Peter HEALD^{[1, 2]}

1760 - 1838  (78 years)

• Name	Peter HEALD
  	Peter is acknowledged as the first white male child born in Temple, New Hampshire. At the time of his birth the village was known as Sliptown.
  Birth	1760	Sliptown, Hillsborough Co, Province of New Hampshire   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Sep 1838  [1]
  	Peter died on 13 September 1838. He was 78 years old at the time of his death.
  Burial	Temple, Hillsborough Co, NH   [4]
  	His body was interred at East Cemetery in Temple, New Hampshire.
  Person ID	I60478	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Deacon Peter HEALD,   b. 25 Jan 1735/6, Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts d. 25 Sep 1811 (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Sarah BELCHOR   d. Before 1764
  Marriage	24 May 1758	Townsend, Middlesex Co, Province of Massachusetts   [5]
  	Sarah and Peter were married in Townsend by the Rev. Phenehas Heminway on 24 May 1758.
  Photos		Peter Heald house ruin. This house was lived in by five generations of Healds. Early on it served as one of the inns in Temple, Deacon Heald being taxed as a taverner in 1770-1772. The property was sold out of the family after the 1919 death of Brooks Miles Heald, Deacon Peter Heald's great-great-grandson.
  		Peter Heald house ruin.
  Family ID	F513	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sally ROWELL,   b. c.1762   d. 7 May 1834
  Marriage	27 Jul 1784	Temple, Hillsborough Co, Province of New Hampshire   [6, 7]
  	The couple was married by the Rev. Noah Blood in Temple on 27 July 1784. Their marriage entry in the Town Records notes that they were both "of Temple".
  Notes	For more on this line see S5089 p. 225.
  Children	1. Moses HEALD,   b. c.1789   d. 9 Mar 1807
  Family ID	F6272	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S1597] Peter Heald gravestone inscription, East Cemetery, Temple, NH. [S1612] Frank A. Tuttle, compiler, Tuttle Temple: the Roads, Buildings and House Sites of an Historic Town in New Hampshire., ((n.p.: The Temple Historical Society, 1942)), p. 45. [S1596] Historical Society of Temple, NH, corporate author, A History of Temple, New Hampshire, 1768-1976, ((Dublin, NH: William L. Bauhan, 1976)), p. 462., ISBN 0-87233-040-0. [S1615] East Cemetery burial listings, Temple, NH. [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. 18. (Marriages - Book 1) [S1598] Sally Heald gravestone inscription, East Cemetery, Temple, NH. [S5089] Henry Ames Blood, Blood, The History of Temple, NH, ((Boston: George C. Band & Avery, 1860)), p. 263.