Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Sarah Welles

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Archibald MacLeish — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 909 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Welles 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Tomes   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1631 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Dec 1698 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Chester
  • Marriage Date:
  • Feb 1653 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Stephen Chester (Ahnentafel No:454 )

• Sources for Sarah Welles

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 62, Death record for Sarah Chester.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 62, Birth record for son Stephen Chester.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 347.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 292.
  • ⁵ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 55.
  • ⁶ Whittlesey, John S., et. al., Memorial of the Whittlesey Family in the United States, n.p.: The Whittlesey Association (1855), 75.