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Ezekiel Wentworth

Male Abt 1649 - 1712  (~ 62 years)


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  • Name Ezekiel Wentworth  [1
    Birth Abt 1649  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth Abt 1651  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Alternate death Between Oct 1711 and May 1712  [5
    Death Between 30 Oct 1711 and 6 May 1712  [4
    Alternate death Abt 1712  [1, 3
    Alternate death 1714  Salmon Falls, Rollinsford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I210  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2018 

    Father William Wentworth,   b. 15 Mar 1616, Alford, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Mar 1697, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Knight,   b. Abt 1626   d. Aft 1678 (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1644  [2
    Family ID F4915  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1650   d. Bef 9 Mar 1726 (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1669  Salmon Falls, Rollinsford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6, 7
    Children 
    +1. Tamsen Wentworth,   b. 1687, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Dec 1753, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F3617  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2016 

  • Notes 
    • Selectman of Dover, New Hampshire, 1702.

      Representative in the New Hampshire legislature, from Dover, 1711. "His descendants for six successive generations subsequent to himself have been in the New Hampshire legislature. [...] He married, in 1676 or before, Elizabeth _____, by whom he had seven children: Thomas, John, Paul, Benjamin, Gershom, Tamsen and Elizabeth." [Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, citation details below.]

      From The Wentworth Genealogy (citation details below):

      "The time of his death can be arrived at only by reference to the Journal of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, in the office of the Secretary of the State, which contains nothing prior to 9 May 1711. He was present as Representative of Dover (his colleagues being Capt. Nathaniel Hill and Stephen Jones) at the sessions of June and July, September and October, 1711. The House adjourned 30 October 1711, to 15 November 1711. He was not present at that session, nor at the one commencing in February 1712. The Journal of the House, 6 May 1712, reads thus:

      "'Upon the death of Mr. Ezekiel Wentworth, Capt. Timothy Gerrish was chosen Representative from the town of Dover, and this day appeared and was qualified.'

      "The following is also from the records:

      "'Memorandum. That Ezekiel Wentworth, Mr. Stephen Jones, and Capt. Nathaniel Hill had their debentures from October 23, 1710, to May 10, 1712. Capt. Hill, 73 days; Ezekiel Wentworth, 37 days; Mr. Jones, 25 days.'

      "These '37 days' were doubtless all before 30 October 1711, and so it is impossible to tell how long after that day, or how long before 6 May 1712, Ezekiel died."

  • Sources 
    1. [S348] Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire ed. Ezra S. Stearns. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908.

    2. [S662] The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson, 1899-1986: Memoirs, and Bollenbach Genealogy by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2003.

    3. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952.

    4. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878.

    5. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939.

    6. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952., says "before 27 Jun 1676".

    7. [S348] Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire ed. Ezra S. Stearns. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908., says "1676".