Amos HEALD^[1]

1749 -

• Name	Amos HEALD
  Birth	3 May 1749	Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  deed	c.1765	Temple, Hillsborough Co, Province of New Hampshire   [2]
  	By about 1765, Amos owned property in Temple down the road from his older brothers. About 1780, he sold the tract to Ensign Jonas Brown who would in 1784 marry Hannah, a daughter of Amos' brother Ephraim.
  REVW	Tory
  	Amos was considered a Tory. He did not enlist in the Continental Army.
  Person ID	I3659	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Lt. Ephraim HEALD,   b. 19 Feb 1710/11, Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 29 Apr 1802, Townsend, Middlesex Co, MA (Age 91 years)
  Mother	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.
  Family ID	F420	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Amos Heald - Jonas Brown House. The property on which this house sits was settled by Amos Heald about 1765. It was sold to Jonas Brown in 1780. The lintel date of 1778 suggests that the house was built by Amos.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. 206 (Births - Book 1). [S1596] Historical Society of Temple, NH, corporate author, A History of Temple, New Hampshire, 1768-1976, ((Dublin, NH: William L. Bauhan, 1976)), p. 470., ISBN 0-87233-040-0.