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(XX) Nicholas (2), son of William (3) Eaton, was born in 1573. In 1603 he was keeper of the church yard of the church of St. Mary the Virgin in Dover, England, and probably for many years after, until his death in 1636-37. He was buried in the church of St. Mary the Virgin. From a record in the Herald's Visitation of Kent in 1619, it is found that Nicholas was a curate of Dover in 1619, and doubtless he had been mayor of the town. He was a merchant. He married (first), No- vember 2, 1596, Katherine Master, and (sec- ond) in 1626, Mrs. Joan Gibbs, widow of John Gibbs, who died at St, Margaret's, Can- terbury, July 26, 1626, and daughter of
Tidderman, of Dover. She was buried April 14, 1635. Children, born at Dover, with dates of baptism : John. 1599, died young ; William, January 9, 1602 ; Elizabeth, February 10, 1603, died in childhood ; Jane, March 28, 1606; John, mentioned below : Captain Nicholas, October II, 1612: Thomas, February 20, 1613, died 1616.
(XXI) John (2), son of Nicholas (2) Ea- ton. was baptized in Dover, England, August 21. 16II. He was the immigrant ancestor. He received a bequest of ten pounds from his stepmother's will, dated April 10, 1635. He is believed to have come with others of the family on the ship "Elizabeth and Ann" in April, 1635. He settled first in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor, and where, May 25, 1636, he was admitted a free- man. He removed to Dedham a year later and was a proprietor there in 1637. He had grants of land at Watertown in July, 1636, and February 28, 1636-37-38. He joined the Ded- ham church in 1641 and signed the famous covenant there. He bought the rights of Thomas Hastings when he went to Dedham. May II, 1637. He was first present at the Dedham town meeting, November 28, 1637,
although he was one of a committee in 1637 to cut pines for the meeting house. He helped build the first foot bridge across the Charles river. He was on a committee to lay out land for settlers and survey highways. He was wood reeve for several years, and in 1647 he had to decide who were behind on the highway work. In 1650 he was on the committee to repair the foot bridge. He had numerous grants of land. He married, in England, Abi- gail Damon or Damant, who had two children, John and Jane, by her previous marriage. He died November 17, 1658. His will was dated November 2, 1658, and proved December 16, 1658. Children: Mary, baptized in Dover, England, March 20, 1630-31 ; John, baptized in Dover, England, October 1, 1633, died there, buried January 27, 1734; Thomas, born in England. 1634; John, mentioned below ; Abi- gail, born in Dedham, January 6, 1640; Ja- cob, born in Dedham, June 8, 1642, died March 20, 1646.
(XXII) John (3), son of John (2) Eaton, was born probably in 1636 in Watertown, Mas- sachusetts. He inherited the homestead at Dedham. He married Alice , who died May 8, 1694. Children : John, born July 15. 1665, died October 15, 1665 ; John, September 17, 1671; Thomas, July 23, 1675; William, mentioned below ; Judith, September 17, 1679, died April 26, 1780: Jonathan, September 3. 1681 ; David, March 8, 1683, died March 28, 1683 ; Ebenezer, May 3, 1687, died May 23, 1688.
(XXXIII) William (4), son of John (3) Ea- ton, was born August II, 1677, died April 3. 1718. He owned two farms on Dedham Island, which his father and grandfather had owned, and he also had large tracts of land in Needham Great Plain and along the borders of Rosemary Brook. In 1711 Need- ham was set off from Dedham, and his name was on the tax list of Needham in 1712 for those lands, but he always lived in Dedham. When his estate was settled, his eldest son, William, received the Dedham lands, and Jo- siah and Jeremiah received the Needham lands. The inventory of his estate was taken, June 23, 1728, and June 28, 1728, his widow Mary, settled his estate. He married, April 27, 1704, Mary, born in Dedham, November 28, 1685, died in 1751, daughter of Comfort and Mary Starr. Her will was dated April 14. 1746, and proved August 6, 1751. Chil- dren : William, mentioned below ; Mary, born
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December 3, 1706; Josiah, April 4, 1711 ; Sa- rah, August 24, 1713; Jeremiah, March 4, 1716; Abiel, August 11, 1718.
