JOHN WELD, SR. (John Sr.³, Capt. Joseph², Edmund¹ WELD) married Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen and Margaret Fleming Bowen.
John Weld's first cousin Thomas Weld married Dorothy Whiting, daughter of Reverend Samuel Whiting and his unknown first wife.
Weld Family
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_family
Note John Weld birthdate is seen as 1623 and as 1625 - seems likely this could be a transcription error for "3" or "5" that is variously repeated and re-recorded.
Nov 17, 1652 — Philip Eliot, John Weld, and John Pierpont are appointed to lay out the highway between Roxbury and Cambridge.
Page 306 Hannah Weld (daughter of John and Margaret Bowen Weld) married Captain William Heath.
Passengers on the "Lion" From England to Boston, 1632, and five generations of their descendants, VOLUME 1 ONLY
By Sandra Olney · 1992
https://books.google.com/books?id=l-NM0IyRpREC&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume#v=onepage&q=John%20Weld%20Margaret%20Bowen%20&f=false
WELD
The first Weld in New England was Captain Joseph Weld. He was a protestant, and his family in England was Roman Catholic. He came in June 1632 on board the William & Francis with his wife Elizabeth; daughter Elizabeth, age 10; Mary, age 8, Hannah, age 6, and Thomas his brother. He left his son John, who came to Massachusetts later. He was a freeman in 1636 and settled in Roxbury, where he became a property owner, proprietor, and captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Winthrop was Colonel and Thomas Dudley was the Lieutenant Colonel).
Joseph Weld was supposed to be the richest man in Massachusetts and one of the first donors to Harvard College. He owned an estate in West Roxbury that is now owned by Harvard. Today at Harvard University there are many buildings donated by and named after the Weld family, including the famous Victorian era Weld boathouse on the Charles River that is the subject of many picturesque postcards of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
There are many sources for information on the Weld family. One is the book History of the Weld Family from 1632 to 1878, by Charlotte Fowler Weld, and Descendants of Edmund Weld of Sudbury, England by William Addsion Weld, 1992. A look at the New England Historic Genealogical Society online catalog will give you two pages of WELD compiled genealogies, and manuscripts such as The Family of Weld Who Came to the Town of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay, New England in the Year 1632 for Conscience Sake, by William Weld Gordon.
There is a lengthy sketch of Joseph Weld, b. 1599, in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 - 1635, Volume VII, pages 280 – 288, and a sketch of his brother Thomas Weld b. 1595, in Volume III, pages 1961-1963. The Roxbury records are a good source for information on the early generations of Welds.
There is an article in the NEHGS Register, Volume 47, pages 543- 459 about the Bowen family. In the second generation in Massachusetts, John Weld married Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen of Wales.
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/surname-saturday-weld-of-roxbury.html?m=1
The Weld Family
Captain Joseph Weld came to Roxbury, New England, undoubtedly in 1632, bringing with him his daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Hannah. Tradition says that his son, John, remained in England and came over in 1638. His eldest son certainly died in England, and perhaps other children. His wife, Elizabeth, came with him. He was a brother of Reverend Thomas Weld, the first Pastor of Roxbury. Admitted a Freeman March 3, 1636, (he) represented the town of Roxbury from 1637 to 1645. In 1643, John Winthrop Jr., Joseph Weld and several others had granted (to) them 3000 acres of land at Braintree, forever, (to encourage) Iron Works to be set up there. In 1641 the Colony appointed him one of the Commissioners to settle the boundary between Roxbury and Boston. He was chosen a Captain in the service of the Colony about that date. In 1643 he was one of the Commissioners, with Gov. Winthrop, who made a treaty with the Pequot Indians. In 1645, Joseph Weld, being in England on business, Alderman Barclay attached a ship of the Colony, his own ship having been seized for an infraction of the law. But being persuaded to release the ship, he arrested Mr. Stephen Winthrop, the recorder of the Court, and Captain Joseph Weld, who was one of the jury when the case was tried, so that they were forced to find sureties in a bond of 4000. But it pleased God to stir up such a friend as Sir Henry Vane, who was their bondsman. Messrs. Winthrop and Weld petitioned the General Court for indemnity for their expenses when they returned to the Colony, but (it was) in vain. Captain Weld lived on Roxbury St. and was undoubtedly the wealthiest merchant in the Colony at this time. He owned the estate of several acres, granted him by the Colony, now known as the Bussey farm, and belonging to Harvard College, and upon which his son, John, lived. He made frequent voyages to England on business, and in 1646 returned for the last time, probably from Ipswich, England, a place at that time of considerable importance, and being dangerously ill, made his will there. The Apostle Elliot, his particular friend, states in his journal that he died of cancer of the throat and jaws. In 1646, the Colony records state that Captain Weld, of Roxbury, a merchant, not long returned from England, died, and Mr. Pritchard, a Godly man, was chosen Captain in his place. In 1636 his first child was born in New England on the 14th of July, being the sixth and last child of his wife, Elizabeth. He married for his second wife, on April 20, 1639, Barbara Clapp, of Dorchester, daughter of Edward Clapp, by whom he had four children, Sarah, Daniel, Joseph and, just previous to his death, Marah, that name signifying "bitter," was given her. Captain Joseph Weld died on Oct. 7, 1646, and was undoubtedly buried in the ancient burying ground at the corner of Eustis Street in Roxbury in the Minister's tomb. He was one of the earliest friends and patrons of Harvard College, (a) donor in 1642 and the very first legacy in his will is given to that institution. His will is about the earliest on record in the Colony and it is exceedingly interesting on account of its minuteness in family matters and showing the pleasant relations that existed between himself and his best friends, and (his) Pastor, the Apostle Elliot.
