Richard Weller migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 364) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
2nd wife was Elizabeth Abell, Widow of Henry Curtiss. [2]
Marriage: 22 June or July 1662, Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony [2][3][5]
Residence
Windsor, Connecticut: Married Sept. 1640, children born, offices held, wife died 1655 [3]
Northampton, Massachusetts: July 1661, signed church covenant [3]
Deerfield, Massachusetts: 1672 - 1675, site of battles in King Philip's War [3]
Northampton: 1675 - 1678, Deerfield was abandoned for several years due to Indian attacks and deaths
Deerfield: 1682, Richard Weller returned to Deerfield about 1682 with others to resettle it, and died there (according to Savage, in 1690) or possibly elsewhere. [3]
Death
between 1686 and 1690, possibly at home of surviving son Nathaniel in Westfield, Massachusetts[2][3]
Claude W. Barlow, Ph.D., Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, Descendants of Richard Weller of Windsor, Northampton and Deerfield, TAG Vol. 34, page 140-142. (Boston, 1958) Repository: The American Genealogist]. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
Louis Effingham De Forest, Moore and allied families: the ancestry of William Henry Moore, (New York, De Forest Publishing, 1938) page 607 - 612
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, (Deerfield, Massachusetts, unknown publisher, 1895-1896), 1414 pages.
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, database online, extracted from: James Savage, John Farmer, O.P. Dexter, (Boston, by Little, Brown and company in 1860), Vol 4 S-Z, 714 page with cross-index. See page 474
McCracken, George E., Robert Wilson of Farmington, Conn., The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1976) Vol. 52, Page 77
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Weller-716 and Weller-95 appear to represent the same person because: they have the same name, married the same woman, have the same son John Weller who married the same woman, Mary Alvord. The facts on Weller-95 are the correct ones, being taken from documents quoting primary sources. Please approve merge.
Windsor, Connecticut, was settled in 15 Sept 1633. Richard Weller was not born there in 1610. His life is documented right up to the probate of his estate in March of 1690. He did not die in 1655.
The life of Richard Weller is well documented from primary sources in Descendants of Richard Weller of Windsor, Northampton and Deerfield, TAG Vol. 34, page 140. (Boston, 1958). "TAG" (The American Genealogist) is a publication of the highly respected institution, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, of Boston.
The correct data for Richard Weller, father of John Weller who married Mary Alvord, is sourced on Richard Weller.
Weller-585 and Weller-95 appear to represent the same person because: they have the same name, birthplace, wife, marriage date and place, death date and place. Suggest using June 24, 1610 for birth date as more accurate. Thank you.
The life of Richard Weller is well documented from primary sources in Descendants of Richard Weller of Windsor, Northampton and Deerfield, TAG Vol. 34, page 140. (Boston, 1958). "TAG" (The American Genealogist) is a publication of the highly respected institution, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, of Boston.
The correct data for Richard Weller, father of John Weller who married Mary Alvord, is sourced on Richard Weller.
This profile needs to be merged into it.