Lt. Ephraim HEALD^[1]

1711 - 1802  (91 years)

• Name	Ephraim HEALD
  Title	Lt.
  Prefix	Lt.
  Birth	19 Feb 1710/11	Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [1]
  Gender	Male
  RMVD	25 Feb 1732/1733	Townshend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [2]
  	Ephraim had left Concord and removed to Townsend by 25 February 1732/3 when note was made in his Chelmsford marriage intentions that he was "of Townsend".
  OFFH	1759 - 1768	Townshend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay
  	Ephraim served as a Townshend Selectman for eight years; from 1759 through 1761, and from 1764 through 1768.
  anecdote	5 Jan 1773	Townshend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [3]
  	On 5 Jan 1773, Ephraim was one of thirty-five Townshend residents who, having previously purchased a pew on the floor of the meeting house, on that day drew a number determining the location of the pew. Ephraim received pew No. 15.
  Death	29 Apr 1802	Townsend, Middlesex Co, MA   [4]
  	Ephraim died on 29 April 1802 in Townsend. He was 91 years old, or in the language of that day "in his 92nd year".
  Burial	Townsend, Middlesex Co, MA   [5]
  	His body was interred at the Old Cemetery in Townsend.
  Person ID	I3652	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Lieut. John HEALD,   b. 19 Sep 1666, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 25 Nov 1721, Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Mary CHANDLER,   b. 7 Jan 1671/2, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 14 Aug 1759, Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	18 Dec 1690	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [6]
  	The couple was married on 18 December 1690 in Concord.
  Family ID	F422	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor ROBBINS,   b. 17 Dec 1707, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts d. 16 Dec 1791, Townsend, Middlesex Co, MA (Age 83 years)
  Notes	According to the Temple, New Hampshire town records, all five of Ephraim and Eleanor's sons left Townsend and removed to Temple, then known as Sliptown. Their properties were located within Range 8 and Range 9 of the town and appear to have first been owned by their father Ephraim.
  Children	1. Major Ephraim HEALD,   b. 29 Sep 1734, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts d. 12 Sep 1815 (Age 80 years)   2. Deacon Peter HEALD,   b. 25 Jan 1735/6, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts d. 25 Sep 1811 (Age 75 years)   3. Eleanor HEALD,   b. 13 Aug 1739, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts   4. John HEALD,   b. 11 Sep 1741, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts   5. Mary HEALD,   b. 27 Jul 1744, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts   6. Joseph HEALD,   b. 10 Aug 1747, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts d. 1803, Temple, Hillsborough Co, NH (Age 55 years)   7. Amos HEALD,   b. 3 May 1749, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts
  Family ID	F420	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 77 (Concord Registers - Book ll). [S144] Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, ((Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1914)), p. 248. [S148] Henry C. Hallowell, transcribed & edited by; assisted by Lee K. Kugler and Caroline Lewis Kardell. , Hallowell, Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts: Town Records to 1850 with Marriage Intentions to 1873 and Cemetery Inscriptions., ((Boston: NEHGS, 1992)), ISBN 0-8808-2030-6. p. 1. [S148] Henry C. Hallowell, transcribed & edited by; assisted by Lee K. Kugler and Caroline Lewis Kardell. , Hallowell, Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts: Town Records to 1850 with Marriage Intentions to 1873 and Cemetery Inscriptions., ((Boston: NEHGS, 1992)), ISBN 0-8808-2030-6. p. 347. (records of the Old Cemetery). [S148] Henry C. Hallowell, transcribed & edited by; assisted by Lee K. Kugler and Caroline Lewis Kardell. , Hallowell, Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts: Town Records to 1850 with Marriage Intentions to 1873 and Cemetery Inscriptions., ((Boston: NEHGS, 1992)), ISBN 0-8808-2030-6. p. 347. [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 34. (Concord Registers - Book II)