(XXIV) William (5), son of William (4) Eaton, was born February II, 1705. at Ded- ham, died March 22, 1751. He inherited his father's homestead and probably lived there all his life. He married, February 15, 1738, Abigail, born December 21, 1718, daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail Brackett, of Dedham. She married (second) Stephen Fales, May 20, 1754 (Stephen Eaton's widow, according to Dedham records, but Professor Daniel C. Eaton, of New Haven, Connecticut, gives it as William's widow). William Eaton was forty-six years of age at his death ; his widow was administratrix of his estate. Children, born at Dedham: William, mentioned below ; Abigail, born September 4, 1740, died Novem- ber 21. 1748.
(XXV) William (6) son of William (5) Eaton, was born in Dedham, December 31, 1738. He lived for about ten years after his marriage at Dedham and then moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, thence to Vermont. He finally settled in Springfield, Otsego county, New York, where he died. He sold the farms when he left Dedham. According to the town records his wife's name was Sa- rah, while the church and land records call her Mary. Very likely the marriage at King's Chapel, Boston, December 18, 1760, of Will- iam Eaton and Mary Thorp was a record of this William. Children, first five born in Ded- ham : Mary, October 16, 1761 ; Abigail, September 5, 1763: William, October, 1765 ; Asa, baptized December 6, 1787 ; Joseph, born January 29, 1770; Jesse, mentioned below ; Samuel : John. William Eaton served in the revolution in the Needham Company under Captain Robert Smith, Colonel William Heath's regiment, April 19, 1775 : also in Cap- tain Solomon Stuart's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment, August 21, 1777. His son William served in the revolution from Ashby, Massachusetts.
(XXVI) Jesse, son of William (6) Eaton, was born August 23, 1774, died in Cuba, Allegany county, New York. He settled first in Charlotte, Vermont, where he lived until his removal to Rome, Oneida county, New York, before 1808. He lived in Oneida county until 1825, when he moved to Cuba, New York. He was a tailor. He married, Janu- ary 16, 1799, Sarah Barbour, born near Paris,
France. Children: Harriet, Levi, George, Caleb, Marenus, mentioned below ; Ebenezer, Jesse, Sarah, Charles.
(XXVII) Marenus, son of Jesse Eaton, was born in Rome, New York, March 15, 1808, died February, 1861. He was seven- teen years of age when his father came to Cuba, Allegany county, where he grew to manhood and married. He learned the black- smith's trade at which he worked for several years. He then became interested in the transportation business, acting as agent for steamboat companies, and the New York Cen- tral and Michigan Central railroads. He was colonel of the local militia regiment that made the old "training days" so glorious, but his actual military service was confined to quell- ing some trouble with the English of Buffalo, in 1831. He was a leading Democrat, and held in high regard in his town. He married, in 1826, Laura Scott, born November 15, 1810, died September 23, 1896. Children : I. George, married Angeline Beebe; child Eugenia, married W. H. Merritt; child, George Eaton. 2. Mary Jane, married John Barnett. 3. Laura, married John Brooks; child, Charles C., married Bessie Brown ; child, Clifford B. 4. Marenus, married Lu- cretia Wilcox; children: Walter, Jesse, Eu- gene, Arthur. 5. Charles, married Clara Mon- tayne ; children : Imogene, married Mason Freeman ; Charles, Frank, Laura, Kathryn, Mary. 6. Elizabeth, married Q. P. Vaughan ; children: Shirley, Percy, Robert. 7. Char- lotte, married George Weeks; children: Eliz- abetli and Robert. 8. Augustus Tiffany, men- tioned below.
