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1. LAURINDA, b. March 26, 1804, d. April 13, 1810.
2. LEVI N., b. Sept. 14, 1807, m. Experience Taft.
13-7 REUBEN P. LELAND, (Levi, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1793, m. Lucretia D. Ellis. Children,
1. CHESELDEN, b. 1820, d. 1843. 2. HANNAH L., b. 1826, unm.
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DANIEL LELAND, (Benjamin, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1776, m. Mary Forbush (F) ; m. 2nd, Sally Morgan. He d. 1832. Children,
1. PATTY, b. 1799, d. 1817 in Barre.
2. DANIEL, b. 1801, d. 1803 in Grafton.
He bad ten other ch. all b. in Weathersfield, Vt., to which place he rev. in 1804. His son Ira taught school in Grafton, betweeu 1837-44. He graduated at Brown University, in 1833, A. M. in 1837.
15-8 BENJAMIN LELAND, (Benjamin, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1779, m. Lucy Barnes. He d. 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. Children, 1. BENJAMIN L., b. 1804, d. 1812.
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2. LUCY B., b. 1809, d. 1817, in New York City.
3. LUCINDA B., b. 1809, m. Nathan R. Suplee.
4. BENJAMIN L., b. 1813, m. Sarah A. Shehinire.
He had three other ch. b. either in New York City or Boston.
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16-1 EBENEZER LELAND, (Ebenezer, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry ), b. 1779, m. Hannah Putnam (P) ; m. 2nd, Eunice Bellows. Children,
1. JAMES, b. 1803, m. Fanny Putnam.
2. EBENEZER R., b. 1806, d. 1828.
3. JOHN M., b. 1810, m. Mary A. Merriam.
4. BENJAMIN W., b. 1812, m. Sophiia Trask.
5. JOSEPH P., b. 1814, m. Dolly Knowlton.
6. CHARLES F., b. 1816. m. Mary P. Knowles.
7. HANNAH E., b. 1818, m. James L. Martin.
8. SARAH P., b. 1823. 9. MARY J., b. 1824.
JOHN L. LELAND, (Ebenezer, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1784, m. Sally Bateheller, b. 1783. Children,
1. MARY L., b. 1810, m. John Winter.
2. PRUDENCE, b. 1812, m. George Burford.
3. JOSIAH, b. 1815, m. Sarah Wright.
4. SALLY A., b. 1819, m. Stephen Devine.
18-5 ROYAL LELAND, (Samuel, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1790, m. Margaret L. Roberts, b. 1801, d. 1844. Children,
1. ROYAL A., b. 1825, m. Caroline S. Howe, d. N. C. 1863, left one son.
2. HANNAH S., b. 1826, m. - - Freeman.
3. ABIGAIL, b. 1828, m. W. D. Goodnow.
4. CAROLINE A., b. 1830, m. Charles Varney.
5. SAMUEL E., b. March 9, 1832, m. June 20, 1871, Maria A. Despean, ch., Walter A., b. June 1, 1873.
6. ANNE E., b. 1834, m. David T. Dudley.
7. BEULAHI M., b. 1836, m. Daniel C. Brown (B), res. Binghamton, N. Y. 8. AMASA R., b. 1840, d. 1847.
9. JOHN W., b. 1844, m., and res. Brimfield, Mass.
19-4 CHARLES LELAND, (Phineas, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1782, m. Mary Adams (A). He d. in Milwaukee, Wis., 1844. Children,
1. MARY A., b. 1803, d. 1838. 2. CHARLES W., b. 1805, d. 1843.
3. PHINEAS W., b. 1807, m. Lucy Blanchard.
4. SARAH W., b. 1808, m. Charles Hart.
5. CLARISSA M., b. 1810, m. Hendrick Gragg.
6. CANDACE S., b. 1812, m. Hiram Lewis.
7. MARTHA R. b. 1814, m. Jonathan E. Waters.
8. ELIZABETH H., b. 1816, m. Silas M. Browne.
9. JOSHUA W., b. 1818, m. Mary A. Topliff.
10. NATHANIEL, b. 1820. 11. HARRIET S., b. 1822, m. Edwin R. Collins. 12. HANNAH C., b. 1824, m. Charles Hart.
JOSHUA W. LELAND, (Phineas, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1786, m. Polly Ryder. He d. without issue.
