Ancestry of
Gerald Ford

38th U.S. President

Samuel Welles

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Gerald Ford — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 506 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Welles 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Tuttle   
  • Birth Date:
  • Oct 1662 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Oct 1733 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Judson
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1688 
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  • Child:

  Ruth Welles (Ahnentafel No:253 )

• Sources for Samuel Welles

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1926, Vol. 80, p. 305.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1944, Vol. 21, p. 269.
  • ³ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 4, 13.
  • ⁴ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2003, Vol. 36, p. 384.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 165, 449.
  • ⁶ Welles, Albert, History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy: With the Derivation From Their Progenitors of . . ., New York: Albert Welles (1876), 136.
  • ⁷ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, Birth record for daughter Ruth Welles.