Charity HodgesBorn: April 5, 1682 in Taunton, MA
Died: Feb. 28, 1739 in Middleboro, MA
Buried: Thompson Hill Cemetery, Lakeville, MA
Married:
1) Elkanah Leonard March 25, 1703 in Taunton, MA
2) Capt. Jabez Perkins Dec. 17, 1722 in Middleboro, MA
Records:
1714 - age 32 when her husband Elkanah Leonard died she was left with eight children ages 2 to 11 and she was five months pregnant.
1714 - March 1 - Charity and her brother or father Henry Hodges obtained administrator bonds for Elkanah Leonard's estate.
1715 - Inventory of Elkanah Leonard's estate:
A true Inventory of all and singuler the goods chattles and credits of Ensign Elkanah Leonard of Middleborough Deceased Prized at Middleborough the 16th day of February 1714/15 by John Martan, Redolphus Elmos & Ichabod Southward as followeth1715 - Debts paid by the estate of Elkanah Leonard:
Imprimus his purse 15-14-11
his apparell 23-14-00
his arms 04-08-00
his Books 05-00-00
his beads & beding & beadsteeds [bedsteads] 34-10-00
his table cloaths napkins & towels 03-06-00
his hand irons and fire tools 05-15-00
his pewter and earthen ware 05-10-00
tables, chairs & chests 04-10-00
Household Lumber 02-00-00
warming pan, frying pan & corn chest case of bottles & other ---- 02-16-00
2 looking glasses and ---- 00-16-00
a pocket compass his buckels and ----- 01-01-00
mony scales & stnaindg dishes 00-08-00
raisors & knives 00-06-00
sadles & Bridle and post mantle (?) 02-12-00
nine cows 39-00-00
two steers 08-00-00
one yoak more of stears 06-00-00
one heffer and bull 04-10-00
two horses 13-00-00
six year olds (?) 08-00-00
three yoad of oxen 32-00-00
by four pair more of steers 28-00-00
five swine 02-00-00
husbandrye tools 02-00-00
cart & cart tackling plows and harrows 07-10-00
shop and shop tools 03-10-00
[Total] 265-16-11
by coles & mine and Iron in the forge 93-10-00
the Indian cloathe 35 and a paire of ----- & steare 103 02-05-00
John Morton
Rodulphus Elmos
Ichabod Southworth
----- on the 21st day of June 1715 Charity Leonard Relict Widow & Administratrix of the Estate of Elkana Leonard late of Middlebury in the County of Plimouth dec'd. made oath that the above written is a true inventory of the goods & chattles of her said late husband so far as she knoweth & when she knows of more will cause it to be added before me Nathaniel Thomas Judge at Probate
To Mr. John Watson 153-16-5 1/21717 - Charity Leonard account on Elkanah Leonard estate:
To Mr. John Burt 29-13-06
To Mr. John King 20-14-01
To Mr. Timothy Lindall 15-05-00
To Capt. Jacob Tomson 04-15-02
To Samuel Cobb 05-03-10
To William Caswell Senr. 05-02-10
To Jacob Harper 05-01-04
To George Townsand 03-17-00
To Benjamin Hodges 03-03-00
to Thomas Leonard 02-04-00
To James Reed Senr. 01-11-04
To Thomas Caswell Senr. 01-12-2 1/2
To Charles Church 02-02-00
To John Richmond 02-15-05
To Joseph Briggs 01-02-06
To William Emins(?) 01-06-00
To Edward Hackit 02-17-11
To Christopher Richmond 00-10-09
To Samuell Briggs 00-08-00
To Daniel Caswell 00-06-04
To Henry Andrews Junr. 00-12-15
[Subtotal] 270-12-5
To Mr. Isaac Lothroup 00-12-00
To Edward Cobb Senr. 00-09-00
To Richard Godfreed 00-08-00
To Jeremiah Thomas 00-16-00
To Edward Richmond 00-04-10
To Thomas Dexter 00-03-06
To William Hopkins 00-12-00
To Mr. John Alden 00-06-03
To Nathaniel Thomas of Middleborough 00-01-00
To James Burt Senr. 00-03-00
To John Pollord, 00-01-05
To Joseph Cobb 00-13-05
To William Barkwood 00-01-00
Charity Leonard Adminx.
