Thomas Welles

Mary (circa 1618 – 1647)

Anne (circa 1620 – 1680)

John (circa 1622 – 7 August 1659), settled in in 1645, serving as a magistrate and a probate judge there.^[9][10][11] His son, John, married Mary Hollister, daughter of Lt. John Hollister and Joanna Treat,^[12][13] the daughter of Richard Treat.^[14]

Stratford

Thomas, Jr. (circa 1625 – 1668) settled in ; his daughter Rebecca married Captain James Judson and settled in Stratford in 1680.^[15] James and Rebecca's son David Judson, also a Captain, built the Captain David Judson House. It was located on the same site where his great-grandfather William Judson had built his first house, made of stone, in 1639.

Hartford, Connecticut

Samuel (circa 1628 – 15 July 1675), became a Captain and settled in .^[15] He married Elizabeth Hollister, daughter of Lt. John Hollister and Joanna Treat,^[12][13] the daughter of Richard Treat.^[14] Elizabeth and Samuel Welles had six children. After Elizabeth died in 1659, Samuel married as his second wife Hannah, daughter of George Lamberton of the New Haven Colony. They had no children. His son Samuel married Ruth Rice, daughter of Edmund Rice and his wife, on 20 June 1683. The couple had six children.^[16]

Wethersfield, Connecticut

Sarah (circa 1631 – 12 December 1698)

(1934–present), journalist and publisher, Gerald Loeb Award winner

Steven C. Swett

(1819–1879), abolitionist, religious leader

Joseph Parrish Thompson

(1814–1891), Justice of the Peace in Nauvoo, Illinois and Lt. General of the Nauvoo Legion, mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah

Daniel H. Wells

(1859–1938), first governor of Utah

Heber M. Wells

(1871–1949), Major General of U.S. army

Briant H. Wells

(1859–1942), women's suffragist, Utah State Legislator

Elizabeth Wells Cannon

(1854–1941), Utah state legislator, religious leader

Rulon S. Wells

(1956–present), actress, producer, healthcare activist^[17]

Dana Delany

(1802–1878), United States Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

Gideon Welles

(1901-1969) American Classicist and ancient historian

C. Bradford Welles

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Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Lewis Historical Publishing, NY, 1914

Deming, Judson Keith. Genealogy of the descendants of John Deming of Wethersfield, Connecticut: with historical notes University of Wisconsin – Madison: Publisher Press of Mathis-Mets Co., 1904

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Jordan, John W. Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Company 1913.

Laas, Virginia Jeans Bridging two eras : the autobiography of Emily Newell Blair, 1877–1951. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press 1999.

Mathews, Barbara Jean. The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles and his Wife Alice Tomes, vol. 1, 3rd edition. Wethersfield, CT: Welles Family Association, 2015.

McGhan, Judith. Genealogies of Connecticut families: from the New England historical and genealogical register Baltimore: Publisher Genealogical Publishing Company, 1983  0-8063-1030-8.

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Norton, Frederick Calvin The governors of Connecticut: biographies of the chief executives of the commonwealth that gave to the world the first written constitution known to history, Publisher Connecticut Magazine Co., 1905.

Pumpelly, Raphael. My Reminiscences, Raphael Pumpelly. Publisher: H. Holt and Company, 1918.

. Gray genealogy : being a genealogical record and history of the descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., and also including sketches of other Gray families. New York: Higginson Book Company, 1887.

Raymond, Marcius Denison

Raymond, M D. Souvenir of the Sherburne Centennial Celebration and Dedication of Monument to the Proprietors and Early Settlers, held on Wednesday, 21 June 1893. New York: M.D. Raymond, 1892.

Raymond, Marcius D. Sketch of Rev. Blackleach Burritt and related Stratford families : a paper read before the Fairfield County Historical Society, at Bridgeport, Conn., Friday evening, 19 February 1892. Bridgeport : Fairfield County Historical Society 1892.

Siemiatkoski, Donna Holt. The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut, 1590–1658, and His Wife, Alice Tomes Baltimore: Publisher, Gateway Press, 1990.

Treat, John Harvey. The Treat family: a genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for fifteen generations, and four hundred and fifty years in England and America, containing more than fifteen hundred families in America Publisher The Salem press publishing & printing company, 1893.

Welles, Benjamin. Sumner Welles: FDR's global strategist : a biography. New York: M.D. Raymond, 1892. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997.  0-312-17440-3.

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Welles Family Association, Inc.

Welles Family Association, Inc.

Biographical sketch of Thomas Welles Connecticut State Library

Stratford Historical Society

The Society of the Hawley Family, Inc.

National Archives biography

Oliver Ellsworth Homestead

Supreme Court Historical Society

Oliver Ellsworth at

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