— "THE WELD FAMILY"
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
SOURCE: Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Parents:
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
Child:
JOHN WELD
chr. 2 Nov 1623 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
d. 20 Sep 1691
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
To:
MARGARET (BOWEN) WELD
Parents:
Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
Child:
MARGARET BOWEN
b. Est 1626 Wales
d. 13 Sep 1692
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
II:418.
Weld, John and Margaret Bowen, (married) Dec. 24, 1647.
"THE FAMILY OF GRIFFITH BOWEN, GENTLEMAN, WELSH PURITAN IMMIGRANT. Boston, Mass., 1638-9, ESPECIALLY THE BRANCH OF ESQUIRE SILAS BOWEN, Born in Woodstock, Conn., 1722."
By DANIEL BOWEN
Jacksonville, Fla.
DaCosta Printing Company.
1893.
THE WELD FAMILY
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
Margaret Bowen and John Weld are grandparents of Addington Gardner.
Via daughter Mary Weld Gardner:
ANCESTOR OF HAROLD DOW BUGBEE
Robert Champney and Rebecca Brewer Champney, his wife, are third great-grandparents to noted artist Harold Dow Bugbee, painter and illustrator of the American West.
Nephew Daniel Weld's daughter Elizabeth Weld married to the Salem family of the name Gardner - that of Thomas "The Planter" Gardner. Thomas "The Planter" Gardner surname carried by members of the illustrious Boston Brahmin and New England Lowell family, who were married with the Aspinwall family, Proctor family, Oliver family, the Roxbury/Brookline Gardner family, Sparhawk family, and so had many other shared family ties to the Weld family, to Gardner of Roxbury, and other shared family lines. Elizabeth Weld Gardner is an ancestor of George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine, the first Superintendent of Acadia National Park in Maine.
JOSEPH WELD (m. Sarah Faxon)
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=93690+joseph+weld
Father: John Weld
Mother: Margaret Bowen
Birth Date: 13 Sep 1650
Birth Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Christening Date: 15 Sep 1650
Christening Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Death Date: 14 Feb 1711/1712
Death Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Burial Date:
Burial Location:
Spouse Name: Sarah Faxon
Marriage Date: 27 Nov 1679
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Children:
Joseph Weld (Ahnentafel No:128 )
Additional marriages for Joseph Weld
Spouse: Elizabeth Devotion
Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1674
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93573+bill+weld&ahnum=256
Sources
1 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, pp. 360-362, Birth records for children of Joseph Weld.
2 Eliot, Samuel Atkins, ed., Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State, Vol. 2, Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press (1909), (no page numbers), Biography of Stephen Minot Weld.
3 Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 220-228.
4 Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 14.
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93690+joseph+weld&ahnum=1
Weld - Dorr (Same Dorr family as Edward Dorr Tracy of Macon, Georgia; and aslo same extended Dorr family as George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine.)
Genealogy of the Descendants of Jasper Griffing
De Baun & Morgenthaler, printers, 1881 - 194 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=aFlGAAAAYAAJ&q=Dorr+Weld#v=snippet&q=Dorr%20Weld&f=false
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Brother of Rev. Thomas Weld
John Weld (Margaret Bowen)
1st cousin of Thomas Weld m. Dorothy Whiting
Joseph Weld (Sarah Faxon)
Daniel Weld (brother of Ebenezer who married Mary Craft) married Elizabeth Tucker (sister of Sarah Tucker who married John Weld). See more above.
Descendants:
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Daniel Weld
Elizabeth Tucker
Deacon David Weld
Sarah Davis
Sarah Weld
Stephen Child
Margaret Child
Benjamin Payson Williams
John Weld's first cousin Thomas Weld married Dorothy Whiting, daughter of Reverend Samuel Whiting and his unknown first wife.
