Born about in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Leonard
— married
12 Nov 1640 in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Wife of
Benjamin Parsons
— married
21 Feb 1677 in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Wife of
Peter Tilton Esq
— married
3 Nov 1690 in Springfield, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Mother of
Joseph Leonard, Sarah (Leonard) Keep, Mary (Leonard) Bliss, Martha (Leonard) Waite, Lydia (Leonard) Bedortha, Benjamin Leonard I, Abel Leonard, Josiah Leonard, Hannah (Leonard) Denton, Rebecca (Leonard) Billings, Deborah (Leonard) Luff and Rachel (Leonard) Hancock
Died
at about age 88
in Springfield, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Disputed Origins
Sarah was not a child of John Heald and Dorothy Royle, and she was probably not born at Berwick-Upon-Tweed. She may have been born in one of the Berwicks in southern England. John Heald's family has been well documented.
Biography
Sarah Heald was born in about 1623 in England. Sarah passed away 23 November 1711 Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [1]
Her maiden name could have been Healy. But she was Sarah Heath according to the marriage record [2]
Sarah Heald's origins are unknown. There were no Heald families in early Springfield. Donald Lines Jacobus speculated that she may have been brought by a relative or been an indentured servant. He also notes that Gershom Hale or Heald, son of John Heald of Concord settled in Springfield a generation later, and its possible that she was a sister of John.[3]
Death
- Death 23 NOV 1711 Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts[4]
Marriages
- Marriage 1 John Leonard b: 1615 on 12 NOV 1640, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts[5][6][7]
- Marriage 2 on 21 Feb. 1676 [1676/7], Deacon Benjamin Parsons, who died at Springfield, 24 Aug. 1689;
- Marriage 3 at Springfield, 3 Nov. 1690, Deacon Peter Tilton, who died at Hadley, Mass., 11 July 1696. [8]
Children by John Leonard
- John Leonard b: 1644
- Mary Leonard b: 14 Sep 1647 in Springfield MA
- Benjamin Leonard b: 5 Sep 1654 in Springfield MA
Sources
- ↑ http://www.usgennet.org/family/bliss/features/2002/july/leonard.htm
- ↑ "A Record of the Descendants of Simon Henry & Rhoda Parsons" by Frederick Augustus Henry page 52a publ 1905 Cleveland, Ohio J. B. Savage Press.
- ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1952); Pages 678-9.
- ↑ "A Record of the Descendants of Simon Henry & Rhoda Parsons" by Frederick Augustus Henry page 52a publ 1905 Cleveland, Ohio J. B. Savage Press.
- ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPJJ-PZZ
- ↑ GS Film 185414 Springfield, MA
- ↑ "A Record of the Descendants of Simon Henry & Rhoda Parsons" by Frederick Augustus Henry page 52a publ 1905 Cleveland, Ohio J. B. Savage Press.
- ↑ Hale, House, and related families, mainly of the Connecticut ... Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970.https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=wu.89066151523;seq=700;num=678
See also:
- "A Record of the Descendants of Simon Henry & Rhoda Parsons" by Frederick Augustus Henry publ 1905 Cleveland, Ohio J. B. Savage Press.
- Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=12167402&pid=1146876238
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Here on WikiTree, she ought to be 'Sarah Tilton formerly Heath aka Parsons, Leonard' -- right?
We can move the Heath, Heald, Healy bit out of the names database into the bio, right?
As an aside, Heald is an ancient Anglo-Saxon word and name. Heald and Heath are basically the same thing. (Healy is probably a different name, but maybe not: the ancient letter thorn þ (-th) had by then morphed into Y, to simplify mechanical printing lettersets, but the English were still vocalizing as -th. Over time, this nuance was lost and the named spelled H-e-a-l-y began to be pronoucned with an 'ee' sound at the end, rather than the older 'th'. Similarly, for example, Ye Olde is STILL TODAY properly pronounced 'the old' not 'yee old' but try telling that to an American tourist or antique merchant.)
Compare to Weald/Wald from which we debatably get the modern word Commonwealth, for which the orthodox etymology is Common-Wealth (ie public good); but is alternately explained by Anglo-Saxon property concept of a common (and so the economic concept of a Tragedy Of The Commons, when selfishly chopped up with fences) as a non-private woody area. For shared hunting and forestry etc. For those of you in Boston, this common theory was famously put into practice with the Boston Common for public grazing, upon what was originally a (wait for it) a Heald. And, all this time later, half the roads in Boston are still nightmarish to navigate because they were laid out by cows walking home to the barn from said common. Or so the story goes, ha!