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WAR PENSION DOCUMENTS Veteran’s Administration Washington, D.C. October 6, 1931 Mrs.
Bradford Knapp, Alabama
Polytechnic Institute Auburn,
Alabama Dear
Madam: Reference
is made to your letter relative to Benjamin Heath, a soldier of the
Revolutionary War. The
data which follows are obtained from the papers on file in Pension Claim W.
23273 based upon his military service in the war. Benjamin
Heath enlisted in 1775 at Conway, Carol County, (formerly Strafford County), New
Hampshire, served as a private in Capt. James Osgood’s Company; Colonel
Bedel’s New Hampshire Regiment; and in Capt. William Satterlee’s Company;
Colonel Hazen’s Congress Regiment; was at the Storming of Quebec, the battles
of Brandywine, Germantown, capture of Cornwallis, and some small engagements. He
was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, at which time he
was living in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Massachusetts (??ME) aged 66 years. In
1826 he was living in Conway, N.H. where he died Nov. 27, 1839.
Soldier married Sept. 15, 1786, in Barrington, Strafford County, to
Dorothy or Dolly Willey; They were
both of said Barrington and the marriage was recorded in the Town Clerk’s
office of that place. She
was allowed Pension on her application, executed July 11, 1843, while a resident
of Conway, N.H. aged 78 years. She
died there July 29, 1850, leaving the following children: Susan Haley, Adaline
or Adeline Burbank, Oliver, G. Heath, Sarah Stevens, Benjamin Heath, and John W.
Heath. Very
truly yours, A.D.
Hillar Asst.
to Administrator
New
Hampshire Historical Society Concord,
NH December
24, 1931 Mrs.
Bradford Knapp, Alabama
Polytechnic Institute Auburn,
Alabama Dear
Madam: Your
letter of the 19th has been referred to me by the Secretary of State. I
can give you no information of Benjamin Heath except what is contained in his
Pension Papers, but apparently you have not received a complete abstract from
Washington. We
have here all these Pension Papers of New Hampshire Soldiers; from his papers it
appears that his marriage is as you stated to Dolly Willey, both of Barrington,
N.H. Sept. 15, 1786. It further
appears that in 1820, he was living in Fryeburg, Maine, his family consisting of
his wife, Dorothy, aged 54; son Oliver, aged 16; and daughter Adaline, aged 12.
The widow is stated to have died in Conway, N.H. July 29, 1850 leaving
the following children: Susan
Heath-Haley, Adaline Heath-Burbank, Oliver G. Heath, Sarah Heath-Stevens,
Benjamin, Heath, and John W. Heath. Yours
very truly, O.G.H./J.S. Otis G. Hammond, Director
Source: A Manuscript Copy of the Biography of CHANDLER GRAHAM HEATH (1795-1888) of Fryeburg, Oxford, ME; Barrington, Strafford, NH; Chatham or Conway, Carroll, NH; and Mineral Point, Iowa, WI (LDS FHC US/CAN Film Area 0854142 item 1). Compiled by Nettie White Wolcott, August 1958. Transcribed to text file by Karen Heath Penman, Ogden, UT GENWEBNUT@aol.com, June 2000
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