Lieut. John HEALD^[1]

1666 - 1721  (55 years)

• Name	John HEALD
  Title	Lieut.
  Prefix	Lieut.
  Birth	19 Sep 1666	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Estate Settlement	SEE Heald hard file
  inventory	SEE Heald hard file
  military service	19 Apr 1689	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [3]
  	On 19 April 1689, John mustered the Concord militia and started for Boston to assist the residents of that town in the overthrow of Dominion Governor in Chief Edmund Andros and the short lived Dominion of New England.
  OFFH	1711 - 1715	Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [4]
  	John served as a member of Concord's Board of Selectment from 1711 to 1715.
  Death	25 Nov 1721	Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [5]
  	John died on 25 November 1721 in Concord. He was 55 years old at the time of his death.
  letters of admin	3 Apr 1722	Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [6]
  	Administration on John's estate was granted to his widow Mary on 3 April 1722 by the Middlesex County Court of Probate.
  Burial	Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [7]
  	His body was interred at the Old Hill Burying Ground in Concord.
  Person ID	I3668	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Sgt. John HEALD,   b. c.1635, England or Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 17 Jun 1689, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Mother	Sarah Frances DANE,   b. 24 Feb 1642/3, Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 22 Jul 1689, Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	10 Jun 1661	Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [8, 9]
  	The couple entered into a covenanted marriage agreement on 10 June 1661 in Concord. The marriage would have been executed by a local magistrate at a private home, as early Massachusetts law stated that marriage was a civil contract, not a religious sacrament. In fact, it was against the law for a minister to marry a couple until 1686.
  Family ID	F423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	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   [10]
  	The couple was married on 18 December 1690 in Concord.
  Children	1. Mary HEALD,   b. 18 Aug 1691, Concord Village, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   2. Deacon John HEALD,   b. 18 Aug 1693, Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 16 May 1775, Acton, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Colony (Age 81 years)   3. Timothy HEALD,   b. 7 Jun 1696, Concord Village, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Colony d. 28 Mar 1736, Concord Village, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Colony (Age 39 years)   4. Josiah HEALD,   b. 28 Feb 1698/9, Concord Village, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Colony   5. Elizabeth HEALD,   b. 12 Dec 1701, Concord Village, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Colony   6. Samuel HEALD,   b. 4 May 1705, Concord Village, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Colony   7. Deacon Amos HEALD,   b. 23 May 1708, Concord, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 4 Jan 1775, Townsend, Middlesex Co, MA (Age 66 years)   8. 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)   9. Dorcas HEALD,   b. 22 Aug 1713, Concord Village, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Colony
  Family ID	F422	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. 12. (Concord Registers - Book I). [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 12. (Concord Registers - Book I) [S4244] Alfred Sereno Hudson, Hudson, The History of Concord, Massachusetts, ((Concord, MA: Erudite Press, 1904)), p. 495. [S4243] William Richard Cutter, Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ((New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1908) Four Volumes), Vol. 4, p. 1405. [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 104. (Concord Registers - Book II) [S1622] John Heald, Middlesex Co, MA probate file no. 11055 (1722)., item 2. [S145] Martha Fifield Wilkins, compiler, Wilkins, Heald Genealogy Book, Giving Many Heald & Allied Families, ((Salt Lake City: filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)), FHL US/CAN film 892208 item 2.. p. 13. [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 10. (Concord Registers - Book I) [S1624] Thomas Dane, Middlesex Co, MA probate file no. 5869 (1676). [S142] Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635 - 1850., ((Boston: T. Todd, printer, 1895)). p. 34. (Concord Registers - Book II)