Hannah Walbridge
Born at Stafford, Connecticut, in 1752, probably a daughter of Amos Walbridge, later major of the 2nd Connecticut, and his wife Margaret. In 1771 she married Israel Converse as his second wife and bore twelve children; she went with him to Randolph, Vermont, was widowed there in 1806, and died at Parkman, Ohio, in 1830. Probably the mother of Hannah (Converse) Cumins.
Life
- 1752Born11 Oct 1752, Stafford, Connecticut
Stafford town records, as given by Wallbridge. The DAR line and the Ancestry tree have 1751. To decide (to-decide.md, item 23).
- 1771Married Israel Converse27 Jun 1771, Stafford, Connecticut
Stafford town records, as given by Wallbridge; Kith and Kin has "1771, at Stafford."
- 1830
Family
- Father
- Amos Walbridgecompiledprobable
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)
- DAR Lineage Book, vol. 33 (1900), no. 32031: Mrs. Ella Persis Chapin Browne
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
- Mother
- Margaret Walbridgecompiledprobable
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)
- DAR Lineage Book, vol. 33 (1900), no. 32031: Mrs. Ella Persis Chapin Browne
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
- Spouse
- Israel Conversedocumentedproven
Sources
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Mother of Hannah (Converse) Cumins. The second of the six children of Amos Walbridge, later major of the 2nd Connecticut, and his wife Margaret, she was born at Stafford in October 1752 and married Israel Converse there on 27 June 1771, two years after the death of his first wife (source). Her first child, a son, died in January 1773 “aged about 8 months”; she bore twelve in all between 1772 and 1797, among them Hannah (1785), Porter (1778) and Orinda (1794).
She went with her husband to Randolph, Vermont, was widowed there in 1806, and died at Parkman, Ohio, on 17 Oct 1830 (source). Kith and Kin prints a portrait of her, captioned “Hannah Wallbridge Converse.” The Ancestry tree entered her under her married name, Hannah Converse.
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.
Open questions
- Her birth: 11 Oct 1752 (the Stafford town records) or 1751 (the DAR line and the Ancestry tree)?