Sarah Thompson

Not the same as Sarah Beach

Sarah Welles

• BIRTH: 28 Sep 1659 - Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
• DEATH: 23 Mar 1730 (aged 70) - Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
• BURIAL: Old Congregational Burying Ground, Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
• Parents: F. John Welles (Est 1622 - 1659) M. Elizabeth Bourn (Est 1627 - 1668) m. Bef 1647

Family

History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1. edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. “Thompson Family (Stratford).” Page 606. < GoogleBooks >

Married by 1679 to Ambrose Thompson (1651/52 - 1742), son of John Thompson & Mirable Fitch.

Children of Ambrose Thompson & Sarah Welles:

1. Deacon John Thompson (Cal 1680 - 1765) married 1) Ruth Curtis 2) Martha Blagge 3) Mehitabel Glover
2. Ambrose Thompson (1682 - 1768) married Ann Booth
3. Sarah Thompson (1685 - ) married Joseph Birdsey
4. Ebenezer Thompson (1688 - 1757) married Comfort Pickett
5. Thomas Thompson (1691 - ) married Ruth Seeley
6. Elizabeth Thompson (1695 - ) unm.
7. Hannah Thompson (1700 - )

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welles-51

SARAH WELLES was the daughter of JOHN & ELIZABETH WELLES, and grand-daughter of Thomas WELLES, Governor of the Colony of Connecticut & wife Alice (Tomes), immigrants from county Warwick, England. She married AMBROSE THOMPSON, son of JOHN & MIRABLE THOMPSON, English immigrants.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thompson-622

~MY THOMPSON ANCESTOR~ In Pursuit of Paradise, p. 62 "In 1683 Mr. James Blakeman built a mill ("to grind ye town's corn")near Peck's Mill Pond in Stratford. Less than 3 years later, on Christmas Eve, 1686, Blakeman swapped the mill with Ambrose Thompson for a share in the new Woodbury plantation. The mill remained in the Thompson family for over 75 years until Ambrose's grandson Ebnezer sold it to Theophilus Nichols. The millers were important men in town, and the mills became informal forums for discussion of politics, weather & crops."

Probably in Stratford, Ambrose married SARAH WELLES, daughter of JOHN & ELIZABETH WELLES, my immigrant ancestors & prominent founders of Stratford. Ambrose & Sarah were the parents of 6 known children including my ancestor, SARAH THOMPSON, who married JOSEPH BIRDSEY on 10 Jun 1708 in Stratford and were the parents of REV. NATHAN BIRDSEYE, also buried in this cemetery.

Thompson, Ambrose, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932) 1:606.

"Thompson, Ambrose, s. of John. Deputy (Stratford), May 1697, Oct. 1704, May 1705, Oct. 1706, May 1710, May 1712, Oct. 1716, May 1717.

Born at Stratford, 1 Jan. 1651/2; d. there 7 Sept. 1742 in 92 yr. (g. s.); …

Will 23 Feb. 1740/1;

• dau. Elizabeth Thompson;
• son Thomas Thompson;
• dau. Hannah Thompson;
• son John Thompson,
• Capt. David Judson, and Mr. Daniel Hawley, Exec'rs."

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Book Title: Thacher - Thatcher Genealogy : Part 1 : Coat-of-Arms. Page 329. < AncestryImage >

Inscription

Here Lyes ye Body/ of Mrs. Sarah Thompson/ Wife to Mr. Ambros/ Thompson Who/ Departed this Life/ March 23d 1730 Aged 7? years

References

• Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/30149462?h=dec1b2
• History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1. edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. “Thompson Family (Stratford),” Page 606. < GoogleBooks >
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/30149473?h=b562cc
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welles-51
• Find A Grave: Memorial #8652549 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8652549
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8652542/ambrose-thompson
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Vol. 1, page 657
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Sarah_Welles_%2810%29 cites
• 1. Welles, John, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932) 1:657. "Sarah (Welles), b. (Stratford) abt. 1658, d. at Stratford, 23 Mar. 1730 ae. abt. 71 (g. s.); …"
• 2. John2 Welles, in Mathews, Barbara Jean; Donna Holt Siemiatkoski; and Nancy Pexa. The Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut and His Wife, Alice Tomes: Volume 1, 2nd Edition. (Wethersfield, Conn.: Welles Family Association, 2013) 219.
• 3. Thompson, Ambrose, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932) 1:606. "… Sarah Welles, dau. of Mr. John, who d. 23 Mar. 1730 ae. abt. 71 (g.s.)."
• 4. Sarah Welles Thompson, in Find A Grave.
• 5. It appears that the Sarah Wells/Welles, daughter of John, born 28 September 1659, was the child of John and Sarah (Curtis) Wells, who removed to Hadley after the birth of their first two children.