(XXVIII) Augustus Tiffany, youngest child and fourth son of Marenus Eaton, was born in Cuba, Allegany county, New York, May 17, 1849. He was educated in the pub- lic schools, and although but a boy twice en- listed in the regiment, being recruited for service in the civil war, each time being pre- vented by his mother from consummating his desire. In 1863 he ran away from home, and for four years battled for himself in vari- ous parts of the country, gaining an experi- ence that developed his character and turned his steps homeward in 1867. On his return he secured a position with the Cuba Banking Company, which maintained a branch bank at Olean, known as the "Bank of Olean," and in 1870 Mr. Eaton came to that bank as teller and assistant cashier. In 1871 the bank was
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chartered as the First National Bank of Ole- an, business commencing on the arrival of the charter, September 15, 1871. He was suc- cessively bookkeeper, teller and assistant cashier until 1886, when he succeeded L. F. Lawton as cashier, a position he yet holds (1912). The bank has had a most successful career and it is to the practical business abil- ity and wide popularity of Mr. Eaton that this success is in a large measure due. He has large business interests outside the bank, and has given much of his time to public af- fairs. He was trustee of the old village of Olean for years, and president in 1884-85 ; treasurer of the school board for many years ; treasurer of the city several terms, and is president and member of the executive com- mittee of the chamber of commerce. In Free Masonry he has taken all degrees of the York Rite : he is a thirty-second degree Mason of the Scottish Rite and a "Shriner" of Ismailia Temple, Buffalo. He is a member of the Rochester, New York Consistory, treasurer of the Masonic Temple Association since its or- ganization in 1892 ; has been treasurer of the Commandery for several terms, and is treas- urer of nearly all the Masonic bodies of Olean. He is a charter member of Olean Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, organized March 4, 1891, and belongs to other social and fraternal societies. He is highly regarded, not only in business cir- cles. but as a good citizen, friend and neighbor.
He married, October 18, 1871, Harriet Keller, born September 17, 1851. Children, born in Olean: 1. Louis, January 27, 1873. died May 1, 1893. 2. George, November 19, 1876; married, January 1, 1900, Jeannette McCorry ; children : Aline M., born August 16, 1901, and Janet, May 4, 1907. 3. Tif- fany A., June 3, 1889.
John Leonard was of Knole, LEONARD county Kent, England. He was born in 1479, and died in 1556; there is no further record of him.
(II) John (2) son of John (1) Leonard, was also of Knole, county Kent; he was born in 1508, died in 1590.
(III) Samson, son of John (2) Leonard, was the eleventh Baron of Dacre. He was born in 1545. died in 1615. He married Lady Margaret Fienes.
(IV) Sir Henry Leonard, son of Samson
Leonard, was the twelfth Baron of Dacre. He was born in 1569. He married Lady Chrisogona, daughter of Sir Richard Baker, of Sissinghurst, county Kent, England.
(V) Richard, son of Sir Henry Leonard, was thirteenth Baron of Dacre, seated at Chevening. He died in 1630. He married (first) Lady Anne, daughter of Sir Arthur Throckmorton. He married (second) Dor- othy, daughter of Dudley, Lord North.
(VI) Thomas, son of Richard Leonard, was of Pontypool, Wales. He had sons : Henry, James, mentioned below, and Philip.
(VII) James, son of Thomas Leonard, of Pontypool, Wales, was born in Great Britain, and came to America about 1645. He settled first in Lynn and later in Taunton, Massa- chusetts. He was one of the founders of the iron works in Saugus, near Lynn, the first iron works in America. In 1653 he and his brother Henry were engaged in the manufac- ture of iron in Taunton. He died in 1691. He was a great friend of King Philip, the famous Indian, who used to shoot wild birds at Fowling Pond, which was on James's property ; James often entertained him at his house, and when the town was burned, his house was spared by the Indians. Children : Thomas, mentioned below ; James, born about 1643; Abigail, married John Kingsley, of Milton ; Rebecca, married, September 2, 1678, Isaac Chapman, of Barnstable; Joseph, born about 1655; Benjamin, married, January 15, 1678-79, Sarah Thresher; Hannah, married, January 24. 1677-78, Isaac Deane; Uriah, born July 10, 1662.
