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WELLES I, Governor Thomas (1590-1659/60) CT Adams, Sherman W., and Henry Reed Stiles. "Genealogies and Biographies: The Welles Family." The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time. New York: Grafton Press, 1904; [Wethersfield, CT]: New England History Press in collaboration with the Wethersfield Historical Society, 1990. Vol. 2, p.760-780. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1977, and other dates. P. 1762. Holcomb, Brent H. (ed). South Carolina Marriages 1688-1799. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980-81. Holman, Mary Lovering, et al. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller. Concord, NH: Privately printed by the Rumford Press, 1948-1953. P. 436. Jacobus, Donald L., Editor and Publisher. "The American Genealogist". Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, July, 1953. Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. Johnson, Henry P. Little Acorns from the Mighty Oak. Birmingham, AL: Featon Press, 1962. Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records. Hartford, CT: R.S. Peck & Co., 1904-1906; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1995. Vol. 1, p. 161. (www.archive.org) Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886; [S.l.}: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000. Part II, p. 1325. (http://catalog.hathitrust.org; http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Robeson, Susan S. History and General Account of Andrew Robeson. Philadelphia: Lippencott, 1916. Shaw, Isabella Pratt Hunnewell. The Welles Family and Wellesley: Genealogical, Historical and Topographical Notes Compiled from Letters Diaries & Other Sources. [Cambridge, MA]: Privately printed, 1925. P. 98, 202, 243. Siemiatkoski, Donna H. The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut, 1590-1658, and His Wife, Alice Tomes. Baltimore: Gateway, 1990. P. 23, 25. Trumbull, J. Hammond, and Charles J. Hoadlly. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776]... Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, & Brainard Co., 1850-1890. [Vol. 1] 1636-1665, p. 8. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Welles Family Association. Bulletin. May 1, 1939. Welles, Lemuel A. The English Ancestry of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut. Boston: 1926. Also: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 80 (1926), p. 279-305. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Welles, Theodore. Ancestral Tablets from Colonial Days to the Present Era: a Record of the Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut... and Nearly One Hundred Allied Families. Paterson, N.J.: Press Printing, 1893. P.15-23. Return to index
WELTON, Sr., Job (1744-1820) VA Chrisman, Pattie H. Gamble-Montgomery History and Genealogy and Connected Families. Harrisonburg, VA: P.H. Chrisman, c1980. Heidgerd, William. The American Descendants of Chretien Du Bois of Wicres, France. New Paltz, NY: Huguenot Historical Society, 1968, Vol. VIII. Johnston, Ross B. West Virginia Estate Settlements: an index to wills, inventories, appraisements, land grants and surveys to 1850. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. Return to index
WENTWORTH, William (1615-1697) NH Colket, Meredith B. The English Ancestry of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and Katherine Marbury Scott: Including Their Descent and that of John Dryden, poet-laureate, from Magna Charta Sureties with Notes on the English Connections of the Settlers William Wentworth and Christopher Lawson of New Hampshire and Francis Marbury of Maryland. Philadelphia: Magee, 1936. Genealogical Notice of the Wentworths of New Hampshire. Concord: NH: Asa McFarland, 1837. (In Vol. 5 of "Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society"). Wentworth, John. A Genealogical and Biographical Account of the Descendants of Elder William Wentworth, One of the First Settlers of Dover in the State of New Hampshire. Boston: S. G. Drake, 1850. Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: Comprising the Origin of the Name, the Family in England, and a Particular Account of Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant, and of his Descendants. Boston: Alfred Mudge, 1870. Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878. Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 2000. Return to index
WEST, Governor John (1590-1659) VA Boddie, John Bennett. Virginia Historical Genealogies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Return to index
WETHERILL, Christopher (?-1711) NJ Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey (Archives of the State of New Jersey). First Series. Vol. 3, p. 108, 158, 222. Nelson, William. New Jersey Civil List, 1664-1800; Compiled from Volumes of Commissions, Leaming & Spicer, New Jersey Archives and Journals of the Joint Meetings. [S.l.: s.n., 1800]. Leaming and Spicer, p. 569. Return to index
WEYMAN, Edward (1730-1793) SC Bailey, N. Louise, (ed). Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Vol III, 1775-1790. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1974, 1992. Gardner. Anecdotes of 1780. Charleston, SC: A.E. Miller, 1828. McCrady, Edward. South Carolina in the Revolution 1776-1780. MacMillan Co., 1901, 1902. Salley, Jr., A.S. (Ed). The South Carolina Historical and Genealogy Magazine. Charleston, SC: South Carolina Historical Society, 1906. South Carolina Resources and Population, Institutions and Industries.Charleston, SC: published by the State Board of Agriculture of South Carolina, Walker, Evans & Cogswell, printers, 1883. Return to index

WELLES I, Governor Thomas (1590-1659/60) CT

Adams, Sherman W., and Henry Reed Stiles. "Genealogies and
Biographies: The Welles Family." The History of Ancient
Wethersfield, Connecticut Comprising the Present Towns
of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington, and of
Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from
Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time.
New York: Grafton Press, 1904; [Wethersfield, CT]: New
England History Press in collaboration with the Wethersfield
Historical Society, 1990. Vol. 2, p.760-780.
(http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut.
Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1977, and other dates. P. 1762.

