Amos LEONARD^{[1, 2]}
Abt 1749 - 1825

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• Birth	Abt 1749	Mendham Twp, Morris Co., NJ   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Mar 1825	Solon, NY   [3]
  Person ID	I523	Leonard
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	William B. LEONARD,   b. 17 Dec 1724, Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Mar 1805, Pleasant Twp, Knox Co., Ohio
  Mother	Mary LOTT,   b. 1726, Northampton, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 1800, Bet, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA
  Married	1745	Mendham, Morris County, NJ
  Family ID	F00084	Group Sheet

  
  

  Father	Andrew LEONARD,   b. 20 Nov 1719,   d. Abt 1805
  Mother	Dorothy STEVENS,   d. Abt 1757
  Married	07 Mar 1745
  Family ID	F00098	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Marcy (Sweatland) GREEN,   b. 08 Oct 1758, Hartford, CT. ,   d. 23 May 1850, East Pharsalia, NY
  Married	17 Oct 1788	Granby, MA.   [3]
  Children	1. Lovina LEONARD,   b. 06 Sep 1789,   d. 03 Mar 1850   2. Abi LEONARD,   b. 07 Apr 1791,   d. 29 Sep 1838   3. Mercy LEONARD,   b. 04 Sep 1793,   d. 05 Jul 1883   4. Amos LEONARD,   b. 25 Sep 1796,   d. 16 Dec 1870   5. Jared LEONARD,   b. 22 Sep 1798,   d. 06 Oct 1870   6. Orrin LEONARD,   b. 26 Apr 1801,   d. 29 Sep 1871   7. Dorothy Stevens LEONARD,   b. 10 Aug 1803, Paris, NY ,   d. 07 Dec 1891
  Family ID	F00250	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  KNOX COUNTY OHIO - Norton's History of Knox County [Chapter IV] Left in original context (http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Knox/Knox1862File01.htm) THE COUNTRY AS SEEN IN 1801. Old Amos LEONARD preached Presbyterian doctrine, and would often say when he commenced, "Now, you had better pay the preacher a coon skin or so." It was with him "poor preach and poor pray." "Once I passed along where he was preaching, with corn on my back, to feed about one hundred hogs that I had about where Norton's mill is, and seeing Walker listening to him, I hallooed to him to come along with me - that he could learn no good from Amos - that he knew nothing; and Walker came along with me. Another Sunday I was out hunting calves with my brother Tom, and when we had found them and were driving them along the road, preacher LEONARD took off his hat and shook it at them, scaring them off, so I told him if he ever did so again, preacher as he was, I would whip the hide off of him; and I would have done it, too, for at that day I could whip anybody; I was little, but never saw the man I couldn't whip. "LEONARD went on to his meeting, and took satisfaction out of me by preaching at me. Captain Walker said to me the next day: 'Oh! You ought to have been at meeting just to hear LEONARD abuse you; he laid it on to you severely.' I thought that may be so. Many a man can whip with the tongue that is afraid to try it with the fist."




• Sources

  [S00120] Descendants of William LEONARD (1724-abt 1806) by Anna Harless, Anna Harless, (Name: Self-published;). [S00241] Memorial, Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon LEONARD, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Manning LEONARD, (Name: 454 pp; 1896; Published on demand by Higginson Book Co., 148 Washington Street, Salem, MA. 01970;), GC 929.2 L553L., p78, 108-109. Amos and brother John are listed in Manning LEONARD's "Solomon LEONARD 1637" as being born one day apart, with John dying a year later. Manning notes that the births are listed three pages apart at their (unknown) source. Note: Dates in the late 1740s-early 1750s may appear as "double dates." This is a result of the English/American colonies adopting the Gregorian calendar in 1752. The Gregorian calendar year was slightly longer than the previous Julian calendar, thus skewing the dates by a year, depending on which claendar was in use. [S00241] Memorial, Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical, of Solomon LEONARD, 1637, of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Manning LEONARD, (Name: 454 pp; 1896; Published on demand by Higginson Book Co., 148 Washington Street, Salem, MA. 01970;), GC 929.2 L553L., pp 108-109.