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About Thomas Weld
Thomas Weld
BIRTH 1626 Essex, England
DEATH 17 Jan 1683 (aged 56–57) Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
BURIAL Eliot Burying Ground Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
PLOT C306 MEMORIAL ID 137458436 Photos by DGB
Thomas Weld. Born ca Jul 1626 in Terling, Essex and was baptized in Terling, Essex, on 26 Jul 1626. Thomas died on 17 Jan 1682/3 in Roxbury, MA. Fever. On 4 Jun 1650 Thomas married Dorothy Whiting, daughter of Rev. Samuel Whiting (20 Nov 1597-11 Dec 1679), in Roxbury, MA. Born ca 1628 in England. Dorothy died on 31 Jul 1694 in Roxbury, MA.74 Buried in Roxbury, MA. He was a citizen of first importance in Roxbury; held all the principal town offices ....
Last Will & Testement
His will, dated 13 Jan. 1682, proved 6 Feb. 1682, makes wife Dorothy executrix, and John Bolds and Timothy Stevens overseers. Its provisions follow: To eldest son Thomas, 21 acres of land bought of Joseph Dudley and Joshua Lamb, to enter upon after death of my wife his mother if she remain a widow, otherwise at her marriage; he to pay her three pound a year; to son Samuel, the land where his house standeth fenced in, ten acres and about twenty acres lying near the other land, reserving firewood for my wife; also land lately bought of Wm. Hopkins, he paying my son Joseph twenty pounds; also all the fresh meadow lying in a place called ‘Flaggy meadow’; and about five acres of salt marsh lying below the ditch near John White’s meadow; also a horse, cart, and wheels; to two sons John and Edmund all my houses and orchards & to ( ) of them teh shops to be equally divided between them; also the ‘Trainging Place’ and they two to pay their mother twenty pounds a year so long as she remains a widow, and if she remarry, seven pounds a year; to son Joseph twenty pounds to be paid him by Samuel and all my meadow near the mill not formerly disposed of, by estimation seven acres; to two daughters Dorothy and margaret all my land lying near Boston gate to be equally divided, they to enter upon it when either of them be married with the consent of their mother; the cattle to be appraised and divided between my wife and sons; all my outlands to be equally divided between my four sons Samuel, John, Edmund, and Jospeh. The inventory of the estate amounted to £1271 11s 0d. It was taken 6 Feb., 1682.”50
Inscription
Here Lyes Buried Ye
Body of Mr. Thomas
Weld Who Deceased
Ye 17th. Day of Janry.
1682/3
In Ye 56 Year of
His Age.
Gravesite Details
Plot number is from a 1984 Boston City cemetery survey.
Parents
Thomas Weld 1595–1660
Margaret Weld unknown–1636
Spouse
Dorothy Whiting Weld 1628–1694 (m. 1650)
Siblings
Daniel Weld 1635–1699
Children
Thomas Weld 1653–1702
Samuel Weld 1655–1737
John Weld 1657–1686
Edmund Weld 1659–1748
Daniel Weld 1661–1663
Margaret Weld Brewer 1669–1704
References
[1] http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_054.html
[2] The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents (1900)
[3] https://archive.org/details/pioneersofmassac00pope
[4] https://archive.org/stream/pioneersofmassac00pope#page/494/mode/1up Pg.494
[5] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137458436/thomas-weld
Other Information
- *WHITING, WHYTING, WHITINGE,
- Rev. Samuel, b. in Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng. 20 Nov. 1570, son of John Whiting, Esquire, sometime mayor of Boston; grad. at Emanuel Coll. Camb.; was chaplain to Sirs Nathaniel Bacon and Roger Townsend 3 years, then colleague to Rev. Mr. Price 3 more. [C. M.] He was rector of the parish of Skirbeck, adjoining Boston till 1635, when he came to N. E. Became pastor of the chh. at Lynn, where he spent the rest of his life. Scholarly, devoted, popular, he had a strong hold on the regard of his people and was esteemed very highly by the leaders of the state. Frm. Dec, 1636. Had large estate. He m. 1, — , by whom he had two sons that d. in Eng. and a dau. that m. Mr. Thomas Weld in another land. [C. M.] He m. 2, Aug. 6, 1629, Elizabeth, dau. of Right Hon. Oliver St. John and his wife Sarah Bulkley. Her bro. Hon. Oliver St. John, was lord chief justice of England under Cromwell. [See account of Mrs. Whiting's pedigree, with its strains of royal blood, in the Whiting Memorial. See wills of her father, brother and other relatives in Reg. LII, 255.] Children, Samuel b. in Skirbeck March 25, 1633, (became minister of the chh. at Billerica,) Joseph, (also resided here,) John, Dorothy, (m. 4 June, 1650, Thomas Weld of Roxbury.) Elizabeth, (m. Rev. Jeremiah Hubbard). The wife d. 3 March, 1676-7, in her 73d year. [C. M.]
- He d. Dec. 11, 1679. Will dated 25 Feb. 1678, prob. 30 March, 1680, beq. to son Samuel, living at Billerica; John, living at Leverton, Lincolnshire, Eng.; Joseph, at Lynn; dau., wife of Jeremiah Hubbard, of Topsfield.
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Thomas Weld's Timeline
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July 26, 1626
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Terling, Essex, England
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July 26, 1626
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Terling, Essex, England
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July 20, 1651
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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1653
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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August 10, 1655
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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October 9, 1657
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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September 29, 1659
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1661
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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April 28, 1664
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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