Holcomb, Brent H. (ed). South Carolina Marriages 1688-1799.
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980-81.

Holman, Mary Lovering, et al. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington
Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller. Concord, NH:
Privately printed by the Rumford Press, 1948-1953. P. 436.

Jacobus, Donald L., Editor and Publisher. "The American Genealogist".
Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, July, 1953.

            Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and
                    Related Families, mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. Hartford:
                    Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.

Johnson, Henry P. Little Acorns from the Mighty Oak. Birmingham, AL:
Featon Press, 1962.

Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate
Records. Hartford, CT: R.S. Peck & Co., 1904-1906; Baltimore:
Genealogical Pub. Co., 1995. Vol. 1, p. 161. (www.archive.org)

Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of
Bridgeport. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886; [S.l.}:
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000. Part II, p. 1325.
(http://catalog.hathitrust.org; http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

Robeson, Susan S. History and General Account of Andrew Robeson.
Philadelphia: Lippencott, 1916.

Shaw, Isabella Pratt Hunnewell. The Welles Family and Wellesley:
Genealogical, Historical and Topographical Notes Compiled from
Letters Diaries & Other Sources. [Cambridge, MA]: Privately printed, 1925.
P. 98, 202, 243.

            Siemiatkoski, Donna H. The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles
                    of Connecticut, 1590-1658, and His Wife, Alice Tomes. Baltimore:
                    Gateway, 1990. P. 23, 25.

Trumbull, J. Hammond, and Charles J. Hoadlly. The Public Records of the
Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776]... Hartford: Press of the Case,
Lockwood, & Brainard Co., 1850-1890. [Vol. 1] 1636-1665, p. 8.
(http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

Welles Family Association. Bulletin. May 1, 1939.

Welles, Lemuel A. The English Ancestry of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut.
Boston: 1926. Also: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 80 (1926), p. 279-305.
(http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

Welles, Theodore. Ancestral Tablets from Colonial Days to the Present Era:
a Record of the Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut...
and Nearly One Hundred Allied Families. Paterson, N.J.: Press Printing, 1893. P.15-23.

Return to index

WELTON, Sr., Job (1744-1820) VA

Chrisman, Pattie H. Gamble-Montgomery History and Genealogy and
Connected Families. Harrisonburg, VA: P.H. Chrisman, c1980.

            Heidgerd, William. The American Descendants of Chretien Du Bois of
                    Wicres, France. New Paltz, NY: Huguenot Historical Society, 1968,
                    Vol. VIII.

            Johnston, Ross B. West Virginia Estate Settlements: an index to wills,
                    inventories, appraisements, land grants and surveys to 1850.
                    Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. Return to index

WENTWORTH, William (1615-1697) NH

             Colket, Meredith B. The English Ancestry of Anne Marbury Hutchinson and
                    Katherine Marbury Scott: Including Their Descent and that of John
                    Dryden, poet-laureate, from Magna Charta Sureties with Notes on the
                    English Connections of the Settlers William Wentworth and Christopher
                    Lawson of New Hampshire and Francis Marbury of Maryland.
                    Philadelphia: Magee, 1936.

             Genealogical Notice of the Wentworths of New Hampshire. Concord: NH:
                   Asa McFarland, 1837. (In Vol. 5 of "Collections of the New Hampshire
                   Historical Society").

            Wentworth, John. A Genealogical and Biographical Account of the
                    Descendants of Elder William Wentworth, One of the First Settlers of
                    Dover in the State of New Hampshire. Boston: S. G. Drake, 1850.

             Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: Comprising the Origin of
                    the Name, the Family in England, and a Particular Account of
                    Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant, and of his Descendants.
                    Boston: Alfred Mudge, 1870.

              Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American.
                     Boston: Little, Brown, 1878. Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 2000.
                     Return to index

WEST, Governor John (1590-1659) VA

Boddie, John Bennett. Virginia Historical Genealogies. Baltimore:
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Return to index

WETHERILL, Christopher (?-1711) NJ

          Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
                    (Archives of the State of New Jersey). First Series. Vol. 3, p. 108, 158,
                    222.

           Nelson, William. New Jersey Civil List, 1664-1800; Compiled from
                    Volumes of Commissions, Leaming & Spicer, New Jersey Archives and
                    Journals of the Joint Meetings. [S.l.: s.n., 1800]. Leaming and Spicer,
                    p. 569.     Return to index

WEYMAN, Edward (1730-1793) SC

            Bailey, N. Louise, (ed). Biographical Directory of the South Carolina
                    House of Representatives, Vol III, 1775-1790. Columbia, SC:
                    University of South Carolina Press, 1974, 1992.

Gardner. Anecdotes of 1780. Charleston, SC: A.E. Miller, 1828.

McCrady, Edward. South Carolina in the Revolution 1776-1780.
MacMillan Co., 1901, 1902.

Salley, Jr., A.S. (Ed). The South Carolina Historical and Genealogy
Magazine. Charleston, SC: South Carolina Historical Society, 1906.

South Carolina Resources and Population, Institutions and Industries.Charleston, SC: published by the State Board of Agriculture of South Carolina, Walker, Evans & Cogswell, printers, 1883. Return to index