1William Richard Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 365 (1908).
"(II) John Leavens, the eldest son of John Leavens, was born in Roxbury, April 27, 1640, died in 1696, in Woodstock, where he settled. Woodstock was at that time a part of Massachusetts, but is now a Connecticut town. He married (first), June 17, 1665, Hannah Wood, who died in 1666. He married (second), November 23, 1674, Elizabeth Preston, daughter of Edward Preston, of New Haven, Connecticut.".