Weld Family
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_family
Note John Weld birthdate is seen as 1623 and as 1625 - seems likely this could be a transcription error for "3" or "5" that is variously repeated and re-recorded.
Nov 17, 1652 — Philip Eliot, John Weld, and John Pierpont are appointed to lay out the highway between Roxbury and Cambridge.
Page 306 Hannah Weld (daughter of John and Margaret Bowen Weld) married Captain William Heath.
Passengers on the "Lion" From England to Boston, 1632, and five generations of their descendants, VOLUME 1 ONLY
By Sandra Olney · 1992
https://books.google.com/books?id=l-NM0IyRpREC&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume#v=onepage&q=John%20Weld%20Margaret%20Bowen%20&f=false
WELD
The first Weld in New England was Captain Joseph Weld. He was a protestant, and his family in England was Roman Catholic. He came in June 1632 on board the William & Francis with his wife Elizabeth; daughter Elizabeth, age 10; Mary, age 8, Hannah, age 6, and Thomas his brother. He left his son John, who came to Massachusetts later. He was a freeman in 1636 and settled in Roxbury, where he became a property owner, proprietor, and captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Winthrop was Colonel and Thomas Dudley was the Lieutenant Colonel).
Joseph Weld was supposed to be the richest man in Massachusetts and one of the first donors to Harvard College. He owned an estate in West Roxbury that is now owned by Harvard. Today at Harvard University there are many buildings donated by and named after the Weld family, including the famous Victorian era Weld boathouse on the Charles River that is the subject of many picturesque postcards of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
There are many sources for information on the Weld family. One is the book History of the Weld Family from 1632 to 1878, by Charlotte Fowler Weld, and Descendants of Edmund Weld of Sudbury, England by William Addsion Weld, 1992. A look at the New England Historic Genealogical Society online catalog will give you two pages of WELD compiled genealogies, and manuscripts such as The Family of Weld Who Came to the Town of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay, New England in the Year 1632 for Conscience Sake, by William Weld Gordon.
There is a lengthy sketch of Joseph Weld, b. 1599, in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 - 1635, Volume VII, pages 280 – 288, and a sketch of his brother Thomas Weld b. 1595, in Volume III, pages 1961-1963. The Roxbury records are a good source for information on the early generations of Welds.
There is an article in the NEHGS Register, Volume 47, pages 543- 459 about the Bowen family. In the second generation in Massachusetts, John Weld married Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen of Wales.
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/surname-saturday-weld-of-roxbury.html?m=1
The Weld Family
Captain Joseph Weld came to Roxbury, New England, undoubtedly in 1632, bringing with him his daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Hannah. Tradition says that his son, John, remained in England and came over in 1638. His eldest son certainly died in England, and perhaps other children. His wife, Elizabeth, came with him. He was a brother of Reverend Thomas Weld, the first Pastor of Roxbury. Admitted a Freeman March 3, 1636, (he) represented the town of Roxbury from 1637 to 1645. In 1643, John Winthrop Jr., Joseph Weld and several others had granted (to) them 3000 acres of land at Braintree, forever, (to encourage) Iron Works to be set up there. In 1641 the Colony appointed him one of the Commissioners to settle the boundary between Roxbury and Boston. He was chosen a Captain in the service of the Colony about that date. In 1643 he was one of the Commissioners, with Gov. Winthrop, who made a treaty with the Pequot Indians. In 1645, Joseph Weld, being in England on business, Alderman Barclay attached a ship of the Colony, his own ship having been seized for an infraction of the law. But being persuaded to release the ship, he arrested Mr. Stephen Winthrop, the recorder of the Court, and Captain Joseph Weld, who was one of the jury when the case was tried, so that they were forced to find sureties in a bond of 4000. But it pleased God to stir up such a friend as Sir Henry Vane, who was their bondsman. Messrs. Winthrop and Weld petitioned the General Court for indemnity for their expenses when they returned to the Colony, but (it was) in vain. Captain Weld lived on Roxbury St. and was undoubtedly the wealthiest merchant in the Colony at this time. He owned the estate of several acres, granted him by the Colony, now known as the Bussey farm, and belonging to Harvard College, and upon which his son, John, lived. He made frequent voyages to England on business, and in 1646 returned for the last time, probably from Ipswich, England, a place at that time of considerable importance, and being dangerously ill, made his will there. The Apostle Elliot, his particular friend, states in his journal that he died of cancer of the throat and jaws. In 1646, the Colony records state that Captain Weld, of Roxbury, a merchant, not long returned from England, died, and Mr. Pritchard, a Godly man, was chosen Captain in his place. In 1636 his first child was born in New England on the 14th of July, being the sixth and last child of his wife, Elizabeth. He married for his second wife, on April 20, 1639, Barbara Clapp, of Dorchester, daughter of Edward Clapp, by whom he had four children, Sarah, Daniel, Joseph and, just previous to his death, Marah, that name signifying "bitter," was given her. Captain Joseph Weld died on Oct. 7, 1646, and was undoubtedly buried in the ancient burying ground at the corner of Eustis Street in Roxbury in the Minister's tomb. He was one of the earliest friends and patrons of Harvard College, (a) donor in 1642 and the very first legacy in his will is given to that institution. His will is about the earliest on record in the Colony and it is exceedingly interesting on account of its minuteness in family matters and showing the pleasant relations that existed between himself and his best friends, and (his) Pastor, the Apostle Elliot.
