Elisha Wales


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Elisha Wales    

Born: 18 Mar 1727/8 Windham, Windham, CT

 

  Source: Barbour Collection says he was born 18 Mar 1728
Other sources list 10 Mar 1728
Married: 23 Apr 1747 Windham, Windham, CT

 

   
Died: 06 Apr 1788 Union, Tolland, CT    

FATHER

Ebenezer Wales

MOTHER

Esther Smith

WIFE

Mary Abbe
b. 10 Sep 1726 Windham, Windham, CT
d. 08 Jun 1841 West Arlington, Bennington, VT

CHILDREN

1. Nathan Wales b. 19 Aug 1750

2. Elisha Smith Wales b. 1752

3. Ebenezer Wales b. 1754

4. Chloe Wales b. 1758

5. Hannah Wales b. 1760

6. Frederick Wales b. 21 Nov 1762

7. Sarah Wales b Abt.1764

Source: Wade, Wales, Cashman, Ike, Cowen by Helen Wales   GenCircles  http://www.gencircles.com/users/hwales/1/data/1398

From The Wales Family: A Genealogy by Charles P. Wales
"He probably moved to Union with his father Ebenezer Wales.  About 1760 Elisha Wales and family moved to Ashford, a town adjoining Windham.  He was one of the patentees of the township of Norwich, VT, whose charter caused much controversy between New York and New Hampshire.  His brother Dr. Eleazer Wales was moderator, and brothers Seth and Solomon and their father Ebenezer Wales were also patentees.  The town was organized Aug. 21, 1761 at Mansfield.  It is doubtful if any of the family ever settled there even temporarily.  Family tradition says he served in the French and Indian Wars of 1745

"In 1763 he was commissioned Captain of the 12th Company 5th Regiment of Connecticut Colonial Forces.  When conditions between the colonies and Britain became strained by the Stamp Act and a tax on tea, he was one of the five appointed Dec. 14, 1769 to a committee in Ashford to correspond with other committees and to encourage manufacturing and industry.  He was also one of the three chosen to enforce the non-importation agreement in Ashford (a retaliation against the Stamp Act).  They were to see that merchants, shopkeepers and peddlers did not deal in anything imported.  In 1776 he represented Ashford in the General Assembly of Connecticut.  Shortly after this he moved back to Union, Ct."

 

 

 

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