, Trumbull County, Ohio   6. Abner LEONARD,   b. 02 May 1804, Somerset Twp, Washington Co., PA. ,   d. 1879, Hancock Co., Ohio   7. Stephen S. LEONARD,   b. 06 Jul 1806,   d. 1893   8. Mathew LEONARD,   b. Abt 1810,   d. UNKNOWN   9. Sarah LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   10. Jemima LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F00089	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	UNKNOWN,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN
  Married	UNKNOWN
  Children	1. Mary LEONARD,   b. 1785,   d. 1851   2. Caleb LEONARD,   b. 1790,   d. 1829   3. Robert LEONARD,   b. 08 Apr 1792,   d. 04 May 1867   4. Silas LEONARD,   b. 09 May 1797,   d. 07 Nov 1877, Trumbull County, Ohio   5. Abner LEONARD,   b. 02 May 1804, Somerset Twp, Washington Co., PA. ,   d. 1879, Hancock Co., Ohio   6. Stephen S. LEONARD,   b. 06 Jul 1806,   d. 1893   7. Mathew LEONARD,   b. Abt 1810,   d. UNKNOWN   8. Sarah LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   9. Hannah LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   10. Jane LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   11. Jemima LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F00088	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Everything here per Silas descendant G. Allan Vaughan in his work "Leonard Family History - Nine Generations Descending from Solomon Leonard and Sarah Chandler"... much more detail in the original work: Silas(5) Leonard (Caleb4-Benjamin3-Isaac2-Solomon1) was born in 1755 at Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey, son of Caleb and Jemima Minthorn Leonard, and the third of nine children. In 1769, Silas was 14 when his father moved the family to the frontier, over the Allegheny Mountains and into the Monogahela River Valley in sw Pennsylvania. His mother died the year before they left New Jersey. Caleb Leonard bought 300 acres from Thomas Shepard and four years later began dividing it among his sons, Caleb Jr. and Isaac receiving the first shares, Silas receiving 95 acres dubbed "Spicewood Thicket" some years later. Silas married when probably in his later 20s, but her name and the year eludes us. They had seven children. Silas remarried about 1796, and only her given name has been found, Sarah, as evidenced on two deeds, 1813 in Washington County and 1830 in Beaver County. Silas was 20 years old when the American Revolution began in 1775. Silas (8th class) is listed as returning from war, along with brothers Isaac (lieutenant) and Caleb Jr. (4th class) as members of Capt. James Craven's Company, Fifth Battalion, Washington County Militia, May 22nd, 1782. After the war, Silas continued to serve in the county militia during the last of the Indian Wars on the frontier (1790-94). Silas moved to Darlington Twp, Beaver County, PA in 1813 and on to Trumbull County, OH in the 1830s. He died in 1851 and is buried in the East Palestine Cemetery in Trumbull County.




• Sources

  [S00171] History of the LEONARD Family, G. Allan Vaughan, G. Allan Vaughan, (Name: in progress;). [S00171] History of the LEONARD Family, G. Allan Vaughan, G. Allan Vaughan, (Name: in progress;), p 32. Silas LEONARD R.S. (Caleb, Benajmain, Isaac, Solomon) was born in 1755 at Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey, son of Caleb and Jemima Minthorn Leonard and the third of nine children. [S00171] History of the LEONARD Family, G. Allan Vaughan, G. Allan Vaughan, (Name: in progress;), p. 37. Silas died at age 96 on November 6, 1851 and was buried at East Paelstine at the "old cemetery", remaned in recent years Boatman Cemetery.