— "THE WELD FAMILY"
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
SOURCE: Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Parents:
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
Child:
JOHN WELD
chr. 2 Nov 1623 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
d. 20 Sep 1691
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
To:
MARGARET (BOWEN) WELD
Parents:
Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
Child:
MARGARET BOWEN
b. Est 1626 Wales
d. 13 Sep 1692
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
II:418.
Weld, John and Margaret Bowen, (married) Dec. 24, 1647.
"THE FAMILY OF GRIFFITH BOWEN, GENTLEMAN, WELSH PURITAN IMMIGRANT. Boston, Mass., 1638-9, ESPECIALLY THE BRANCH OF ESQUIRE SILAS BOWEN, Born in Woodstock, Conn., 1722."
By DANIEL BOWEN
Jacksonville, Fla.
DaCosta Printing Company.
1893.
THE WELD FAMILY
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
Margaret Bowen and John Weld are grandparents of Addington Gardner.
Via daughter Mary Weld Gardner:
ANCESTOR OF HAROLD DOW BUGBEE
Robert Champney and Rebecca Brewer Champney, his wife, are third great-grandparents to noted artist Harold Dow Bugbee, painter and illustrator of the American West.
Nephew Daniel Weld's daughter Elizabeth Weld married to the Salem family of the name Gardner - that of Thomas "The Planter" Gardner. Thomas "The Planter" Gardner surname carried by members of the illustrious Boston Brahmin and New England Lowell family, who were married with the Aspinwall family, Proctor family, Oliver family, the Roxbury/Brookline Gardner family, Sparhawk family, and so had many other shared family ties to the Weld family, to Gardner of Roxbury, and other shared family lines. Elizabeth Weld Gardner is an ancestor of George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine, the first Superintendent of Acadia National Park in Maine.
JOSEPH WELD (m. Sarah Faxon)
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=93690+joseph+weld
Father: John Weld
Mother: Margaret Bowen
Birth Date: 13 Sep 1650
Birth Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Christening Date: 15 Sep 1650
Christening Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Death Date: 14 Feb 1711/1712
Death Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Burial Date:
Burial Location:
Spouse Name: Sarah Faxon
Marriage Date: 27 Nov 1679
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Children:
Joseph Weld (Ahnentafel No:128 )
Additional marriages for Joseph Weld
Spouse: Elizabeth Devotion
Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1674
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93573+bill+weld&ahnum=256
Sources
1 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, pp. 360-362, Birth records for children of Joseph Weld.
2 Eliot, Samuel Atkins, ed., Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State, Vol. 2, Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press (1909), (no page numbers), Biography of Stephen Minot Weld.
3 Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 220-228.
4 Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 14.
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93690+joseph+weld&ahnum=1
Weld - Dorr (Same Dorr family as Edward Dorr Tracy of Macon, Georgia; and aslo same extended Dorr family as George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine.)
Genealogy of the Descendants of Jasper Griffing
De Baun & Morgenthaler, printers, 1881 - 194 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=aFlGAAAAYAAJ&q=Dorr+Weld#v=snippet&q=Dorr%20Weld&f=false
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Brother of Rev. Thomas Weld
John Weld (Margaret Bowen)
1st cousin of Thomas Weld m. Dorothy Whiting
Joseph Weld (Sarah Faxon)
Daniel Weld (brother of Ebenezer who married Mary Craft) married Elizabeth Tucker (sister of Sarah Tucker who married John Weld). See more above.
Descendants:
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Daniel Weld
Elizabeth Tucker
Deacon David Weld
Sarah Davis
Sarah Weld
Stephen Child
Margaret Child
Benjamin Payson Williams
JOHN WELD, SR. (John Sr.³, Capt. Joseph², Edmund¹ WELD) married Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen and Margaret Fleming Bowen.
John Weld's first cousin Thomas Weld married Dorothy Whiting, daughter of Reverend Samuel Whiting and his unknown first wife.
