David Heaton
David Heaton was born in Morris County, New Jersey, December 15, 1742, and married Phebe Johnson, of New Jersey, in 1776 and in 1778 removed to Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia, now West Virginia where James Heaton was born, January 15, 1779. David Heaton, with his family removed about the year 1783 to Greene County, PA, where his son James Heaton received a common school education and studied surveying. He was married January 22, 1801, to Mary Morrell, born December 11, 1782, daughter of Jacob Morrell of Chatham, New Jersey, and sister of Dr. Calvin Morrell of Shaker notoriety near Lebanon, Ohio. Hannah W. Heaton, daughter of James and Mary Heaton, was born in Greene County, PA December 14, 1801 and afterwards married Rev. Henry Baker in 1821 and resided for many years in Lebanon, Ohio where she died August 11, 1839.
In the fall of 1802 David Heaton and James Heaton with their families removed to Butler County, Ohio traveling in what was known as the "Family Barge", a flat-bottomed boat down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pa, landing at Cincinnati, Ohio--quite a perilous trip in those days--and soon after settled in Butler County, near Middletown, where Mr. David Heaton purchased an eighty acre farm, partly improved where he resided until his death, which occured on the 11th of September, 1839, aged ninety-six years and nine months--a ripe old age.
From A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers, Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.