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]).