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Cushman the estate now owned and occupied by his great-grandson, M. Herman Kent.
Peleg,5 (Peleg,4 Elisha,3 John,2 John,1) son of Peleg,4 was also a mariner and ship master. Mar. Huldah Ford, dau. of Moulbray and Mary Tilden Ford, who died young, leaving one son, Peleg Smith. He mar. 2d wife, Sarah Thomas Baker, dau. of William and Abigail Low Baker.
I. Huldah.6 II. Sarah Thomas.6 III. Warren.6 IV. Andrew.6 V. Martin.6 VI. Proctor.6 VII. Abbie Elizabeth.6 He died Sept. 24, 1870.
Sketch furnished by his daughter, Miss Sarah E. Leonard.
Rev. Geo. Leonard was born in Marshfield, Mass., May 26, 1801, and died in Marshfield, July 9, 1881, age 80 years. He was the son of Rev. Elijah Leonard, who was born in Raynham, Mass., in 1760; graduated at Yale College in 1783, and was pastor of the Second Congregational Society in Marshfield for 45 years.
Mr. Geo. Leonard's maternal grandfather was Percy Fobes, LL.D., one of the early professors of Yale. Mr. Leonard was descended from
James Leonard1, who came from Great Britain to this country in 1652 and settled in Taunton, Mass. The family descended through two lines from Edward III. of England,
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