Andrew Shelton Heath, I

Notes:

Andrew was the eldest son and inherited his father's large estate under the prevailing law of primogeniture. He gave his brother, John, a farm on the east side of his plantation and to his brother, Richard, a farm on the west side. Andrew lived on the plantation in the central portion with his mother, Magdalene, until her marriage to Uriah Bonham (Aug 30, 1780) at which time he sold his property and moved to Virginia. He bought on the tenth of March 1775, five hundred acres of land in Loudon County, Virginia lying on Elk Creek Run a branch of Bull Run. This was adjacent to the Hutchison property.
On 12 Jun 1785 he bought 50 acres, in Feb 1797 he bought 210 acres in Loudoun County and 350 acres in Prince William County; just across from Bull Run. He sold this land to his son Isaac in October 1896. Andrew's will dated 8 November 1817 is recorded in Loudoun County, Virginia. His wife, Hannah, preceded him in death.

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From: carolyn gutermuth
Date: 1/23/2009 11:10:41 PM
To: lumoto2@msn.com
Subject: HEATH-SHERMAN

Hi, I seen your posting on the internet from back in 2002. I am not sure how far you have gotten with your research but I figured I would let you know I have and am researching the Heath family. Andrew Heath Sr born in Pa in 1700's and died about 1817 Loudoun County Virginia. He married Hannah Smalley. He had numerous children and one was a Andrew Shelton Heath. Well I have traced this line so far from Huntington Pa to Loudoun County Virginia to Warren County Virginia and back into Pennsylvania. Currently I am working on a Andrew Shelton Heath born abt 1801 Virginia and died possibly in Warren County between 1870-1880. It appears his wife Lucinda and some of his sons moved into Pennsylvania. Andrew Shelton Heath son of said Andrew born abt 1801 Virginia was born abt 1854 Virginia probably Page County or Warren County Virginia I can not seem to find him after the 1860 Census. Now his brothers Charles H, James W, Thomas J looks like they went into Pennsylvania. I am not sure if any went into New Jersey or not as I am still working on this Heath family. It has been a long process for me. Any information you may have on this family to share with me would be much appreciated. Thanks Carolyn

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From: carolyn gutermuth
Date: 1/24/2009 3:10:32 PM
To: Sherry
Subject: Re: Fw: HEATH-SHERMAN
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Now as far as Andrew Heath the father of Isaac and husband of Hannah Smalley came to Loudoun before 1780 as he purchased 500 acres of land in 1775 from Nimrod Hott. I have the deed and have traced this 500 Acres in Loudoun up to 1825 who Thomas Buck purchased 250 acres of the 500 and Lydia Heath daughter of Andrew and Hannah purchased the other 250 acres. If this Eliza Sarah you speak of is related to this Heath line Andrew and Hannah, then the only sons of them to of had her in 1812 would of been Andrew Shelton Heath born abt 1780 thereabout wife unknown and Isaac Heath and Sarah Rogers those are the only 2 males that are sons of Hannah Smalley and Andrew that would of been in line for that birth year. Now Andrew S Heath born abt 1780 I do not know anything about him except he died in 1841. I am not sure if he married or had any children. It appears he did not as I have the will of his father, sister Lydia Heath and sister Ruhamah Heath McKim Buck an there is no mention of any of his children or his wife if he had married at that time.


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Unidentified family:
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John Heath b 8 May 1758 VA
Sarah Ewell b abt 1768 VA d aft 1797 VA
d/o James Ewell b 17 Nov 1746 VA, d Oct 1809 VA and Mary
m Dec 30, 1785


Children:
1. Richard Selden (Shelton???) Heath
b abt 1795 VA, d 2 Jul 1817
m Hull abt 1815
2. John Heath b abt 1795 VA
m (..) Deakin abt 1815
3. Mary Ann Maria Heath b abt 1795, d 26 Mar 1846
m George Cook abt 1814
4 James Ewell Heath b 8 Jul 1791 d 28 Jun 1862 -
m Fannie Weems abt 1812
m Elizabeth Ann Macon abt 1820

Andrew married Hannah Smalley about 1767 in Hunterdon Co, New Jersey. Hannah (daughter of Isaac Smalley and Susannah Drake) was born about 1747; died before 1817 in Loudoun Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isaac Heath was born on 7 Oct 1768 in Delaware Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died in 1849 in Prince William Co, Virginia.
2. Catherine Heath was born about 1769 in Delaware Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died before 24 Aug 1815.
3. Reuhamah Heath was born about 1775 in Delaware Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died in 1851.
4. Sarah Heath was born about 1777 in Delaware Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died after 1778.
5. Andrew Shelton Heath, II was born about 1779 in Delaware Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died in 1841.
6. Lydia Heath was born about 1781 in Loudoun or Prince Wm Co, Virginia; died on 17 Aug 1837 in Loudoun Co, Virginia.

