Wealthy (Dyer) Wass (abt. 1768 - 1810)

Born about 1768 in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Wilmot Wass — married 21 Nov 1788 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 1810 at about age 42 in Addison, Washington, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Wealthy Dyer was born, probably at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, c1768, the daughter of Lemuel Dyer and Wealthea Jordan; ^[1] died at Addison, Maine, 1810; ^[2] married at Scarboro, Maine, 21 Nov 1788, Wilmot Wass; ^{[2] [3] [4]} born at Addison, Maine, c1765, the son of Wilmot Wass and Lucy Strout; ^[2] died, probably at Addison, after 1830. ^[2] Eight children. ^{[2] [3]} Wilmot married (2) c1811, Phebe Coffin, born at Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1778; ^{[5] [4]} died at Addison in the 1850s; had one more daughter. ^[2] She had married (1) at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, 22 Jun 1795, her cousin, John Coffin. ^[5]

In the Maine Genealogist, Vol. 19, p. 73, we read:^[6]

It is not known whether or not Lemuel [Dyer] and Welthea [Jordan] had children, but possibly "Welthy" Dyer, who witnessed one of the Reverend Ephraim Clark's deeds on 3 April 1787, was Lemuel and Welthea's daughter [Cumberland Co. deed 15:436-37].

That Welthea is the daughter of Lemuel Dyer and Welthea Jordan is confirmed in the Maine Historical and Genealogical Reporter, Vol. 3, p. 103: ^[4]

Willmot [Dyer] 3d, son of Willmot 2d, m. Wealthy Dyer, dau. of Lemuel, of Portland. Their children, Lemuel D., Holmes, Jones, Otis, Robert, Rebecca and Catherine. After the death of his first wife, Willmot 3d m. Phebe, widow of John Coffin, by whom he had one child, Sophia, who married a Stockbridge and moved West.

Sources

1. ↑ Leonard F. Tibbetts and Darryl B. Lamson, Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine (Picton Press, Rockport, Maine, 1999, 854 pages), p. 190. Cit. Date: 25 Apr 2021.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Early Pleasant River Families, p. 580
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Portland Public Library, The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder (S. M. Watson, Publisher, Portland, Maine, 1884-1898), "Settlers on Pleasant River - Wass Family", Vol. IX, No. 10 (October 1898), p. 302. Cit. Date: 25 Apr 2021.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Portland Public Library, The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder (S. M. Watson, Publisher, Portland, Maine, 1884-1898), "Settlers on Pleasant River - Wass Family", Vol. III, p. 103. Cit. Date: 25 Apr 2021.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Early Pleasant River Families, p. 90
6. ↑ Clayton R. Adams, "Sarah Dodge of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Cape Elizabeth, Maine" (Maine Genealogical Society, The Maine Genealogist (Farmington, Maine, Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.), Vol. 19 (1997), p. 73. Cit. Date: 25 Apr 2021.