(VIII) Hon. Thomas (2) Leonard, son of James and Margaret Leonard, was born Au- gust 3, 1641, at Pontypool, Monmouthshire, Wales, died November 21, 1713. He was "a distinguished character," and held the office of justice of the peace, and also was judge of the court. He was a physician, and had the title of major, and also was town clerk and deacon. In an old file of the "Boston News Letter" from 1710 to 1715, between the dates November 30 and December 7, 1713, is an elegy in memory of Major Thomas Leonard, written by Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Taunton. On the upper part of the sheet is an engraving about two inches wide, show- ing a skeleton, holding the scythe of time, and on each side is an hour-glass, about half-way from the skeleton to the border, with extended wings on each side ; there is a skull and cross-
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bones in each upper corner, and on each side of the skeleton are white spaces bearing the words. "Memento Mori," and "Remember Death :" under the hour-glass on the left side are six pallbearers bearing a coffin, followed by mourners, and on the other corner are a spade and pickaxe crossed and a coffin on a stand. The following verses are some taken from the elegy, and give some of his biog- raphy :
"Let's first remark that GOD should him incline In's early days to try with all his might For skill to Write and Cypher, in a time
When other Youths such learning did but slight;
Yet he redeemed his time most carefully And made in's Learning, good proficiency.
GOD bless'd his Care and Pains, that he at- tained
With little help from others, useful skill Wherein he outshone others, that he gained
Preferment in the Town, Esteem. good Will; From meaner Posts made gradual Ascent To offices of Trust, Care and Moment.
In Medicine he practised his skill Expending Time and Money in the Cure Of sick and Wounded, with Compassion still. Thus did the Love of all to him procure; Many Confess, his kindness did abound By helpfulness unto his Neighbors round.
For many Years, the chief Affairs in Town Prudential, he managed carefully
With good Acceptance, unto his Renown
Oerformed his Trust in all things faithfully; So that the Governor did him prefer In Military Trusts a part to bear;
And in the Civil Government he stood Commissioned to Punich Vice and Sin.
For many Years; His Care and Prudence good And Faithfulness were well displayed therein. He always showed Pacifick disposition, Trying to end all jarr's by Composition. * *
His famous crowning work was His great Care That Gospel Worship, Gospel Ministry In Norton, Dighton, Other Places near On good Foundations might Settled be. He joyed in Hope, that now were laid Founda- tions Of Piety for many Generations.
Moestus Composuit.
Samuel Danforth.
He married, August 21, 1662, Mary, daugh- ter of George Watson, of Plymouth. Massa- chuetts. Children. names and dates of birth taken from the family Bible belonging to Thomas, printed in 1599 at London : Mary, born August 2, 1663: Thomas, January 22, 1665-66; John, May 18, 1668; George, April
18, 1671; Samuel, February 1, 1673-74; El- kanah, mentioned below; James, December 17, 1679, died May 8, 1682; Daughter, born and died April 10, 1682; Phebe, March 3, 1684, died July 15, 1685; Elizabeth, July 15, I686.
(IX) Lieutenant Elkanalı Leonard, son of Hon Thomas (2) and Mary ( Watson) Leon- ard, was born May 15, 1677, died December 30, 1714. When he was but twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, his father put him in charge of a forge on Trout brook, Mid- dleboro, Massachusetts, which he had built. He held the office of selectman as early as 1709. He was lieutenant in the military com- pany and agent of the town in various affairs, also carrying on his own farming and deal- ing in real estate.
He married, March 25, 1703, Charity, daughter of Henry Hodges (see Hodges II). Children : Elkanah, born December 15, 1703, died July 24, 1777, at Middleboro, where he was the second lawyer, and a very prominent man, having been in the general court for years, a selectman. and major of the First Regiment of Plymouth Colony Militia; Jo- seph, mentioned below ; Rebecca, born Febru- ary 24, 1706; Abiah, April 30, 1707; Simeon, January 9, 1708-09: Jemima, May 20, 1710; Zebulon, January 15, 1711-12; Timothy, April 29. 1713, died June 1, 1715 ; Ilenry, April 14, 1714, died May 29, 1714. at Middleboro; Thomas. April 20, 1715, died May 1, 1715, at Middleboro: Charity Perkins, December 6, 1724, at Norwich, Connecticut.
