Abbreviations used
Date February 9 1884
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
The Leonards of New England and New Jersey were of common origion. Among the Loyalists of New Jersey whose property was confiscated were Thomas LEONARD, a citizen of Freehold, Monmouth Co., N.J., who is supposed to be the one numbered 1 of the grantees at Parr Town and his sons John LEONARD, Joseph LEONARD of Shrewsbury and Samuel LEONARD of Dover, all of the same county. (see original - Ancestry of the First Families of St. John, N.B. by Edwin Salter, Washington, D.C.)