Identifier: annalsofkingscha22foot (find matches)
Title: Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Foote, Henry Wilder, 1838-1889 Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849-1922 Perkins, John Carroll, b. 1862 Warren, Winslow, 1838-1930
Subjects: King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) Puritans Congregationalism
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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), niarrietl ^^•illiam GordonWeld, of Roxbury (Jamaica Plain), andwas the mother of eleven children ; theyoungest, Sarah (1787-1869), whose por-trait by Trumbull is in the Boston ArtMuseum, married her kinsman StephenMinot, with whom she lived for someyears in Calcutta, where was born theironly child, Susan Inman. Francis(1746-1774), was of frail health, but ofthe finest and noblest personal traits,and was held by Dr. Freeman to havehad much to do witlr shajiing the char-acter and career of his younger brother.He died at the age of twenty-eight inMarlborough. Sarah (1749-17S6), theonly daughter, married Gilbert War-ner Speakman. George-Richards(1758-1S04), the youngest child, marriedMary S))eakman. Their children wereWilliam (1783-1873 : see below, p. 367),who married Louisa, sister of AdmiralCharles Henry Davis, and whose sons,George-Richards, William, aijd Francis,have been well-known Boston citizens of alater generation ; and Jane, wife of HenryDwight Sedgwick, Esq., of New York.
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