Ezekiel Wentworth

Abt 1649 - 1712  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Ezekiel Wentworth  [1]
  Born	Abt 1649	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1651	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire   [3, 4]
  Alternate death	Between Oct 1711 and May 1712  [5]
  Died	Between 30 Oct 1711 and 6 May 1712  [4]
  Alternate death	Abt 1712  [1, 3]
  Alternate death	1714	Salmon Falls, Rollinsford, New Hampshire   [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 ,   d. 15 Mar 1697, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Knight,   b. Abt 1626,   d. Aft 1678  (Age ~ 53 years)
  Married	Abt 1644  [2]
  Family ID	F4915	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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

  
  

• 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

  [S348] Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire ed. Ezra S. Stearns. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908. [S662] The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson, 1899-1986: Memoirs, and Bollenbach Genealogy by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2003. [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. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939. [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". [S348] Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire ed. Ezra S. Stearns. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908., says "1676".