Person:Thomas Welles (9)
Captain Thomas Welles
b.29 Jul 1662 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.7 Dec 1711 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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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
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain Thomas Welles1662 - 1711
  • W.  Thankful RootAbt 1677 - 1704
m. 7 Jan 1696/97
  1. Captain Thomas Welles1697/98 - 1753
  2. Hezekiah Welles1701 - 1711
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain Thomas Welles1662 - 1711
  • W.  Jerusha TreatAbt 1678 - 1754
m. 17 May 1705
  1. William Welles1706 - 1783
  2. Wait Welles1708 - 1789
  3. Dr. John Welles1709/10 - 1771
  4. Ichabod Welles1712 - 1758
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Captain Thomas Welles
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][4] 29 Jul 1662 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 7 Jan 1696/97 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Thankful Root
Marriage 17 May 1705 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesThomas Welles and Jerusha Treat were first cousins once removed.
to Jerusha Treat
Death[1][2][3][4] 7 Dec 1711 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[1][4][5] 8 Dec 1711 Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[6] 23 Jan 1711/12 £785-03-02. Taken by William Goodrich, Ebenezer Deming and Samuel Treat.
Probate[6] 4 Feb 1711/12 Administration to the widow.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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)
    1:281-86.

    35. Capt. Thomas3 Welles (Capt. Samuel2, Thomas1), born 29 July 1662 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing LR 2:30); and died 7 December 1711, at age 49 years, 5 months, in Wethersfield, buried the next day (Barbour citing VR 1:11). He married first on 7 January 1696/97 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:11) 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). He married second on 17 May 1705 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:11) Jerusha Treat, daughter of Lt. James Treat and Rebecca Lattimer, born c. 1678 in Wethersfield, Connecticut; and died 15 January 1754 in her 76th year according to her gravestone in the Village Cemetery, Wethersfield (Hale 24).

    Thomas Welles served as deputy to the General Court in May and October 1702, May and October 1703, March 1704, May and October 1705, October and December 1707, May 1708, and in May and June 1709 (Col Recs. 4:371, 395, 407, 434, 461, 498, 521; 5:30, 37, 40, 89, 107). He was Ensign of the Wethersfield Company of the Trainband in May 1696 (Col. Recs. 4:165) and became Captain of the north company in May 1701 (Col. Recs. 4:350)."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Governor Thomas 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)
    788.

    "Thomas (Welles), b. (Wethersfield) 29 July 1662; d. at Wethersfield, 7 Dec. 1711; m. (1) at Wethersfield, 7 Jan. 1696/7, Thankful Root, b. at Northampton, Mass., in 1677, d. at Wethersfield, Nov. 1704, dau. of John and Mehitabel (Johnson) (Hinsdale) Root; m. (2) at Wethersfield, 17 May 1705, Jerusha3 Treat …, b. abt. 1678, d. at Wethersfield, 15 Jan. 1754 in 76th yr. (g. s.), dau. of Lieut. James2 and Rebecca (Lattimer) Treat. She m. (2) 25 Dec. 1712, Capt. Ephraim2 Goodrich …, b. 2 June 1663, d. 27 Feb. 1739 ae. 76. He was appointed Ensign of the Wethersfield company, May 1696, and Captain of the north company in that town, May 1701. He was Deputy for Wethersfield, May and Oct. 1702, May and Oct. 1703, May 1704, May and Oct. 1705, Oct. and Dec. 1707, May 1708, May and June 1709; Justice of the Peace, 1703."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thomas Welles, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:480.

    "Thomas Welles, Wethersfield, s. of the first Samuel of the same, m. 7 Jan. 1697, Thankful, d. of John Root of Deerfield, had Thomas, b. 10 Jan. 1698; and Hezekiah, 12 Aug. 1701, wh. d. at 10 yrs. His w. d. 1704, and he m. 17 May 1705, Jerusha, d. of Lieut. James Treat of Wethersfield, had William, 12 Jan. 1706; Wait, 4 Jan. 1708; John, 10 Feb. 1710; and Ichabod, posthum. 26 Apr. 1712. He was a capt. d. 7 Dec. 1711, and his wid. m. 25 Dec. 1712, Ephraim Goodrich, and d. 15 Jan. 1754."

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    285.

    "Welles, … Tho[mas], s. Samuell & Elizabeth, b. July 29, 1662 [LR2:30]"
    "Welles, … Thomas, s. Samuell & Elizabeth, b. July 29, 1662 [LR2:30]"
    "Welles, … Thomas, Capt., d. Dec. 7, 1711; bd. Dec. 8, [1711], Æ 49 y. 5 m. [1:11]"

  5. ↑ Capt Thomas Welles, in Find A Grave.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Welles, Capt. Thomas, Wethersfield, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:325.

    "Probate Records. Vol. VIII, 1710 to 1715. Page 97.

    Welles, Capt. Thomas, Wethersfield. Invt. £785-03-02. Taken 23 January, 1711-12, by William Goodrich, Ebenezer Deming and Samuel Treat.

    Court Record, Page 50—4 February, 1711-12: Adms. granted to Jerusha Welles, the widow.

    Page 70—8 April, 1712: This Court appoint Samuel Treat of Wethersfield to be guardian to Thomas Welles, a minor son of Capt. Thomas Welles, late of Wethersfield, decd. And sd. Samuel Treat gave bond.

    Page 176—8 February, 1713-14: Samuel Treat, guardian to Thomas Welles, a minor son of Capt. Thomas Welles, was discharged, and Thomas the minor chose his uncle Thomas Sheldon of Northampton to be his guardian. Recog., £100.

    Page 189—13 April, 1714: Whereas, the persons who were appointed by this Court on the 5th of this recent April to set out to Thomas Welles, a minor son, the sd. minor's part of his sd. father’s estate, now meet with difficulty so that they cannot well proceed: 1st. For that they find that there is a piece of land valued in the inventory at £90, formerly devised by Mr. James Treat to another of the sons of the sd. Thomas Welles in and by his last Will. 2ndly. Because there is not rendered to this Court any account of the debts due from or paid out to that estate.

    Page 189—14 April, 1714: Thomas Sheldon now appears with complaint that the distributors appointed to set out the estate to the sd. Minor, vizt., George Stilman, George Kilbourn and Josiah Churchill, do refuse to go forward with setting out the estate to the sd. minor according to sd. order given them 13 April. This Court now appoint Mr. Thomas Wickham, John Howard, Josiah Churchill and Lt. Jonathan Belding, or any two of them, to dist. the estate.

    Page 191—19 April, 1714: This Court accepts of the dist. presented by Deacon Thomas Sheldon of Northampton, guardian to Thomas Welles, eldest son of Thomas Welles.

    Page 148 (Vol. X) 7 March, 1726-7: This Court do appoint Capt. Thomas Welles, James Treat and Ebenezer Deming, of Wethersfield, to dist. and divide the real estate of Capt. Thomas Welles, late of Wethersfield, decd., unto the relict of the sd. decd., giving her 1-3 part thereof, the residue to be dist. to William Welles, Wait Welles, John Welles and Ichabod Welles, the four sons of the decd.

    Page 54 (Vol. XI) 5 October, 1731: Report of the dist. Likewise, the sd. Adms., Jerusha Goodrich, formerly Jerusha Welles, the relict, exhibited an account of her Adms., which was allowed. And this Court grant to Ephraim Goodrich, her now husband, a Quietus Est."

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