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Norwich in New London County
Charity Perkins administratrix on ye Estate of Elkanah Lenard, her late husband, Deceast personally appeared & made solemn oath to truth of ye above written or ye within written acctt according to ye best of her knowledge, before me Richard Bushnell Aug. 21st 1725, Justice of ye Peace
To funerall Charges & sickness in the formally ye for lying in ---- ye other charges 16-0-01717 - Aug. 21 - Account of Debts
To her charges of Administrator 4-0-0
To ye ---- Isaac Winslow --- --- of Probate -- within and for ye County of plymouth. that it --- of Charity Leonard: now called Charity Perkins Admnx to ye Estate of ye Elkana C/A Leonard Late Deceased [Interlace] Humbly Sheweith that she hath ben at great expense in funerall charges for afsd. Intestate, and Charges of lying in after her to former husband decease charges of administration long and tedious & sickness in ye formally --- hereby she was put to great charges & trouble for doctors, nurse and attendance & other nessasries expended: And for bringing up of children to be capable to get their living: Therefore sd Petitioner pray she may be allowed about six ---- pounds more than ye ---- so that she may be able to pay said Charges and her husband just debts and to be allowed in such manner ---- hand shall ther--- more fore --- --- --- shall ever prays &c.
Norwich, Aug. 20, 1725
Charity Perkins Admdx.
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An account of the charge of the Apprizement of the Real Estate of Ensign Leonard of Middleborough Deceased
due to Jacob Tomson
for the first apprizement 4 days 1-4-0
for a day and half the second apprizement 0-7-6
for writing 2 inventory 0-2-0
Due to Ichabod Southworth in the last apprizement for a day & half 0-7-6
Due to Rodulphus Elmos for a day & half 0-7-6
Total: 2-8-6
Norwich in New London County ye 21st day of August 1725. Then Charity Perkins administratrix on ye estate of Elkanah Leonard, her former husband dec't. personally appeared & made oath to ye truth of ye within written acctt. before one1717- September 17 - Taunton, Massachusetts. Charity is mentioned with her sisters in her father Henry Hodges' will:
Richard Bushnell
Justice of ye Peace
Debts Received in 1715 which was due to the Estate of Elkanah Leonard Deceas'd.
From Timothy Packiom of Newport 01-01-10
From Edmund Chandler of Duxbury 20-18-09
From Wiliam Basset Junr. of Sandwich 14-11-02
From Joseph Foster Junr. of Sandwich 07-05-04
From John Pery of Sandwich 07-06-00
From Captn John Dyer of Plymouth 00-10-00
From Ebenezer Morton of Plymouth 02-12-00
From the widdow of Jabes Fuller of Middleborough 00-06-00
From widdow Sarah Wilbore of Taunton 00-07-00
From James Bell of Middleborough 01-08-00
From Ebenezer Cobb of Taunton 05-01-04
From Anthony Comes of Rochester 01-01-05
From Issac Howland Junr. of Middleborough 01-07-07
From John Vaughn of Middleborough 03-11-2 1/2
From Joseph Richmond Junr. 00-13-01
From Edward Caswell of Taunton 00-19-00
From Samuell Phillips of Taunton 02-01-11
From Samuell Crosman of Taunton 01-03-04
From Samell Thomas Indion 00-14-07
From Thomas Felix Indion 00-14-05
From Jacob Howde Indion 00-03-00
[Total] 73-16-11 1/2
Charity Leonard admx.
