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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Huldah Leach, wife of Larkin Thorndike, died 1790, Beverly, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Street Burial Ground in Beverly, Massachusetts.


In Memory of
Mrs Huldah Thorndike
Consort of
Colo Larkin Thorndike
& daugr of
Major John Leach
who departed this life
Augt 21st 1790: In
the 50th year of her age.

Happy exchange, to part with all below
For worlds of bliss, where joys unceasing flow.

Huldah, daughter of Major John Leach and Rachel Putnam, was born 29 July 1740 in Beverly, Masssachusetts, and died 21 August 1790 in Beverly. She married Colonel Larkin Thorndike, as his second wife.  He was the son of John Thorndike and Elizabeth Ober.  Colonel Thorndike led the first company of foot soldiers from Beverly to Lexington for the alarm in 1775.  He was made Colonel of the 8th regiment (Essex County) in 1777, resigned and then accepted a position as Colonel in Brigadier General Jonathan Titcomb's regiment.  He was married first to Ruth Woodbury (seven children), and third to Mary Jewett.  

Huldah and John Leach were second cousins, both descended from their great grandparents Israel Porter and Elizabeth Hathorne, and she is my distant cousin.  I descend from her LEACH, PUTNAM and FLINT ancestors.  I also am related to her husband, Larkin Thorndike, from our common THORNDIKE, WOODBURY and DIXEY ancestors. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Huldah Leach, wife of Larkin Thorndike, died 1790, Beverly, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 25, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/02/huldah-leach-wife-of-larkin-thorndike.html: accessed [access date]). 

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