Daniel Leonard (18 May 1740 – 27 June 1829) was a lawyer from colonial Massachusetts and a loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.
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Daniel Leonard was born in Norton, Massachusetts in 1740 to a prominent family, and he practiced law in Taunton. In 1774, he was appointed to the governing council of Massachusetts by Governor Thomas Hutchinson, and he became a staunch loyalist, writing a series of letters in support of royal government under the pseudonym "Massachusettensis". He left Boston in 1776 during the British evacuation, and he served as Chief Justice of Bermuda from 1782 to 1806. He died in 1829.