Mary (Alvord) Weller (1651 - bef. 1687)

Born 6 Jul 1651 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of John Weller — married 24 Mar 1669 in Northampton, Hampshire, Mass.

Descendants

Died before 23 May 1687 before age 35 in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts

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Biography

Mary Alvord, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Vore) Alvord, was born 1651 at Windsor, Connecticut ^[1],^[2].

Thirteen men, whose first habitation in New England was Windsor, Connecticut, moved their families to Northampton, Massachusetts, by 1661, Richard Weller and Alexander Alvord among them ^[3]. Mary Alvord was about ten years old, and John Weller was about fifteen. Northampton was another new town, settled in 1655.

Mary Alvord married John Weller, son of Richard and Ann (Wilson) Weller, at Northampton 24 Mar 1669 ^[4]. They had eight children, "all born at Northampton":

• John Weller, b. 4 Feb 1670 ^[5]
• Mary Weller, baptized 11 Sep 1672 ^[6]
• Hannah Weller, baptized 14 May 1674 ^[7]
• Elizabeth Weller, baptized 12 Feb 1675 ^[8]
• Sarah Weller, baptized 15 Apr 1678 ^[9]
• Thomas Weller, baptized Aug 1680 ^[10]
• Experience Weller, baptized 4 Dec 1682 ^[11]
• Abigail Weller

In about 1683, the family moved to Deerfield, Massachusetts ^[12].

When John Weller died, age 41, at Deerfield, Massachusetts, in March 1686, he left a widow with eight children under fifteen years old ^[13]. Mary died by age 36, before her father Alexander Alvord wrote his will 23 May 1687 ^[14] It is unknown as to who raised the eight orphans.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W6-7PB : 7 January 2020), Mary Aluard, 1651.
2. ↑ The Burke and Alvord memorial: a genealogical account of the descendants of Richard Burke of Sudbury, Massachusetts, database, HeritageQuest.com, extracted from John Alonzo Boutelle, book of the same name, (Boston, Massachusetts, 1864), 239 pages; InternetArchive. page 96, citing Windsor church records, page 98,
3. ↑ Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.), Vol 11, page 4
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-LR7V : 19 May 2022), ...Chn Weller and Mary Alvord, 24 Mar 1669; citing Marriage, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329300.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-LKNR : 20 May 2022), Mary in entry for John Weller, 4 Feb 1670; citing Birth, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329300.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-2R3Y : 20 May 2022), Mary in entry for Mary Weller, 11 Sep 1672; citing Birth, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004325917.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DD9H-XKN2 : 20 May 2022), Mary Weller in entry for Hannah Weller, ; citing Christening, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329300.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DD9M-V2T2 : 20 May 2022), Mary Weller in entry for Elisabeth Weller, ; citing Christening, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329300.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DD9M-VRT2 : 20 May 2022), Mary Weller in entry for Sarah Weller, ; citing Christening, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329300.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DD99-GWW2 : 20 May 2022), Mary Weller in entry for Thomas Weller, ; citing Christening, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329300.
11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DD9M-GPT2 : 20 May 2022), Mary Weller in entry for Experience Weller, ; citing Christening, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329300.
12. ↑ "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord", Compiled by Samuel Morgan Alvord, (published 1908 by A.D. Andrews, Printer, Webster, NY. By the Alford American Family Association), no. 4: https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00alvo#page/29/mode/1up; https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00alvo#page/35/mode/1up
13. ↑ 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 database, HeritageQuest.com, extracted from George Sheldon, book of the same name,(u.p., 1895-1896), 1414 pages [1].
14. ↑ Claude W. Barlow, Ph.D., Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, Descendants of Richard Weller of Windsor, Northampton, and Deerfield, TAG vol 34 (1958), page 141-142

• S-Z: Volume 4 of A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England:, James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry Dexter, (Publisher: Little, Brown, 1862), page 474 [Caution: This is an unreliable source.

• Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898) Page 44