Amos Walbridge
Ensign of the Stafford train band, Connecticut, from 1737. Born at Preston in 1693, probably the son of Henry Wallbridge and Anna Amos, he married Theodia Porter of Hadley in 1719, lived at Norwich and Canterbury, and in 1735 bought land at Stafford, where he died in 1788, a few weeks short of ninety-five. Probably the father of Maj. Amos Walbridge.
Life
- 1693Born9 Apr 1693, Preston, Connecticut
Preston town records, as given by Wallbridge.
documentedprobableSources
- William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, Who Married Anna Amos, December 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn. (Litchfield, Conn., 1898)
- W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
- American Monthly Magazine (Daughters of the American Revolution), vol. 22, no. 4 (April 1903): Genealogical Notes and Queries, answers signed "E. P. C. B."
- 1719
- 1788Died27 Feb 1788, Stafford, Connecticut
Stafford town records; the church records have "Feb. 27, 1788 Ensign Ames Wallbridge d. aged 97 years," an error for 94.
Family
- Father
- Henry Wallbridge
"HENRY WALLBRIDGE, b. in Dorchester, Eng.; m., 25th December, 1688, in Preston, Connecticut, Anna Amos" (Kith and Kin). A grandson's diary says "Great grandfather Walbridge a native of Ireland settled in Norwich, Conn." Not researched further.
- Mother
- Anna Amos
Married Henry Wallbridge at Preston, 25 Dec 1688. Not researched further.
- Spouse
- Theodia Portercompiledprobable
Sources
- William Gedney Wallbridge, Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, Who Married Anna Amos, December 25th, 1688, at Preston, Conn. (Litchfield, Conn., 1898)
- W. M. Dixon, Kith and Kin: Dixon and Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1922)
- Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood (Springfield, 1905)
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Father of Maj. Amos Walbridge. The second son of Henry Wallbridge and Anna Amos of Preston, he married in 1719 Theodia Porter of Hadley, and they lived first at Norwich, where the church baptized their first daughter in 1722 (the record calls his wife “Deborah,” an error the genealogy notes) and where in 1724 they were admitted to the Newent (Lisbon) church. In 1729 they sold their Norwich land, and after some years at Canterbury, Amos, “Senr., recorded as of Canterbury,” bought land at Stafford in 1735: two fifty-acre lots for £500 and a house and forty-five acres for £240. On 13 Oct 1737 the Connecticut Assembly “do establish and confirm Mr. Amos Wallbridge to be Ensign of the co. or train band in the town of Stafford,” and he was still “Ensign Ames Wallbridge” in the church records when he died (source).
Theodia died of smallpox in December 1760. He lived on to 27 Feb 1788, a few weeks short of ninety-five, and his son Amos, the Major, outlived him by only five years. Their children were Deborah (1722), Theodia (1725, died an infant), Amos (1727), William (1730), Theodia (1733, Mrs. James Blodgett), two Henrys (1735, died young, and 1738) and Abigail (1741) (source).
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.