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Bill Weld

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Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts


    Joseph Weld

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 870 
    • Birth Date:
    • 13 Sep 1650 
    • Birth Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Christening Date:
    • 15 Sep 1650 
    • Christening Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Death Date:
    • 14 Feb 1711/1712 
    • Death Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 27 Nov 1679 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Joseph Weld

      Sarah Weld (Ahnentafel No:435 )

      Mary Weld

    • Notes: 
    • Joseph Weld's given name is also seen incorrectly as John.

  • Additional marriages for Joseph Weld


    • Spouse:
    • Elizabeth Devotion
    • Marriage Date:
    • 2 Sep 1674
    • Marriage Location:
    • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

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  • Sources for Joseph Weld

    • 3 Samuel Davis, of Oxford, Mass., and Joseph Davis, of Dudley, Mass., and Their Descendants, Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of Charles Hamilton (1884), 7, gives Joseph's name as Thomas.
    • 4 Crafts, James M. and William F. Crafts, The Crafts Family: A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft . . ., Northampton, Massachusetts: Gazette Printing Company (1893), 56.
    • 5 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.
    • 6 Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 220-228.
    • 7 Williams, Edward H., Jr., Robert Williams of Roxbury, Mass. and His Descendants, Newport, Rhode Island: Reprinted from The Magazine of New England History (1891), 14.

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