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- His Loyalist descendant and namesake was from Germantown PA
Interpreter, for the West Jersey Proprietors,
among the Leni Lenape Indians along the Delaware, and negotiator of land deals with the Indians
From Ransclough (Rudyard Lake, Heath House Lane), near Leake (Leek), Staffordshire, England
Andrew arrived in New Jersey 28 September 1682 on the ship "Friends Adventure".
William Yardley had married Jane Heath in 1663.
Elizabeth Heath's parents are named by Frank C. Baldwin as Andrew and
Elizabeth (Barrett) Heath. Andrew is identified as the same man who
arrived in 1682 as the bonded servant to William Yardley; possibly
Yardley's nephew. Baldwin states that "they came from Staffordshire
in England and settled in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
Andrew Heath moved to [Hopewell] New Jersey in 1699 when he bought 420 acres of
land near present-day Trenton. About 1703 he helped established the
Hopewell Church, one of the first Episcopal Churches in the area.
In 1705 four of Andrew's children were baptized there: Andrew,
Elizabeth, John, and Sarah." Andrew made his will on the 3rd of
January 1716/7 and the instrument was proved on the 29th of December
1720 in which he names his wife Hannah and children: Martha, John,
Elizabeth, Andrew, Sarah, and Richard. He also names his grandchildren:
Elizabeth, Abigail, and Andrew Pettit and his wife's children:
Daniel Clark, Samuel Clark, and Hannah Clark [re: Baldwin & County
Court records 23:219].
On December 29, 1720, Robert Heaton proved Andrew Heath's will.
Baldwin writes of the Heath family and quotes from Louise H. Tunison
and Althea F. Courtot's work "The Heath Family of Hunterdon County,
New Jersey; a 1977 manuscript in the collection of the Hunterdon County
Historical Society.
Andrew Heath married twice, first to the widow Elizabeth Barrett
Venables Bannor. She had married first William Venables who is also
found as a passenger on the same ship as the one Andrew Heath and the
Yardleys arrived on. Venables died leaving his widow and two daughters
Joyce and Frances. Elizabeth remarried to a Lawrence Bannor. She
married Andrew Heath after 1688 and died by 1699 when Andrew and his
step-daughter Joyce leave an instrument conveying land. Andrew married
secondly the widow Hannah Clark, whose maiden name unknown.
Andrew had 3 brothers [Robert?] one who was the father of 1697Thomas
Andrews parents may have been Richard Heath & Mary Yerwood
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Abt 1660 - 1720 (60 years)