Are the Leeds of Northamption related to the Leeds of Dorchester? In the article "Register of the Deaths in Northampton, MS, from its First Settlement in 1653 to 1700," NEHGR, vol. 3, April 1849, p. 176, I find the following statement: "1663, March 7, Child of Joseph Leeds: 4 April, Miriam Leeds." I have a Joseph Leeds and Miriam Leeds in my direct ancestry. They married November 08, 1661 (Dorchester VRs, p. 20). She was the daughter of Aaron Cooke of Dorchester and Northampton. Then they seem to disappear for at least 18 years, when children born to a Joseph Leeds start to appear. Their deaths are also recorded in Dorchester, his on January 28, 1714/15, and hers on August 23, 1720. Are any of the numerous children born in Dorchester between 1679 and 1702 those of the Joseph Leeds who married Miriam? Are the births of any children to Joseph and Miriam Cooke Leeds recorded in Northampton? Is there another Joseph Leeds complicating the issue? Some of the children attributed by the Dorchester VRs to Joseph Leeds are born too late to be those of Miriam (and she died after her husband, so there was no second wife). Some seem born a bit too early to be her grandchildren. Are the Leeds of Northampton of the same family as those of Dorchester? My copy of Thomas Bridgman's "Inscriptions on the Grave Stones in the Grave Yards of Northamption and Other Towns in the Valley of the Connecticut..." shows no Leeds in the index. What happened to the Leeds of Northampton? Kendall Mellem