Col. Leland was born on the farm which his father inherited from his grandfather in Saundersville. He received a fair common school eduea- tion which he obtained from ont of town schools. He resided at home
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with his father nntil his death when he came into possession of the property. When the project of opening inland navigation from the waters of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island to Worcester, through the Blackstone Valley, was re-agitated in 1822, Col. Leland was one of the prime movers. The charter was executed in this State, March, 1823. He contracted and huilt several of the locks. While the canal was in process of construction near his residence, he was induced to open a grocery store which he did on a very small scale in a building now used by Deacon Mcclellan for a carriage-house. His business increased rapidly, and finding the building too small for his requirements he erected on the bank of the canal opposite his house a build- ing suitable for his accommodation. In the fall of 1831, he en- larged his store and erected a storehouse. At this time he was the owner of three canal boats which he mauaged for a number of years. Calvin Taft was connected with Mr. Leland in 1836 -- 7.
On account of injudicious investments in Eastern lands he became greatly embarrassed, and suffered severely by the heavy losses. The old store which he used is still standing, and has been used of late as a tenement-house. He filled nearly all the town offices, from assessor to representative. He was quite popular with his fellow-citizens, and was always a Whig in politics. At one time he was a director in the old Wilkinsonville Bank. He served in the various offices of the State militia, from private to colonel, as follows: Sergeant, appointed Aug. 7, 1807 ; re-appointed, Sept. 15, 1814 ; Ensign, Feb. 25, 1815; Lieutenant, Sept. 28, 1816; Captain, Mar. 30, 1818; Major, Apr. 7, 1820; Lieutenant- Colonel, Mar. 21, 1821 ; Colonel, Apr. 7, 1822. This latter office he held two years, when he was discharged, at his own request, March 25, 1824.
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JOHN. LELAND, (Eleazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), h. 1781, m. 1804, Abigail Parker. He d. in 1834.
After his marriage he removed to Springfield, Vt., and returned to Grafton in 1813. Children,
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1. JOHN V., b. 1806, m. Adeline Axtell.
2. RODNEY, h. 1808, m. Orinda Carpenter.
3. ELIZABETH, h. 1810, m. Arvin Thompson.
4. GREGORY S., b. 1812, m. Hannah S. Roberts.
5. PRUDENCE, b. 1818, m. Nathan Chaffin.
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SHERMAN LELAND, (Eleazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. Mar. 29, 1783, m. Oct. 13, 1811, Elizabeth Adams.
Hon. Sherman Leland was born in Grafton, and worked on his father's farm until he was over twenty years of age. His schooling was limit- ed, hut at the age of twenty we find he taught a district school In his native town. He subsequently attended the Academy at Woodstock, Conn., and then taught a school in Brooklyn, Conn. In 1805 he began the study of law in Chester, Vt. In 1809 he was admitted to the Wor- cester County Bar, and began the practice of his profession in East- port, Me., where he was quite successful. He was elected an ensign in the militia, and the next year a lieutenant. He represented Eastport in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1812. In 1813 he was appointed cap- tain of a company of Infantry, and commanded the military posts at Eastport and Robinson, Mass. He removed to Roxbury in 1814, and opened a law office in Boston. He represented Roxbury in the Legisla- ture, from 1817 to 1822. He wns also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and on the separation of Maine from Massachusetts. He served on the most important committees while in the house, and was
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at one time speaker. He was a member of the senate from Norfolk County, in 1823, 1824, 1828, 1829, and during the last two years was president of that body. He was often the chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1826 Harvard University conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He was Judge of Probate of Norfolk Connty for over twenty years. In 1837 he was appointed Justice of the Peace of all the counties in Massachusetts. His children were all born in Eastport and Roxbury. He was the compiler of the " History of the Leland Family in America."
