1. | Jacob Heath was born on 19 May 1789 in Kingwood Twp, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died on 27 Jan 1875 in Baptisttown, Kingwood, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey. Notes:
Jacob was bequeathed two-hundred dollars by his father, to be applied against the loan of four-hundred dollars for the purchase of a farm by Jacob twenty years previously, leaving a debt of two-hundred dollars to be paid to Richard's estate by acob. He was also to receive a portion of the residue of the estate.The tombstones marking the graves of Jacob and Lavinia have been removed from the small cemetery by the Baptistown Church and have been stored in the church basement; pictures of all the grave markers were taken before their removal and are being kept with the church records. Jacob and Lavinia lived on the road leading from Kingwood to Locktown,and living with them in 1850 was Mary E. Roberson,age 16.
Jacob married Lavinia Rittenhouse on 15 Apr 1817 in Hunterdon Co, New Jersey. Lavinia (daughter of Benjamin Rittenhouse, Jr. and Elizabeth Roberson) was born on 15 Jul 1798 in Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died on 15 May 1865 in Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; was buried in Baptistown Cem, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Elizabeth Ann Heath
was born on 8 Aug 1820 in Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; died on 23 Jun 1890 in Rosemont, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey; was buried in Rosemont, Hunterdon Co, New Jersey.
- 3. Richard Heath
was born on 24 Dec 1825; died on 17 Sep 1850.
- 4. Gertrude Heath
was born about 1828; died after 1890.
- 5. Daniel Rittenhouse Heath
was born on 29 May 1833 in Belle Plaine, Kansas; died on 1 May 1890 in Belle Plaine, Kansas.
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