Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

David Gelston

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 114 
  • Father:
  • Maltby Gelston 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Jul 1744 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgehampton, Suffolk, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Aug 1828 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Burial Location:
  • First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, New York, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • ----- Sanford
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  • Child:

  Phebe Gelston (Ahnentafel No:57 )

  • Notes: 

  • Delegate to the Continental Congress and New York State Senator

• Additional marriages for David Gelston

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  • Spouse:
  • Phebe Mitchell

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Robinson

• Sources for David Gelston

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1896, Vol. 27, p. 6.
  • ² Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "Gelston, David, (1744-1828)", (accessed 09/22/2018).
  • ³ Mather, Frederic Gregory, The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut, Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers (1913), 355-356.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "David Gelston", (accessed 09/22/2018).

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