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I give & bequeath them wholly to my beloved wife Esther Hodges to be impressed for her comfort during her naturall life & if she cause to sell any part of my stock & moveables for her own use & benefit she hath power so to do. And what of my stock, household stuff or moveables remayne unspent at the time of her decease, shall be Equally divided between my five daughters & my youngest son, namely Mary Keith, Esther Southworth, Charity Leonard, Elizabeth Hodges,1722 - Dec. 17 she married Capt. Jabez Perkins in Norwich, CT. Norwich is about 90 miles from Middleborough, MA where she had lived with her first husband. It is unknown how the two met. It may be because the Leonard family own an iron mine and iron works.AbigailHodges & Ephraim Hodges; after funerall charges & just debts and payd.
The couple blended a family of fourteen children ranging in age from 8 to 19. It is unclear if the oldest Leonard children moved to Norwich with their mother. Most of them were married and lived in Middleborough. That is probably the reason Charity moved back there after the death of Jabez Perkins. Apparently they got along fairly well as two of the Perkins boys married two of the Leonard girls.1725 - June 8 - Inventory of Elkanah Leonard's real property:
Pursuant to a warrant of apprizement from Isaac Winslow Esqr Judge of probate &c for the county of plimoth to us directed we whose names are hereunto subscribed have taken an Inventory and made a Just and equal Apprizement according to the best of our Judgments of the housing and lands and Real Estate of Ensign Elkanah Leonard late of Middleborough Deceased Lying and being in the county of plimouth as followeth June the 8th 1725.1726 - Feb. 3 - age 43 - The settlement of the Real Estate of Elkanah Leonard a coppy
Imprimis: The forge & Dam and the sawmill with the appurtenances & privileges there of 210-00-00
The homestead being all the lands which lye there joyning together with ye buildings thereon 900-00-00
The hundred acres of land bought of Mr. Peter Thacker 85-00-00
The 29 acres bought of Lieut. Southworth in the Right of John Winslow Junr. 29-00-00
The lot bought of John Bennet in the 16s purchase being the 74th lot in the Second allotment 20-00-00
The lot bought of Jacob Tomson in the 16s purchase being the 75 lot in the second allotment 17-00-00
The twenty-one acres at Stony brook 16-00-00
The lot in the Right of Capt. Sparrow in the first allotment in the sixteen shilling purchase 21-00-00
The half lot in the Right of William Basset in the second allotment in the 16s purchase 12-00-00
The 41st lot in the right of Benjamin Bartlet in the second allotment in the 16s purchase 21-00-00
The 44th lot in the Right of Edward Gray in the second allotment in the 16s purchase 10-00-00
The half of ye 123d & 138th lots in the Right of David Thomas Senr. in the 3d allotment in said purchase 09-00-00
The 100th lot in the third allotment in said purchase in the right of Nathanaol Warren 13-00-00
The 91st lot in the third allotment in the right of Nathanoel Warren in said purchase 15-00-00
The 67th lot in the second allotment in said purchase in the Right of Nathanel Warren 13-00-00
The half of the 12th & of the 86th lots in the 3d allotment in sd purchase in ye right of Wm. Bassit 14-00-00
The half of the first lot in the second allotment in said purchase in the Right of David Thomas Senr. 06-00-00
The third lot in the second allotment in said purchase in the right of Capt. Sparrow 13-00-00
The 49th and 56th lots in the 3d allotment in said purchase in the right of Capt. Sparrow 26-00-00
The 40 acres laid out in the Right of Samuel Wood in said purchase 21-00-00
The 15th lot on Assawamset Neck in the Right of Capt. Sparrow 18-00-00
The 28th lot on Assawamset Neck in the right of Ichabod Bartlet 22-00-00
The 60th, the 61 and 62d lots on Assawamset Neck 32-00-00
The two Islands in the pond 30-00-00
The half of the fourth lot on Assawamset neck in the Right of David Thomas Senr. 06-10-00
The 7th and 8th lots in the third allotment in the 16s purchase in the right of Edward Gray 19-00-00
The 26th & 27th lots in the 3d allotment in sd purchase in the right of John Winslow Junr. 27-00-00
the five shares & a half of cedar swamp in said sixteen shilling purchase each share 5# 27-10-00
The five shares in the fourth allotment in the said 16s purchase: each share 1-12-0 - 08-00-00
The half lot in the Right of David Thomason in the first allotment in the 16 shilling purchase 08-00-00
The whole share int he south purchase in the right of Capt. Sparrow 18-00-00
the 149th lot in the fourth purchase in the right of Anthony Snow with the Iron mine on said lot 16-00-00
Jacob Tomson
Icabod Southworth
Rodulphus Elmos
June the 16th: 1725 Jacob Tomson Esqr. made oath that the above written is a just and equall apprisement of the Real Estate of Mr. Elkanah Leonard late of Middleborough in the county of Plimouth deceased according to the best of his judgment.