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CYRUS LELAND, (Elcazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1785, m. Betsey Kimball. He d. 1831.
He lived and died in Grafton. He was a very useful man in town. He was for many years one of the selectinen, and also represented the town in the Legislature for several terms. He was a captain, major, and colonel in the militia, and an industrious and intelligent farmer. Children,
1. CYRUS, b. Sept. 9, 1810, m. 1835, Sarah Ann Howard.
Colonel Leland was fitted for college at Leicester and Amherst, and entered the freshman class of Harvard University in August, 1828. He left in the senior year, probably on account of the death of his father, and did not graduate. He read law in the office of ex-Governor Davis & Washburn, of Worcester, and settled in Peoria, III., where he was admitted to the bar, and began his practice. In 1835, was appointed Justice of the Peace. Moved to Sauk County, Wisconsin, and settled in Prairie du Sac in 1839. Here he was postmaster in 1840; paymaster and colonel in the State militia; in 1849, member of the Legislature; in 1851-2, chairman of the Board of Supervisors. During his residence in this State he was engaged in farming, lumbering and merchandizing. In 1857 he emigrated to Kansas; was pretty actively engaged in the political affairs and troubles of that territory on the Free State side, and against the border ruffian element. Located at Troy in 1858, and opened a law office ; was appointed postmaster, notary public, and on the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861, he was appointed and com- missioned colonel of the Second Kansas Volunteer Regiment of Militia, and in August, 1861, was ordered by the governor into the service of the United States, with his regiment, and continued on duty, in com- mand along the Missonri frontier, until the 20th of January, 1862, when the regiment was discharged. In the summer of 1862 he was appointed recruiting commissioner for the northern district of Kansas; raised and commanded a regiment of recruits, which were mustered into the United States service in September, 1862, as the Thirteenth Kansas Regiment, Volunteer Infantry; was appointed quartermaster of this regiment, September 21, 1862, and soon after was assigned to duty as brigade quartermaster and commissary of subsistence in the Third Brigade of the Army of the Frontier; was post quartermaster and commissary of subsistence at Van Buren, Arkansas, in the winter of 1863; was present on duty at the battle of Cane Hill, November 28th, and at the battle of Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, and during the Indian campaign sonth of the Kansas river, at the battle of Poison Springs, and at the battle of Perryville. Served as quartermaster of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Seventh Army Corps, General Steele in command, in his dis- astrons expedition to Red River and Camden, in Southern Arkansas ; was at the battle of Prairie de Ar, and at the engagement during that campaign (spring of 1864), was slightly wounded at the battle of Marks Mills, by musket balls, on the head and neck; was quartermaster of the
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troops and train at the battle of Cabin Creek, Indian Territory; was on duty during the Price raids, 1864, as brigade and division quartermaster, and present at the battles of Westport and the Blue Mine Creek; was again post quartermaster at Van Buren, Arkansas, in the winter of 1864. In March, 1865, was assigned to duty as quartermaster of the First Brigade, Seventh Army Corps, at Little Rock, Arkansas, at which place he was discharged, July, 1865, on expiration of term of service.
Since the close of the war he has resided on his farm, near Troy, nearly all the time, comfortably and pleasantly situated, engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Cyrus Leland was married to Sarah Ann Howard, at Peoria, Ill., in 1835. By her he had two sons and four daughters, all now living and having children.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Leland, his wife, died in 1874. In 1876 he married Mrs. Chloe M. Tennant, widow of Col. Sidney Tennant, a lawyer and graduate of Yale College.
2. LORENZO, b. Sept. 27, 1813.
Resides in Illinois, where he practiced law. He was in highly re- spectable standing at the bar. He was clerk of Lasalle County for a number of years. He was educated at Grafton Academy, and at Leicester. Married M. H. Holbrook.
