Seth Wetmore

1700 - 1778  (77 years)

• Name	Seth Wetmore  [1]
  Birth	18 Nov 1700	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Apr 1778	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [4]
  Alternate death	12 Apr 1778	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Burial	Washington Street Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [2]
  Person ID	I16088	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Izrahia Wetmore,   b. 8 Mar 1657, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. Abt 1743 (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Rachel Stow,   b. 13 Mar 1667, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 8 Jan 1722 (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1692	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F10066	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah Whitmore,   b. 11 Sep 1715   d. 1 May 1744 (Age 28 years)
  Children	+ 1. Seth Wetmore,   b. 9 Oct 1743   d. 15 Apr 1810, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F10065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Hannah Edwards,   b. 8 Feb 1713
  Family ID	F10080	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  He was a deputy to the General Court of Connecticut from Middletown from 1738 to 1771. He was also magistrate of Middletown and judge of the County Court of Hartford county. A stern man, he was known to put considerable energy into enforcing the Sabbath. He was a slaveowner. Wetmore Memorial, noting a family tradition that he eventually emancipated his slaves, shows that this was untrue. Slavery was abolished in Connecticut in 1784, six years after Judge Wetmore's death. His second and third wives were both named Hannah. Hannah Whitmore was a descended of Francis Whitmore, the immigrant to Cambridge whose family has been frequently confused with that of the Wetmores. His third wife, Hannah Edwards (d. 1744), was a daughter of JTS's ancestors the Rev. Timothy Edwards (1669-1758) and Esther Stoddard (1672-1770), thus a sister of JTS's 6X-great grandfather Jonathan "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Edwards and a great-aunt to Jonathan's grandson Aaron Burr. Wetmore Memorial says that the young Aaron Burr studied law under Judge Wetmore.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1127] The Descendants of Andrew Warner by Lucien C. Warner and Josephine Genung Nichols. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919. [S1700] Find a Grave page for Seth Wetmore. [S1692] "vanboerum2", 14 Aug 2008, post to WETMORE-L., year only. [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861. [S1558] The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle by George Frederick Tuttle. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle & Company, 1883., date only. [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861., date only. [S1558] The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle by George Frederick Tuttle. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle & Company, 1883., date only; says 13 May 1693. [S1528] Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore by L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest. The de Forest Publishing Company: New York, 1938.