Notes:

Andrew was under the age of twenty-five when he inherited land in Delaware Township, from his father. During the Revolution he served as a private. Based, probably on family tradition, James P. Snell in " The History of Hunterdon & Somerset Couties" states that Andrew served in place of his drafted son, Richard, believing him too young to serve. On march with his company to headquarters Andrew was engaged in a fray with some Tories. It being a hot day he drank a quantity of water and buttermilk at a farmhouse and died suddenly a few hours later, leaving a wife, three son and four daughters. He died prior to 21 Jul 1777 when letters of administration were granted at Hopewell. Magdalene later married Uriah Bonham, who together with Daniel Howell conducted the inventory of Andrew's personal estate which was valued at 226.13 pounds. Uriah and Magdaline lived in KingwoodTownship. In his will, dated 24 May 1803, probated 4 May 1809, Uriah left his wife the whole and sole privilege for use of his dwelling house, together with his whole plantation during the time she remained a widow. In addition to the bequests to his children and grand-children, he also left money beguests to Andrew Heath and his four sisters.

REFERENCES; DAR Patriot Index

Official Register of thr Officers & Men in thr Revolution
W.S. Stryker, 1872, pg. 624

Andrew married Magdalene (..) Heath, Mrs about 1745 in Hunterdon, New Jersey. Magdalene was born about 1724; died after 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Andrew had land at Malazadock and was living in Amwell Township as early as the first of March 1724/25 when he was appointed administrator of his brother John's estate. On 9 October 1738 Andrew's name appears on the poll of freeholders to select a representative to serve in the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey. Andrew's will named his wife Mary, executrix;she was given the use of one-third of his estate during her lifetime. Andrew and Mary had four daughters and five sons, the later all under the age of 21 at the time of Andrew's death.
REFERENCES; History of Hunterdon & Somerset Counties;, New Jersey
Snell, pgs; 192,371

Wills of New Jersey, Liber 5; pg 209
Liber 18; pg. 606

Early Germans of New Jersey
Chambers, pgs; 398-400

DAR Patriot Index, pg 319

Andrew married Mary (..) Heath about 1720. Mary was born about 1700; died after 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Andrew Heath, the progenitor of the Hunterdon County family, emigrated to the Colonies from Staffordshire, England in 1682. He arrived in Bucks County, Penna., on 28 July 1682. He came with William Yardley, Yardley's wife Jane Heath Yardley and their three children,Enoch, Thomas and William. They had been passengers on the ship "Friends Adventure". Andrew came as a bonded servant to William Yardley, a minister among the Friends who had been imprisoned several times. There is an assumption that Andrew was the nephew of Mrs. Yardley. They settled in Lower Makefield Township on a large tract of land, the site of Yardleyville, the name later shortened to Yardley. On 29 July 1686 Yardley released Andrew after four years of bonded service, giving him fifty acres of land plus wages, the condition under which all indentured servants were brought from England at the time.

Andrew's name appears several times in the Bucks County Court Book between 1685and 1699 as a witness, lawyer, etc. In one case he brought charges against a man for selling whiskey to an indian. The last time his name appears in the Court Books in 1699 at which time Andrew, his step-daughter, Joyce, and her husband John Richardson conveyed four hundred acres in Bucks County to John Snowden.

Andrew moved to New Jersey about 1699 when the deed books show he purchased 1700 acres of land in Burlington County, which became in 1711 Hunterdon County. He purchased the land from John Hutchinson between the years 1699 and 1792. On 04 February 1699 he purchased 420 acres near the Falls of the Delaware(now Trenton) and lived on the farm owned in 1877 by Joseph B. Anderson in the present Ewing Township, Mercer County. The present Trenton State Hospital is situated on a portion of this acreage. Other recorded land purchases in New Jersey by Andrew were: 15 June 1701, 400 acres in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County; 11 November 1708, 200 acres in Glouster County; 22 November 1713, 200 acres and on 14 August 1714, 420 adres along the Delaware River from the Mahlon Stacy estare.