Weld Family
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_family
Note John Weld birthdate is seen as 1623 and as 1625 - seems likely this could be a transcription error for "3" or "5" that is variously repeated and re-recorded.
Nov 17, 1652 — Philip Eliot, John Weld, and John Pierpont are appointed to lay out the highway between Roxbury and Cambridge.
Page 306 Hannah Weld (daughter of John and Margaret Bowen Weld) married Captain William Heath.
Passengers on the "Lion" From England to Boston, 1632, and five generations of their descendants, VOLUME 1 ONLY
By Sandra Olney · 1992
https://books.google.com/books?id=l-NM0IyRpREC&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume#v=onepage&q=John%20Weld%20Margaret%20Bowen%20&f=false
WELD
The first Weld in New England was Captain Joseph Weld. He was a protestant, and his family in England was Roman Catholic. He came in June 1632 on board the William & Francis with his wife Elizabeth; daughter Elizabeth, age 10; Mary, age 8, Hannah, age 6, and Thomas his brother. He left his son John, who came to Massachusetts later. He was a freeman in 1636 and settled in Roxbury, where he became a property owner, proprietor, and captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Winthrop was Colonel and Thomas Dudley was the Lieutenant Colonel).
Joseph Weld was supposed to be the richest man in Massachusetts and one of the first donors to Harvard College. He owned an estate in West Roxbury that is now owned by Harvard. Today at Harvard University there are many buildings donated by and named after the Weld family, including the famous Victorian era Weld boathouse on the Charles River that is the subject of many picturesque postcards of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
There are many sources for information on the Weld family. One is the book History of the Weld Family from 1632 to 1878, by Charlotte Fowler Weld, and Descendants of Edmund Weld of Sudbury, England by William Addsion Weld, 1992. A look at the New England Historic Genealogical Society online catalog will give you two pages of WELD compiled genealogies, and manuscripts such as The Family of Weld Who Came to the Town of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay, New England in the Year 1632 for Conscience Sake, by William Weld Gordon.
There is a lengthy sketch of Joseph Weld, b. 1599, in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 - 1635, Volume VII, pages 280 – 288, and a sketch of his brother Thomas Weld b. 1595, in Volume III, pages 1961-1963. The Roxbury records are a good source for information on the early generations of Welds.
There is an article in the NEHGS Register, Volume 47, pages 543- 459 about the Bowen family. In the second generation in Massachusetts, John Weld married Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen of Wales.
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/surname-saturday-weld-of-roxbury.html?m=1
The Weld Family
Captain Joseph Weld came to Roxbury, New England, undoubtedly in 1632, bringing with him his daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Hannah. Tradition says that his son, John, remained in England and came over in 1638. His eldest son certainly died in England, and perhaps other children. His wife, Elizabeth, came with him. He was a brother of Reverend Thomas Weld, the first Pastor of Roxbury. Admitted a Freeman March 3, 1636, (he) represented the town of Roxbury from 1637 to 1645. In 1643, John Winthrop Jr., Joseph Weld and several others had granted (to) them 3000 acres of land at Braintree, forever, (to encourage) Iron Works to be set up there. In 1641 the Colony appointed him one of the Commissioners to settle the boundary between Roxbury and Boston. He was chosen a Captain in the service of the Colony about that date. In 1643 he was one of the Commissioners, with Gov. Winthrop, who made a treaty with the Pequot Indians. In 1645, Joseph Weld, being in England on business, Alderman Barclay attached a ship of the Colony, his own ship having been seized for an infraction of the law. But being persuaded to release the ship, he arrested Mr. Stephen Winthrop, the recorder of the Court, and Captain Joseph Weld, who was one of the jury when the case was tried, so that they were forced to find sureties in a bond of 4000. But it pleased God to stir up such a friend as Sir Henry Vane, who was their bondsman. Messrs. Winthrop and Weld petitioned the General Court for indemnity for their expenses when they returned to the Colony, but (it was) in vain. Captain Weld lived on Roxbury St. and was undoubtedly the wealthiest merchant in the Colony at this time. He owned the estate of several acres, granted him by the Colony, now known as the Bussey farm, and belonging to Harvard College, and upon which his son, John, lived. He made frequent voyages to England on business, and in 1646 returned for the last time, probably from Ipswich, England, a place at that time of considerable importance, and being dangerously ill, made his will there. The Apostle Elliot, his particular friend, states in his journal that he died of cancer of the throat and jaws. In 1646, the Colony records state that Captain Weld, of Roxbury, a merchant, not long returned from England, died, and Mr. Pritchard, a Godly man, was chosen Captain in his place. In 1636 his first child was born in New England on the 14th of July, being the sixth and last child of his wife, Elizabeth. He married for his second wife, on April 20, 1639, Barbara Clapp, of Dorchester, daughter of Edward Clapp, by whom he had four children, Sarah, Daniel, Joseph and, just previous to his death, Marah, that name signifying "bitter," was given her. Captain Joseph Weld died on Oct. 7, 1646, and was undoubtedly buried in the ancient burying ground at the corner of Eustis Street in Roxbury in the Minister's tomb. He was one of the earliest friends and patrons of Harvard College, (a) donor in 1642 and the very first legacy in his will is given to that institution. His will is about the earliest on record in the Colony and it is exceedingly interesting on account of its minuteness in family matters and showing the pleasant relations that existed between himself and his best friends, and (his) Pastor, the Apostle Elliot.
