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Benjamin Heard

Male 1644 - 1710  (65 years)


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  • Name Benjamin Heard  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] 
    Born 20 Feb 1644  York, York Co., Province of Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1669 
    Cordwainer 
    Residence 1669  Born from founding colonial parents, he is recognized as first generation New England American Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 21 Jun 1669 
    Took an oath of fidelity and admitted as a freeman at the Dover town meeting 
    Property 1670 
    A 40 acre lot located at Fresh Creek on the road from Dover to South Berwick (left to him in his father's will) 
    Occupation 1675 
    Served on the Dover Neck Grand Jury 
    Property 2 Apr 1687 
    Named in his father's will 
    Occupation 1689 
    Served on the Dover Neck Grand Jury 
    Occupation 28 Jun 1689 
    Narrowly escaped the "Cochecho Massacre" at Dover (8 July new style, Gregorian calendar) 
    Occupation 1690 
    Built a house on 60 acres of land at Dover (later known as the Guppy House when it was sold to James Guppy by his grand-son Benjamin on 16 April 1767) 
    Occupation 1694 
    Trial judge 
    Occupation 1695-1696 
    Constable 
    Probate 1710  Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Will 20 Jan 1710  "If ever shee (Hannah) com for it out of her captivity then my son James shall pay her six pounds." Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 22 Jan 1710  Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I202  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father John Heard,   b. 29 Nov 1612, Saint Pancras, Chichester, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jan 1688, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Hull,   b. Abt 1628, Northleigh, Exeter, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Nov 1706, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Married Abt 1642  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1822  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth Roberts,   b. 1641, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1701, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Married 1673  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Benjamin Heard,   b. 1673, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1698, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 25 years)
     2. Elizabeth Heard,   b. 1674, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Lydia Heard,   b. 1677, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1752  (Age 75 years)
     4. Rebecca Heard,   b. 1680, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Hannah Heard,   b. 1681, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jan 1750, Pointe-Claire, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     6. James Heard,   b. 1683, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1748, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     7. Sarah Heard,   b. 1685, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F100  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Ruth Eastman,   b. 21 Jan 1662, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Feb 1725, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Married 23 May 1690  Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Heard,   b. 25 May 1691, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Dec 1753, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
     2. Samuel Heard,   b. 28 Feb 1692, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Sep 1720, Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years)
     3. Ruth Heard,   b. 1697, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1710, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 13 years)
     4. Benjamin Heard,   b. 16 Dec 1702, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Mar 1706, Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F3339  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S109] History of York Maine, Charles Edward Banks, (Peter E. Randall, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1990, originally printed in Boston, 1931), Volume 1, p. 303.

    2. [S101] The History of New Hampshire, edited by John Farmer, Jeremy Belknap, (S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, Dover, N.H., 8 February 1831; George Wadleigh, 1862), 129.

    3. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Vol. 5 (1851), p. 187; Vol. 7 (1853), p. 356 & Vol. 33 (1879), pp. 96, 98.
      Also Vol. 4 (1850), p. 250 & notes on the Dover combination. Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 736. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Vol. Salisbury - V1, p. 387. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, Case #14297, Essex Cases 14000-15999, p. 14297:1.

    4. [S25] The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, (Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1972), 321-322 & 589.

    5. [S194] History of Dover, New Hampshire: Containing Historical, Genealogical and Industrial Data of Its Early Settlers, John Scales, (City Councils, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1923, Heritage Books, Inc., 1977), 305 & 448-449.

    6. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 97.

    7. [S49] Heard-Hurd Genealogy 1610-1987, Charles Samuel Candage and Ralph Ernest Peak, (Picton Press, Camden Maine, 1988), 1-3.

    8. [S198] Dover New Hampshire Marriages 1623-1823, John R. Ham, (Dover, NH, 1880-1902, 1904 edition), 99.

    9. [S182] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage, compiled by O.P. Dexter, (Boston: 1860-1862, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1990), Vol. 2, p. 397.
      Also: Vital Records of Dover, New Hampshire, 1686-1850, Dover Historical Society, Scales and Quimby, Dover, New Hampshire, 1894, p. 113.

    10. [S205] The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, John Wentworth, LL. D., (Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1878), Volume 1, pp. 160 & 504.

    11. [S669] The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1607-1763, Douglas Edward Leach, (Holt Reinhart & Winston, New York, 1966), 110.
      The Penacooks attacked Dover (on 28 June 1689) killing some two dozen people and taking 29 others captive (in retaliation for the 1688 attack by Sir Edmund Andros on Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin's Bagaduce River dwelling at Pentagouët)

    12. [S5] Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH), Université de Montréal.

    13. [S3] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes, Cyprien Tanguay, (Éditions Eusèbe Sénécal, Montréal, 1871-1890), none., Volume 1, p. 9 & Vol. 3, p. 67.
      Également: À travers les registres, Librairie Saint-Joseph, Cadieux & Derome, Montréal, 1886, p. 98.


  

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