Person:Mary Welles (1)

m. Bef 1660
  1. Captain Samuel Welles1660 - 1731
  2. Captain Thomas Welles1662 - 1711
  3. Sarah Welles1664 - 1694
  4. Mary Welles1666 - 1714/15
  5. Anne WellesAbt 1668 - Bet 1738/39 & 1739
  6. Elizabeth WellesAbt 1670 - 1747
m. Bef 1696
  1. Captain Jonathan Hale1696 - 1772
  2. David Hale1699/00 - 1718
  3. Joseph Hale1702 - 1702
  4. Benjamin Hale1707 - 1784
Facts and Events
Name[1] Mary Welles
Married Name Mary Hale
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 23 Nov 1666 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Bef 1696 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Jonathan).
to Lieutenant Samuel Hale
Will[4] 4 Mar 1713/14 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2] 18 Feb 1714/15 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[1][3] Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate[4] 7 Mar 1714/15 Will exhibited.
Estate Inventory[4] 26 Mar 1715 £435-16-06. Taken by Samuel Welles and Benjamin Talcott.
Probate[4] 2 May 1715 Administration to Benjamin Talcott and Samuel Hale.
Estate Settlement[1][4] 4 Sep 1716
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 37. Mary3 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)
    1:288-89.

    "37. Mary3 Welles (Capt. Samuel2, Thomas1), born 23 November 1666 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing LR 2:30); and died 18 February 1714/15 in Glastonbury, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:3), at age 48 years, 2 months, 18 days according to her gravestone in Green Cemetery, Glastonbury (Hale 2). She married in 1695, as his second wife (Stiles' Wethersfield 2:406), Lt. Samuel Hale, Jr., son of Samuel Hale, Sr., and Mary Smith, … The distribution of the estate of Mrs. Mary Hale of Glastonbury, presented in court 4 September 1716, names (but does not provide relationship information) Samuel Hale, Mary Hale, Ruth Kimberly, Anne Steel, Jonathan Hale, David Hale, and Benjamin Hale (Hartford Probate District, Connecticut Estate Files, docket no. 2502)."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2. Capt. Samuel2 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)
    789.

    Mary (Welles), b. (Wethersfield) 23 Nov. 1666; d. at Glastonbury, 18 Feb. 1714/15; m. about 1695, as his second wife, Lieut. Samuel2 Hale, b. 7 Feb. 1644/5, d. 18 Nov. 1711, son of Samuel1 and Mary (Smith) Hale.

  3. Mary Welles Hale, in Find A Grave.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Hale, Mary, Glastonbury, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:211-12.

    "Probate Records. Vol. VIII, 1710 to 1715. Will and Invt. on File.

    Hale, Mary, Glastonbury, Invt. £435-16-06. Taken 26 March, 1715, by Samuel Welles and Benjamin Talcott. Will dated 4 March, 1714:

    I give to my son Jonathan the silver cup that was mine and a feather bed and furniture; I give also to Jonathan the land, orchard and plowland, with the appurtenances, that I bought of Joseph Hills, Sen., viz., upon this condition, that he keep and maintain my son Benjamin to school until such time as he shall be fit to go to a trade. To my son David I give 4 score pounds and also the two-eared silver cup that was his father's, and one silver spoon, one dram cup, and the feather bed in the parlor and furniture to sd. bed. To my son Benjamin I give £100 and the silver tankard, one silver spoon, a silver dram cup, and the featherbed and furniture to sd. bed in the chamber over the parlor. To Samuel I give his father's cane and one of his father's coats, which he shall choose. To Mary I give my damask sute, and a great kettle that was her father's, and a great platter and a brass pan that was my mother's, and a pare of sheets and a silver spoon. To Ruth I give my silk crape sute, the bigest brass pan, and a pare of sheets. To my sister Steele I give my black russet sute, and it is my minde that she have the refusal of my share of my Uncle Lazarus' homelot. To Jonathan I give all the debts that are due to me upon condition that he, out of the same, pay all my just debts. I also give to Jonathan the use and benefit of what I give to Benjamin so long as he maintains sd. Benjamin to school. As for what shall remain of my estate after the above-mentioned have had what is particularly given to them, I do give it equally to be divided between my three sons, Jonathan, David and Benjamin.

    That the above written is a true account of Mrs. Mary Hale giving and disposeing of her estate when she was, though weake of body, yet of sound minde, we whose names are underwritten do testify, this 15 February, 1714. Ruth Welles, And Anne Steele.

    This may inform whome it may concerne: that I do testifie and can witness to the whole of Mrs. Hale's manner of disposeing of her estate except that clause wherein yt is mentioned that Jonathan shall have the use of what his mother hath given to Benjamin so long as Jonathan doth maintain him at school.
    Witness my hand: Timothy Stevens.

    Court Record, Page 246—7 March, 1714-15: Jonathan Hale of Glastonbury now exhibits a writing said to be the last will and testament of Mrs. Mary Hale, his mother. Proven.

    Page 251—2 May, 1715: This Court grant letters of Adms., with the will annexed, unto Benjamin Talcott and Samuel Hale of Glastonbury.

    Page 21 (Vol. IX) 4 September, 1716: Mr. Benjamin Talcott and Samuel Hale, Adms., exhibited an account of their Adms,. which account contained a division and settlement of the estate among the legatees by them, made according to the will of the decd., which account is by this Court accepted. This Court grant the Adms. a Quietus Est.

    Dist. per File, 4 September, 1716: The estate dist. as followeth:
    To Samuel Hale, £149-01s-07d; To David Hale, 136-06-09; To Benjamin Hale, 162-17-06
    Jonathan Hale hath already been paid more than his proportional part of sd. estate.
    By Benjamin Talcott and Samuel Hale, distributors by agreement."