Leorard Lispeiiard, the oldest sun of Anthony', rL-uioved from Xew llociieile to the City of A^e^v York before the djatU of his father, as he was the AsiJstaut Aldernuiu of the North "Ward from 17C0 to iTjo, and Aidcnnan of thesatiicl'iom 1~:S to 1762. lie mar. Eljie Rutgers, the daughter of Autliony Ilutgers, of the Kakk Iloak. The residence of 3Ir. Kutgers was the site of the^j/f-vfw? Hospital grounds, where he lived fur man}' years. Leonard Lispeiuird becii:r.e a very prominent citizen of Xew York, and for a period of lifty years was constantly holding ofhees of honor and trust.

la 1765 he was a delegate to the first Congress of the American colonics, held in New York on the 7th Oct., 1765, and represented the colony of New Y'ork with Ilobert B. Livingston, Piiilip Livingston, John Cruger, and ^YilIianl Bayard. Prom 1759 to 176S he was a representative in- the colonial General Assembly of N. Y. Ho was also a member of the Provincial Convention which met in New Y'ork on the 20th April, 1775 ; and on the 23d of May, 1775, was a deputy in the 1st Provincial Congress of New Y'ork. During this period he was or.c of t"he active sons of libert}-. After the death of his fathcr-iii-law, Jlr. Anthony PiUtgers, in 1746, he became the proprietor of that portion of the Rutger estate, afterwards knov.n as the Lispenard Meadows, then in the outskirts of the city, where he built a handsome mansion and resided until his death, on tlie Idth of February, 1790.