Dea. Nathaniel Wales, Sr., s. of Timothy Wales & his wife Hannah of Dorchester then of Milton, Mass. Only Nathaniel's brother Eleazer has a recorded birth in Dorchester - Dec. 25, 1657. Nathaniel is claimed in some writings to have been b. May 25, 1658, or five months after his brother Eleazer, which is not likely. No record is found that confirms Nathaniel's actual date of birth. He d. in Windham, Conn. June 22, 1744 and the tribute in the records of the Windham First Church states:
• Mr. Nathaniel Wales, chosen one of the deacons of the church at its organization in 1700, after he had served God in his generation faithfully many years in his life did with the holy disciple lean upon the breast of his beloved and by the will of God meekly fell asleep in the cradle of death on June the 22 day 1744 in the 85th year of his age.
However, as fully transcribed by Joel N. Eno, A.M. and published in 1917 in the NEHGS REGISTER (71:210) before Nathaniel's lichen covered gravestone became unreadable, his gravestone says:
• In memory of That Worthy and well beloved Dacon Nathanael Weals OB. June ye 22, A.D. 1744 Ætatis 83.
And complemented by his separate readable "footstone":
Dacon
Nathanael
Weals OB
June the 22
A.D. 1744 Ætatis
Svæ 83
Taking both the 1917 gravestone transcription and readable footstone as more correct, when Nathaniel died he was then 82 years old and Ætatis suæ 83, born after June 22, 1661.
On Aug. 29, 1688 of record in Milton, Mass., Nathaniel m. 1) Susanna Blake, dau. of Edward Blake & Patience Pope, b. of record in Boston, Mass. July 20, 1661. She d. in Windham, Conn. Feb. 4, 1730, Æ 68 (g.s.) However, Susanna died when English North America was governed by the Julian calendar in which February was the 12th month of the year. In the modern Gregorian calendar Susanna's inscribed date of death would be historically written as Feb. 4, 1730/1. She actually died 68 years old and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 69.
Dea. Nathaniel Wales, Sr. m. 2) Oct. 22, 1730 [sic, 1731] in Windham, Lydia Huntington. Rev. Elijah B. Huntington's 1863 published Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family claimed Lydia was the dau. of Capt. Thomas Huntington and Elizabeth Backus, b. in Windham Feb. 12, 1702/3. This is incorrect since in Capt. Thomas Huntington's 1732 will at Mansfield, Conn. daughter Lydia was unmarried, called her "my daughter Lydia Huntington" and left her household goods and furniture in the will. If Nathaniel Wales' actual wife Lydia Huntington's gravestone cited below is not proof, on Feb. 26, 1733/4 when Capt. Thomas Huntington's estate was divided among his heirs, daughter Lydia, singularly as Lydia Huntington and not in company with a husband, signed a receipt for her fifty pound share as was provided for in her father's will (Windham PR, 2:43). This was more than 3-years after Nathaniel Wales had married the correct Lydia Huntington as his second wife.
Nathaniel Wales actually married Capt. Thomas Huntington's previously unmarried sister Lydia, born per the Norwich Vital records in August 1672, the day not recorded. As the correct Lydia Huntington was 58 years old at marriage, there were no children by their marriage. She died in Union, Conn. Nov. 23, 1754, Æ 83 (g.s.) likely while a member of the household of her step-son Dea. Ebenezer Wales.
Nathaniel died testate having written his will in Windham, Conn. on Mar. 20, 1743/4. Ancestry.com in its Connecticut Wills and Probate Records indexed the will as being of "Nathel Watts." The three witnesses proved the will on June 27, 1744 before Nathaniel's son-in-law, Ebenezer West, Justice of the Peace, and was accepted the same date for final recording by the Windham Probate court on July 6, 1744 (Windham PR, 3:55-57.) His estate inventory totaling £798=4=6 was taking by Edward Brown and Israel Robinson on July 17, 1744 and recorded on Jan. 14, 1744/5 (ibid, 3:135-136.)
The major provisions of his will in modern English follow:
Know all men by these presents that I Nath'll Wales of Windham:
• To Lydia my well-beloved wife all the goods and chattels that were hers before our marriage, the bed on which we commonly lie together with all furniture thereto belonging, fifty shillings lawful money, use of the room in the east end of the house where we now live, with privilege in the cellar and chamber as she has occasion for her own use for her natural life as long as she lives in the house herself.
