When Dr Recompence Leonard was born on 31 August 1771, in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Leonard Sr, was 38 and his mother, Mary Renough, was 40. He married Eunice Huntington on 1 May 1798, in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, United States in 1820. He died on 3 May 1846, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lakeside - Carpenter Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesPAGE 2 AND PAGE 3 MENTIONING RECOMPENSE LEONARD , HIS SISTER ,AND HIS BROTHER BENJAMIN LEONARD
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