Bartholomew Heath B. 1643 in Nazing England emigrated to the New World and lived in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. He is listed as having several sons and became a city father of Haverhill. Haverhill came into existence in 1640, only 20 years after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They lived as you would expect, in fear of hunger and disease. They had small thatch and timber houses with mud filled into thatched sticks. They wore home spun clothing and may had wooden shoes. They wore black or brown and leather all natural fibers and their houses surrounded a garden in the village with not much delineation between barn and house. The Heaths lived in Haverhill for over 200 years starting with Bartholomew.

Bartholomew Heath immigrated to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts from England in 1632 on the passenger ship "Lion" according to a book written by Sandra Sutpin Olney titled "Passengers on the ‘Lion’ from England to Boston,1632.”

Biography and descendants in Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, vol. 3 pp. 1096-7