— "THE WELD FAMILY"
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
SOURCE: Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Parents:
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
Child:
JOHN WELD
chr. 2 Nov 1623 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
d. 20 Sep 1691
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
To:
MARGARET (BOWEN) WELD
Parents:
Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
Child:
MARGARET BOWEN
b. Est 1626 Wales
d. 13 Sep 1692
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
II:418.
Weld, John and Margaret Bowen, (married) Dec. 24, 1647.
"THE FAMILY OF GRIFFITH BOWEN, GENTLEMAN, WELSH PURITAN IMMIGRANT. Boston, Mass., 1638-9, ESPECIALLY THE BRANCH OF ESQUIRE SILAS BOWEN, Born in Woodstock, Conn., 1722."
By DANIEL BOWEN
Jacksonville, Fla.
DaCosta Printing Company.
1893.
THE WELD FAMILY
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
Margaret Bowen and John Weld are grandparents of Addington Gardner.
Via daughter Mary Weld Gardner:
ANCESTOR OF HAROLD DOW BUGBEE
Robert Champney and Rebecca Brewer Champney, his wife, are third great-grandparents to noted artist Harold Dow Bugbee, painter and illustrator of the American West.
Nephew Daniel Weld's daughter Elizabeth Weld married to the Salem family of the name Gardner - that of Thomas "The Planter" Gardner. Thomas "The Planter" Gardner surname carried by members of the illustrious Boston Brahmin and New England Lowell family, who were married with the Aspinwall family, Proctor family, Oliver family, the Roxbury/Brookline Gardner family, Sparhawk family, and so had many other shared family ties to the Weld family, to Gardner of Roxbury, and other shared family lines. Elizabeth Weld Gardner is an ancestor of George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine, the first Superintendent of Acadia National Park in Maine.
JOSEPH WELD (m. Sarah Faxon)
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=93690+joseph+weld
Father: John Weld
Mother: Margaret Bowen
Birth Date: 13 Sep 1650
Birth Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Christening Date: 15 Sep 1650
Christening Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Death Date: 14 Feb 1711/1712
Death Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Burial Date:
Burial Location:
Spouse Name: Sarah Faxon
Marriage Date: 27 Nov 1679
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Children:
Joseph Weld (Ahnentafel No:128 )
Additional marriages for Joseph Weld
Spouse: Elizabeth Devotion
Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1674
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93573+bill+weld&ahnum=256
Sources
1 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, pp. 360-362, Birth records for children of Joseph Weld.
2 Eliot, Samuel Atkins, ed., Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State, Vol. 2, Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press (1909), (no page numbers), Biography of Stephen Minot Weld.
3 Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 220-228.
4 Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 14.
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93690+joseph+weld&ahnum=1
Weld - Dorr (Same Dorr family as Edward Dorr Tracy of Macon, Georgia; and aslo same extended Dorr family as George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine.)
Genealogy of the Descendants of Jasper Griffing
De Baun & Morgenthaler, printers, 1881 - 194 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=aFlGAAAAYAAJ&q=Dorr+Weld#v=snippet&q=Dorr%20Weld&f=false
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Brother of Rev. Thomas Weld
John Weld (Margaret Bowen)
1st cousin of Thomas Weld m. Dorothy Whiting
Joseph Weld (Sarah Faxon)
Daniel Weld (brother of Ebenezer who married Mary Craft) married Elizabeth Tucker (sister of Sarah Tucker who married John Weld). See more above.
Descendants:
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Daniel Weld
Elizabeth Tucker
Deacon David Weld
Sarah Davis
Sarah Weld
Stephen Child
Margaret Child
Benjamin Payson Williams
John Weld's first cousin Thomas Weld married Dorothy Whiting, daughter of Reverend Samuel Whiting and his unknown first wife.
Weld Family
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_family
Note John Weld birthdate is seen as 1623 and as 1625 - seems likely this could be a transcription error for "3" or "5" that is variously repeated and re-recorded.
Nov 17, 1652 — Philip Eliot, John Weld, and John Pierpont are appointed to lay out the highway between Roxbury and Cambridge.
