Known as Apollos Leonard Esq.
Buried in Lot with Apolos Bradford, and Prudence Leonard.
A well respected attorney in both Raynham and Taunton, Apollos Leonard also performed many marriage ceremonies here in town. His wife was named Prudence White. He is also remembered for his eyewitness account of the "Dark Day" of May 19, 1780. It was so dark that "about 12 o'clock at noon [he] lighted a candle to get dinner and dine: by about one the darkness increased greatly -- continued to grow darker until half-past one o'clock..." until it was as dark "as at any time in the night." It abated by 2:00, and by 3:30 the day's light had returned to normal, although he reported an unusually dark night despite the moon's being full.
(Plain Cemetery, Walking Tour, October 15, 2006, pamphlet booklet, VP691C, Old Colony Historical Society, 66 Church Green, Taunton, MA 02780
Buried in Lot with Apolos Bradford, and Prudence Leonard.
A well respected attorney in both Raynham and Taunton, Apollos Leonard also performed many marriage ceremonies here in town. His wife was named Prudence White. He is also remembered for his eyewitness account of the "Dark Day" of May 19, 1780. It was so dark that "about 12 o'clock at noon [he] lighted a candle to get dinner and dine: by about one the darkness increased greatly -- continued to grow darker until half-past one o'clock..." until it was as dark "as at any time in the night." It abated by 2:00, and by 3:30 the day's light had returned to normal, although he reported an unusually dark night despite the moon's being full.
(Plain Cemetery, Walking Tour, October 15, 2006, pamphlet booklet, VP691C, Old Colony Historical Society, 66 Church Green, Taunton, MA 02780
Known as Apollos Leonard Esq.
Buried in Lot with Apolos Bradford, and Prudence Leonard.
A well respected attorney in both Raynham and Taunton, Apollos Leonard also performed many marriage ceremonies here in town. His wife was named Prudence White. He is also remembered for his eyewitness account of the "Dark Day" of May 19, 1780. It was so dark that "about 12 o'clock at noon [he] lighted a candle to get dinner and dine: by about one the darkness increased greatly -- continued to grow darker until half-past one o'clock..." until it was as dark "as at any time in the night." It abated by 2:00, and by 3:30 the day's light had returned to normal, although he reported an unusually dark night despite the moon's being full.
(Plain Cemetery, Walking Tour, October 15, 2006, pamphlet booklet, VP691C, Old Colony Historical Society, 66 Church Green, Taunton, MA 02780
Buried in Lot with Apolos Bradford, and Prudence Leonard.
A well respected attorney in both Raynham and Taunton, Apollos Leonard also performed many marriage ceremonies here in town. His wife was named Prudence White. He is also remembered for his eyewitness account of the "Dark Day" of May 19, 1780. It was so dark that "about 12 o'clock at noon [he] lighted a candle to get dinner and dine: by about one the darkness increased greatly -- continued to grow darker until half-past one o'clock..." until it was as dark "as at any time in the night." It abated by 2:00, and by 3:30 the day's light had returned to normal, although he reported an unusually dark night despite the moon's being full.
(Plain Cemetery, Walking Tour, October 15, 2006, pamphlet booklet, VP691C, Old Colony Historical Society, 66 Church Green, Taunton, MA 02780
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This monument is erected
in memory of Apollos Leonard, Esq
who was born Aug. 3d, 1744 and
died Mch 11, 1799
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