Rev. Thomas Weld, M.A., of Dunstable, born [sic] 12 June, 1653, was second son and child of Thomas Weld, of Roxbury, whose wife was Dorothy, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Whiting, of Lynn. The Reverend Thomas Weld, associated with the Apostle Eliot, was his grandfather.
Nov 9, 1681, before he was ordained, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend John Wilson of Medfield, Massachusetts, H.U. 1642...
Weld's wife died 19 July, 1687. Over her grave "was placed a fairly smoothed granite stone"... "Close by this was laid a rough untrimmed block of granite over what was said to be the grave of her husband." Weld died 9 June, 1702, and this, til recently, designated the place of his interment in the old burial-ground near the southerly line of Nashua. In 1876 a granite monument... was erected by the citizens of Nashua...; but the part of the inscription which states that "he was massacred by the Indians in defending the settlement" should have been omitted, it being only an improbable tradition.
Weld's second wife was Mary, 27 Aug 1667, daughter of Habijah Savage....
"It was amid the perils from the Indians and the poverty of his parishioners that Weld pursued his calling. But little is known respecting him."
