Rev. Noah Wetmore

Noah married Submit Russell on 9 Jul 1761. Submit (daughter of Ithiel Russell and Jerusha Harrison) was born on 16 Apr 1735; died on 17 Aug 1798. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Noah Wetmore was born before 4 May 1767 in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut; was christened on 4 May 1767 in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut; died on 18 Jul 1848 in New York, New York.

Samuel married Hannah Hubbard on 21 Jun 1722. Hannah was born on 21 Jul 1700; died on 4 Jun 1794 in Winchester, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary Bacon on 13 Dec 1687 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel Bacon and Anna Miller) was born on 7 Apr 1664 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 24 May 1709 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have emigrated to Hartford from the west of England in 1635. He was an early settler of Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he is recorded as owning land in 1640. He was later among the first six settlers in Middletown in 1652, and was several times a deputy from that place to the Connecticut general court.

His surname was variously spelled Wetmore, Whetmore, Whitmore, Whittmore, Whightmore, Whiytmore, and Wetmer. It has been supposed on the basis of various associations that he was a son of the John Whitmore of Wethersfield and later Stamford, who was killed by a native American in 1648, but this is unproved.

Thomas married Sarah Hall on 11 Dec 1645 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of John Hall) died on 7 Dec 1664 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 7 Dec 1665

Notes:

He was not, as reported in some sources, a son or grandson of William Bacon of Stretton in Rutland county, England. He was, according to Donald Lines Jacobus (citation details below), a "nephew of Andrew Bacon, an original proprietor of Hartford, who married Elizabeth, widow of Timothy Stanley, and in 1660 moved to Hadley, Mass., where he died without issue, 4 Oct. 1669."

Nathaniel married Anna Miller about 1652. Anna (daughter of Thomas Miller and Isabel) was born about 1635; died on 6 Jul 1680 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Much contradictory material has been published about the John Hall who was the father of Sarah, wife of Thomas Wetmore. To our knowledge the best overview, sorting through various misconceptions, is the treatment of him in Moore and Allied Families (citation details below).

It is frequently claimed that his will of May 1673 said that he had been in New England for forty years, but no such statement actually appears in his will. He does describe himself as about 89 years old, thus 1584 serves as an approximate year of his birth. There is no evidence that he was, as claimed by Savage, the John Hall who was a freeman of the Bay Colony on 6 May 1635. Our John Hall definitely does appear in Hartford around 1639/40, at which time another, younger John Hall was already established there; subsequent records refer to our John Hall as "Sr." His wife is frequently given as Ann, daughter of John Wilcox/Willcocke, but it is probable that, as argued by William Henry Whitmore in the NEHGR, the younger John Hall, not our John Hall, was this Ann's husband. At any rate, this Ann, born around 1617, could not have been the mother of our John Hall's children, who were born between approximately 1619 and 1626. It is said, without proof, that our John Hall's wife was an Esther who died before he left England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 14 Aug 1680, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

Notes:

He was not a son of John and Mary (Pilston) Miller who married 21 Nov 1585 at Bishops Stortford.

Thomas married Isabel about 1633. Isabel died before 9 May 1666 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]