• To son Nathaniel chattels and land, some additional land to be equally divided between Nathaniel and son Ebenezer, Nathaniel to pay all legacies bequeathed in the will.
• To son Ebenezer fifty shillings and the goods, chattels, bed and furniture given to wife Lydia if she did not dispose of those things during her natural life.
• To son Eleazer fifty shillings "I having given him considerable before this time."
• To his grandchildren Joshua West, Susanna wife of Jonathan Delano, and Sarah West, the children of Nathaniel's deceased daughter Susanna West, a sum of money to be equally divided between them.
• Son Nathaniel appointed sole executor.
Nathaniel and first wife Susanna Blake had the following five children, with either a record of birth, baptism, or both, in Milton, Mass.:
• i. Susanna, bapt. Mar. 6, 1691/2, d. Oct. 14, 1723 in Lebanon, Conn., Æ 32; m. Jan. 14, 1712/3 in Lebanon, the Hon. Ebenezer West, s. of Samuel West & Tryphosa Partridge, b. July 23, 1676 in Duxbury, Mass. He d. in Lebanon, Conn. Oct. 31, 1758, Æ 83. Seven children recorded in Lebanon, who through their mother were lineal descendants of Stephen Tracy who arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1623 aboard the Little Ann, followed by Stephen's wife Tryphosia and their infant daughter Sarah [re: Sarah (Tracy) Partridge] in 1625 aboard the Jacob.
• ii. Nathaniel Jr., Esq., b. May 25, 1694 (bapt. May 27, 1694), d. in Windham, Conn. Nov. 5, 1782, Æ 89 (g.s.); m. 1) Feb 14, 1715/6 in Windham, Mercy West, dau. of Dea. Francis West and Mercy Minor and niece of Nathaniel's sister Susanna's husband, b. Oct. 30, 1697 in Preston, Conn. She d. in Windham, Conn. Jan. 20, 1725/6, Æ 29 (g.s.) Four children of the marriage but two died young. Nathaniel m. 2) Dec. 17, 1726 in Windham, Prudence Denison, dau. of Joseph Denison & Prudence Minor, b. in Stonington, Conn. Nov. 28, 1709, She d. in Windham May 15, 1792, Æ 83 (g.s.) Twelve children of the second marriage, nine who died before age 12.
• iii. Dea. Ebenezer Wales, Esq., b. June 25, 1696 (bapt. June 25, 1696), d. in Union, Conn. Apr. 12, 1774, Æ 78 (g.s.); m. 1) Oct. 20, 1719 in Windham, Esther Smith, dau. of Lieut. Elisha Smith and Elizabeth Wheelock, b. in Windham Nov. 24, 1702 where she d. Oct. 10, 1737, Æ 35 (g.s.). Dea. Ebenezer m. 2) in Windham Oct. 13, 1741, Deborah Ward, who d. in Union, Conn. Mar. 13, 1779 (g.s.)
• iv. Timothy Wales, b. June 17, 1698 (bapt. June 19, 1698), d. unmarried in Windham, Conn. Aug. 15, 1719, Æ 22.
• v. Rev. Eleazer Wales, b. June 3, 1700 (bapt. June 9, 1700); d. testate near Kingston, NJ on the east side of the Millstone River between May 16, 1750 and August 8, 1750 when his Feb. 7, 1746/7 will was probated by his widow Elizabeth; graduated 1727 from Yale and at his death was a "New School" Presbyterian. No known children as his widow was named sole legatee in his will and estate probate.
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• Mr. Nathaniel Wales, chosen one of the deacons of the church at its organization in 1700, after he had served God in his generation faithfully many years in his life did with the holy disciple lean upon the breast of his beloved and by the will of God meekly fell asleep in the cradle of death on June the 22 day 1744 in the 85th year of his age.
However, as fully transcribed by Joel N. Eno, A.M. and published in 1917 in the NEHGS REGISTER (71:210) before Nathaniel's lichen covered gravestone became unreadable, his gravestone says:
• In memory of That Worthy and well beloved Dacon Nathanael Weals OB. June ye 22, A.D. 1744 Ætatis 83.
And complemented by his separate readable "footstone":
Dacon
Nathanael
Weals OB
June the 22
A.D. 1744 Ætatis
Svæ 83
Taking both the 1917 gravestone transcription and readable footstone as more correct, when Nathaniel died he was then 82 years old and Ætatis suæ 83, born after June 22, 1661.