Before Isaac Winslow Judge of Probate
June the 8th 1725 the above named Ichabod Southworth and Rodulphus Elmos gave oath that the afore written is a true and equal apprizement of the estate abovementioned according to the best of their understanding: before me Jacob Tomson Justice of the peace
Isaac Winslow Esqr. Appointed and commissioned to be Judge of the Probate of wr-- and for granting of Administration in the County of Plimouth within the Province of the Massachussets bay in New England. The settlement of the Real Estate of Mr. Elkanah Leonard late of Middleborough in the County afresd deceased Intestate Decreed and ordered the third day of February Anno Domain 1726 in manner following that is to say: Having had advice, hearing and consideration of the pleas and allegations concerning sd Estate The sd Real Estate lying and being in the Township of Middleborough in the county of Plimouth aforsd being divided by five good and sufficient freeholders of sd County upon oath to the widdow and amongst the children of the sd. deceased. And having set of to Mrs. Charity Perkins now the wife of Capt. Jabez Perkins of Norwich in the Colony of Connecticut who was the Relict widdow of the forenamed Mr. Elkanah Leonard deceased her dower or third in the part of the housing and lands of the sd Mr. Elkanah Leonard ---- and apprized as the homestead together with one third part of the forge Dam and sawmill with the appurtances thereunto belonging it being what she moves for in manner following (viz) one third part of the dwelling house one third part of the barn one third part of the dam forge and sawmill with the appurtances (excepting the cole house) having and being on that part of the homestead called the hundred acre lot formerly Capt. Sparrows together with a piece of land and orchard being part of sd lot lying and being upon the northerly side of the road or highway beginning at a stump in the fence with stones a boute it westward from the dwelling house and from thence ranging north twelve degrees easterly by a range of marked trees as far as the breadth of the sd lot extends that way and from there bounded by the lot formerly belonging unto John Howland untill it comes to the highway and from thence bounded southwardly by the highway until it comes to the stump and thence first mentioned together with other pice of land and meadow being part of the sd hundred acre lot together with one part of the twenty acres of land lying at the heart of the sd hundred acre lot purchased of the agents of the proprietors of the sixteen shilling purchase bounded as followeth beginning with a stake with stones above it within fence on the fourth easterly side of the highway about six rod to the northward of the barn and from sd stake and stones ranging east fourty degrees south untill it comes to the head of sd twenty acres: to comprehend all that part of the sd hundred acre lot and that part of the twenty acres to the northeasterly side of sd lne on the southwesterly side of the road: All which sd lands and meadow according to the bound above expressed with those parts of the buildings aforementioned is hereby set out to and settled on the abovemnamed Mrs. Charity Perkins who was the widdow of the abovementioned Mr. Elkanah Leonard as her Dower to have improve and injoy during her natural life.1739/40 - Feb. 12 - Capt. Jabez Perkins will mentions Charity twice:
The Remainder of sd ----- and land and Real Estate being divided into four equall parts or shares to and among the six children of the sd. deceased Mr. Elkanah Leonard, Joseph Leonard, Simeon Leonard, Rebecka Perkins the wife of Jabez Perkins Junr. of Norwich in Connecticut colony: Abiah Nelson the wife of John Nelson of Middleborough aforesd and Jemima Leonard
Item I give to Charity my dearly beloved wife one third part of all my moveable Estate not before disposed of excepting my husbandry tools, cordwainer tools & currier tools to be at her dispose forever and also I do give to my sd. wife ye one third part of ye Income or product of my housested & house & barn that is thereon which I have before given to my Loving son Jacob Perkins by a deed of gift and therein Referred to one third part of the Income thereof for ye wife & benefit of my sd wife during ye time she shall continue my widow, and farther my will is that my sd wife shall have a third part of ye products of all ye other Lands that I shall die dispossesed of during ye sd. time.Children by Elkanah Leonard:
Item I give to my Dearly beloved wife Charity her riding horse saddle & bridle.
