Capt Joseph Weld the Immigrant was born 7 April 1599 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom to Edmund Weld (1556-1608) and Amy Clark (1571-1608) and died 7 October 1646 Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Elizabeth Wise (1600-1638) 11 October 1620 in All Saints Church, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He married Barbara Clap (1614-1655) 1638 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
Biography
Captain Joseph Weld (1599–1646), the youngest of the three Weld immigrants, is the ancestor from whom the richest and most famous Welds descend.
1636 Pequot War
A 19th-century engraving depicting an incident in the Pequot War.
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of English colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.[1] Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to colonists in Bermuda or the West Indies;[2] other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes.
As an award for his participation in the Pequot War of 1637 and subsequent negotiations, the colonial legislature granted Weld 278 acres (1.13 km2) in the town of Roxbury.
Captain Weld's land is now much of present day Jamaica Plain.
Membership in AHAC
This individual is a registered member of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (AHAC), which is the oldest chartered military organization in North America and the nineteenth oldest chartered military organization in the world. Its charter was granted in March 1638 by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay and signed by Governor John Winthrop as a volunteer militia company to train officers enrolled in the local militia companies across Massachusetts. Membership in the company has traditionally been selected from the upper middle and upper classes of Boston society.
With the wealth generated from this grant, Joseph Weld became one of the first donors to Harvard and founded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.
Thomas Weld's involvement with Harvard was the beginning of almost 400 years of association between that institution and the Weld Family.
Family Life
Surprisingly, the first Weld to attend ended his Harvard career in disgrace. John Weld (born in 1625) and a classmate stole money and gunpowder from two houses and were caught. Henry Dunster (Harvard’s first president) personally whipped them and expelled them from the school. Weld returned to England and became a minister in Durham.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Joseph Weld (1621-1645) | |||
| John Weld (1623-1691) | 28 October 1623 Sudbury, Suffollk, England, United Kingdom | 20 September 1691 Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | Margaret Bowen (1629-1692) |
| Elizabeth Weld (1626-1717) | |||
| Mary Weld (1629-1711) | |||
| Thomas Weld (1630-1649) | |||
| Hannah Weld (1630-1647) | |||
| Edmund Weld (1636-1657) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Sarah Weld (1640-1694) | |||
| Daniel Weld (1642-1690) | |||
| Joseph Weld (1644-1645) | |||
| Marah Weld (1645-1706) | |||
| Thomas Weld (1646-1649) | |||
| Elizabeth Weld (1646-1669) | |||
| Jeremiah Weld (1647-) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Daniel Weld (1585-1666) | |||
| John Weld (1586-1665) | |||
| Edmund Weld (1587-1662) | |||
| Henry Weld (1592-1605) | |||
| George Weld (1594-1605) | |||
| Thomas Weld (1595-1662) | |||
| Benjamin Weld (1596-1676) | |||
| Joseph Weld (1599-1646) | 7 April 1599 Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom | 7 October 1646 Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | Elizabeth Wise (1600-1638) Barbara Clap (1614-1655) |
| James Weld (1600-1646) | |||
| Mary Weld (1601-1646) | |||
| Elizabeth Weld (1602-) | |||
Residences
Notable Descendants
Edmund Weld (1631–1668)(son of Thomas, the first Weld to graduate Harvard (class of 1650) left Massachusetts Bay Colony as well. He became a minister in Ireland At least eighteen more Weld family members have graduated Harvard since then and two prominent buildings at Harvard University are named for the family.
See Also
- Joseph Weld
- Weld family
- Weld in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
- Weld in Suffolk
- Capt Joseph T Weld, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Capt-Joseph-Weld-I/6000000002930878216, retrieved 01 Jun 2024
Footnotes (including sources)
- ^ John Winthrop, Journal of John Winthrop. ed. Dunn, Savage, Yeandle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 228.
- ^ Lion Gardiner, "Relation of the Pequot Warres", in History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner (Cleveland, 1897), p. 138; Ethel Boissevain, "Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves," Man in the Northwest 11 (Spring 1981), pp. 103–114; Karen O. Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 172