Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Clemence Dorr (16927) & Edmund Weld (23913)
35415. Samuel Weld. Born on 14 Apr 1726 in Roxbury, MA.78 Samuel died in Roxbury, MA in 1773.54 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.54

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 1774.54
On 22 Jun 1749 when Samuel was 23, he married Hannah Rogers in Roxbury, MA.54 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.54
Their children include:
52256i.
Hannah Weld (3 Jun 1750-)
52257ii.
Thomas Weld (8 Oct 1751-)
52258iii.
Samuel Weld (18 Jun 1755-8 Jun 1826)
52259iv.
Edmund Weld (24 Feb 1757-)
52260v.
Joseph Weld (ca 1759-)
52261vi.
Mary Weld (ca 1761-)
52262vii.
Ezra Weld (21 Dec 1764-)
35416. Elizabeth Weld. Born on 30 Oct 1727 in Roxbury, MA.78
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.54 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:
52263i.
Gen. Ebenezer Stevens (12 Aug 1751-2 Sep 1823)
52264ii.
Benjamin Stevens (29 Mar 1753-aft 1793)
35417. Edmund Weld. Born 12 Jan 1728/9 in Roxbury, MA.78 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.54

Information about Edmund’s family supplied by Mr. Arthur Francis Weld of Glens Falls, NY, appears in the 1939 supplement to the Weld Collections.54According 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.54
On 15 Apr 1752 Edmund married Sarah Reynolds (36626) , daughter of Benjamin Reynolds (17672) (10 May 1686-4 Aug 1770) & Susannah Rawson (28838) (3 Oct 1686-11 Aug 1762), in Bristol, RI.412 Born in 1728 in Bristol, RI.420

Edmund Weld of Roxbury and Mrs. Sarah Reynolds of Bristol were married 15 Apr 1752 by Rev. John Burt.412

Sarah Weld was a member of the Freehold Presbyterian Church of Charlton in 1800, the first list of members of that church. The church was organized in 1786. There was also a Mary Weld on the same list.
Their children include:
52265i.
Edmund Grindell Weld (12 Oct 1753-bef 5 Apr 1796)
52266ii.
Anne Weld (Died unmarried) (1 Jan 1755/6-5 Dec 1832)
52267iii.
Sarah Weld (6 May 1757-)
52268iv.
Susannah Weld (Died young) (ca 1758-bef 1765)
52269v.
Clemence Weld (15 Oct 1760-)
52270vi.
Benjamin Weld (Died young) (ca 1762-29 Apr 1770)
52271vii.
John Weld (Died unmarried) (ca Sep 1763-11 Jan 1835)
52272viii.
Susannah Weld (6 Apr 1765-15 Dec 1845)
52273ix.
Dorothy Weld (9 Dec 1766-)
52274x.
Priscilla Weld (Died unmarried) (ca 1768-)
52275xi.
Benjamin Weld (Died unmarried) (ca 1770-)
52276xii.
Thomas Weld (15 Apr 1772-13 May 1835)
35418. Dorothy Weld. Born on 7 Apr 1730 in Roxbury, MA.78 Dorothy died on 30 Aug 1798; she was 68.420
On 5 May 1753 when Dorothy was 23, she married John Reynolds (36623) , son of Benjamin Reynolds (17672) (10 May 1686-4 Aug 1770) & Susannah Rawson (28838) (3 Oct 1686-11 Aug 1762).54 Born on 1 Apr 1718 in Bristol, RI.328 John died in Malden, MA, on 27 Dec 1800; he was 82.420 Occupation: cordwainer.

John first married Susanna Giles, second Dorothy Weld.

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.’”54
Their children include:
52277i.
Samuel Reynolds (Died unmarried) (3 Apr 1754-)
52278ii.
Grindall Reynolds (12 Oct 1755-8 May 1847)
52279iii.
Benjamin Reynolds (17 Mar 1757-4 Dec 1842)
52280iv.
John Reynolds (3 Feb 1759-11 Jan 1848)
52281v.
Edward Reynolds (28 Mar 1761-2 Nov 1848)
52282vi.
William Reynolds (3 Jun 1763-1847)
52283vii.
Thomas Coping Reynolds
35419. Joseph Weld. Born on 30 Oct 1732 in Roxbury, MA.78 Joseph died in Roxbury, MA, on 27 Sep 1765; he was 32.78 Buried in Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury. Lot: C337.

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 1784.54
On 7 Apr 1757 when Joseph was 24, he married Mary Ruggles (58679) , daughter of Capt. John Ruggles (47438) (28 Feb 1705-Oct 1745) & Elizabeth Weld (47726) (28 Feb 1711/2-21 Jul 1740), in Boston, MA.54 Born 21 Jan 1737/8 in Roxbury, MA.78 Mary died in Ashford, CT in 1811.17
Their children include:
52284i.
Sarah Ruggles Weld (28 Nov 1757-22 Mar 1830)
52285ii.
Joseph Weld (26 Jul 1760-perhaps 1837)
52286iii.
Mary Weld (13 Aug 1762-)
52287iv.
John Ruggles Weld (Died soon) (1765-1765)
35420. Edward Weld. Born on 5 Feb 1734 in Roxbury, MA.78 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.54
On 7 Apr 1757 when Edward was 23, he married Hannah Church (45229) , daughter of Benjamin Church (25940) (8 Oct 1704-10 Oct 1781) & Hannah Dyer (ca 1712-ca Mar 1794), in Boston, MA.54 Born ca 1733 in Boston, MA. Hannah died in Boston, MA on 14 Sep 1804.
Their children include:
52288i.
Benjamin Weld (22 Apr 1758-14 Mar 1839)
52289ii.
Edward Weld (Died young) (ca 1760-)
52290iii.
Hannah Weld (ca 1763-19 Sep 1842)
52291iv.
Giles Weld (ca 1765-bef 27 Feb 1809)
52292v.
Mary Weld (ca 1768-25 Apr 1825)
52293vi.
Hermione Weld (ca 1770-1807)
52294vii.
Elizabeth Weld
35421. Clemence Weld. Born ca 1736. Clemence died in Boston, MA in Sep 1799.318

Clemence was under 14 years of age in 1748.54
On 25 Aug 1756 Clemence married Paul Spear (32248) , son of Joseph Spear (14993) (14 May 1701-22 May 1737) & Mary Collier (21964) (7 Mar 1703-bef Oct 1748), in Roxbury, MA.54 Born on 30 Jun 1733 in Hull, MA.318 Paul died in Boston, MA in Oct 1792.318

Paul was a chairmaker in Boston in 1760.54 In 1789 he was an innholder on Purchase Street in Boston.
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