Page 306 Hannah Weld (daughter of John and Margaret Bowen Weld) married Captain William Heath.
Passengers on the "Lion" From England to Boston, 1632, and five generations of their descendants, VOLUME 1 ONLY
By Sandra Olney · 1992
https://books.google.com/books?id=l-NM0IyRpREC&printsec=frontcover&source=gb_mobile_entity&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en&focus=searchwithinvolume#v=onepage&q=John%20Weld%20Margaret%20Bowen%20&f=false
WELD
The first Weld in New England was Captain Joseph Weld. He was a protestant, and his family in England was Roman Catholic. He came in June 1632 on board the William & Francis with his wife Elizabeth; daughter Elizabeth, age 10; Mary, age 8, Hannah, age 6, and Thomas his brother. He left his son John, who came to Massachusetts later. He was a freeman in 1636 and settled in Roxbury, where he became a property owner, proprietor, and captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Winthrop was Colonel and Thomas Dudley was the Lieutenant Colonel).
Joseph Weld was supposed to be the richest man in Massachusetts and one of the first donors to Harvard College. He owned an estate in West Roxbury that is now owned by Harvard. Today at Harvard University there are many buildings donated by and named after the Weld family, including the famous Victorian era Weld boathouse on the Charles River that is the subject of many picturesque postcards of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
There are many sources for information on the Weld family. One is the book History of the Weld Family from 1632 to 1878, by Charlotte Fowler Weld, and Descendants of Edmund Weld of Sudbury, England by William Addsion Weld, 1992. A look at the New England Historic Genealogical Society online catalog will give you two pages of WELD compiled genealogies, and manuscripts such as The Family of Weld Who Came to the Town of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay, New England in the Year 1632 for Conscience Sake, by William Weld Gordon.
There is a lengthy sketch of Joseph Weld, b. 1599, in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 - 1635, Volume VII, pages 280 – 288, and a sketch of his brother Thomas Weld b. 1595, in Volume III, pages 1961-1963. The Roxbury records are a good source for information on the early generations of Welds.
There is an article in the NEHGS Register, Volume 47, pages 543- 459 about the Bowen family. In the second generation in Massachusetts, John Weld married Margaret Bowen, daughter of Griffith Bowen of Wales.
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/surname-saturday-weld-of-roxbury.html?m=1
The Weld Family
Captain Joseph Weld came to Roxbury, New England, undoubtedly in 1632, bringing with him his daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Hannah. Tradition says that his son, John, remained in England and came over in 1638. His eldest son certainly died in England, and perhaps other children. His wife, Elizabeth, came with him. He was a brother of Reverend Thomas Weld, the first Pastor of Roxbury. Admitted a Freeman March 3, 1636, (he) represented the town of Roxbury from 1637 to 1645. In 1643, John Winthrop Jr., Joseph Weld and several others had granted (to) them 3000 acres of land at Braintree, forever, (to encourage) Iron Works to be set up there. In 1641 the Colony appointed him one of the Commissioners to settle the boundary between Roxbury and Boston. He was chosen a Captain in the service of the Colony about that date. In 1643 he was one of the Commissioners, with Gov. Winthrop, who made a treaty with the Pequot Indians. In 1645, Joseph Weld, being in England on business, Alderman Barclay attached a ship of the Colony, his own ship having been seized for an infraction of the law. But being persuaded to release the ship, he arrested Mr. Stephen Winthrop, the recorder of the Court, and Captain Joseph Weld, who was one of the jury when the case was tried, so that they were forced to find sureties in a bond of 4000. But it pleased God to stir up such a friend as Sir Henry Vane, who was their bondsman. Messrs. Winthrop and Weld petitioned the General Court for indemnity for their expenses when they returned to the Colony, but (it was) in vain. Captain Weld lived on Roxbury St. and was undoubtedly the wealthiest merchant in the Colony at this time. He owned the estate of several acres, granted him by the Colony, now known as the Bussey farm, and belonging to Harvard College, and upon which his son, John, lived. He made frequent voyages to England on business, and in 1646 returned for the last time, probably from Ipswich, England, a place at that time of considerable importance, and being dangerously ill, made his will there. The Apostle Elliot, his particular friend, states in his journal that he died of cancer of the throat and jaws. In 1646, the Colony records state that Captain Weld, of Roxbury, a merchant, not long returned from England, died, and Mr. Pritchard, a Godly man, was chosen Captain in his place. In 1636 his first child was born in New England on the 14th of July, being the sixth and last child of his wife, Elizabeth. He married for his second wife, on April 20, 1639, Barbara Clapp, of Dorchester, daughter of Edward Clapp, by whom he had four children, Sarah, Daniel, Joseph and, just previous to his death, Marah, that name signifying "bitter," was given her. Captain Joseph Weld died on Oct. 7, 1646, and was undoubtedly buried in the ancient burying ground at the corner of Eustis Street in Roxbury in the Minister's tomb. He was one of the earliest friends and patrons of Harvard College, (a) donor in 1642 and the very first legacy in his will is given to that institution. His will is about the earliest on record in the Colony and it is exceedingly interesting on account of its minuteness in family matters and showing the pleasant relations that existed between himself and his best friends, and (his) Pastor, the Apostle Elliot.
