Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Family of Clemence Dorr (5226) & Edmund Weld (20339)

14511. Samuel Weld. Born on 14 Apr 1726 in Roxbury, MA.43 Samuel died in 1773 in Roxbury, MA.113 Occupation: Joiner.

Samuel Weld was a church member in the First Church in Roxbury 30 Jun 1750, and a pew owner, one of the ‘young men.’ His homestead abbutted north on Charles Belknap, and west on the street. He was an executor of the estate of his ‘Hon^d Father Leiu^t Edmund Weld,’ and mortgaged the estate, to secure money to pay the cash legacies, to Ebenezer Cheney and Samuel Gore 25 Apr 1753. He sold land to Ebenezer Dorr of Roxbury 1 May 1753, and to John Shirley of Roxbury 24 Apr 1767, the morgagees guaranteeing the title.113

Samuel’s widow was appointed administratrix 9 Apr 1773. His estate was valued at £166 3s 8d by inventory 7 May 1773, of which the house and land were worth £133 6s 8d, and eight acres of woodland were valued at £ 40. The widow’s third was set off to her, and she mortgaged it for £ 53 6s 8d to Ebenezer Cheney of Roxbury 21 Oct 1774.113

On 22 Jun 1749 when Samuel was 23, he married Hannah Rogers.113 Hannah died aft 1773.

Hanna was kin of John Rogers of Newton. She survived her husband and may have been the Hanna Weld who m. 6 Dec 1774 Jonathan Parker.113

Their children include:
26473 i. Hannah Weld (3 Jun 1750-)
26474 ii. Thomas Weld (8 Oct 1751-)
26475 iii. Samuel Weld (18 Jun 1755-8 Jun 1826)
26476 iv. Edmund Weld (24 Feb 1757-)
26477 v. Joseph Weld (ca 1759-)
26478 vi. Mary Weld (ca 1761-)
26479 vii. Ezra Weld (21 Dec 1764-)

14512. Elizabeth Weld. Born on 30 Oct 1727 in Roxbury, MA.43

On 9 Jul 1750 when Elizabeth was 22, she married Ebenezer Stevens, son of Lieut. Erasamus Stevens (1686-22 Jun 1750) & Persis Bridge (30 Mar 1683-), in Roxbury, MA.113 Born ca Oct 1726 in Boston, MA. Ebenezer was baptized in New North Church, Boston, on 23 Oct 1726. Ebenezer died in 1763.

Their children include:
26480 i. Gen. Ebenezer Stevens (12 Aug 1751-2 Sep 1823)
26481 ii. Benjamin Stevens (29 Mar 1753-)

14513. Edmund Weld. Born on 12 Jan 1728/9 in Roxbury, MA.43 Occupation: Tanner.

Edmund bought from Peter Sever of Roxbury, cordwainer, a mansion or dwelling house in Town Street, over against the Greyhound Tavern, 17 Oct 1750, which he sold for £ 146 13 s 4 d to James Orr of Roxbury, blacksmith 12 Apr 1756. He sold land on Town Street to Nathaniel Felton, blacksmith, 3 Jul 1764. He was a member of the First Church 14 Oct 1753, and his name appears in a list of church members 2 Oct 1782. He was living 5 Apr 1783 when he sold for £ 150 about one quarter of an acre, all the land bordering southeast on the streeet, southeast of the brook, to his son Edmund Grindal Weld, his wife Sarah releasing her right of dower.113

Information about Edmund’s family supplied by Mr. Arthur Francis Weld of Glens Falls, NY, appears in the 1939 supplement to the Weld Collections.113According to tradition, Anne (Nancy), Sarah, Clemence, John, the second Susannah, Dorothy, and Thomas, the whole family of children then surviving, with the exception of Edmund Grindell, removed from Roxbury to the town of Charlton, Saratoga, Co., NY, about the year 1800, the exact date not being ascertained [probably much earlier]. Nancy, Sarah, and John were unmarried and lived in their nephew Elisha’s house in Charlton, NY. Nancy and John died in this house.113

On 15 Apr 1752 when Edmund was 23, he married Sarah Reynolds (29557) , daughter of Benjamin Reynolds (18209) (10 May 1686-4 Aug 1770) & Susannah Rawson (27043) (3 Oct 1686-11 Aug 1762), in Bristol, RI.309 Born in 1728 in Bristol, RI.97 Sarah died on 28 Jul 1816.97

Their children include:
26482 i. Edmund Grindell Weld (12 Oct 1753-bef 5 Apr 1796)
26483 ii. Anne Weld (Died unmarried) (1 Jan 1755/6-5 Dec 1832)
26484 iii. Sarah Weld (6 May 1757-)
26485 iv. Susannah Weld (Died young) (ca 1758-bef 1765)
26486 v. Clemence Weld (15 Oct 1760-)
26487 vi. Benjamin Weld (Died young) (ca 1762-29 Apr 1770)
26488 vii. John Weld (ca Sep 1763-11 Jan 1835)
26489 viii. Susannah Weld (6 Apr 1765-15 Dec 1845)
26490 ix. Dorothy Weld (9 Dec 1766-)
26491 x. Priscilla Weld (ca 1768-)
26492 xi. Benjamin Weld (ca 1770-)
26493 xii. Thomas Weld (15 Apr 1772-13 May 1835)

14514. Dorothy Weld. Born on 7 Apr 1730 in Roxbury, MA.43 Dorothy died on 30 Aug 1798; she was 68.97

On 5 May 1753 when Dorothy was 23, she married John Reynolds (29554) , son of Benjamin Reynolds (18209) (10 May 1686-4 Aug 1770) & Susannah Rawson (27043) (3 Oct 1686-11 Aug 1762).113 Born on 1 Apr 1718 in Bristol, RI.309 John died in Malden, MA, on 27 Dec 1800; he was 82.97 Occupation: cordwainer.

