| 79Moved to Temple, NH, in 1758 -- possibly earlier since his deed is dated July 24, 1756. Together with his brother, Ephriam Heald, "he bought and cleared what were then called Lots No. 4 and 5, Range VIII, in the north part of what was then called Peterboro Slip, or Sliptown." Lot 4 later was occupied by Nathan Avery and Lot 5 by James Heald, grandson of Deacon Peter Heald, and son of Peter Heald, Jr. Peter Heald, Jr., was the first male child born in the town of Temple, NH. "He begot the first male child that was born in town, and named it after himself; he erected the first framed building in the town; and he was the first of the sect of Universalists in the town. "Deacon Peter being quite the only Universalist in the parts at that period, was for a long time regarded with a sort of horror by the urchins, and I am told by one of them whose head is now silvered with age, that when he was the Deacon coming, he would steal round and jump over the wall and lie there until the fearful man was gone quite out of site." (p. 7) Deacon Peter Heald was a Universalist. He remained a Tory throughout the Revolutionary War. |