— "THE WELD FAMILY"
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
SOURCE: Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Parents:
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
Child:
JOHN WELD
chr. 2 Nov 1623 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
d. 20 Sep 1691
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
To:
MARGARET (BOWEN) WELD
Parents:
Griffith Bowen
Margaret Fleming
Child:
MARGARET BOWEN
b. Est 1626 Wales
d. 13 Sep 1692
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
m. 24 Dec 1647
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
II:418.
Weld, John and Margaret Bowen, (married) Dec. 24, 1647.
"THE FAMILY OF GRIFFITH BOWEN, GENTLEMAN, WELSH PURITAN IMMIGRANT. Boston, Mass., 1638-9, ESPECIALLY THE BRANCH OF ESQUIRE SILAS BOWEN, Born in Woodstock, Conn., 1722."
By DANIEL BOWEN
Jacksonville, Fla.
DaCosta Printing Company.
1893.
THE WELD FAMILY
This is a transcription of a four-page, unsigned document describing the first three generations of the Weld family in America.
https://www.jphs.org/people/2005/3/14/the-weld-family.html
Margaret Bowen and John Weld are grandparents of Addington Gardner.
Via daughter Mary Weld Gardner:
ANCESTOR OF HAROLD DOW BUGBEE
Robert Champney and Rebecca Brewer Champney, his wife, are third great-grandparents to noted artist Harold Dow Bugbee, painter and illustrator of the American West.
Nephew Daniel Weld's daughter Elizabeth Weld married to the Salem family of the name Gardner - that of Thomas "The Planter" Gardner. Thomas "The Planter" Gardner surname carried by members of the illustrious Boston Brahmin and New England Lowell family, who were married with the Aspinwall family, Proctor family, Oliver family, the Roxbury/Brookline Gardner family, Sparhawk family, and so had many other shared family ties to the Weld family, to Gardner of Roxbury, and other shared family lines. Elizabeth Weld Gardner is an ancestor of George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine, the first Superintendent of Acadia National Park in Maine.
JOSEPH WELD (m. Sarah Faxon)
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=93690+joseph+weld
Father: John Weld
Mother: Margaret Bowen
Birth Date: 13 Sep 1650
Birth Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Christening Date: 15 Sep 1650
Christening Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Death Date: 14 Feb 1711/1712
Death Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Burial Date:
Burial Location:
Spouse Name: Sarah Faxon
Marriage Date: 27 Nov 1679
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Children:
Joseph Weld (Ahnentafel No:128 )
Additional marriages for Joseph Weld
Spouse: Elizabeth Devotion
Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1674
Marriage Location: Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93573+bill+weld&ahnum=256
Sources
1 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, pp. 360-362, Birth records for children of Joseph Weld.
2 Eliot, Samuel Atkins, ed., Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State, Vol. 2, Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press (1909), (no page numbers), Biography of Stephen Minot Weld.
3 Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 220-228.
4 Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 14.
https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=93690+joseph+weld&ahnum=1
Weld - Dorr (Same Dorr family as Edward Dorr Tracy of Macon, Georgia; and aslo same extended Dorr family as George Bucknam Dorr of Mount Desert Island, Maine.)
Genealogy of the Descendants of Jasper Griffing
De Baun & Morgenthaler, printers, 1881 - 194 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=aFlGAAAAYAAJ&q=Dorr+Weld#v=snippet&q=Dorr%20Weld&f=false
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Brother of Rev. Thomas Weld
John Weld (Margaret Bowen)
1st cousin of Thomas Weld m. Dorothy Whiting
Joseph Weld (Sarah Faxon)
Daniel Weld (brother of Ebenezer who married Mary Craft) married Elizabeth Tucker (sister of Sarah Tucker who married John Weld). See more above.
Descendants:
Edmund Weld
Amye
Joseph Weld
Elizabeth Wise
John Weld
Margaret Bowen
Joseph Weld
Sarah Faxon
Daniel Weld
Elizabeth Tucker
Deacon David Weld
Sarah Davis
Sarah Weld
Stephen Child
Margaret Child
Benjamin Payson Williams
Gravesite Details
Birthdate varies by source circa 1623-1625.
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Siblings
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