Title Colonial and revolutionary lineages of America: a collection of genealogical studies, completely documented, and appropriately illustrated, bearing upon notable early American lines and their collateral connections, Volume 23, Page 1 Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America: A Collection of Genealogical Studies, Completely Documented, and Appropriately Illustrated, Bearing Upon Notable Early American Lines and Their Collateral Connections Author American Historical Company (New York, N.Y.). Publisher The American Historical Company, inc., 1939 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized May 23, 2008

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I. Edmund Weld b. Sudbury, Co., Eng. d. there 1608.

m. Amye Dereslye.

The Weld family dates from 1352.

Extracts From The Wlll Of Edmonde Welde. Of Sudbury, Suffolk,

England. Mercer, Sth December, 1605. Proved 3rd May, 1608.

Bequeath unto Amye, my right well beloved Wife, my Mansion House in Parish of St. Peters in Sudbury, to hold for life, and after her decease I give the moiety and one part thereof (i. e.) the shop, the chamber over it, the warehouse, &c., to Daniel Welde, my eldest son. The other part of the messuage, being the West side thereof, I give to John Welde, my second son. To Edmond, my third son, my tenements and houses, which I purchased of Mr. John Howe in the Parish of St. Gregory, to have and to hold after he shall be of the full age of four and twenty years. To Thomas, my fourth son, a piece of arable land of six acres in Great Cornard, called Church Crofters, at four and twenty.

(The Will continues and mentions:) Benjamin, fifth son; Joseph, sixth son; James, seventh son; also his eldest daughter, Mary Welde, to have £50 at two and twenty. Youngest daughter, Elizabeth, my two tenements in Ballington, Essex, and an acre of land called "Stumperosse" in Cornard.

Appoints Amye, my Wife, to be sole Executrix, and my brother, John Dereslye, to be Supervisor.

(Signed) Edmonde Welde.

Children.

Daniel b. d. 1666.

m. 1st, Alice

m. 2nd, Ann

John Edmund Rev. Thomas m. 1st, Margaret Deresley m. 2nd, Judith Benjamin

Joseph b. Eng. 1595. d. Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 7, 1646.

m. 1st, Elizabeth, d. Oct. 1638.

m. 2nd, Apr. 20, 1639, Barbara Clapp. James Mary Elizabeth

II. Rev. b. Eng., about 1590. d. , Mch. 23, 1661. m. 1st, Margaret Dereslye d. 1671. m. 211!i, Judith

He was educated at Trinity, Cambridge, Eng., receiving degrees in 1613 and 1618. In 1624 he was a minister at Terling, County Essex, Eng. With sons John, Thomas and Samuel he reached June 5, 1632, Eliot being soon after settled with him as teacher. In 1639 he assisted Eliot and Richard Mather in making the "Bay Psalm Book."

He was sent to England in 1641 as agent for the colony and remained. He was an active persecutor of Roger Williams and Ann Hutchinson, whom he called the "American Jezebel," whose granddaughter married his grand-son.

Children.

John bp. June 6, 1625. Thomas July 26, 1626. m. June 4, 1650, Dorothy Whiting. Samuel bp. Oct. 8, 1629. Edmund July 8, 1631. Harvard 1650. d. Ireland, Mch. 2, 1668.

III. Thomas Weld bp. Eng., July 26, 1626. d. Jan. 17, 1682-3. m. June 4, 1650,

Dorothy Whiting b. 1628 d. July 31, 1694, ae. 66.

He became a freeman in 1654. Representative 1676 and 1677.

Children.

Samuel bp. July 20, 1651. d. y. Thomas bp. June 12, 1653. Harvard 1671. m. Nov. 9, 1681, Elizabeth Wilson, dau. Rev. John.