Hildreth, Aby (b. 27 FEB 1768, d. 2 OCT 1859)

Note: Aby Heald's death record in Carlisle lists her parents as Thomas & Abi Hildreth. This is incorrect, she was Abi Hildreth married to Thomas Heald but her parents were Ephriam & Elizabeth (French) Hildreth.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Westford Births. p. 52

Source: (Death)
Title: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910

Page: Vol: 130 ; Page: 49

Cause: Old Age

Note: American Revolution.
Born in the area of Concord that later became Carlisle.
Town treasurer of Carlisle from 1780-1785.
Samuel Heald and his wife Mary owned the covenant of the First Church in Concord, MA April 16, 1769 and son Thomas was baptized the same day. [source: "John Heald of Concord, Mass. and some of his Descendants" by Clarence Almon Torrey. p. 79.]

Heald, Samuel (also given Samuel, Jr.),
Volume 7 page 655
Heald, Samuel (also given Samuel, Jr.), Concord. 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Thomas Barrett, Jr.'s (7th) co., 3d Middlesex Co. regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers; commissioned April 10, 1776; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Simon Hunt's (4th) co., Col. Eleazer Brooks's regt.; list of officers of a regiment drafted from Middlesex [p.655] Co. militia and ordered to march to Horse Neck by Brig. Oliver Prescott Sept. 26, 1776; also, same co. and regt.; engaged Sept. 27, 1776; discharged Nov. 16, 1776; service, 62 days, including 11 days (212 miles) travel home; order for payment of amount of roll dated at North Castle and signed by Col. Brooks; also, Lieutenant, same co. and regt.; company return [year not given]; said Heald reported as having been sent with the wounded; also, Captain, 7th co., Col. Francis Faulkner's (3d Middlesex Co.) regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers; commissioned Feb. 4, 1779; also, Captain, Col. John Jacobs's (Light Infantry) regt.; engaged Sept. 1, 1779; discharged Nov. 15, 1779; service, 2 mos. 18 days, at Rhode Island, travel (80 miles) included; company raised for 2 months.[source: Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the American Revolution, Vol. 7, pp 655.]

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Registers - Book II. p. 157

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Carlisle Deaths. p. 92

Occupation: Place: Seaman

Source: (Name)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Registers - Book II. p. 189

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Carlisle Deaths, p. 91

Note: Military Service: A member of the Alarm List April 25, 1757 under Col. James
Minot (Mass Archives Muster rolls, vol 95, p. 324.)

Samuel Heald (1705 - 1784)

from "John Heald of Concord" p. 32.

His house took fire April 18, 1784 and he attempted to rescue his son, John,
who was of unsound mind. He remained to long in the burning building and lost
his life, as did his son and his grandson, James Hubbard. He was chosen
constable at Concord, March 2, 1740/1 but declined and paid the customary fine
of five pounds. Elected surveyor of highways, March 7,1742. In 1745 John Davis was
paid for keeping school at Samuel Heald's house.

Note: Killed by Indians in New Hampshire.

Note:
From Somerset Daily American

Ray H. Welsh, 67, of Listie, died Feb. 15, 1985, Somerset Community Hospital. Born Sept. 30, 1917, in Hyndman, son of the late Ray C. and Malvern (Howard) Welsh. Preceded in death by one brother. Survived by his wife, the former Lois Friedline; these
children: William H. of Listie; Dennis R. of Conowingo, MD; the Rev. Ronald N. of Englewood, Ohio; and Cathy Sue at home; six grandchildren. Brother of: Mrs. Charles (Pauline) Nicholson, Sebring, Fla.; Mrs. James (Ruth) Hay, Ft. Myers, Fla.; Mrs. Jean
Patsilevas, Friedens RD 1; Mrs. Shirley Kreger of Somerset; James of Somerset RD 7. Was a member of the Listie Grace Brethren Church, A Laurel Ridge Sportsman. A retired employee of U.S. Steel, Johnstown Works. He served in the U.S. Army. Friends
received after 7 p.m. Saturday, from noon to 9 p.m. Sunday in the Richard E. Hauger Funeral Home, where service will be conducted 11 a.m. Monday with the Rev. Ronzil Jarvis officiating. Internment, Somerset County Memorial Park.

