Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

William Gordon Weld

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Eleazer Weld 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hatch   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 May 1775 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 19 Jun 1775 
  • Christening Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • Jun 1823 
  • Death Location:
  • Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Minot
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1798 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Swan Weld (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Stephen Minot Weld

  • Notes: 

  • William Gordon Weld was the owner and commander of the armed ship Jason in 1802. While off the coast of Tunis, he defeated an Algerine pirate vessel and recaptured two American brigs with their crews.

• Sources for William Gordon Weld

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 363, Baptism record for William Gordon Weld.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1895, Vol. 49, p. 83.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1891, Vol. 45, pp. 115-116.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1868, Vol. 22, p. 382.
  • ⁵ Balch, Galusha B., Genealogy of the Balch Families in America, Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, Publisher (1897), 310.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 3, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 209.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 140, 308.

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