3. JAMES, b. Aug. 13, 1815. He was a merchant in Barre. Married Harriet Dennis.
4. BETSEY, b. Ang. 29. 1817, m. Charles Prentice (P).
5. ELEAZER, b. Ang. 31, 1819.
6. MARTHA, b. July 21, 1821, m. Franklin Smith. Res. Barre.
7. RUSSELL, b. June 8, 1823, d. 1840, at sea.
8. JULIA, b. Aug. 26, 1825, m. Leander Stockwell.
He was born in Sutton, and died here in 1877, leaving one child, a daughter. The following notice appeared in a Worcester paper at the time of his death : "The citizens of Grafton were startled last cve- ning by the announcement of the sudden death of Dea. Leander Stock- well. He appeared to be in his usual health during the day, and early in the evening went to the Congregational Church to lead the prayer meeting. He was in the act of opening the services when he was taken with vomiting, and as the case seemed serious he was removed to his clothing store, near the church. As he continued to fail rapidly, he was placed on a bed, and an attempt was made to carry him home, but he died before the house was reached. Deacon Stockwell was a public spirited man, of a generous and whole-souled nature, foremost in every good work, and a pronounced temperance man and worker. He was widely known and influential, and was at one time president of the Worcester County Musical Association. He had frequently held town offices, filling them to the general acceptance of the people. He was fifty-five years of age, and leaves a wife and one daughter to mourn his loss."
9. PARDON K., b. June 1, 1828.
LUKE LELAND, (Eleazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1792, m. Sally Mellen, b. 1792. He d. Feb. 6, 1875.
He resided in Grafton, and was an intelligent and thriving farmer. He was for many years much in the service of the town, in discharging the duties of many of its principal offices. He was often called upon to act as guardian to minors, and to settle the estates of deceased per- sons. He was, on one or more occasions, a representative to the Gen- eral Court.
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" He was one of the oldest inhabitants of his native town, and in which, in the meridian of his life, he held prominent official positions, all of which he filled with ability and integrity. He was a man of sterling moral worth, and was highly respected by his large circle of friends and acquaintances. In his death it can truly be said, that a faithful father and a kind and honest neighbor and fellow-citizen has fallen." Children,
1. JOSEPH W., b. June 14, 1816, m. Cynthia A. Slocomb.
2. SARAH M., h. June 14, 1817, m. Willis Works.
3. LUKE, h. Mar. 1, 1820, m. Submit Buxton.
JOSEPH LELAND, (David W., Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), h. 1786, m. L. W. Wheeler, b. 1799, d. July 20, 1828; m. 2nd, Charlotte Merriam (M).
He early left his home in Grafton for Charleston, S. C., in which city he res. for forty years, and was at the head of the well-known mercantile house of Leland Bros. & Co., the largest at the time in the State. He was very successful and was characterized hy boldness of conception and energy in execution. Children,
1. MARY A., b. April 18, 1832, m. Henry R. Keith (K).
2. ELLEN E., b. Aug. 4, 1834, m. Hon. Charles L. Flint, who has for twenty-seven years, held the position of Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture ; was born in the town of Middleton, in Essex County, Mass., on the 8th of May, 1824, the son of Jeremiah and Mary ( Howard) Flint, whose farm was a portion of an old paternal estate that had de- scended in the family for five or six generations. Like most farmer's sons in New England, his early life was quite uneventful and given to acquiring the first rudiments of an education in the common schools and to the innumerable chores and lighter kinds of farm work which usually fall to the lot of country boys. These occupations, though often irk- some and gladly shunned by most spirited youth, really constitute hy far the best foundation for the practical education of life. The influences of the farm are healthful-mentally, morally and physically. Other things being equal,-that is, with equal natural gifts, equal advantages for education and mental discipline, and equal opportunities for ad- vancement,-the hoy on the farm, will, in the longrun, come out ahead.
