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WELD Families.
Joseph WELD
and
Elizabeth SHATSWELL or WISE/WYSE
Joseph was born 7 April 1599, in Glemsford, Suffolk, England, the Son of Edmund WELD and Ame/Amye DERESLYE, and married first 11 October 1620, in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, Elizabeth SHATSWELL (WYSE/WISE), the daughter of John SHATSWELL and Judith _______. She was born about 1600 in England, and died 16 October 1638 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
He married second Barbara CLAPP, the daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth CLAPP. She was born 1614 in , Devonshire, England, and died 15 April 1655, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Joseph died 7 October 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS,
STODDARD, STODDAR, STODDER, STODER,
Anthony, linen draper, Boston, adm. chh. 28 (7) 1639, frm. May 13, 1640. Deputy 1650; town officer. He m. 1, Mary, whom the Stoddard Genealogy states to have been the dau. of Mr. Emanuel Downing; (she may be the person, "kinswoman to Gov. John Winthrop, who was adm. chh. Boston (9) 1633.) He m. 2, about 24 (6) 1647, (date of marriage contract,) Barbara, dau. of Nicholas Clap of Venn Ottery, Eng., widow of Joseph Weld of Rox.; she was recd. to chh. of Bo. from that of Rox. 25 (10) 1647; she d. 15 (2) 1655, and he m. Christian --. Ch. BenJamin bapt. 23 (6) 1640, ae. about 11 days, Solomon bapt. 1 (8) 1643, ae. about 4 days, Samson b. 3 (10) 1645, Grace bapt. 16 (5) 1648, ae. about 2 days, Samuel bapt. 20 (11) 1649, ae. about 6 days, Simeon bapt. 25 (3) 1651, Sarah b. Oct. 21, 1652, Stephen bapt. 8 (11) 1653, Anthony b. June 16, 1656, Christian b. March 22, 1658, Lydia b. March 27, 1660, Joseph b. and d. Dec. 1661, John b. April 22, 1663, Ebenezer b. July 1, 1664, Dorothy b. Nov. 24, 1665, Mary b. March 25, 1668, Jane b. July 29, 1669.
Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book
Weld Captain Joseph Weld
, 1595-1646 , came from Sudbury, Co. Suffolk, England , of Roxbury, Mass. , 1635 .
Arms - Azure, a fesse nebulée between three crescents e1rmine.
Crest - A wivern sable guttée, ducally gorged and chained or
.
Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers
Volume 4 pages 467-468.
Weld, or Welde,
DANIEL, Roxbury, s. of Joseph first of the same, was sch.-master aft. leav. coll. perhaps at Cambridge, but soon rem. to Salem, there was a physician, had early m. Bethia, sec. d. of Edward Mitchelson, serv. in Philip's war, at least in the Narraganset campaign, 1675, as chief surg. and d. May 1690. At Salem were b. to him, as Felt says, Barbara and Eliz. besides at Cambridge had Daniel, b. 20 Aug. 1663; Edward, 7 June 1666, wh. was also a physician, but d. 3 Oct. 1702, at 36 yrs.; and Bethia, 24 Jan. 1668. His wid. d. 24 Oct. 1719, in her 70th yr. Perhaps the same man at Roxbury, of whose derivat. aft. great earch, I am unable to conject. otherwise, had Mary, b. 19 Feb. 1676, and may have been f. of that Mehitable, wh. d. 12 Jan. 1680.
JOHN, Roxbury, eldest s. of Capt. Joseph, b. in Eng. as Farmer cites a fam. MS. to prove, 28 Oct. 1623, and came over in 1638 wh. is not improb. m. 24 Dec. 1647, Margaret Bowen, perhaps sis. of Griffith, had Joseph, b. 6 June, bapt. 12 Aug. 1649, d. in few mos. not as Ellis says, “only 17 days old;” Joseph, again, 13, bapt. 15 Sept. 1650; John, 25 May, bapt. 26 June 1653; Eliz. 14, bapt. 18 Nov. 1655; Margaret, 29 Sept. bapt. 11 Oct. 1657, d. at 17 yrs.; Mary, 3, bapt. 8 Apr. 1660; Abigail, b. 27 Aug. 1663, d. young; Esther, 28 Dec. 1664, d. in few days; and Hannah, 5 Sept. 1666; was freem. 1650, and serv. in Philip's war few days, mak. his will 19 June 1676, bec. he was call. into an expedit. but did not die until 20 Sept. 1691. His wid. d. 15 Sept. 1692. Eliz. m. 28 Aug. 1672, Samuel Gore; Mary m. 1680, Joshua Gardner; and Hannah m. 11 Nov. 1685, William Heath.
