Joseph Welles I (1680 - 1744)

Born Sep 1680 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Robbins) Welles — married about 6 Jan 1709 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1744 at about age 63 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Birth: Sept 1780 Wethersfield, Connecticut, son of Capt. Robert and Elizabeth.^[1]

Marriage: Jan 6, 1708/9 Wethersfield, Hannah Robbins d/o Capt Joshua^[1]

Children:

1. John
2. Joseph
3. Joshua
4. Prudence, m. Thomas Robins
5. Esther, m. Samuel Robbins
6. Hannah, m. ____ Hurlbut
7. Eunice, m. ____ Clapp

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 "Wallingford" (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Wethersfield p. 279

• Ancestry.com, index of records and family trees of possible relevance to Hannah Wells.
• pg 241-242 - History of the Welles family in England and Normandy, with the derivation from their progenitors of some of the descendants in the United States - https://archive.org/stream/historywellesfa00wellgoog#page/n6/mode/2up
• Genealogical Notes Or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Masschusetts by Nathaniel Goodwin (1982), pg. 72
• Ullmann, Helen Schatvet. "Hartford District Probate Records, from 1750, as Abstracted by Lucius Barnes Barbour, from Volume 23 (1778-1788)", Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Conn., 2011) Vol. 44, Page 66

• "Joseph Welles." Family Search. Accessed Jan. 20th, 2021. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M2F9-P76.

• "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMH-RJMZ : 21 September 2019), Joseph in entry for Prudence Wells, ; citing Birth, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272249.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2S7-NMS : 7 January 2020), Joseph Wells in entry for Joshua Wells, 1726.

• Siemiatkoski, Donna Holt, Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles and his wife, Alice Tomes, John Welles pg 3, son John Wells pg 4, daughter Comfort Welles pg 7, Daughter Joannah Birdsey pg 21-22 Robert Welles pg 4, son Joseph Welles pg 10, son Joseph Welles pg 32, daughter Sarah Welles pg 32.