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5 children
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Note H3279
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Benjamin & Theodora were admitted to church in 1812.
He is not found on the 1832 map of Braintree and probably lived elsewhere for a long period. In 1803 he sold his part of the father's homestead and in 1821 sold his right in the dower estate of his step mother, and in 1823 was involved in a court case in Boston concerning wharfage changes. (S.D.303-165,167)
2nd cousins once removed
4th cousins
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Note H3280
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
3 children
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Note H3281
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They were admitted to church Jul.17,1715 and he later was deacon and clerk of the parish.
No settlement of his estate is recorded as there was but one child who survived. He was a partner in the Land Bank Scheme of 1740.
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Note H3282
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Capt. Elisha Wales was a Revolutionary soldier, was a fifer in his company, and became a Capt. in 1787 when he marched to Northampton during Shay's Rebellion. Elisha Wales & wife joined the Randolph Church in 1791, and he was elected fenceviewer 1778, 1779, 1781, 1784, 1788, 1792, surveyor of highways 1779, collector of taxes on articles of consumption during the war, warden in 1780, 1784, 1788, 1791, assessor 1785, 1789, 1790, hogreave 1788, packer of beef & culler of fish 1791, 1792, and also was on several committees and held office probably in Randolph after the separation of the towns. He lived on his father's homestead on South St.
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He was very active in the Revolutionary War, serving at Bennington, West Point, Tarrytown, and was a pensioner in 1818. He sold his homestead lands in 1777 and in 1781 purchased a place on the then Braintree - Stoughton (now Randolph - Avon) town line. He sold this in 1783 to Caleb Howard but remained there as a tavern keeper. In 1789 he removed to Winchendon where he died.
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Note H3284
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died in 47th yr., gs. at Westhampton
He was a housewright according to deeds, and was master carpenter when the second church edifice was built at Randolph in 1764 according to Dr. Ebenezer Alden, the historian of the town.
In 1758 he was elected hogreave, in 1761 was licensed as an innholder and in 1763 was warden.
In 1767 Jonathan Wales and wife owned the covenant at church, but in 1770 they removed to that part of Northampton which was set off in 1778 as Westhampton.
He was a Revolutionary Soldier. He lived in Randolph on No. Main St. opposite the Ladies Library Association building.
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He was an innholder as shown by deeds, and was admitted to Braintree Church Jul.8,1753 and wife Ann in 1757. On a committee to build a school house in Middle Precinct 1763, and on several committees including the Committee of Correspondence and Committee of Safety 1776-9 during the Revolutionary War.
He died intestate, the division of his property going
to the widow who had her dower,
to Benjamin Wales,
to Anna wife of Asa Wild,
to Ann Field wife of Guilford Field,
to Nathaniel Wales who was to pay to Elkanah Wales,
to Achsah Hitchcock and
to Anna Wild.
He lived on the north side of Elm St. near Commercial St. as shown by the division of the estate, and also owned a farm at Williamsburgh which he evidently inherited at the death of his son Asaph in 1777, except for the widow's thirds of it.
The widow Anne Wales by will gave her step sons Benjamin & Nathaniel Wales $10 each "because I have conveyed to them the farm at Braintree bequeathed me by my brother Benjamin Waldo in his will", the remainder to my daughter Prudence Hunt, wife of Abijah Hunt of Williamsburgh & to my grand children Ann Field wife of Guilford Field of Braintree, Frederick Soper of Boston.
The Braintree records state "Elizabeth Wales, daughter of Nath'l & Elizabeth born Apr.22,1745". Nathaniel Wales had no wife Elizabeth and this entry may pertain to Elizabeth born Apr.22,1747, daughter of Nathaniel & wife Anna. Yet there was an Elizabeth Wales, who may possibly have been an illegitimate daughter, though not mentioned in his estate for Elizabeth Wales married Nov.26,1763, James Ludden. They had four children recorded at Braintree and then removed to Williamsburgh about 1771. Nathaniel Wales by wife Anna had a daughter Elizabeth who died young, and another Elizabeth who married and lived near him until her death before 1790 as shown by deeds.
It is highly uncertain who the Elizabeth was who married James Ludden. No other Nathaniel Wales was then of age to have been her father, nor does it seem likely that Capt. Nathaniel had a child by Elizabeth - after his marriage to Anna Wild and have both Elizabeths born on Apr.22 yet there seems no other solution to this problem.