John Heaton

1690 - 1762  (72 years)

• Name	John Heaton
  Birth	1690	Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Sep 1762	Hardwick, Warren, New Jersey, British Colonial America
  Person ID	I685	Parlett-Stancliff
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	James Heaton,   b. 25 Feb 1674, Settle, Yorkshire, England d. 1709, Hopewell, Burlington Co, New Jersey (Age 34 years)
  Mother	Mary Scaife,   b. 10 Aug 1678, Calverley, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 1738, Haverford, Delaware, Pennsylvania (Age < 59 years)
  Family ID	F707	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah Roberts,   b. 1694, Crosswicks, Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. Nov 1731, Kingwood, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	1718	Crosswicks, Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America
  Children	+ 1. John Heaton,   b. 24 Jun 1724, Crosswicks, Burlington, Province of New Jersey d. 17 Aug 1789, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Benning,   b. Feb 1710, New Jersey, British Colonial America d. 10 Apr 1759, Hardwick, Sussex Co, New Jersey, British Colonial America (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	1734	Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, , British Colonial America
  Family ID	F706	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2023

  
  

• Notes

  ==Biography== John Heaton was born in 1690 in Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania. His parents were [[Heaton-96|James Heaton]] and [[Scaife-5|Mary Scaife]]. John's birth was a huge scandal at the time. He was raised by his grandfather, Jonathan Scaife. Written by Jana Jenkins.... James was not the stereotypical well-behaved Quaker. He had an affair with Mary SCAIFE (born 10 August 1678, died before 1738), daughter of Jonathan Scaife, Justice of the Peace and Coroner (1697 and 1699). Both James and Mary were convicted of bastardy in 1695 in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and fined, although Mary’s fine was later forgiven by William MARKHAM, Governor of Pennsylvania. Middletown Monthly Meeting also condemned James Heaton for having a child out of wedlock. Heaton denied it, as he also did in court. James and Mary Scaife never married. He married Sarah Roberts in 1715 at the age of 25. After Sarah's death in 1731, he married Mary Bennings in 1734. John Heaton died at 72 in Hardwick, Warren, New Jersey in September of 1762. ==Sources== Family Data Collection - Individual Records Detail: Birth year: 1690; Birth city: Bucks; Birth state: PA Millennium File U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900Detail: Source number: 3291.009; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 19 <references /> === Notes === :Note for consideration written by Syd Rumford, 3 April 2015: In the History of the Heaton Family, it is stated that Mary Scaife had a son out of wedlock with James Heaton. The Heaton family stated the son's name was John, born in 1690 and raised by his grandfather, Jonathan Scaife. None of this is substantiated by any reasonable evidence. What evidence there is from 1695 court records stating that Mary had a child with James Heaton, and her father Jonathan Scaife paid a fine of £10. James Heaton denied of having had a child with Mary. But a jury trial found that he was the father. The records do not specify the child sex, name, or if the child lived. And a birth date of 1690 and court records of 1695 is too much time elapsed, especially for a small Quaker community of Middletown, Pennsylvania. And there is no evidence that Jonathan Scaife supported a grandson name John Heaton. ---- ==Acknowledgements==This person was created through the import of Conley - Dye,_2010-11-16.ged on 24 May 2011. The following data was included in the gedcom.