Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 957-200, Peleg Heath, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Heath, Peleg
B.I. # 957-200-Lienh.
Issued Feb. 5, 1790
No papers
CONTENTS

Conn.
Weath Peleg.
B.L.W. 957-200 - Lieut Issued Feb. 5, 1790. No papers.

70 May St., Needham Mass June 17, 1938.
Bureau of War Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir: Will you send me the Pension record of a Peley Heath . only one I have a reference found in Draper's Index of Conn. Revolutionary Pensioners -
My ancestor was born July 30, 1774, / probably served either in R. I. or Conn.
Yours truly
Mrs. Harry A. Brown

July 13, 1938.
Mrs. Harry A. Brown 70 May Street Needham, Massachusetts.
BA-J/ILL Peleg Heath B.L.Wt #957-300 Peleg Heath W. 24438
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to your ancestor, Peleg Heath, who was born July 30, 1741 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and served from either Connecticut or Rhode Island in the Revolutionary War; you furnish as a reference a Peleg Heath from Draper's Index of Connecticut Revolutionary War pensioners.
A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made and the records found of only two soldiers with that name; their records are furnished herein from claims for pension and bounty land which were made to the United States.
PELEG HEATH-B.L.Wt. 957-300. (On Draper's Index). page 204,
The records of this office show that Warrant #957 for 200 acres of bounty land was issued February 5, 1790, on account of service of Peleg Heath, Lieutenant in the Connecticut Line, War of the Revolution.
There are no statements on file made by the applicant for this bounty land because of the destruction of papers in such early applications for bounty land when the War Office was burned in 1800. Hence, no further data in regard to this officer.
It is suggested that further information in regard to the military record of this officer might be obtained from The Adjutant General, War Department, this city. Information in regard to the location of this land might be obtained from the Commissioner, General Land Office, this city. You should furnish that official the number of warrant, acreage and date of issuance, given above.
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PELEG HEATH-W. 24438.
The data which follow in regard to this Peleg Heath are found

in pension claim, W. 24428.
Peleg Heath was the son of Peleg Heath; the date of his birth, place of his birth, and name of his mother are not shown. Both the father and son lived in Barrington, Rhode Island, which was the residence of the son at the time he entered service in the Revolutionary War. The date of death of the father is not shown.
Mrs. French called the lady Gen. for service as Major made solution in Heitman Peleg Heath, the son, entered service in the fall of 1775, served as ensign in Captains Church's and Billings Throop's companies, Colonel William Richmond's Rhode Island regiment, was promoted March 4, 1776, Lieutenant and served in said Captain Throop's and Caleb Carr's company in that regiment and continued until the expiration of one year; during this service, he was engaged at first in the state of Rhode Island, afterwards went to New London, Connecticut, thence to Long Island and assisted in bringing many prisoners back to New London. He was appointed later Major in the Rhode Island militia, was on Spencer's Expedition in 1777, also on General Sullivan's Expedition in 1778, and served at other times until 1781, amounting in all to at least one and one half years.
Major Peleg Heath died in the year 1786, in Barrington, Rhode Island.
He married in Barrington, Rhode Island, April 18, 1769, Annar or Anner, whose maiden name is not given.
Annar Heath (as her name was borne on the pension roll), this officer's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed August 24, 1836, at which time she was a resident of Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Island. She was aged then ninety-one years.
Peleg Heath and his wife, Annar, had five sons and one daughter: their son, Peleg, was born March 31, 1771 in Barrington, Rhode Island, and resided in Killingly Connecticut in August 1836; another son was Joseph Heath, who was living in 1836, his age not stated. No other names of their children were stated.
In 1836, when Annar Heath made application for her pension, Joshua Bicknell was a resident of Barrington, Rhode Island, aged then seventy-seven years. He stated then that all but one of the children of Peleg Heath and Annar, his wife, were born before the close of the Revolutionary
This is complete, a third page in W. 24428, Peleg Heath. f