At the age of twelve, when scarcely old enough to appreciate it, came the first great misfortune of his life, the loss of a devoted mother. This led to some change in the family, and at the age of fourteen the boy went to live with an uncle in the town of Norway in Maine, where, as he had previously done, he worked-on the farm in summer and attended school in winter. At the age of seventeen, partly from the stimulus and encouragement of an excellent teacher, came an unconquerable love for study and a determination to get an education, and Master Flint repaired to Phillips Academy, Andover, a town adjoining Middleton, to prepare for college. Here, almost unaided and in the midst of many obstacles arising from the want of means, he fitted for college in little over three years, and entered Harvard in 1845. Here as at Andover he was wholly dependent upon his own energies, and under the necessity of earning enough to meet expenses, hy writing for the press, by vacation work and by an infinite variety of ways which a busy brain can devise, so that he literally worked his way through college and graduated, not without honor and free from debt, in 1849.
This result was accomplished by accepting the offer of the mastership of a Grammar school with a salary of $800 a year, during the latter half of his senior year in college, which he was earnestly advised to do by
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Hon. Edward Everett, then President of Harvard, who took an active interest in his welfare. But teaching for life was not a part of his .plan, and in 1850 he entered the Dane Law School at Cambridge, and spent two years there in preparing for the profession of law. Previous to this time, he had competed for the Bowdoin prize of forty dollars for the best Dissertation, open to the senior class in college, and had won it triumphantly with the strongest competition in his class, the subject assigned being " The different Representations of the Character of Socrates, by Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes." This essay was prepared in the midst of the laborious occupation of teaching, and gained for the earnest student the highest commendations from a wide circle of friends. At the same time, in his senior year in college, he had tried for the Boylston prize in Declamation and in this effort had come off second best, receiving a.second prize.
While connected with the Law School he also competed for the post- graduate prize of fifty dollars for the best essay upon the " Representa- tive System at different Times and in different Countries," and won it.
At the end of two years spent in the Law School, he entered the office of a lawyer in New York City, studied the New York code of practice, at that time recently adopted, and was admitted to the New York bar on examination in 1852.
The State Board of Agriculture was organized as a department of the government by the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1852. It was designed as a representative body but intimately connected with the civil government, having the Governor, the Lieut .- Governor and the Secretary of the Commonwealth as members ex officiis, three members to be appointed by the Executive, for the purpose of bringing a scien- tific element into the Board, and one delegate elected by each of the Connty Agricultural Societies ; each member when elected to hold office for three years. Within the last few years the members ex officiis have been increased by the addition of the President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and the State Inspector of Fertilizers, both of which positions were created subsequently to the organization of the State Board of Agriculture.
After the organization of the Board the first effort was to secure the services of a competent secretary. The position was thought to be one of great importance, as the character, reputation and usefulness of the department would depend very largely upon its executive officer.
Mr. Flint had previously become somewhat identified with agriculture and had gained a somewhat extended reputation by having received two prizes for essays from the Essex Agricultural Society, a diploma and bronze medal from the New York State Agricultural Society, etc., and the attention of the Board was thus naturally turned to him. When the offer of the position was first made to him it was promptly and positively declined on the ground that it would involve a complete and radical change of his plan for life, that his education had not been designed as a preparation for such a life's work as its acceptance would involve, and that his prospects in a Wall street lawyer's office were too flattering to be given np for any salaried position, however honorable. These objections were finally overcome by the committee, after much persuasion, and Mr. Flint entered upon the performance of his duties as secretary on the 14th of February, 1853. His record since then is familiar to all, his name having become a honsehold word in every farmer's house in Massachusetts. In addition to his twenty-six reports, which are universally admitted to be the ablest and best in the country, he is the author of a valuable treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants, a volume of 400 pages, which has had a widely extended circulation; a treatise on Milch Cows and Dairy Farming, a volume of about 450
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pages, ten thousand copies of which sold in less than two years; a Manual of Agriculture for the use of schools, half of which was written by Mr. Flint and the other half by Mr. George B. Emerson, and many essays and papers which have found circulation through the agricultural press. His series of annual reports constitute a very com- plete agricultural library of themselves. In May, 1879, he was unani- mously elected President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. He has been an officer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, from its foundation to the present time, and has for many years been an active member of the school committee of Boston.