On Aug. 29, 1688 of record in Milton, Mass., Nathaniel m. 1) Susanna Blake, dau. of Edward Blake & Patience Pope, b. of record in Boston, Mass. July 20, 1661. She d. in Windham, Conn. Feb. 4, 1730, Æ 68 (g.s.) However, Susanna died when English North America was governed by the Julian calendar in which February was the 12th month of the year. In the modern Gregorian calendar Susanna's inscribed date of death would be historically written as Feb. 4, 1730/1. She actually died 68 years old and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 69.
Dea. Nathaniel Wales, Sr. m. 2) Oct. 22, 1730 [sic, 1731] in Windham, Lydia Huntington. Rev. Elijah B. Huntington's 1863 published Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family claimed Lydia was the dau. of Capt. Thomas Huntington and Elizabeth Backus, b. in Windham Feb. 12, 1702/3. This is incorrect since in Capt. Thomas Huntington's 1732 will at Mansfield, Conn. daughter Lydia was unmarried, called her "my daughter Lydia Huntington" and left her household goods and furniture in the will. If Nathaniel Wales' actual wife Lydia Huntington's gravestone cited below is not proof, on Feb. 26, 1733/4 when Capt. Thomas Huntington's estate was divided among his heirs, daughter Lydia, singularly as Lydia Huntington and not in company with a husband, signed a receipt for her fifty pound share as was provided for in her father's will (Windham PR, 2:43). This was more than 3-years after Nathaniel Wales had married the correct Lydia Huntington as his second wife.
Nathaniel Wales actually married Capt. Thomas Huntington's previously unmarried sister Lydia, born per the Norwich Vital records in August 1672, the day not recorded. As the correct Lydia Huntington was 58 years old at marriage, there were no children by their marriage. She died in Union, Conn. Nov. 23, 1754, Æ 83 (g.s.) likely while a member of the household of her step-son Dea. Ebenezer Wales.
Nathaniel died testate having written his will in Windham, Conn. on Mar. 20, 1743/4. Ancestry.com in its Connecticut Wills and Probate Records indexed the will as being of "Nathel Watts." The three witnesses proved the will on June 27, 1744 before Nathaniel's son-in-law, Ebenezer West, Justice of the Peace, and was accepted the same date for final recording by the Windham Probate court on July 6, 1744 (Windham PR, 3:55-57.) His estate inventory totaling £798=4=6 was taking by Edward Brown and Israel Robinson on July 17, 1744 and recorded on Jan. 14, 1744/5 (ibid, 3:135-136.)
The major provisions of his will in modern English follow:
Know all men by these presents that I Nath'll Wales of Windham:
• To Lydia my well-beloved wife all the goods and chattels that were hers before our marriage, the bed on which we commonly lie together with all furniture thereto belonging, fifty shillings lawful money, use of the room in the east end of the house where we now live, with privilege in the cellar and chamber as she has occasion for her own use for her natural life as long as she lives in the house herself.
• To son Nathaniel chattels and land, some additional land to be equally divided between Nathaniel and son Ebenezer, Nathaniel to pay all legacies bequeathed in the will.
• To son Ebenezer fifty shillings and the goods, chattels, bed and furniture given to wife Lydia if she did not dispose of those things during her natural life.
• To son Eleazer fifty shillings "I having given him considerable before this time."
• To his grandchildren Joshua West, Susanna wife of Jonathan Delano, and Sarah West, the children of Nathaniel's deceased daughter Susanna West, a sum of money to be equally divided between them.
• Son Nathaniel appointed sole executor.
Nathaniel and first wife Susanna Blake had the following five children, with either a record of birth, baptism, or both, in Milton, Mass.:
• i. Susanna, bapt. Mar. 6, 1691/2, d. Oct. 14, 1723 in Lebanon, Conn., Æ 32; m. Jan. 14, 1712/3 in Lebanon, the Hon. Ebenezer West, s. of Samuel West & Tryphosa Partridge, b. July 23, 1676 in Duxbury, Mass. He d. in Lebanon, Conn. Oct. 31, 1758, Æ 83. Seven children recorded in Lebanon, who through their mother were lineal descendants of Stephen Tracy who arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1623 aboard the Little Ann, followed by Stephen's wife Tryphosia and their infant daughter Sarah [re: Sarah (Tracy) Partridge] in 1625 aboard the Jacob.