(X) Captain Joseph Leonard, son of Lieu- tenant Elkanah Leonard, was born April 9, 1705, at Middleboro, and died there in 1775. He was first captain of the Fourth Company. He married (first) April 9, 1725, Hannah, daughter of Samuel Pratt, of Middleboro. He married (second) November 18, 1731. Fear, daughter of Nathaniel and Jane (How- land) Southworth, of Middleboro. He had a son, Joseph, mentioned below.
(XI) Lieutenant Joseph (2) Leonard, son of Captain Joseph (I) and Fear (South- worth) Leonard. was born July 29, 1732, died November 2, 1788. He married, May 7, 1752, Abigail Raymond, born October 3, 1733, died July 15, 1810, daughter of Barnabas and Alice ( Bent ) Raymond. He had a son Noah, mentioned below.
(XII) Noah, son of Lieutenant Joseph Leonard, was born in 1754, dlied about 1845.
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in Oneida county, New York. He was a nearly twenty years, they discovered that their soldier from Middleboro in Colonel Benja- min Tupper's regiment in 1780-81 for twenty months and seven days. Intentions of mar- riage published November 11, 1787, and mar- ried, February 13, 1788, Mehitable Richmond, born at Taunton, Massachusetts, died at Au- gusta, Oneida county, New York, a daugh- ter of Isaac Richmond, son of Edward Rich- mond, son of Edward Richmond, son of John Richmond, son of John Richmond, immigrant ancestor. Children, born at Middleboro : Simeon, Isaac, Richmond, mentioned below ; Noah Jr., Otis, Harry and Abigail.
(XIII) Isaac Richmond, son of Noah Leonard. was born at Middleboro, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, April 22, 1794, died February 26, 1864, at Dayton, New York. He married, December 8, 1817, Lucy Man- chester, born in Petersburg, Rhode Island, September 30, 1798. died October 6. 1853, daughter of Archibald Manchester, whose an- cestors were of Rhode Island. Among their children was Joseph Nelson, mentioned be- low.
( XIV) Joseph Nelson, son of Isaac Rich- mond Leonard, was born at Smithfield, Madi- son county. New York, July 27, 1820, died April 4, 1910, at Dayton. He was educated in the public schools. In 1830 he went from Perrysburg, New York, to Dayton in that state. He followed farming for an occupa- tion. In politics he was a Whig: in religion a Methodist. He married, September 8, 1847, Marvette, born 1830, died June 4, 1905, daughter of Hiram Edgerton ( see Edgerton III). Among their children was Irving Richmond, mentioned below.
(XV) Irving Richmond, son of Joseph Nelson Leonard, was born in Dayton, New York, September 3. 1853. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Forestville Academy. After leaving school he began to read law in the office of Allen & Thrasher at Dayton, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. In 1878 he began to prac- tice law in partnership with Joseph M. Cong- don. After this firm was dissolved, he prac- ticed alone for a time and then became a partner of Judge Thrasher, continuing in this relation for a period of twenty-one years up to the death of Judge Thrasher, February I, 1911, since which time he has been alone. After Winfield S. Thrasher and I. R. Leonard had been engaged in business together for
families intermarried about 1650, being the marriage of Sarah Thrasher to Benjamin Leonard, in Massachusetts. Mr. Leonard has always taken an active part in public affairs. He served the town as justice of the peace and has been supervisor of the town since 1898. For three years he was president of the incorporated village of Gowanda. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He is active in the Presbyterian church, of which he was a trus- tee for a number of years. He is a Free Ma- son and has served two terms as worshipful master of Phoenix Lodge. He is also a mem- ber of the Gowanda Club and a charter mem- ber of Cattaraugus County Historical Soci- ety. He married, June 21. 1882, Emma M., daughter of Nicholas Schaack, of Gowanda. Child, John Schaack, mentioned below.
(XVI) John Schaack, son of Irving Rich- mond Leonard, was born in Gowanda, New York, November 2, 1892, now a student in the engineering department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, class of 1915.
(The Hodges Line).
