Source:Wetmore, James Carnahan. Wetmore Family of America, and Its Collateral Branches

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Catalog description: "Thomas Whitmore (Wetmore) was born in England in 1615; came to America ...in 1635; tradition says that he embarked from Bristol. The first mention that we find of his name in the Colonial records is in the Wethersfield Town records in 1639-40...He first married Sarah, daughter of John and Ann (Willocke) Hall, of Hartford, Dec. 11, 1645..."--p.ll. "...Sarah died Dec. 7 1664-5"--p. 26. Thomas married secondly, Mary Ann Attconson who died June 1, 1669. His third wife was Mrs. Catherine Leet, who died 13 October 1693. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and elsewhere."

This is an amazingly good genealogy for a book published before the Civil War -- before typewriters, telephones, and the internet. Wetmore gives us very little in the way of sources and there are some errors, but this should be a starting point for any Wetmore (or Whitmore, in the event of a name change as in my own family) genealogist. Hal Whitmore

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