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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
John Welles |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Est 1622 |
Burmington, Warwickshire, England (possibly) |
| Other[1] |
10 Apr 1645 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesAdmitted freeman. |
| Marriage |
Bef 1647 |
Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (probably)to Elizabeth Bourn |
| Will[1][4] |
7 Aug 1659 |
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| Death[1][2][3] |
Bet 7 Aug 1659 and 19 Aug 1659 |
Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (probably) |
| Probate[1][4] |
19 Oct 1659 |
Will recorded and proved. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 4. John2 Welles, in Mathews, Barbara Jean; Donna Holt Siemiatkoski; Kathryn Smith Black; and Nancy Pexa. The Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut and His Wife Alice Tomes. (Wethersfield, Conn.: Welles Family Association, 2015)
1:229-25.
"4. John2 Welles (Gov. Thomas1), born c. 1622 in Burmington, Warwickshire, England (NEHGR 80:288-289); and died before 19 August 1659, probably in Stratford, Connecticut, where he resided (Stiles' Wethersfield states 7 August 1659) when John Davenport, Jr., wrote to Gov. John Winthrop that 'we have lately heard yt Mr Wells, ye Majestreate at Stratford, is dead, of this disease, he complayned of a great burning in his stomach, &c.' (NEHGR 80:303), predeceasing his father by five months. … The will of John Welles was dated 7 August 1659 and proved 19 October 1659. In his will, John alluded to the possibility of his wife going to obtain 'that which is due her in England' (TAG 23:91-93)."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Welles, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
782.
"John (Welles), b. [say 1622]; d. at Stratford, Conn., Oct. 1659. … He was Deputy for Stratford, May and Oct. 1656, May and Oct. 1657; Assistant, 1658 and 1659."
- ↑ Welles, Lemuel Aiken. The English Ancestry of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1926)
80:303.
"John Davenport, Jr., wrote to Gov. John Winthrop, 18/19 Aug. 1659: 'Sr we have lately heard yt Mr Wells, ye Majestreate at Stratford, is dead, of this disease, he complained of a great burning in his stomach &c.' (Winthrop MSS., vol. 12, p. 97, in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society.)"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 John Wels, in Mead, Spencer P. (Spencer Percival). Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, 1648-1750. (Spencer P. Mead (Typescript), 1929)
1:11.
"Wels, John, late of Stratford, will dated Aug. 7, 1659, probated Oct. 18, 1659, mentioned his wife Elizabeth, who testator married in England, and children John, about 11 yrs of age, Thomas, about 8 yrs of age, Robert, about 8 years of age, Samuel about 3 yrs of age, Temperance, about 5 yrs of age, and another daughter (Sarah), brother Samuel, and father, no name. Witnesses Thomas Fairchild, John Hurd, Joseph Hawley, Joseph Judson, Thomas Wheeler, and Benjamin Peat, page 46.
Inventory taken Oct. 19, 1659, by Jeremy Judson, Josia Judson, and Henry Wakely, and filed Oct. 19, 1659, pages 49 and 50."
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