John and Dorothy “lived for a time in Providence, R.I., but moved to Boston, 1765, as shown by the Selectmen’s Records of 20 Feb., when Joseph Weld and Edmund Weld of Roxbury had given bonds of the last 26 Nov. to indemnify the Town Treasurer in case of any liability for the support of the family, which then consisted of ‘John Reynolds, his wife Dorothy, and five sons.’”113

Their children include:
26494 i. Samuel Reynolds (3 Apr 1754-)
26495 ii. Grindall Reynolds (12 Oct 1755-8 May 1847)
26496 iii. Benjamin Reynolds (17 Mar 1757-4 Dec 1842)
26497 iv. John Reynolds (3 Feb 1759-11 Jan 1848)
26498 v. Edward Reynolds (28 Mar 1761-2 Nov 1848)
26499 vi. William Reynolds (3 Jun 1763-1847)
26500 vii. Thomas Coping Reynolds

14515. Joseph Weld. Born on 30 Oct 1732 in Roxbury, MA.43 Joseph died in Roxbury, MA, on 27 Sep 1765; he was 32.43 Buried in Roxbury, MA GR1.

Joseph was a very active and prosperous manufacturer and dealer in the leather line. He was a member of the First Church 1 May 1757. On 20 Mar 1744/5 the precinct of Roxbury allowed him to ring the school bell on Sabbath days, and collect money from place to place, as people may give, to pay him for the same. In the settlement of his father’s estate, he sold his right in land to his brothers Samuel and Edmund, but bought from the other heirs the right to the ‘training field’ which his father claimed. The Town setting up a claim to the same lot, he finally bouth out its right for £73 6s 9d, except for a right of way about thwo rods wide for the benefit of the corner 8 may 1762. In 1757 he was one of a number of petitioners to the Rev. Amos Adams to introduce Tate and Brady’s Psalm Book into the church worship. He was a ‘Currier’ and died possessed of an estate of £1665 9s 9d, as shown by the inventory of 10 Jan 1766. he had a mansion hoouse, barn, work house, and other buildings, with five acres of land, mor or less, adjoining, besides the six acres of the training field, and a right of land in a new plantation called New Pomfret, called in one place ‘in New York Government,’ and in another ‘in Vermont State’; on which his executors paid taxes 5 Feb 1773 and Jun 1784.113

On 7 Apr 1757 when Joseph was 24, he married Mary Ruggles (32963) , daughter of Capt. John Ruggles (24092) (28 Feb 1705-Oct 1745) & Elizabeth Weld (35909) (28 Feb 1711/2-21 Jul 1740), in Boston, MA.113 Born on 21 Jan 1737/8 in Roxbury, MA.43 Mary died in 1811 in Ashford, CT.

Children of Samuel and Mary (Ruggles) (Weld) Sumner, born at Roxbury:
    i. Catherine Sumner, b. 10 May 1768;
    ii. Hannah Sumner, b. 14 Feb 1770’
    iii. Samuel Sumner, b. 13 Dec 1772; and
    iv. Elizabeth Sumner, b. ca. 1774.

Their children include:
26501 i. Sarah Ruggles Weld (28 Nov 1757-22 Mar 1830)
26502 ii. Joseph Weld (26 Jul 1760-perhaps 1837)
26503 iii. Mary Weld (13 Aug 1762-)
26504 iv. John Ruggles Weld (Died soon) (1765-1765)

14516. Edward Weld. Born on 5 Feb 1734 in Roxbury, MA.43 Edward died in Boston, MA, on 19 Feb 1809; he was 75.

In 1760 when Edward Weld sold out his right in the Roxbury trining field to his brother Joseph, he was said to be a ‘shopjoyner’ of Salem, but on 31 Jul 1755 he bought of Ann Oulton of Falmouth, Co. Cumberland, for £66 13s 4d, in company with Thomas Grant, goldsmith, a dwelling houne in marblehead, which they divided according to a plan filed 15 Jun 1767. In the 1770s he moved to Andover, MA. Later he was a prosperous and wealthy merchant of Boston.113

On 7 Apr 1757 when Edward was 23, he married Hannah Church (32788) , daughter of Benjamin Church (23641) (8 Oct 1704-) & Hannah Dyer, in Boston, MA.113 Born ca 1733 in Boston, MA. Hannah died on 14 Sep 1804 in Boston, MA.

Their children include:
26505 i. Benjamin Weld (22 Apr 1758-14 Mar 1839)
26506 ii. Edward Weld (Died young) (ca 1760-)
26507 iii. Hannah Weld (ca 1763-19 Sep 1842)
26508 iv. Giles Weld (ca 1765-bef 27 Feb 1809)
26509 v. Mary Weld (ca 1768-25 Apr 1825)
26510 vi. Hermione Weld (ca 1770-1807)
26511 vii. Elizabeth Weld

14517. Clemence Weld. Born ca 1736. Clemence died in Sep 1799 in Boston, MA.283

Clemence was under 14 years of age in 1748.113

On 25 Aug 1756 Clemence married Paul Spear (29122) , son of Joseph Spear (34176) (14 May 1701-22 May 1737) & Mary Collier (17866) (7 Mar 1703-bef Oct 1748), in Roxbury, MA.113 Born on 30 Jun 1733 in Hull, MA.283 Paul died in Oct 1792 in Boston, MA.283

Paul was a chairmaker in Boston in 1760.113

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