• ii. Nathaniel Jr., Esq., b. May 25, 1694 (bapt. May 27, 1694), d. in Windham, Conn. Nov. 5, 1782, Æ 89 (g.s.); m. 1) Feb 14, 1715/6 in Windham, Mercy West, dau. of Dea. Francis West and Mercy Minor and niece of Nathaniel's sister Susanna's husband, b. Oct. 30, 1697 in Preston, Conn. She d. in Windham, Conn. Jan. 20, 1725/6, Æ 29 (g.s.) Four children of the marriage but two died young. Nathaniel m. 2) Dec. 17, 1726 in Windham, Prudence Denison, dau. of Joseph Denison & Prudence Minor, b. in Stonington, Conn. Nov. 28, 1709, She d. in Windham May 15, 1792, Æ 83 (g.s.) Twelve children of the second marriage, nine who died before age 12.
• iii. Dea. Ebenezer Wales, Esq., b. June 25, 1696 (bapt. June 25, 1696), d. in Union, Conn. Apr. 12, 1774, Æ 78 (g.s.); m. 1) Oct. 20, 1719 in Windham, Esther Smith, dau. of Lieut. Elisha Smith and Elizabeth Wheelock, b. in Windham Nov. 24, 1702 where she d. Oct. 10, 1737, Æ 35 (g.s.). Dea. Ebenezer m. 2) in Windham Oct. 13, 1741, Deborah Ward, who d. in Union, Conn. Mar. 13, 1779 (g.s.)
• iv. Timothy Wales, b. June 17, 1698 (bapt. June 19, 1698), d. unmarried in Windham, Conn. Aug. 15, 1719, Æ 22.
• v. Rev. Eleazer Wales, b. June 3, 1700 (bapt. June 9, 1700); d. testate near Kingston, NJ on the east side of the Millstone River between May 16, 1750 and August 8, 1750 when his Feb. 7, 1746/7 will was probated by his widow Elizabeth; graduated 1727 from Yale and at his death was a "New School" Presbyterian. No known children as his widow was named sole legatee in his will and estate probate.
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Dea. Nathaniel Wales, Sr., s. of Timothy Wales & his wife Hannah of Dorchester then of Milton, Mass. Only Nathaniel's brother Eleazer has a recorded birth in Dorchester - Dec. 25, 1657. Nathaniel is claimed in some writings to have been b. May 25, 1658, or five months after his brother Eleazer, which is not likely. No record is found that confirms Nathaniel's actual date of birth. He d. in Windham, Conn. June 22, 1744 and the tribute in the records of the Windham First Church states:
• Mr. Nathaniel Wales, chosen one of the deacons of the church at its organization in 1700, after he had served God in his generation faithfully many years in his life did with the holy disciple lean upon the breast of his beloved and by the will of God meekly fell asleep in the cradle of death on June the 22 day 1744 in the 85th year of his age.
However, as fully transcribed by Joel N. Eno, A.M. and published in 1917 in the NEHGS REGISTER (71:210) before Nathaniel's lichen covered gravestone became unreadable, his gravestone says:
• In memory of That Worthy and well beloved Dacon Nathanael Weals OB. June ye 22, A.D. 1744 Ætatis 83.
And complemented by his separate readable "footstone":
Dacon
Nathanael
Weals OB
June the 22
A.D. 1744 Ætatis
Svæ 83
Taking both the 1917 gravestone transcription and readable footstone as more correct, when Nathaniel died he was then 82 years old and Ætatis suæ 83, born after June 22, 1661.
On Aug. 29, 1688 of record in Milton, Mass., Nathaniel m. 1) Susanna Blake, dau. of Edward Blake & Patience Pope, b. of record in Boston, Mass. July 20, 1661. She d. in Windham, Conn. Feb. 4, 1730, Æ 68 (g.s.) However, Susanna died when English North America was governed by the Julian calendar in which February was the 12th month of the year. In the modern Gregorian calendar Susanna's inscribed date of death would be historically written as Feb. 4, 1730/1. She actually died 68 years old and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 69.
