Enoch WELLINGTON
HUSBAND:
[F142]. Enoch WELLINGTON.
Born 1 SEeptember 1756 at Cambridge, Waltham, or Watertown, all in Middlesex County, Massachusetts; son of Joseph WELLINGTON [F284] and Dorcas STONE [F285].
An Enoch Wellington served in the Revolutionary War under Captain John Parker of the Lexington Militia Company. Since they had no specific orders they were discussing various alternatives when Captain Michael Jackson commanding the Newton Militia Company arrived. He [Enoch Wellington] advised that he heard the British were retreating from Concord and that Lord Percy was leading a relief force to rescue them. He [Enoch Wellington] was leading his men to Lexington to intercept them. Is this the same Enoch? He is about the right age and at the right place, though perhaps a bit young to be leading men.
He married Sarah RICHARDSON [F143] on (8 MAY-S6)(18 AUG-S?) 1782 in Watertown, Massachusetts. (S7). At the time of his marriage he was apparently of Cambridge, Massachusetts. (S6).
It appears that Enoch left Massachusetts in 1799, after the death of his wife Sarah. Enoch Wellington settled in Jaffrey on lot 20, range 5, in 1799. He apparently had with him children:
Charlotte.
Abby. She married Daniel Wood of Jaffrey, son of Jonathan Wood, in August 1813.
Thomas, who removed to Ashley, Mass. (S2)
It is interesting to note that George and Lucy Wellington of Watertown, Massachusetts, also a descendant of Roger Wellington, moved to Jaffrey in 1796. He moved to vermont in 1801, but left at least one child, Lucy who married and lived in Jaffrey.
He died 5 AUG 1817 at Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
WIFE:
[F143]. Sarah RICHARDSON.
Born 9 (JAN-S?) JUN 1763 at Woburn, Lincoln, or Watertown, all in Middlesex County, Massachusetts; daughter of Edward RICHARDSON [F286] and Abigail CHINERY [F287].
She married Enoch WELLINGTON [F142] on 8 MAY 1782 in Watertown, Massachusetts.(S7). She was of Watertown at the time of her marriage. (S6).
She died 8 MAY 1799 at Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN of Enoch WELLINGTON [F142] and Sarah RICHARDSON [F143]:
- [F71]. Sally WELLINGTON. (Sarah). Born (1783) 1785 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts or Watertown, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. She married Thaddeus ALVORD [F70] in DEC 1814. Between 1815 and 1824 they moved to Oakland County, Michigan. She died in 1824 at Waterford, Oakland County, Michigan.
- Charlotte WELLINGTON. She married Ephraim Richardson, son of Joseph and Mary Richardson, on 22 October 1793 in Monmouth, Maine. She died 9 June 1842.
- Harriet WELLINGTON.
- Abigail (Abby) WELLINGTON. She married Daniel Wood in 1813. She died 8 December 1834.
- Thomas WELLINGTON.
SOURCES:
- [S1]. Ancestral File {G28}.
- [S2]. History of the town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, from the date of the Masonian charter to the present time, 1749-1880 : with a genealogical register of the Jaffrey families, and an appendix containing the proceedings of the centennial celebration in 1873. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoftownofj00cutt/historyoftownofj00cutt_djvu.txt.
- [S3]. Thomas Wellington. Cpedia. http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=Thomas+Wellington&guess_ambig=Charlestown+Peninsula+Colonel+Brewer+Lively+Colonels.
- [S4]. The Richardson memorial: comprising a full history and genealogy of the posterity of the three brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, who came from England, and united with others in the foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the year 1641, of John Richardson, of Medfield, 1679, of ... Volume 1, Part 1. John Adams Vinton. Printed for the subscribers by B. Thurston & Co., 1876. Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized Nov 1, 2007 by Google Books.
- [S5]. Biography of Wellington Wood, Sr. by Nora W. Carter. http://hunthistories.com/Histories/WellingtonWoodSR.html/
- [S6]. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630-1877: With a genealogical register. Lucius Robinson Paige. Publisher H. O. Houghton and company, 1877. Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized Feb 9, 2008 by Google Books.
- [S7]. Cambridge, MA Vital Records to 1850 [Marriages]. Published by: The New England Genealgical Society
Boston, MA 1914. Transcribed by Coralynn Brown. http://www.rays-place.com/town/ma/cambridge/cambridge-mar-r.htm.
- [S8]. Vital records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Volume 2 By Cambridge (Mass.), Thomas Williams Baldwin. Digitized by Google Books.