When Jonathan Heath was born in 1766, in Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Josiah Heath IV, was 39 and his mother, Susanna Griffin, was 39. He lived in Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America in 1767. He died in Cabot, Washington, Vermont, United States.
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(on the) heath’ (Middle English he(a)th, Old English hǣth) or else a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. The same word also denoted heather, the characteristic plant of heathland areas. This surname has also been established in Dublin, Ireland, since the late 16th century.