Elisha Welles (1729 - 1779)

Born 1729 in Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Deming) Welles — married 4 Apr 1757 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 18 Aug 1779 at about age 50 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Elisha Welles, son of Jonathan and Ruth (bull) Wells was bpt 24 March 1730/1; died 18 aug 1779 ae 50. buried at Center Ch; married 4 April 1757 Lydia Deming^[1]

Children:

1. Elisha b. 27 Sept 1758; m. Clara (Deming) Olcott^[1]
2. Lemuel b. 30 July 1763 unmarried^[1]
3. Levi b. 10 July 1765 m. (1) Hannah Wells; m. (2) Betsey Mathew ^[1]
4. Jared b. 11 Oct 1767 m. Abigail Bunce^[1]
5. Horace^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. , 1977. p. 661

• The Connecticut Quarterly (Hartford, Conn., 1898) Vol. 4, Page 418: List of Burials, or "Sexton's List" of the Center Church Burying Ground, Hartford.
• 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 65.
• Early Hartford Vital Records, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1912) Vol. 14, Page 594. Marriage record.