Dea. Nathaniel Wales, Sr. m. 2) Oct. 22, 1730 [sic, 1731] in Windham, Lydia Huntington. Rev. Elijah B. Huntington's 1863 published Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family claimed Lydia was the dau. of Capt. Thomas Huntington and Elizabeth Backus, b. in Windham Feb. 12, 1702/3. This is incorrect since in Capt. Thomas Huntington's 1732 will at Mansfield, Conn. daughter Lydia was unmarried, called her "my daughter Lydia Huntington" and left her household goods and furniture in the will. If Nathaniel Wales' actual wife Lydia Huntington's gravestone cited below is not proof, on Feb. 26, 1733/4 when Capt. Thomas Huntington's estate was divided among his heirs, daughter Lydia, singularly as Lydia Huntington and not in company with a husband, signed a receipt for her fifty pound share as was provided for in her father's will (Windham PR, 2:43). This was more than 3-years after Nathaniel Wales had married the correct Lydia Huntington as his second wife.
Nathaniel Wales actually married Capt. Thomas Huntington's previously unmarried sister Lydia, born per the Norwich Vital records in August 1672, the day not recorded. As the correct Lydia Huntington was 58 years old at marriage, there were no children by their marriage. She died in Union, Conn. Nov. 23, 1754, Æ 83 (g.s.) likely while a member of the household of her step-son Dea. Ebenezer Wales.
Nathaniel died testate having written his will in Windham, Conn. on Mar. 20, 1743/4. Ancestry.com in its Connecticut Wills and Probate Records indexed the will as being of "Nathel Watts." The three witnesses proved the will on June 27, 1744 before Nathaniel's son-in-law, Ebenezer West, Justice of the Peace, and was accepted the same date for final recording by the Windham Probate court on July 6, 1744 (Windham PR, 3:55-57.) His estate inventory totaling £798=4=6 was taking by Edward Brown and Israel Robinson on July 17, 1744 and recorded on Jan. 14, 1744/5 (ibid, 3:135-136.)
The major provisions of his will in modern English follow:
Know all men by these presents that I Nath'll Wales of Windham:
• To Lydia my well-beloved wife all the goods and chattels that were hers before our marriage, the bed on which we commonly lie together with all furniture thereto belonging, fifty shillings lawful money, use of the room in the east end of the house where we now live, with privilege in the cellar and chamber as she has occasion for her own use for her natural life as long as she lives in the house herself.
• To son Nathaniel chattels and land, some additional land to be equally divided between Nathaniel and son Ebenezer, Nathaniel to pay all legacies bequeathed in the will.
• To son Ebenezer fifty shillings and the goods, chattels, bed and furniture given to wife Lydia if she did not dispose of those things during her natural life.
• To son Eleazer fifty shillings "I having given him considerable before this time."
• To his grandchildren Joshua West, Susanna wife of Jonathan Delano, and Sarah West, the children of Nathaniel's deceased daughter Susanna West, a sum of money to be equally divided between them.
• Son Nathaniel appointed sole executor.
Nathaniel and first wife Susanna Blake had the following five children, with either a record of birth, baptism, or both, in Milton, Mass.:
• i. Susanna, bapt. Mar. 6, 1691/2, d. Oct. 14, 1723 in Lebanon, Conn., Æ 32; m. Jan. 14, 1712/3 in Lebanon, the Hon. Ebenezer West, s. of Samuel West & Tryphosa Partridge, b. July 23, 1676 in Duxbury, Mass. He d. in Lebanon, Conn. Oct. 31, 1758, Æ 83. Seven children recorded in Lebanon, who through their mother were lineal descendants of Stephen Tracy who arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1623 aboard the Little Ann, followed by Stephen's wife Tryphosia and their infant daughter Sarah [re: Sarah (Tracy) Partridge] in 1625 aboard the Jacob.
• ii. Nathaniel Jr., Esq., b. May 25, 1694 (bapt. May 27, 1694), d. in Windham, Conn. Nov. 5, 1782, Æ 89 (g.s.); m. 1) Feb 14, 1715/6 in Windham, Mercy West, dau. of Dea. Francis West and Mercy Minor and niece of Nathaniel's sister Susanna's husband, b. Oct. 30, 1697 in Preston, Conn. She d. in Windham, Conn. Jan. 20, 1725/6, Æ 29 (g.s.) Four children of the marriage but two died young. Nathaniel m. 2) Dec. 17, 1726 in Windham, Prudence Denison, dau. of Joseph Denison & Prudence Minor, b. in Stonington, Conn. Nov. 28, 1709, She d. in Windham May 15, 1792, Æ 83 (g.s.) Twelve children of the second marriage, nine who died before age 12.
