 1590 - 1652
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| Name |
William Heath |
| Born |
1590 |
- Baptism not found at Ware, Hert.; Peter Walne, County Archivist for Hertfordshire, suggests that William may have been born at Great Amwell during the period between Oct 1586 and May 1590, when there is a gap in the records.
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| Gender |
Male |
| Will |
28 May 1652 |
Suffolk Co, Massachusetts  |
- "The last Will & Testamt of Willm Heath of Roxbury in manner and forme the following.
Item I give unto my loving wife during her natural life ye newe end of my house that I now dwell in both above & below and half the g:eat barne and half the barne yard Togeither wth all my Arable land and meadowe that I am nowe possessed of Togeither wth all my Cattell & moveable goods upon this Condition following ffirst that shee shall pay all my debts, secondly that shee shall pay my daughter Mary Spere Tenne pounds wthin one yeare after my death. Thirdly that shee shall pay my daughter Hanna Tenne pounds wthin two yeares after my death. And when shee hath paid all my debts & legacies the remainder of the benefitt I give wholley unto my wife as better expressed during her naturall life and I doe make her my whole executrix.
Item 2ly. I give unto my son Isaac prsently to possesse the old end of my dwelling house" &c. After death of wife "my two soones shall have all my howse and lands in Roxbury" "sonne Isaac my eldest sonne a double prcon and my son Pelig a single porcon."
"Item 3ly I give unto my daughter Mary that I had by my ffirst wife fforty shillings a yere out of all my lands to be paid by both my sonns that is to say my sonne Isacke to pay twenty shillings a yere & my sonne Pelig twenty shillings a yere during the whole tyme of her natural life and they to begin at the tyme of their mother's death and they enter on the land and I doe intreate my wife in the meane season to have a motherly care over hir and see yt shee want nothing that is convenient for hir.
And I doe intreate my three friends that is to say my deare brother elder Heath John Rugles & Phillip Elliott to see this my will formed & my lands equally devided according to ye true intent of this my last will.
Wtnes Isaac Heath Phillip Elliott John Rugles
The X mrk of
Willm Heath
21 day 8mo 1652 taken upon Oath by Phillip Elliott John Rugles to be the will of Willm Heath as above before me John Glover.
The Magistrates approve of this will so as they bringe in the inventory by the next Court. 17 Nov 1652 Edward Rawson Recorder.
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| Died |
29 May 1652 |
Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts [1] |
- "William Heath, an able godly & faithful brother died 29 May 1652."
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| Buried |
30 May 1652 |
Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts |
| Notes |
- William Heath embarked from London aboard the Lion 22 June 1632 from England, arrived in Boston on September 16. With him were Mrs. Mary Heath and Isaac, Mary, and Anna. He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was freeman 4 March 1632/3; Court Commissioner and deputy 1634; representative for Roxbury in the colony's first General Court on May 14, 1634; and in the courts of 1637, 1639 to 1642 and in 1645 for Dover.
In Rev. John Elliot's record, "William Heath, he came to this Land. in the yeare 1632. & soone after joyned to the church, he brought 5 children. Mary. Isaak. Mary. Peleg. Hanah.
Mary Heath the wife of William Heath."
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| Person ID |
I35239 |
Bryant |
| Last Modified |
24 Nov 2006 |
| Father |
William Heath, b. 1551, probably, Ware, Hertfordshire, England , d. Abt 06 Jan 1624/25, Ware End, Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England |
| Mother |
Agnes Cheney, b. Abt 1560, probably, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England |
| Married |
09 Jun 1580 |
Waltham Abbey, Essex, England [2] |
- William Heth, of Ware, and Agnes Cheney.
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| Family ID |
F2684 |
Group Sheet |
| Family 2 |
Mary Perry, d. Dec 1659, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts |
| Married |
22 Jan 1622/23 |
Gilston, Hertfordshire, England [1, 3, 5] |
| Children |
| | 1. dau. Heath, d. Nov 1623, Ware, Hertfordshire, England |
| | 2. Peleg Heath, d. 18 Nov 1671, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts |
| | 3. Mary Heath, d. 07 Dec 1674, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts |
| | 4. Hannah Heath, d. 28 Nov 1658, Dorchester, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts |
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| Family ID |
F2683 |
Group Sheet |
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| Sources |
- [S260] GMB, Anderson, Robert Charles, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995), p. 902.
- [S397] Memorials of the Pilgrim Fathers, Winters, William, (Waltham Abbey, Essex, 1882), p. 57-60.
- [S13] NEHGR, NEHGR, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 132:20.
- [S261] Ancestry of Eva Kempton, Smith, Dean Crawford & Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1996), p. 195.
- [S348] William Heath of Roxbury, Giorgi, Valerie Dyer, (Privately, Santa Maria, California, 1993), p. 1.
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