Mr. Flint was married on the 14th of February, 1857, to Miss Ellen Elizabeth Leland. daughter of Joseph and Charlotte (Merriam) Leland, of Grafton, and has three children : Charlotte Leland, born in Grafton, Dec. 1, 1858 ; Charles Louis, born in Boston, March 9, 1861 ; and Edward Rawson, born in Boston, Sept. 8, 1864. His wife died on the 25th of September, 1875, and lies buried in the cemetery at Grafton.
26-2 LEVI N. LELAND, (Levi, Levi, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. Sept. 14, 1807, m. Nov. 29, 1827, Experience Taft, b. June 27, 1807. Children,
1. EDWIN J., b. Dec. 5, 1828, m. Annie B. Stow.
2. LAURINDA T., b. July 21, 1831, mn. Sylvanus Morse.
3. CATHERINE F., b. Feb. 4, 1836, m. Joseph G. Weld. 4. SUSAN M., b. Nov. 7, 1838, m. Uriah B. Johnson.
5. MARY J., b. Nov. 7, 1842, m. Stephen S. Rogers.
6. SYBIL, b. Dec. 19, 1846, m. Charles E. Wesson.
7. LEVI N., Jr., b. July 4, 1850, m. Sarah Leonard.
27-3 JOHN M. LELAND, (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1810, m. Mary A. Merriam (M). He d. 1840. Children,
1. THEODORE, b. Jan. 17, 1837. 2. LOUISA H., b. Nov. 21, 1838. 3. JOHN M., b. Aug. 7, 1840.
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CHARLES F. LELAND, (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Benjamin, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1816, m. Nancy P. Knowles. Ch., 1. LUTHER H., b. 1845.
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JOHN V. LELAND, (John, Eleazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry),
b. 1806, m. Oct. 7, 1828, Adeline H. Axtell (A). Children,
1. OLIVE A. A., b. Aug. 22, 1829, m. Emons Rider.
2. THOMAS A., b. April 21, 1831, m. Mary J. Stratton.
3. ORINDA E., b. April 21, 1834, m. C. S. Bullen.
30-2 RODNEY LELAND, (John, Eleazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1808, m. April 3, 1833, Orinda Carpenter. Children,
1. ORINDA A., b. March 2, 1835, d. May 29, 1840.
2. MARY S., b. Nov. 13, 1836, d. young.
3. HENRY R., b. Sept. 13, 1838, d. young.
4. ORINDA A., b. Oct. 4, 1840, m. George A. Ferguson, res. in West- borough.
5. . JOHN F., b. 1844, d. unm.
6. MARY S., b. Nov. 5, 1850, m. Lewis Stowe (S).
7. HENRY R., b. Oct. 4, 1853, m. March 11, 1875, Carrie L. Moore, b. Mar. 12, 1857. Ch.,
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1. Fred. R., b. Apr. 3, 1876.
2. Grace M., and 3, Gertrude M., twins, b. July 5, 1878.
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GREGORY S. LELAND, (John, Eleazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. 1812, m. Feb. 24, 1833, Hannah S. Roberts. He d. July 21, 1838. She d. Jan. 31, 1837, aged 23 years, 9 months, 1 day. Ch.,
1. MOSES R., b. July 25, 1834, d. Oct. 25, 1834.
32-1 JOSEPH W. LELAND. (Luke, Eleazer, Phineas, James, Ebenezer, Henry), b. June 14, 1816, m. May 28, 1839, Cynthia A. Slocomb, b. Mar. 31, 1820. He rev. West ; his family still reside here. Children,
34 1. CHARLES H., b. Aug. 27, 1845, m. Abbie M. Smith.
2. FANNIE, b. May 25, 1853. (Graduated Oread Collegiate Institute, 1875).
3. WILLIE E., b. Oct. 8, 1861.
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