• iii. Dea. Ebenezer Wales, Esq., b. June 25, 1696 (bapt. June 25, 1696), d. in Union, Conn. Apr. 12, 1774, Æ 78 (g.s.); m. 1) Oct. 20, 1719 in Windham, Esther Smith, dau. of Lieut. Elisha Smith and Elizabeth Wheelock, b. in Windham Nov. 24, 1702 where she d. Oct. 10, 1737, Æ 35 (g.s.). Dea. Ebenezer m. 2) in Windham Oct. 13, 1741, Deborah Ward, who d. in Union, Conn. Mar. 13, 1779 (g.s.)
• iv. Timothy Wales, b. June 17, 1698 (bapt. June 19, 1698), d. unmarried in Windham, Conn. Aug. 15, 1719, Æ 22.
• v. Rev. Eleazer Wales, b. June 3, 1700 (bapt. June 9, 1700); d. testate near Kingston, NJ on the east side of the Millstone River between May 16, 1750 and August 8, 1750 when his Feb. 7, 1746/7 will was probated by his widow Elizabeth; graduated 1727 from Yale and at his death was a "New School" Presbyterian. No known children as his widow was named sole legatee in his will and estate probate.
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• Mr. Nathaniel Wales, chosen one of the deacons of the church at its organization in 1700, after he had served God in his generation faithfully many years in his life did with the holy disciple lean upon the breast of his beloved and by the will of God meekly fell asleep in the cradle of death on June the 22 day 1744 in the 85th year of his age.
However, as fully transcribed by Joel N. Eno, A.M. and published in 1917 in the NEHGS REGISTER (71:210) before Nathaniel's lichen covered gravestone became unreadable, his gravestone says:
• In memory of That Worthy and well beloved Dacon Nathanael Weals OB. June ye 22, A.D. 1744 Ætatis 83.
And complemented by his separate readable "footstone":
Dacon
Nathanael
Weals OB
June the 22
A.D. 1744 Ætatis
Svæ 83
Taking both the 1917 gravestone transcription and readable footstone as more correct, when Nathaniel died he was then 82 years old and Ætatis suæ 83, born after June 22, 1661.
On Aug. 29, 1688 of record in Milton, Mass., Nathaniel m. 1) Susanna Blake, dau. of Edward Blake & Patience Pope, b. of record in Boston, Mass. July 20, 1661. She d. in Windham, Conn. Feb. 4, 1730, Æ 68 (g.s.) However, Susanna died when English North America was governed by the Julian calendar in which February was the 12th month of the year. In the modern Gregorian calendar Susanna's inscribed date of death would be historically written as Feb. 4, 1730/1. She actually died 68 years old and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 69.
Dea. Nathaniel Wales, Sr. m. 2) Oct. 22, 1730 [sic, 1731] in Windham, Lydia Huntington. Rev. Elijah B. Huntington's 1863 published Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family claimed Lydia was the dau. of Capt. Thomas Huntington and Elizabeth Backus, b. in Windham Feb. 12, 1702/3. This is incorrect since in Capt. Thomas Huntington's 1732 will at Mansfield, Conn. daughter Lydia was unmarried, called her "my daughter Lydia Huntington" and left her household goods and furniture in the will. If Nathaniel Wales' actual wife Lydia Huntington's gravestone cited below is not proof, on Feb. 26, 1733/4 when Capt. Thomas Huntington's estate was divided among his heirs, daughter Lydia, singularly as Lydia Huntington and not in company with a husband, signed a receipt for her fifty pound share as was provided for in her father's will (Windham PR, 2:43). This was more than 3-years after Nathaniel Wales had married the correct Lydia Huntington as his second wife.
Nathaniel Wales actually married Capt. Thomas Huntington's previously unmarried sister Lydia, born per the Norwich Vital records in August 1672, the day not recorded. As the correct Lydia Huntington was 58 years old at marriage, there were no children by their marriage. She died in Union, Conn. Nov. 23, 1754, Æ 83 (g.s.) likely while a member of the household of her step-son Dea. Ebenezer Wales.
Nathaniel died testate having written his will in Windham, Conn. on Mar. 20, 1743/4. Ancestry.com in its Connecticut Wills and Probate Records indexed the will as being of "Nathel Watts." The three witnesses proved the will on June 27, 1744 before Nathaniel's son-in-law, Ebenezer West, Justice of the Peace, and was accepted the same date for final recording by the Windham Probate court on July 6, 1744 (Windham PR, 3:55-57.) His estate inventory totaling £798=4=6 was taking by Edward Brown and Israel Robinson on July 17, 1744 and recorded on Jan. 14, 1744/5 (ibid, 3:135-136.)
