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Note: Both birth and death dates are from Illine's genealogy. Mercy West and Nathaniel Wales had the following four children b. of record at Windham, Conn.:i. Jerusha Wales, b. Nov. 27, 1717, d. at Windham on Feb. 7, 1794, Æ 77. She was thrice married. She m. 1) Ens. Eleazer Cary, Jr. at Windham on Jan. 29, 1735/6, s. of Capt. Eleazer Cary & Lydia Throop, b. at Bristol, Mass. (now R.I.) on Sept. 19, 1713 and d. at Windham on July 24, 1754, Æ 41. She m. 2) at Windham as his third wife on Jan. 19, 1758, Capt. James Lasell, s. of Thomas Lasell & Mary Allen, b. at Windham, Conn. on Jan. 23, 1703/4. The date of his death is not of record. She m. 3) at Windham on May 25, 1785 as his second wife, Jeremiah Welch, s. of Thomas Welch & Hannah Abbe, b. at Windham on Nov. 14, 1714 and died there on Sept. 17, 1790, Æ 76. Jerusha had eight children by her first husband and none by her other two husbands, but was step-mother to seventeen Lasell and Welch children. ii. Zerviah {q.v., Zurviah} Wales, b. Nov. 11, 1719, d. circa April 1797; m. on May 11, 1738 at Windham, Dea. Eleazer Fitch, s. of Ebenezer Fitch & Bridget Brown, b. on Mar. 18, 1719/20 purportedly at Windsor, Conn. and d. on May 2, 1800 purportedly at Windham, Conn.iii. Susanna Wales, b. Feb. 5, 1723/4 and died in her youth on Mar. 13, 1737/8, Æ 15.iv. Timothy Wales, b. Sept 6, 1725 and died as an infant on Dec. 19, 1728. MA Birth Record- Name: Nathaniell Wales Gender: Male Birth Date: 28 May 1694 Birthplace: MILTON,NORFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS Father's Name: Nathaniell Wales Mother's Name: Sushannah Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C50047-1 System Origin: Massachusetts-ODM Source Film Number: 873761 From "The Wales Family: A Genealogy" by Charles P. Wales "Called Deacon Nathaniel Wales, Esquire. In May 1730 he was commissioned Ensign of the first military companyof Windham. In Oct. 1740 he was promoted to Lieutenant. From 1750 he was often Justice of the Peace and of the Courts of Windham County. He was usually a member of the Connecticut Assembly from 1753 to 1778. With Col. Elderkin in Dec. 1755 he erected a factory to manufacture gunpowder on the Willimantic River. By May 1756 he reported to the assembly that 1000 pounds of powder had been produced." "On May 20, 1772 he was chosen a member of the Committee of Correspondence. He was a member of the Council or Committee of Safety from 1775 to 1777. In Sep. 1775 he was sent by the Council to Philadelphia to secure funds from the Continental Congress. In 1775 he was appointed by the Assembly a member of the Committee to wait upon the Provncial Congresses of New York and New Jersey - 'in order to procure intelligenceof the measure that might be adopted by them respecting the common cause of the British Colonies.'"
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