Person:Thankful Root (1)
Thankful Root
b.Abt 1677 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
d.Nov 1704 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1676
  1. Thankful RootAbt 1677 - 1704
Spouse and Children
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m. 7 Jan 1696/97
  1. Captain Thomas Welles1697/98 - 1753
  2. Hezekiah Welles1701 - 1711
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Thankful Root
Married Name Thankful Welles
Gender Female
Birth[1][2][3] Abt 1677 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Alt Birth[4][6] Feb 1677 Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 7 Jan 1696/97 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Captain Thomas Welles
Death[1][2] Nov 1704 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[5] Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 35. Capt. Thomas3 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)
    1:281-82.

    "Capt. Thomas3 Welles (Capt. Samuel2, Thomas1), … married first … Thankful Root, daughter of John Root and Mehitabel (Johnson) Hinsdale (HH 788-789), born in 1677 in Northampton, Massachusetts (HH 788-89); and died in November 1704 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:11)."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    788.

    "Thomas (Welles) … m. (1) … Thankful Root, b. at Northampton, Mass., in 1677, d. at Wethersfield, Nov. 1704, dau. of John and Mehitabel (Johnson) (Hinsdale) Root; …"

  3. ↑ John Root (2), in Trumbull, James Russell. History of Northampton : Northampton Genealogies, 1640-1838. (Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States: n.p., bef 1899)
    407.

    "Thankful (Root): b. in Northampton, 1677; she m. Thomas Wells of Wethersfield, 1697."

  4. ↑ Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: the Times when and the People by whom it was Settled, Unsettled, and Resettled, with a Special Study of the Indian Wars in the Connecticut Valley; with Genealogies. (Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1895-1896)
    2:2:271.

    "3. John (Root), s. of Thomas … k. by Ashpelon's party at the attempted resettlement of the town, 1677. He m. Mehitable (Johnson), wid. of Sam’l Hinsdale; she m. (3) Mar. n, 1679, Dea. John Coleman of Hat. Ch.: Thankful, Feb., 1677; m. Jan. 7, 1697, Thos. Wells of Weth."

  5. ↑ Thankful Root Wells, in Find A Grave.
  6. ↑ The father was killed during the attempted resettlement of Deerfield implying that the mother and her children were still at Northampton and that Thankful was born at Northampton, not Deerfield.
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