Person:Solomon Welles (1)

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Colonel Solomon Welles
b.6 Oct 1721 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.28 Sep 1802 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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m. 30 Nov 1716
  1. Colonel Solomon Welles1721 - 1802
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  • H.  Colonel Solomon Welles1721 - 1802
  • W.  Sarah Welles1727 - 1815
m. 16 Jan 1744/45
  1. Solomon Welles1747/48 - 1832
  2. Penelope Welles1751 - 1826
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▼Facts and Events
Name[1] Colonel Solomon Welles
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 6 Oct 1721 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Degree[1] 1739 Yale College.
Marriage 16 Jan 1744/45 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesRecorded at Wethersfield.
Solomon Welles and Sarah Welles were third cousins.
to Sarah Welles
Death[1][4] 28 Sep 1802 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[1][5] Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate[1] 1 Nov 1802 Administation to son Leonard.
Estate Inventory[1] 24 Nov 1803 $4466.95½, taken by Daniel Buck and John Francis.
▼References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 641. Col. Solomon5 Welles, Esq., 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)
    2:518-26.

    "641. Col. Solomon5 Welles, Esq. (Capt. Gideon4, Capt. Robert3, John2, Gov. Thomas1), born 6 October 1721 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:95); and died 28 September 1802, at age 81, in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Wethersfield First Congregational Church Records, slip index citing 2:323); buried in the Village Cemetery, Wethersfield (Hale 18). … Solomon graduated from Yale College in 1739 (Yale Bios. 1:631). …

    Leonard Wells filed an administrator's bond on the estate of Solomon Wells, Esq., of Wethersfield on 1 November 1802, with Timothy Wells as surety. His inventory was taken on 24 November 1803 by Daniel Buck and John Francis; it totaled $4466.95½. The distribution made by John Francis and Timothy Russell on 26 May 1804 sets shares of $385.89½ to eldest son Solomon Wells, youngest son Leonard Wells, eldest daughter Eunice, the wife of Charles Bulkeley of Wethersfield; and daughters Sarah, the widow of the Rev. John Eells; the widow Hannah Hale; the heirs of Roger Wells, deceased; the widow Penelope Wright; Prudence, the wife of Charles Bulkeley of Vermont; Mehitable, the wife of Dr. Samuel Barnard; Mrs. Sarah Wells, the widow of the deceased (Hartford Probate District, Connecticut Estate Files, no docket number, filed alphabetically, 1802, resident of Wathersfield)."

  2. ↑ Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    285.

    "Welles, … Solomon, s. Gideon & Hannah, b. Oct. 6, 1721 [1:95]"

  3.   Volume 124 Wethersfield, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
    126.

    "Welles, … Solomon, & w., communicants Feb. 17, 1765 [16]"

  4. ↑ Volume 126 Wethersfield, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
    248.

    "Welles, … Solomon, & w., ch. mem. Full com. Jan. 12, 1774 [2:26]"
    "Welles, … Solomon, Esq., d. Sept. 28, 1802, age 81 [2:323]"

  5. ↑ Col Solomon Welles, in Find A Grave.
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