Daniel Heald - Minuteman

 My 3rd Cousin, seven times removed

Daniel Heald born at Concord, Mass., married Abagail Wheeler December 25, 1760, a daughter of Thomas Wheeler of Lincoln, Mass. Daniel Heald was one of the patriot soldiers of the early colonies, who at the Concord bridge contested with King George's Red Coats the passage of the bridge, while his wife and children who had fled from their home on the approach of the Red Coats, viewed the battle from a neighboring hill. He, with his family, emigrated to Vermont about the year 1776, and settled in a small sparsely settled town, then called New Flemstead, afterwards named Chester, in Windsor County, in the southern part of Vermont. He built a frame house about 1790 that is still occupied in 2008.