Grave in Memorial Park is at N 40º 00.385' W 79º 05.918'

Occupation: Place: Steel Mill worker

Note: On December 3, 1690, he was chosen daecon of the First Church in Danvers. He was a farmer and the lands he farmed lie in thepresent town of Middleton, Massachusetts. He was active in the
genealogist, having written a history in 1733.

Note: Resided Concord, Mass.

In July of 1776 Capt. Simon Hunt asked to be excused from serving on the Committee of Correspondence and Lt. Thomas Noyes was appointed in his place.

Source: (Name)
Title: Hunt Family
Author: by W. L. G. Hunt & T. B. Wyman.
Publication: Boston. 1865.
Media: Book

Page: 85

Source: (Birth)
Title: Interpolated from age at death
Media: Other

Data:
Text: "in his 66th year"

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Vital Records. p. 434

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Concord Records. p. 421.

Note: Resided at Westford, Massachusetts.

Rev. War Vet

Hildreth, Ephraim.
Mass Rev. War Soldiers & Sailors, Volume 7 page 857.
Hildreth, Ephraim. Account dated Westford, June 19, 1781, rendered by the Selectmen, of bounties paid men raised to serve in the Continental Army for the term of 3 years, agreeable to resolve of Dec. 2, 1780; said Hildreth reported as a member of the class which engaged David Johnston.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Westford Births. p. 53

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Westford Deaths. p. 287

Occupation: Place: Deacon

Note: Died in the Colonial French and Indian War in the seige of Fort Ticonderoga.

Note: 7/9/2003 - I'm wondering about the accuracy of placing this Elizabeth French as a child of John French and Elizabeth Harwood, as all LDS records seem to indicate. All John & Elizabeth's other children are recorded in the Dunstable Vital records and there is no mention of an Elizabeth born to them. Also, her marriage record says she is "of Hollis, New Hampshire." But the John in Dunstable, lived and died there, as did many of his children. I think I should look for another John French in NH with a daughter Elizabeth.

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Westford Deaths, p. 287

Note: He was general and pioneer founder of Ohio. He first joined the Army in 1757. Later that year he served as a scout under his cousin, Capt. Israel Putnam. He was a Lt. Colonel at the sta
end of the Revolution, and in 1787 was appointed superintendent of the Ohio Company and placed in charge of some 1.5 million acres in the Ohio Territory. He spent the remainder of his lif
state.

Note: He was known as "Cornet" signifying a military association. In the first tax
assessment (1730) he was listed as "Ephraim, Jun." After his uncle died in
1731 he is listed merely as Ephraim. A 1731 assessment list for repair of
highways in which the residents are split into four districts, includes him
in a southern district. He probably lived in the present (1986) area of the
intersection of Route 110 and Nixon Road. (Formerly the south end on
Providence Road.)

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Westford Births. p. 53

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Westford Deaths. p. 287

Note: Also have birthdates of 23 Aug 1706 and 25 Aug 1706.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Chelmsford Births. p. 34

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Westford Deaths. p. 288

Occupation: Place: Tailor

Note: He came to this country with his family - tradition has it about 1634, but there are no records until 1640. He has a yoeman and husbandman and owned a large acreage in Salem Village which property was around what is now Summer Street and John Greenleaf Whittier is supposed to have once lived in the original Putnam House. He is said to have been a staunch Protestant.

Source: (Death)
Title: Salem Vital Records
Media: Civil Registry

Page: 514
Data:
Text: Salem Vital Records, Vol. 3.

Occupation: Place: Husbandman and Yeoman

Note:
From Somerset Daily American

Lois Jean Welsh, 67, of Listie, died Dec. 4, 1986, at Somerset Community Hospital. Born April 13, 1919, in Listie, a daughter of the late Nevin F. and Katherine M. (Stutzman) Friedline. Also preceded in death by her husband, Ray H. Welsh, on Feb. 15
1985. Survived by these children: William H., Listie; Dennis R., Conowingo, MD; Rev. Ronald N., Dayton, Ohio; and Cathy Sue, Listie; seven grandchildren. Member of the Listie Grace Brethren Church, where she was active in the women's missionary
council. Friends will be received 7-9 p.m. Saturday, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday at the Hauger-Zeigler Funeral Home, where service will be held Monday at 10 a.m., the Rev. Ronzil Jarvis officiating. Internment, Somerset County Memorial Park.

Grave in Memorial Park is at N 40º 00.385' W 79º 05.918'

Occupation: Place: Housewife