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Note: Illine's genealogy has 20 Apr 1732 as birthdate. CT Birth Record- Name: Eleizer Wales Gender: Male Birth Date: 20 Apr 1732 Birthplace: WINDHAM TWP,WINDHAM,CONNETICUT Father's Name: Ebenezer Wales Mother's Name: Esther Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 7450374 System Origin: Connecticut-ODM From: Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History, by Frank Bowditch Dexter. Vol. II. May, 1745-May, 1763. Class of 1753, p. 317-318.Eleazar Wales, the fourth son and seventh child of Ebenezer and Esther (Smith) Wales, of Windham, Conn., was born in that town on Apr. 20, 1732, and baptized on the 30th of the same month by his pastor, Thomas Clap, afterwards Rector of the College. He was a grandson of Deacon Nathaniel and Susanna Wales, of Windham, and nephew of the Rev. Ebenezer Wales, who was graduated here in 1727. He appears to have studied medicine, and according to one account was practicing at Willington, Tolland County, Conn., in 1763. In May, 1765, however, being then of Mansfield, in Windham County, he was licensed to preach by the County Association of Ministers.In 1779 he was admitted to the (ad eundem) degree of Master of Arts at Dartmouth College. At this period of his life he lived at Hartford, and was prominent in civil affairs. From May, 1780 to 1785, or later he was a member of the Committee of the Pay Table of the State.He died at Chester, Mass., on Aug. 20, 1794, at the age of 62.The gravestone erected to his memory in the cemetery at Chester Center bears a Latin inscription, beginning "In Memoriam Eleaziri Wales, Curatoris Pacis," from which it may be inferred that he held the rank of a Justice of the Peace in the latter years of his life. His estate was inventoried at £335. He married, on December 4, 1757, Sarah Norton, by whom he had five daughters and three sons, of whom three daughters and two sons survived him. His widow died at Otisco, Onondaga County, New York on February 4, 1817, in her 76th year.
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