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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
William Heath |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][3] |
Bef May 1590 |
Ware, Hertfordshire, Englandor Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England |
| Marriage |
10 Feb 1616/17 |
Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, Englandto Mary Cramphorne |
| Marriage |
29 Jan 1622/23 |
Gilston, Hertfordshire, Englandto Mary Perry |
| Emigration[1] |
1632 |
On the Lyon. |
| Residence[1] |
1632 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1][2] |
4 Mar 1632/33 |
Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Will[1] |
28 May 1652 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death[1][2][3] |
29 May 1652 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Probate[1] |
21 Oct 1652 |
Will proved. |
Roxbury church records indicate he came to New England in 1632 and brought 5 children, Mary, Isaac, Mary, Peleg, and Hannah.[4] He was deputy to the General Court for Roxbury several times between 1634 and 1642, as well as a member of numerous committees to consider various town issues.[1]
Estate
In his will dated 28 May 1652 and proved 21 Oct 1652, he named "my loving wife", "my daughter Mary Spere", "my daughter Hannah", "my son Isaac being my eldest son", "my son Pelig", "my daughter Mary that I had by my first wife."
| Lyon (1632)
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| There is some confusion as to the passengers on the Lyon in 1632. Banks listed about 120 passengers. Another list prepared by John Corley in 1984 lists some 350 passengers. [1]
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| Sailed: | 22 Jun 1632 from London, England under Master William Peirce
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| Arrived: | 16 Sep 1632 at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 William Heath, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
2:901-04.
Origin: Nazeing, Essex.
Migration: 1632 on the Lyon [Hotten 150].
Residence: Roxbury.
Church Membership: "He came to this land in the year 1632 & soon after joined to the church [at Roxbury]. He brought 5 children, Mary, Isaac, Mary, Peleg, Hannah" [RChR 75].
Freeman: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367].
Birth: By 1591 [MBCR 3:235, indicating he was 60 in May 1651], son of William and Agnes (Cheney) Heath of Ware, Hertfordshire [NEHGR 146:266-68, 149:173-86]
Death: Roxbury 29 May 1652 ("William Heath, an able godly & faithful brother died" [RChR 175]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:399.
WILLIAM, Roxbury, br. of Elder Isaac, came from London in the Lion, arr. 16 Sept. 1632, with w. Mary and 5 ch. says the ch. rec. of wh. one may have been Mary Spear, d. of his sec. w. by former h. Others were Isaac, Mary, Peleg, and Hannah, all I suppose, by first w.; but who was Martha, that m. 24 July 1643, George Brand, and d. as his wid. 1 Aug. 1686, unless she were his d. and not nam. in this instrum. bec. provid. for in ano. way, is uncert. He was freem. 4 Mar. 1633, rep. at first assemb. of dep. 14 May 1634, 7, 9, to 42, and in 45 for Dover; d. 29 May 1652, "an able, godly, and faithful br." is Eliot's entry in the ch. rec. and his aged wid. Mary d. 15 Dec. 1659. Of his will, made one day bef. his d. large abstr. is in Geneal. Reg. IV. 286.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Richardson, Douglas. The Heath Connection: English Origins of Isaac and William Heath of Roxbury, Massachusetts, John Johnson, Edward Morris, and Elizabeth (Morris) Cartwright. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1992)
146:267-68.
William1 (Heath), baptism not found at Ware, Herts; bur. at Roxbury, Mass., 30 May 1652. Peter Walne, County Archivist for Hertfordshire, suggests that William may have been born at Great Amwell during the period, Oct. 1586 to May 1590, when there is a gap in the records (Register, 122:21). If so, his birth would necessarily be in early to mid-1590, in order to fit his birth between his brothers George and John; such spacing is consistent with the date of his first marriage and the birthdate of his first wife.
- ↑ Great Migration, citing RChR 75
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