Brief Life History of Noah
When Noah Leonard was born on 3 November 1766, in Warwick, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Leonard, was 25 and his mother, Silence Ripley, was 20. He married Betsey Gale on 22 December 1792, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Pierrepont, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 14 October 1855, at the age of 88.
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- Noah Leonard, "United States Census, 1850"
- Noah Leonard, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
- Noah Leonard, "Massachusetts Town Records, ca. 1638-1961"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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