Judge Seth Wetmore

Judge Seth Wetmore

BIRTH 18 November 1700 Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
DEATH 12 April 1778 (aged 77) Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
BURIAL Washington Street Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
MEMORIAL ID 24674003

Judge Seth Wetmore was the fifth son of Izrahiah and Rachel Whitmore (Stow), born in Middletown, Connecticut on November 18, 1700 (o.s). He married 1, Margaret, widow of S. Gaylord, September 30, 1730. She died the sixth of November following. He married 2d, Hannah, daughter of Joseph1, son of Francis2, of Middletown; son of Francis Whitmore, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; born December 25, 1715, by whom he had Jerusha and Seth. She died May 1, 1744, and he married 3, January 15, 1745-6, Hannah, daughter of the Rev. Timothy and Esther Edwards (Stoddard) of East Windsor; born February 8, 1713, and had born to him Lucy, Oliver and Hannah.

Of the early history of Judge Wetmore, we are ignorant. At what institution, or from whence he received his education, we have been unable to discover, further than that he studied law, and became a lawyer by profession, and that he was celebrated as a practitioner in his time. He was a deputy to the General Court of Connecticut from his native town, forty-eight terms, running from 1738 to 1771