After moving to New Jersey Andrew and his family resided in Hopewell Township,then part of Burlington County. James p. Snell wrote that Hopewell owes its name to Andrew. He and several other men banded together to build a public meeting house, soliciting and obtaining several acres of land from Thomas Hutghinson in 1703. A log church was built, called Hopewell Church, the first Episcopal Church in the area. The ministers were circuit riders, traveling into New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It was in 1705 that one of the ministers baptized four of Andrew's children: Andrew, Elizabeth, John and Sarah. In 1725 St, Michael's Church in Trenton was established, absorbing the Hopewell Church.The old burying ground near the State Hospital was on the easterly side of the highway in Ewing Township between the houses of John Hutchinson and Andrew Heath.

Andrew's parentage remains questionable, but P.W. Adams records that an Andrew Heath. the son of Roger and his second wife, Jane, was baptized on 14 April 1667 at St. John the Baptist Church in Burselm, Staffordshire, England. Roger Heath, the son of William and Margaret Heath was baptized on 12 March 1619/20, and on 07 December 1652 he married first Mary Simpson who died in 1665 leaving two sons. Roger later married Jane in 1666 and Andrew was the first born of the second marriage. It is quite possible Roger and Jane were our subject's parents since Busselm and Leeke, William Yardley's hometown are closely situated, and Yardlry's wife, Jane Heath was related to Andrew, perhaps his aunt. It should be noted however, that none of Andrew's children were named after the presumed parents or grand-parents, which is contrary to the custom of the time.

If Andrew was baptized in 1667 he wa probably about fifteen years old when he left England. His indenture to Yardley could have been arranged in order to pay for his passage, then common practice, and also to have assurance of a home and a guardian in the New World. According to T.F. Chambers there was a tradition that there were four brothers who emigrated , one being Andrew. Presumably one brother was killed in a quarrel at Trenton and another went to Canada; no other record has been found to substantiate this contention.

John Heath, the son of Thomas Heath of Stafford, Staffordshire, England was born there and emigrated to the colonies in 1741. He lived in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, and his grandson, Daniel, settled in Mine Brook, Somerset County where his descendents remained for several generations. A connecton between the Hunterdon County and Somerset County families is not known but it is not unlikely that they may have a common ancestor in Staffordshire. The Heath family o Burselm were owners of potteries and coal mines.

Andrew's will dated 03 January 1716/17 at Hopewell, probated 29 December 1720, names his wife Hannah(a widow), and her children from a former marriage: Daniel, Samuel and Hannah Clark. It appears that Hannah was his second wife, his first wife being Elizabeth Barret Venables, a widow. Elizabeth, then the wife of William Venables, arrived in the colonies on the same ship as Andrew with her husband and two young daughters, Joyce and Frances. Wiliam Venables died within a year but she apparently did not marry Andrew until after 1688, the year the Bucks County Court Book refers to her as Elizabeth Venables. Since her name does not appear on the deed, she died prior to 1699, the date of the conveyance of the four hundred acres by Andrew and her daughter, Joyce, and Joyce's husband, as mentioned earlier. Andrew's will names his six children in the following order: Martha(under 18), John, Elizabeth, Andrew, Sarah(under 21), and Richard.It has been deduced that four of the children were the issue of his first marriage to Elizabeth Venables.

Andrew was well-known in New Jersey as he had been in Pennsylvania. He was an active man, owning an in, operating a farm, building a church and serving as a Burlington County judge, Meetings of the Court of Commons Pleas and the Quarterly Sessions were held at Andrew's house in Hopewell. On 02 November 1703 he was appointed interpreter by the Council of Proprietors of Burlington County to accompany the West Jersey Proprietors while they negotiated with the Lenni-Lenape Indians above the Falls of the Delaware.



REFERENCES; Court Proceedings of Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1685-1699
Pennsylvania Magazine

Early Germans of New Jersey,
J.P. Chambers, Dover NJ 1895, pg. 398

Fare to Midlands
H. C. Beck , E. P. Dutton, NYC, 1939, pg. 134

Heath Manuscript- William R. Heath
Hunterdon County Historical Society Library

History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Davis, pg.58

History of St. Michael's Church, Trenton, NJ

History of Hunterdon & Somerset Counties NJ
J. P. Snell 1881, pgs. 196,731

History of New Jersey
Buam, Volume I, pg. 91; Volume II, pgs. 313-319

New Jersey Deeds 1699-1703
New Jersey State Library Collection

Notes on Some North Staffordshire Families
Percy W. Adams

Welcome Claimants, Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
George E. McCracken, Drake University

West Jersey Deeds AAA pg.259

Andrew married Elizabeth Barret Venables, Mrs about 1690. Elizabeth was born about 1670 in Lambertville, New Jersey; died before 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]