Elkanah b. 1703, d. 1777 md. Elizabeth Tisdale ca. 1730
- Charity b. 1732, d. 1805 md. William Canedy, children: Bathsheba, Charity, William, Noble
- Elizabeth b. 1734, d. 1775 md. John Weston 1757
- Mary b. 1736, d. 1771 md. Zebedee Sears
Rebecca b. 1706, d. 1788 md. Jabez Perkins 1725 son of Charity's second husband.
- Jedidiah b. 1725, d. 1768 md. Temperance Hazen
- daughter b. & d. Sep. 8, 1726
- son b. & d. July 11, 1727
- Jabez b. 1728, d. 1795 md. 1) Anna Lathrop & 2) Lydia Avery. Children: Erastus, Anna, Jabez, Hannah, Ashur & Lydia
- Elkanah b. 1730, d. 1740
- Rebecca b. 1730, d. young
- Samuel b. 1732, d. 1736
- Hannah b. 1733, d. 1808 md. Jabez Fitch, children: Darius, Theophilus, Jabez, Lurene
- Charity b. 1734, d. 1736
- Charity b. 1737, d. 1831 md. Samuel Lovett
- Samuel b. 1738, d. 1765
- Elisha Haskell b. 1743, d. 1829 md. Anna King
- Micah b. 1735, d. 1817 md. Theodora Dean, child Oliver
- Jacob, twin b. 1731, twin md. 1) Mary Brown, 1755 & 2) Abigail Thomas. Children: two daughters, Jedidiah, Samuel, Abigail, Mary, Sarah, Jacob & Zephaniah
- Jemima, twin b. 1731 md. Benjamin Burman 1750
- Timothy b. 1733
- Simeon b. 1734, d. 1812 md. 1) Abigail Backus 1759 & 2) Elizabeth (Young) Hadley. Children: Roger, Abigail, John, Lucy, Elizabeth, Eunice, Mary, Simeon & Charlotte
- Mary b. 1735, d. young
- Daniel b. 1736
- Abia b. 1738
- Luce b. 1740, d. 1756
- Elkanah b. 1742, d. 1744
- Zebulon b. 1743
- Jabez b. 1745 md. Mary Backus. Child: Mary
- Judith b. 1747, d. 1803 md. Gamaliel Ripley, children: Hervey, Judith, Gamaliel, Elizabeth, David, Zephaniah, Lydia, William & Jabez
- Zephaniah b. 1749
- Hezekiah b. 1751, d. 1822, md. Sarah Fitch ca. 1783. Children: Francis, Charlotte, George, Charles, Charlotte, Henry, Eliza
- Mary b. 1753
- Ebenezer b. 1756
Zebulon b. 1711/12, d. 1711/12, 28 days old
Timothy b. 1713, d. 1715
Henry b. 1714, d. 1714, 1 1/2 months old
Thomas b. 1715, d. 1715, 12 days old posthumous child of Elkanah Leonard
Child by Jabez Perkins:
Charity
Revised 11/5/2018
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