John Heard

Abt 1610 - 1689  (~ 79 years)

• Name	John Heard  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1610  [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Jan 1689	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire   [6, 7]
  Alternate death	17 Jan 1690	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire   [4, 5, 8]
  Person ID	I2860	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2025

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Hull,   b. Abt 1628, England d. 30 Nov 1706, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age ~ 78 years)
  Marriage	1642	York, York, Maine   [5, 9, 10, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Heard,   b. 26 Jan 1650, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire d. 7 Dec 1706, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F4667	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (citation details below): John (Heard), master carpenter, never mariner nor captain. [...] In 1647 fined for calling Godfrey old knave and criticizing Capt. Champernowne; in 1650 he had lately been liv. on Champernowne's Isl. in [Kitterey, Maine], and was buying lands in York. Appar. he had built a ho. on Champernowne Isl. and on not getting his pay had burnt it; judgm. of Ct. Oct. 1650 that he replace as good and as large a ho. [...] He had left York in June 1648 [...] but was back again in 1651 (Gr. j. 1651-2). In Dover, where he was perman. settled by 1654, he was much relied on by Major Waldron.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S8119] Carole Gardner and Ruth Craig, "Tracking the Children of Joseph2 Ham (b. Dover, New Hampshire, 1678) Involves Going Up the Family Tree and Down Other Branches." New Hampshire Genealogical Record 37:3, Winter 2025. [S212] The Slovak Yankee, by Martin Hollick. [S1268] Heard-Hurd Genealogy 1610-1987: Some Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Hull) Heard of Dover, New Hampshire by Charles Samuel Candage and Ralph Ernest Peak. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1988. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952. [S213] "Rev. Joseph Hull," by Sam Behling. [S212] The Slovak Yankee, by Martin Hollick., date only. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., "by 1643".