Thomas Welles
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Sarah Sally Jones ← Russell Jones ← Nathan Jones ← Hannah Welles ← Noah Welles ← Thomas Welles ← Thomas Welles
In brief
Born about 1595 England in Evesham, Worcestershire, England. He married about 1625 in England. He died 1637 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England.
Family
Children
- Mary Wellesb. Abt. 1626 in Englandm. Jonathan Gilbert around 1650d. July 3, 1700, in Hartford, Connecticut
- John Wellesb. Abt. 1635 in Englandm. Sarah Curtis around 1658d. October 18, 1692, in Hatfield, Massachusetts
- Deborah Colemanb. Abt. 1640 in Englandm. Daniel Gunn
- Thomas Wells · in this lineb. Englandm. Mary Beardsley, May 1651 in Wethersfield, Connecticutd. September-December 1676 in Hadley, Massachusetts
Siblings
- Richard Welles
Life story
A Weaver's Last Wishes
Thomas Welles was born around 1595 in England and worked as a weaver in Evesham, Worcestershire, taking on at least one apprentice. In his will, written February 9, 1637, shortly before his death, Thomas forgave a five-pound debt his own father owed him and left his father a further annuity, while providing for his children Thomas, Mary, and John — including a provision for a fourth child in case his wife Frances was pregnant when he died — and distributing small remembrances of a few shillings each to godchildren, in-laws, and neighbors. He left his brothers-in-law John and Richard Albright his cloak and best coat, respectively, and asked that five shillings be given to the poor of the parish.
Sources (2)
- Nathan Henry Jones, The Ancestors of My Daughters (Poultney, Vermont: Nathan Henry Jones, 1914).
- Douglas Richardson, “The Widow Frances (Albright) Wells, Wife of Thomas Coleman of Wethersfield and Hadley,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146 (January 1992): 28-34; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11691/28/0 : accessed 18 August 2026).