*JOSEPH, Roxbury, br. of the first Daniel, prob. and of Rev. Thomas, certain. came, it is thot. 1635, bring. w. Eliz. and ch. Eliz., Mary, Hannah, and Thomas (wh. by his f. design. for a coll. educ. d. at 17 yrs.), a. the ages of 10, 8, 6, and 3 yrs. respectiv. and leav. at home the eldest John, here had Edmund, b. 14 July 1636; and his w. d. Oct. 1638. He m. 20 Apr. foll. Barbara, niece of Edward Clap of Dorchester, had Sarah, bapt. 21 Dec. 1640, says the copy of town rec. wh. we might kn. to be wrong, as that was not Sunday; but the other copy from the ret. [p.458] to the County recorder, as in Geneal. Reg. VI. 377, makes her to be b. 31 Dec. of that yr. Yet what was the day of bapt. is unkn. since the earliest ch. rec. of Roxbury is also lost; Daniel, 18, bapt. 25 Sept. 1642; Joseph, 6, bapt. 9 Feb. 1645, d. at 10 mos.; and Marah, bapt. 2 Aug. 1646, tho. the town rec. makes her bapt. on the impossib. day 6 July, and the child's name Jeremiah. The apostle Eliot in his rec. assigns the cause for the bitter name, that the f. “is now in gr. affliet. by a sore on his tongue.” He was freem. 3 Mar. 1636, rep. 1637 and sev. yrs. more, was capt. of the milit. of good est. and high reput. and d. of a cancer, or was bur. not as Ellis says, 8 Sept. but 7 Oct. foll. the b. of his last ch. His will of 2 June, with codic. of 22 July preced. is well abst. in Geneal. Reg. VII. 33. The wid. m. next yr. Anthony Stoddard of Boston, whose mar. contr. in our register of Deeds I. 137, bound him to pay portions to the three ch. she bore to W. on their com. of age, or m. but if all d. then to div. among his ch. by former w. Eliz. had m. 20 Mar. 1641, Edward Denison; Mary m. a. 1648, Daniel Harris of Middletown; Hannah seems by the lang. of her f.'s will, to have been engaged to m. a s. of famous Hooker, but nothing is kn. further; Sarah m. 23 July 1663, John Franks of Boston; and Marah m. Comfort Starr, says Ellis.
The Great Migration Begins
Sketches
PRESERVED PURITAN
Thomas WELD
ORIGIN: Terling, Essex
MIGRATION: 1632 on William & Francis [WJ 1:93]
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
RETURN TRIPS: Returned to England permanently in 1641
OCCUPATION: Minister.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: In July 1632 Winthrop reported that "[a]fter many imparlances and days of humiliation, but those of Boston and Roxbury, to seek the Lord for Mr. Welde his disposing, and the advice of those of Plimouth being taken, etc., at length he resolved to sit down with them of Roxbury" [WJ 1:98]. "Mr. Thomas Welde" admitted as member #2 of Roxbury church [RChR 73].
FREEMAN: 6 November 1632 [MBCR 1:367].
EDUCATION: Matriculated at Cambridge from Trinity College, 1611; B.A. 1613-4; M.A. 1618 [Venn 4:360-01; Morison 404]. In 1651 Thomas Weld sold his extensive library to the Society for Promoting and Propagating the Gospel in New England for £34, and the catalog of the library survives [NEHGR 36:371-73].
OFFICES: Committee to "take order for a college at Newetowne" (the first Harvard Board of Overseers), 20 November 1637 [MBCR 1:217; Morison 193].
ESTATE: In the Roxbury land inventory of about 1652 "Mr. Thomas Weld" (in absentia) held eight parcels, seven of which had been granted to him: two acres of land with his dwelling house, barn and other outhouses, as well as yards, gardens and orchards; eight acres of upland and marsh; fifteen acres of meadow and marsh; fourteen acres of upland and marsh; ten acres of upland and marsh; one hundred twenty-two acres and a half, being the third lot in the second allotment of the last division; three hundred thirty-three acres in the four thousand acres; and twenty-five acres "bought of Henry Archer" [RBOP 18-19]. In her will, dated 20 March 1664[/5] and proved 16 November 1671, Margaret, widow of Thomas Weld, late of Gateside by Newcastle, clerk, bequeathed "to brother Mr. William Doget and her sister Anna, his wife, to sister Elizabeth Wade, deceased, and their children, to kinsman John Jeffreson" [NEHGR 52:249].
BIRTH: Baptized St. Peters, Sudbury, Suffolk, 13 July 1595, son of Edmund Weld [TAG 55:145].
DEATH: London 23 March 1660[/1] ("Mr. Thomas Welde sometime pastor to this church died in London" [RChR 199 (Danforth diary)]).
