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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Soldier / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Located on Route 27 (Old Sudbury Road) just south of Wayland Country Club
The North Cemetery is located on the site of the First town center. Wayland was part of Sudbury until 1780 at which time it because separately incorporated as East Sudbury. However, back in the seventeenth century when Wayland and Sudbury were one, the first meeting house was built in 1643 at this site
Author: Timothy Edward Peterman
Richard Heard was born Apr. 2, 1720, at Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, son of Zachariah and Silence (Brown) Heard, and grandson of Thomas and Patience (Foster) Brown.
He served as a member of the 1st Provincial Congress, which convened at Salem, Massachusetts on Oct. 7, 1774. He was also a representative of East Sudbury in the General Court in 1780, 1781, and 1783.
During the Revolution, he served in the Sudbury, Massachusetts militia (shown as such on Muster Roll of Captain Nathaniel Maynard Oct. 19, 1778.
On Apr. 9, 1746, he married Sarah Fiske in Sudbury, Massachusetts. She was born on Sep. 26, 1722, and died on Aug. 6, 1796, the daughter of Jonathan and Abigail (Reed) Fiske. They had seven children:
Abigail (1747-1793)
Thomas (1749-1819)
Zachariah (1751-1823)
Richard (1754-1840)
Sarah (1756-1782)
David (1758-1813)
Mary (1764-1829)
The Patriot died on May 16, 1792, and is buried in East Sudbury, Massachusetts.
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