Individual Details

Property

On 11 September 1804, Leonard Spalding husbandman ofCornish, for payment of one thousand dollars, purchased 86 acres in Hartland,Vermont from Ebenezer Pike. On 27 April 1816, Leonard Spalding of Hartland, inconsideration of one thousand dollars, conveyed to Dexter Spalding of Hartlanda parcel of 86 acres in Hartland. On the same date, Dexter leased the farm toLeonard for the term of his natural life for payment of one hundred dollars.[1][1] VermontLand Records, Town of Hartland, 6:43, 8:84, 8:86Leonard 6:43 – buying; 8:86 lease and 8:84 withDexterDarius 6:98 buying, 7:281 mortgage, 8:124, 9:237, 9:297,9:189 8:84 and 8:86 Hartland deeds with Leonard andDexterhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-F3CK-K9QC-M?i=241&cat=461696:43 – Hartland – Leonard buyinghttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVG-2QV3?i=385&cat=46169

Identity

There was a somewhat older Leonard Spalding living in Vermont before this Leonard, and it is the older Leonard that had Vermont service during the Revolution.

Biography

Brief mention in the History of Cornish – says hehad six children, not namedhttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/23258/images/dvm_LocHist008956-00418-0?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=778&rcstate=dvm_LocHist008956-00415-1%3A1031%2C2964%2C1389%2C3008%3B460%2C3076%2C765%2C3119Says nothing in the Spalding memorialhttps://archive.org/details/spaldingmemorialcad00spal/page/n161/mode/2up