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1625 Margaret _____; "Mrs. Margaret Welde the wife of Mr. Thomas Weld" admitted to Roxbury church as member #19 [RChR 74]; she died by about 1636. (2) By about 1636 Judith _____; "Judith Weld the second wife of Mr. Thomas Weld" was admitted to Roxbury church in 1636 or 1637 [RChR 82]. She was buried at Gateshead, Durham, on 4 May 1656 [NEHGR 36:406]. (Her monumental inscription reads "Here sleeps Mrs. Judith Weld, who was to 3 godly ministers a good wife, to Christ a faithful servant, to the church an affectionate member, for piety, prudence, & patience eminent. She departed this life the [blank] 1656. In Jesu dormio, splendide resurgam" [NEHGR 36:406, citing "Brand's History of Newcastle," 1789, i. 499].) (3) Margaret _____; she died between 20 March 1664[/5] and 16 November 1671 [NEHGR 52:249].
CHILDREN:
i JOHN, bp. Terling 6 June 1625 [NEHGR 36:405];
attended Harvard briefly in 1643-4
but was expelled for burglary
[Morison 309-10; WJ 2:203-04;
Sibley 1:121-22 (incorrectly
calling him "Joseph")]; "family
tradition is that he was minister of
a parish in Durham, whose name called
Riton is not to be easily found, near
his father probably, and he may have
been ejected instead of that Thomas,
whom Calamy names, by the Bartholomew
Act, as the father was in his grave
before that day" [Savage 4:457 (the
parish of Ryton is a few miles west
of Gateshead)].
ii THOMAS, bp. Terling 26 July 1626 [NEHGR 36:405];
m. Roxbury 4 June 1650 Dorothy Whiting, daughter of
Rev. Samuel Whiting.
iii SAMUEL, bp. Terling 8 October 1629 [NEHGR 36:405]; no further record.
iv EDMUND, bp. Terling 8 July 1631 [NEHGR 36:405]; Harvard College 1650
[Sibley 1:220]; minister at
Inniskean, Ireland.
ASSOCIATIONS: Thomas Weld was brother of Daniel Weld of Braintree and Joseph Weld of Roxbury [TAG 55:145-48].
COMMENTS: Thomas Weld was one of the ecclesiastics who tried Anne Hutchinson for heresy, and for this reason Savage honored him with the longest sketch in his Genealogical Dictionary [Savage 4:458-73]. Savage quoted Weld's remark that he was excommunicated from the Church of England "by the driveling malevolence of Archbishop Laud" of London [Savage 4:459]. Most of this sketch sets forth Savage's argument as to the authorship of a tract, published in London under Weld's guidance, about the Antinomian controversy. Weld certainly made additions to the book as it went through the press, but modern scholars believe the bulk of the text to have been written by John Winthrop. In 1641, in the early stages of the Civil War in England, Rev. Thomas Weld and Rev. Hugh Peter were sent home to represent Massachusetts Bay to Parliament [WJ 2:30]. Weld performed many useful services for Massachusetts Bay while in England, but he never returned to New England, despite being urged to do so [WJ 2:92, 260].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Accounts of Thomas Weld appear in both the Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of American Biography. In 1882 several articles were published setting forth useful biographical and bibliographical information about Thomas Weld [NEHGR 36:36-39, 62-70, 371-73, 405-7]. In 1979 Douglas Richardson published some useful data on the English origins of Thomas Weld and his two brothers [TAG 55:145-48].
Note:
The will of Joseph Weld of Roxbury, dated Ipswich 2.4 month 1646.
