Born to Moses Leonard and Mercy Newton, her mother dying in her childbirth.

A COLONIAL DAME- from the Vermonter - A State Newspaper 1901-
By Rev. Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1828-1904) (President of Howard University, Washington, DC)

PHE Society of Colonial Dames is a modern one. But the character is as ancient as the settlers of the New World. Captain Samuel Robinson, the pioneer settler of Bennington, Vermont, was favored of God in having such a woman as his wife, and the mother of his ten children. Her maiden name was Marcy Leonard. Himself, a strong-minded, energetic man, pronounced in his religious opinions, determined in his maintenance of his rights of manhood and citizenship, in Mrs. Robinson, he had a helpmate, exactly fitted to his necessities and those of his young family. When he set sail from New York for Falmouth, England, on December 25th, 1766, to represent the rights of the New Hampshire grantees of Bennington and the neighboring towns, at the Court of George III, he little thought that his associate in that errand, Hon. Wm. S. Johnson, would on the second of the following November write a letter of condolence to his widow, on the occasion of his death. At this time, the nine children—one had died at eleven years of age—were Leonard, 31 years old; Samuel, 29 years old; Moses, 26 years old; Silas, 21 years old; Marcy, 19 years old; Sarah, 16 years old; David, 13 years old; Jonathan, 9 years old; and Anna, 8 years old; six sons and three daughters. This family of Mrs. Marcy Leonard Robinson constituted a Christian Colony of which the heroine mother stood at the head. If the Church needed a prayer-meeting, she opened her doors on week day, and on Sunday noons, and the prayer-meeting was held in her house. These her children were brought up in a Christian atmosphere; an atmosphere of patriotism, an atmosphere of enterprise and industry. The crown of parents is their children. As we walk the heights of Bennington Centre, and read the names recorded on the many ancient tablets in the Lord's Acre there, as we recall the heroic names and heroic deeds that will always seem to focus there, the Colonial Dames can never be forgotten. And eminent among them must always be that heroic woman, Mrs. Marcy Robinson, who showed herself so adequate to the duties of a Christian mother; to whom it was given of God to educate a household, whose descendants, will to the end of time, rise up and call her blessed. We will remember them. The living, the dead, who have devoted themselves to the work of perpetuating the Society of Colonial Dames, have entered into sympathy with them, and deserve to be classified with them in honor. Twenty-eight years after Capt. Samuel Robinson's death, his wife lived in the widow's sacred state, filling up that which was behind in the work of her noble husband, whose dust sleeps in a London churchyard, but whose works follow him and her, and will do so forever.