Ancestry of
Weltha Wildrick

(1879–1942)

David Britain Dodge

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Weltha Wildrick — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 232 
  • Father:
  • John Dodge 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Dec 1691 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Shoreham, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jul 1764 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Colchester Burying Ground, Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Yeomans
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 May 1717 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Block Island, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Jonathan Dodge (Ahnentafel No:116 )

  • Notes: 

  • The marriage of David Dodge and Rebecca Yeomans is recorded in both Colchester and Groton vital records. Published sources state that the were married at Block Island, Rhode Island well before moving to Colchester in 1731.

• Sources for David Britain Dodge

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Groton, p. 53, Marriage record for David Dodge and Rebeckah Yeomans.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 58, Marriage record for David Dodge and Rebeckah Yeomans.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/26/2020).
  • ⁴ New Englanders in Nova Scotia: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, (2010), p. 465.
  • ⁵ Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636-1899, Birth record for David Dodge.
  • ⁶ White, Truman C., Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York, Vol. 2, n.p.: The Boston History Company, Publishers (1898), 421.
  • ⁷ Woodward, Theron Royal, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge, Chicago and New York: Lanward Publishing Co. (1904), 9-10.
  • ⁸ Woodward, Theron Royal, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge, Chicago and New York: Lanward Publishing Co. (1904), 7.