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| Birth: | 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1 2 3 |
| Death: | 9 Jun 1702 in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Thomas Weld b. 1626 in Terling, Witham, Essex, England |
| Mother: | Dorothy Whiting b. 1629 in England |
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| Education: 1671 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1 |
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"According to John Eliot, '1679; mont 2, day 27, Mr. Tho. Weld Jun^r
confessed & joyned to full communion' in the First Church in Roxbury(Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury). He was Freeman 12May, 1675; took the oath of allegiance in Roxbury, 1678 or 1679(Boston Record Commission 29.153, 170). he graduated from HarvardCollege in the Class of 1671. He taught school in Roxbury: '28/2/1674,Roxbury; vote of all the feofees chose Mr. Thomas Weld, Jr., schoolmaster for the year ensuing.' He studied theology with his uncle Rev.Samuel Danforth, Harvard, 1643; began to preach in Dunstable, 1 May1679; gathered a church and was ordained 16 Dec., 1685; after thedeposition of Andors, he represented Deerfield in the General Court,23 May, 1689. His labors at the pioneer town of Dunstable were muchappreciated, and his early death lamented. A monument to him near thestate line in the city of Nashua, N. H., makes the erroneous statementthat he was 'probably massacred by Indians while defending thesettlement' A diary by John Marshall, under date of 1702, says: 'Mem.on the 11^th day of June last, M^r Thomas Weld, the pastor of theChurch of Dunstable was buried he was an eminent preacher of the wordof god, a man well beloved and much Lamented by them that knew him.His death is justly to be accounted a great Loss to the province ingeneral and to the poor town of Dunstable in particular'
The conditions under which Thomas Weld began his ministry in Dunstable are reflected in a deed recorded in Middlesex county(Middlesex Deeds 13.64). According to this deed, Jonathan Tyng ofDunstable, for a consideration of a valuable sum of money, sold toWorshipful Peter Buckley, Esq., of Concord, to the Rev. Samuel Whitneyof Billerica and to Mr. Cornelius Waldo Town of Dunstable, farmers, asalso to such of the proprietors of the Town of Dunstable as are nowresiding in Dunstable, that is to say, Mrs. Mary Tyng, Mr. ThomasWeld, Samuel Warner, gent., John Blanchard, Robert Parris, JohnCummings, gent., Isaac Cummings, John Cummings, Jr., Thomas Cummings,John Acres, Samuel French, Andrew Cooke, Thomas Lund, John Sollendine,Robert Usher, Robert Proctor, Christopher Read, Joseph Wright, JosephHaskell, Obadiah Perry, Christopher Temple, Francis Cooke, John Goole,Samuel Beale, Joseph Parker, Sr., all the right, title, interest, &c.,which he had by virtue of a deed signed by John Ushind, aliasCassamassit, and Bess Nomphow, Indians, inhabitants of Weymessit, andland formerly the property of Joseph Wheeler, also in Dunstable; andto Cornellus Waldo, Sr., of Dunstable, the whole farm of 700 acres inDunstable; dated 29 Jan., 1683.
"Len 1727, 27 April, Habijah lVeld (then of Woburn), gent., allas clerk, deeded to John Usher of Dunstable, cooper, several pieces ofland in Dunstable, among them 35 acres adjoining the exact spot wherethe house was built for the first settled minister, on the west sideof the Merrimack River, by measure 33 poles. That Rev. Thomas Welddied a natural death rather than a violent one at the hands of Indiansis proved by the account of his administrator, Nathaniel Brewer ofRoxbury, who paid Dr. Minot £1:4s, Dr. Pres cot £ l:4s, and nurseShedd £2, for attendance on him in his last illness (Middlesex ProbateRecords 6. 459). The charges for his funeral were £7 4s, 5d.
"The inventory of Rev. Thomas Weld was taken by Rev. Nehemiah Walter, Timothy Stevens, and Samuel Williams in Roxbury, 18 Nov.,l7O2; books ln Cambridge by John Hancock and Thomas Clark, 25 Nov.,1702; and the estate in Dunstable by Robert Parris, JonathanRichardson, and Joseph
Farwell, 24 Nov., 1702." He graduated from Harvard.
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- Title: Massachusetts Bay: Sources
Page: Roxbury Vital Records.
- Title: Abstract from Dorr family records
Now in possession of Mrs. Edward C. Spring,
526 South 42nd Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Author: Mrs. Frederick E. Stow, Chairman, Genealogical Records
Publication: Member of William Penn Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists
Page: Page 31. Thomas Weld and Dorothy Whiting; issue:
Samuel Weld, b. 1651;
Thomas Weld, b. 1653;
Samuel Weld, b. 1655;
John Weld, b. 1657;
Edward Weld, b. 1659
Dorothy Weld, b. 1664;
Margaret Weld, b. 1675;
Edward Weld, b. 1659, m. Elizabeth -----, issue, Edmund Weld, born 1695, m. Clemence Dorr.
- Title: FamilySearch® Ancestral File™ v4.19
Page: Thomas Weld born 1653, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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