(I) William Hodges, immigrant ancestor, was doubtless born in England, died April 2, 1654, at Taunton, Massachusetts. He was very likely the "William Hedges" who was appointed on the jury at the court in Salem, Massachusetts, March 27, 1638, though this may have been the William Hodges, of Lynn. His name is on the second list of the early settlers of Taunton. The first record of him is in August, 1643, in the list of males above sixteen and below sixty years of age, able to bear arms. On March 24, 1643-44, the town voted that a cartway be made in the woods near the land of William Hodges, William Evans and Aaron Knapp. On October 4, 1648, at the Plymouth court, he was accused of trading shot with the Indians, but was cleared of the accusation. He was pro- pounded freeman, June 6, 1649, and admitted freeman, June 5. 1651, being also appointed constable of Taunton at the same time. He was on the grand jury, June 2. 1652, and on a coroner's jury, August 2, 1653. at Ply- mouth. He was one of the original stock- holders of the Taunton Iron Works, and he seems to have owned much property. The inventory was filed March 15, 1654-55. He married, Mary. born about 1628-30, died af- ter 1700, daughter of Henry and Mary An-
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drews, of Taunton. She married ( second ) 1655, Peter Pitts, of Taunton, who died 1692 or 1693. Henry Andrews was one of the first seven freemen of Taunton, one of the first two deputies to the general court, 1639, deputy also in 1643-44-47-49; one of the first stock- holders of the Taunton Iron Works, and in other ways a prominent man in the town ; he died in 1633. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, born in Taunton: John; llenry, mentioned below.
(II) Henry, son of William Hodges, was born in 1652, at Taunton, died there Septem- ber 30, 1717, aged sixty-five years, and was buried in the "Neck of Land Burying Ground," where his gravestone may still be seen. He lived "within a few yards of the place where a red school house stood in 1820. At that time there were some indications on the surface of the spot where the cellar had been." He was a leading man in the settle- ment, holding town offices for many years. He was captain of the military company, and was a deacon and presiding elder of the church, occupying, it is said, a seat in the pul- pit with Rev. Samuel Danforth. Ile owned much real estate, and was administrator of a large number of estates. From his promi- nence in the allotment of lands it would seem he was a surveyor. He was on a coroner's jury held at Plymouth, October 30. 1678, and on the grand jury, June 6, 1683; in 1681 he was constable at Taunton ; he was select- man for twenty-eight years, 1687 to 1701, 1703 to 1709, 171I to 1717. His name ap- pears, April 8, 1682, in the roster of the Third Squadron of the military company ordered to bring arms to church on Sundays. He was elected ensign of the First Military Com- pany in March, 1690, when the town was greatly excited over the question as to who should command the company. Before 1703 the Second Military Company was organized, and he was its first captain, and retained com- mand until 1714. He was a subscriber to the fund for the Canada expedition of 1690, under Sir William Phipp. When the north precinct of Taunton was established he do- nated land as an inducement for a minister to settle in the new parish. He was a share- holder in the first Taunton Iron Works.
He married -. Children, born in Taun- ton : Mary, February 3, 1675-76; Esther, February 17, 1677-78; William, March 18, 1679-80; Charity, April 2, 1682, married
( first ) March 25, 1703, Lieutenant Elkanah Leonard (see Leonard I\' ), married ( second) December 17, 1722, Jabez Perkins, of Nor- wich, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins; John, 1684; Henry, 1685 or 1686; Joseph, 1688 or 1689: Benjamin, about 1691 ; Eph- raim, about 1693 : Elizabeth ; Abigail.
(The Edgerton Line).
The Edgerton family of Connecticut is descended from Richard Edgerton, who was an early settler of Norwich, Connecticut. He married, at Saybrook, Connecticut, April 7, 1653, Mary Sylvester, and they had three daughters there before 1659. In November, 1659, he had a house lot at Norwich, where he was afterward a proprietor, townsman and constable, and where he died in March, 1692. He had sons: John, born June 12, 1662, mar- ried Mary Reynolds; Richard, married Eliz- abeth Scudder : Samuel, married Alice Rip- ley ; Joseph, a planter of Lebanon.
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