Peleg Heath

1747 - 1786

• Name	Peleg Heath
  Born	23 Mar 1747	Warren, Bristol Co, Rhode Island   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1782	Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  	HEATH, PELEG State: RI Year: 1782 County: Bristol County Record Type: Tax List Township: Barrington Township Page: Database: RI Early Census Index
  Died	04 Jul 1786	Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Buried	Prince's Hill Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  	In Memory of Major Peleg Heath, Second Son of Rev. Peleg Heath and Jerusha his Wife. Born April 8, 1747, O. S. Died July 4, 1786, in the 40th year of his age. "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches."
  Notes	Peleg Heath BLW #957-200-5 (From Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files) Lieutenant in the Connecticut line Peleg Heath, wife Annar (W24428), Rhode Island Line. Soldier was son of Peleg Heath, Sr. and lived at Barrington, RI when son enlisted. Soldier married Annar or Anner (---) 18 Apr 1769 at Barrington, RI & soldier died there in 1786 and his widow applied there 24 Aug 1836 aged 91. Soldier and wife had 5 sons and 1 daughter. A son Peleg was born 31 Mar 1771 at Barrington and in 1836 he lived at Killingly, Conn. Another son Joseph was living in 1836. One Joshua Bicknall of Barrington, Rhode Island stated that all but 1 of the soldiers children were born before the Revolutionary War and he stated his father married the soldier's mother (neither named). Spencer & Sullivan Expedition. Peleg was a Major. The demoralizing effect of recurrent Indian raids on the settler in western New York and the valley of the Susquehanna led to vigorous retaliatory measures in the summer of 1779. Acting under orders of Congress, Washington directed Daniel Brodhead to march from Fort Pitt up the Allegheny River, while a larger expedition under Sullivan ascended the Susquehanna and Wyoming valleys. Their instructions were to destroy all Indian villages and crops belonging to the Six Nations, to engage the Indian and Tory marauders under Brandt and Butler whenever possible, and to drive them so far west that future raids would be impossible. These operations consumed three months, during which the main army remained for the most part inactive near the Hudson above New York, waiting for Clinton to make the next move. In the South Lincoln, with the support of D'Estaing's fleet, laid siege to Savannah, but failed to rout the British from the city. page 283 Heath, Peleg (R. I.). Ensign of Richmond's Rhode Island State Regiment, 1st November, 1775, to June, 1776; 1st Lieutenant 3d Connecticut, 1st January, 1777; Captain Lieutenant, 1st May, 1779; retired 1st January, 1781. (Died 1786.) !American Biographical Library The Biographical Cyclopµdia of American Women Volume II Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution Alphabetical List of Officers of the Continental Army
  Person ID	I44180	Bryant
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2004

  
  

  Father	Peleg Heath,   b. 26 Jul 1700, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts ,   d. 05 Oct 1748, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Mother	Jerusha Peck,   b. 18 Nov 1724, Rehoboth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts ,   d. 09 Apr 1763, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Married	08 Dec 1743	Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island   [2, 3]
  	Rev. Peleg and Jerusha Peck, married by Josiah Howland, Justice. Jerusha Peck, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Brown) Peck, was born November 16, 1724. She married (first) December 8, 1743, Rev. Peleg Heath, by whom she had two sons: Nathaniel, born January 29, 1745, and Peleg, born April 8, 1747, both of whom were active in the military service during the revolution. She married (second) Joshua Bicknell. (New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV, page 1693-1694).
  Family ID	F2966	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Anna(r) Kent,   b. 17 Apr 1745, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. Aft 1840
  Married	18 Apr 1769	Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Children	1. Peleg Heath,   b. 31 Mar 1771, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. 06 May 1857, Putnam, Windham Co, Connecticut   2. Mary Heath,   b. 07 Sep 1772, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. 09 Jan 1775, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island   3. Joseph Heath,   b. 1774, Rhode Island ,   d. 10 Jan 1844, Killingly, Windham Co, Connecticut   4. Jabez Heath,   b. 16 Apr 1781, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. 07 Jun 1870, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island   5. Winchester Heath,   b. 30 Jun 1783, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. 26 Jul 1825, Bristol Co, Rhode Island   6. Mary Heath,   b. c. 1778, Rhode Island   7. Benjamin Heath,   b. 1785, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. 19 Feb 1822, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F2555	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 23 Mar 1747 - Warren, Bristol Co, Rhode Island Married - 18 Apr 1769 - Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island Census - 1782 - Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island Died - 04 Jul 1786 - Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island Buried - - Prince's Hill Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S151] Arnold, RI Vital records, Arnold, James N., (Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, 1891-1912), Warren: 71. [S151] Arnold, RI Vital records, Arnold, James N., (Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, 1891-1912), Barrington: 11. [S317] Bicknell Genealogy, Bicknell, Thomas Williams, (Privately Published, Rhode Island, 1913), p.36.