Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Joseph Weld

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 128 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Weld 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Faxon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jul 1683 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Jul 1683 
  • Christening Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jan 1760/1761 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Child
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jun 1729 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Eleazer Weld (Ahnentafel No:64 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Weld

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Chamberlain
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 May 1711
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Joseph Weld

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 358, Birth record for son Eleazer Weld.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1895, Vol. 49, p. 83, gives Joseph's name as John..
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 3, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 209.
  • ⁵ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 180-184, 224.

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