Asa Heath (1754 - 1835)

Born 2 Oct 1754 in Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Stevens) Heath — married before 1779 in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 29 Apr 1835 at age 80 in Candia, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Asa Heath was born on 2 Oct 1754 in what would later be Sandown, Rockingham, New Hampshire.^[1] His parents were Moses Heath (1725 - 1807) and Sarah (Flanders) Heath (1732 - ).^[1] His sister was Elizabeth Heath.

Asa was living in Sandown when the 1776 census was taken.^[2] He married Abigail Stevens (1753 - 1849) in 1779 in Rockingham County. Their children were...

1. David Heath (1779 - 1835)
2. Asa Heath Jr (1781 - 1831)
3. Abigail (Heath) Griffin (1781 - >1860)
4. Elizabeth (Heath) Merrill (~1781 - 1840)
5. Mary (Heath) Davis (1786 - 1858).

Asa died on 29 Apr 1835 in Candia, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States aged 80.

Ancestor Timeline

Heath Ancestor Timeline

Research Notes

• Sandown was incorporated from Kingston two years after his birth.^[3]
• bp. June 3, 1755 Kingston, NH
• Search for his marriage, or children's births
  • Candia vital records 1754-1858 Volume E or G. No Heath records.
  • Hampstead: A lot of Heath records. People from Candia and Hampstead. Marriages 1770. 20 year gap at 1776.
  • Hampstead: Typed list, 1731-1862. Births in Alphabetical order. Start of Heath births. None for the children of Asa Heath.
  • Plaistow: 1726-1875. Start of Heath records. No Asa Heath children.
  • Raymond: Births on FamilySearch don't start until 1812. Deaths in that same book start in 1795.
  • Sandown: His parents and what may be two brothers had their children in Sandown. His marriage and his children's births were not in the Sandown records Volume 1.
  • Sandown vital records in Volume 2. No male Heath vital records. (Silva-1055 23:41, 30 October 2021 (UTC))

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "New Hampshire, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org : accessed 30 October 2021), Rockingham > Sandown > Town records 1759-1789 vol 1 > image 205 of 222; New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Statistics, Concord.
2. ↑ Holbrook, Jay Mack. "New Hampshire 1776 Census" (MI: Holbrook Research Institute, 1976), p. 71.
3. ↑ Sandown, New Hampshire on Wikipedia: Once part of Kingston, Sandown was incorporated as a separate town in 1756 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth.

• Dunbar, Edith. The Flanders Family from Europe to America (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, VT, 1935) Page 116

• "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLPG-BQ9 : 12 December 2014), Asa Heath, 02 Oct 1754; citing Sandown, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,946.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2F-B64X : 13 December 2015), Asa Heath, 1835; Burial, Candia, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States of America, East Candia Cemetery; citing Find A Grave: Memorial #66184184 retrieved 23 Jan 2018

See Also

• Kingsbury, Henry D. "Illustrated History of Kennebec County, Maine, Volume 2" (IL: University of Illinois, 1892), p. 759. (on Google Books)