To the Colidg In Cambridg Tenn pounds to be payd In fiue yeeres, viz. 40s p Annum, to the helpe & fertherance of such In larning as are not able to subsist of themselves, & herein I referr my Say to mr Dunster & mr. Eliot, to be disposed as they Judg meet, only by this I recall the 20s a yeare back again, wch I put to my hand to giue to Dr. Ames sonn; yet If those fournamed Judg it fitt to give him the 40s p annum I leave it to ther wisdoms. - To my sonn John who is now my eldest sonn, sonn Thomas, sonn Edmond & my Daughter mary my howse called the farme, with barne, & all the erable land, midow pasture ground contayning 80 acres & vpwards, with all the howsold stuff I haue ther, oxen & cowes, with cart, plows, yoks, Chaines & all the furniture: also my las devission of land being the 22 or 23 lott, being about 130 akers more or less; also 3 akers of land soemtimes John graues, lying next to the grounds of Josuah Hewes; allso, six akers of salt marsh, more or less, that was bought of the Hairs and Samuell shoreman, lying next the marsh of John watson; all these howses & moveables, cattell & prcells of land named I giue to these 4 of my children named, viz, sonn John a dubble ption, the other three an equall ption. - If god take any of them away by death vnder the age of 21 yeares, the survivors of these 4 shall Injoy his or there ptions. I giue to hannah, my youngest dau. by my first wife, my ground comonly cald the leauen akers, lying next mudy riuer, also 20 lbs. to be payd out my goods by my wife barbara, at the age of 21 or day of marriage - If god take her away before her ption be devided amonth the children I had by my former wife, my will is, If I dy before that time be expired, that I am engaged to mr. Hoocker to find her clothes out of her portion- Children by my former wife all of them a payer of sheets & all the beding, except that I shall hereafter name - (to the children severally) the rent due from William dauis. That my overseers doe see prformed out of the corne wch william davis is to pay that my Brother edward porter?have Ten bushells of rie, allso bro. mayes, bro. Jones, bro. lewis, bro. peake, bro. gamlin, (each) 5 bushells. - Because my house in the towne have little wood belong to it my wife and children that are to inioy that shall have liberty to take soe much In the Sothermost grounds as will serue for ther vse for fiering, puided (they)cutt it out & make no stroy; this to Inioy for the space of Ten years after my decease. - Those children named shall haue each of them a boock, & ther be 3 of doct prestons, one of Dr Sibb, mr rogers 7 treatises; the eldest to take his choyse first. Sonn John my best stuff suit, son Thomas my frise suite & Edmond a ption as may be equall.- To sonn John my cloth cloke, to sonn daniell a suitable ption of apparrell, equally parted among all my sons except my black tawny cloke to mr. John Eliot or Teacher, my best sword to sonn Jonn & my other sword and black belt to son Thomas. The share I haue fr the Iron works the yearly pfit may be disposed to bring vp my son Thomas at Cambridg till he com to be mr of Art, and if my son daniell be capiable of larning, my desire is, that he allso after my son Thomas haue the like benefit, till he com to be mr of art; after that the whole to be equally devided among all my children. Wife barbara (my executrix,) together with my son daniell, dau. sara, dau. mara, my houwse, the 15 akers in the neck, also that cow I bought at watertown, for the other is my son Johns, together with too young steeres that are somering at John woods at sudbury. Those excepted, I giue all my other cattle at home to my wife & her children; the downe bead, bolster & c on the best chamber; one fether bedd & the beadsted on the hall chamber; with the yallow rugg, largest green rugg, 4 pillows, 2 payer of blankets, allso on flock bead &c. My dau. denison affirmes the down beads, my wiues mother gaue to her, after my decease, I know no such thing; yet, being soe confidently affirmed by her, my will is, after the decease of my wife, (they) shall be my dau. denisons.- Debts to be paid, also mr. cuddingtons anewity of 20lb a year, till 7 years be expired;
-40lbs a year for 5 years to the Colidg. Mr John Eliot, Elder heath, Edward Clapp of dorchester, & William parks, (overseers,) 10lb to be payd them.
p mr Joseph weld. 22. 5. 1646. My desire is, that leuetenant Hewes & bro. bell, allso, bro. John Johnson may be added to the overseers, (they to have power to make the portions of the children equal.) p me Joseph Weld
Witness p vs,
Joshua Hewes
John Johnson
Proved 10th (8) 1646. Leiftenant Hues & John Johnson deposed
Wm Aspinwall Recdr.
Inventory of Joseph Weld, late of Rocksbury, by Barbara (Clap) his wid. 4 (12) 1646.
Amt £2028.14.9. Apprizers, Isack heath, Willm Denyson, John Johnson, William Parke. The name of Wm. Pirkines is mentioned. Proved 4 (12) 1646.
CHIDREN of Joseph WELD and Elizabeth SHATSWELL (WYSE/WISE):
1. JOHN b: 28 Oct 1623; Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
md: 24 Dec 1647; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Margaret BOWEN.
d: 20 Sep 1691; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
+ 2. ELIZABETH b: 1625; Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
md: 20 Mar 1641; , , .
Edward DENISON
d: 5 Feb 1717; , , .
+ 3. MARY b: 1627; Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
md: 1648; , , .
Daniel HARRIS
d: 5 Sep 1711, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
4. HANNAH b: 1629; Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
d: 1698;
5: THOMAS b: 1632; Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
d: 1649; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
6. EDMUND b: 14 Jul 1636; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
md: ; John HUNNEWELL.
d: 1700;
CHIDREN of Joseph WELD and Barbara CLAPP:
7: SARAH b: 21 Dec 1640; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
md. 23 Jul 1663, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusettst.
John FRANKS.
8: DANIEL b: 25 Sep 1642; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
md: 8 Jun 1664;
Bethia MITCHELSON.
d: May 1690; Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.
9. JOSEPH b: 9 Feb 1644; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
d: 9 Dec 1645; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
10. MARAH b: 2 Aug 1646; Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
md: 1655; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Comfort STAR
d: 1688; , , .
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