The major provisions of his will in modern English follow:
Know all men by these presents that I Nath'll Wales of Windham:
• To Lydia my well-beloved wife all the goods and chattels that were hers before our marriage, the bed on which we commonly lie together with all furniture thereto belonging, fifty shillings lawful money, use of the room in the east end of the house where we now live, with privilege in the cellar and chamber as she has occasion for her own use for her natural life as long as she lives in the house herself.
• To son Nathaniel chattels and land, some additional land to be equally divided between Nathaniel and son Ebenezer, Nathaniel to pay all legacies bequeathed in the will.
• To son Ebenezer fifty shillings and the goods, chattels, bed and furniture given to wife Lydia if she did not dispose of those things during her natural life.
• To son Eleazer fifty shillings "I having given him considerable before this time."
• To his grandchildren Joshua West, Susanna wife of Jonathan Delano, and Sarah West, the children of Nathaniel's deceased daughter Susanna West, a sum of money to be equally divided between them.
• Son Nathaniel appointed sole executor.
Nathaniel and first wife Susanna Blake had the following five children, with either a record of birth, baptism, or both, in Milton, Mass.:
• i. Susanna, bapt. Mar. 6, 1691/2, d. Oct. 14, 1723 in Lebanon, Conn., Æ 32; m. Jan. 14, 1712/3 in Lebanon, the Hon. Ebenezer West, s. of Samuel West & Tryphosa Partridge, b. July 23, 1676 in Duxbury, Mass. He d. in Lebanon, Conn. Oct. 31, 1758, Æ 83. Seven children recorded in Lebanon, who through their mother were lineal descendants of Stephen Tracy who arrived at the Plymouth Colony in 1623 aboard the Little Ann, followed by Stephen's wife Tryphosia and their infant daughter Sarah [re: Sarah (Tracy) Partridge] in 1625 aboard the Jacob.
• ii. Nathaniel Jr., Esq., b. May 25, 1694 (bapt. May 27, 1694), d. in Windham, Conn. Nov. 5, 1782, Æ 89 (g.s.); m. 1) Feb 14, 1715/6 in Windham, Mercy West, dau. of Dea. Francis West and Mercy Minor and niece of Nathaniel's sister Susanna's husband, b. Oct. 30, 1697 in Preston, Conn. She d. in Windham, Conn. Jan. 20, 1725/6, Æ 29 (g.s.) Four children of the marriage but two died young. Nathaniel m. 2) Dec. 17, 1726 in Windham, Prudence Denison, dau. of Joseph Denison & Prudence Minor, b. in Stonington, Conn. Nov. 28, 1709, She d. in Windham May 15, 1792, Æ 83 (g.s.) Twelve children of the second marriage, nine who died before age 12.
• iii. Dea. Ebenezer Wales, Esq., b. June 25, 1696 (bapt. June 25, 1696), d. in Union, Conn. Apr. 12, 1774, Æ 78 (g.s.); m. 1) Oct. 20, 1719 in Windham, Esther Smith, dau. of Lieut. Elisha Smith and Elizabeth Wheelock, b. in Windham Nov. 24, 1702 where she d. Oct. 10, 1737, Æ 35 (g.s.). Dea. Ebenezer m. 2) in Windham Oct. 13, 1741, Deborah Ward, who d. in Union, Conn. Mar. 13, 1779 (g.s.)
• iv. Timothy Wales, b. June 17, 1698 (bapt. June 19, 1698), d. unmarried in Windham, Conn. Aug. 15, 1719, Æ 22.
• v. Rev. Eleazer Wales, b. June 3, 1700 (bapt. June 9, 1700); d. testate near Kingston, NJ on the east side of the Millstone River between May 16, 1750 and August 8, 1750 when his Feb. 7, 1746/7 will was probated by his widow Elizabeth; graduated 1727 from Yale and at his death was a "New School" Presbyterian. No known children as his widow was named sole legatee in his will and estate probate.
Revised 12/5/2018
Inscription
In memory of That Worthy and well beloved Dacon Nathanael Weals OB. June ye 22, A.D. 1744 Ætatis 83.
("Footstone")
Deacon
Nathanael
Wales OB^it [i.e, died]
June the 22nd
AD 1744 Ætatis
Svæ [i.e., Suæ] 83
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