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Thomas Welles (
1598 –
January 14,
1660) is the only man in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary. In
1639, he was elected as the first
treasurer of the
Colony of Connecticut, and from 1640-1649 served as the colony's secretary. In this capacity, he transcribed the
Fundamental Orders into the official colony records on
January 14 1638 OS, (
January 24 1639)
NS.
Biography
Welles was born in Essex County,
England circa
1598 and married Alice Tomes soon after July 5,
1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. The couple had eight children and came to Boston in
1636. After his first wife's death, he married again about
1646 in
Wethersfield to Elizabeth, sister of
John Deming and widow of
Nathaniel Foote. Elizabeth had seven children by her previous marriage; there were no children from the second marriage.
The first appearance of Governor Thomas Welles's name in
Hartford was on March 28,
1637, according to the Connecticut Colonial Records. Welles came to
Hartford with Reverend
Thomas Hooker in June
1636. Some believe a copy of a grant in which he's named confirms this statement. He was chosen a magistrate of the
Colony of Connecticut in
1637, an office he held every successive year until his death in
1660, a period of twenty-two years. He was elected deputy governor in
1654, and governor of the Connecticut Colony in
1655, and in
1656 and
1657 was deputy governor to
John Winthrop, Jr.; in
1658 governor, and in
1659 deputy governor, which position he held at his death on January 14, 1660.
Welles' eldest son, John, settled in
Stratford in
1645, serving as a magistrate and a probate judge there before his death in
1659. Another son, Thomas, settled in Hartford; his daughter Rebecca married Captain James Judson and settled in Stratford in
1680. James and Rebecca's son David, also a Captain, built the
Captain David Judson House, located on the same spot where his great grandfather William had built his first house, made of stone, in
1639. Welles' other son, Samuel, became a Captain and settled in Wethersfield. Samuel's daughter Sarah married
Ephraim Hawley of Stratford and settled in what is now Trumbull in
1683.
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