Rachel Ween

• Name	Rachel Ween  [1, 2]
  Birth	of Norwich, New London, Connecticut   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I8278	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family	Joseph Bingham,   b. 14 Apr 1738, Norwich, New London, Connecticut
  Marriage	5 Jul 1759	Norwich, New London, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Jeremiah Bingham,   b. Abt 1761, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 1813 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F3113	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Her origins are the single puzzle that Teresa's maternal grandmother Barbara Allen Crandall most regretted never solving. The vital records of Norwich, Connecticut, recording her marriage to Joseph Bingham, clearly identify her as "Rachel Ween" and call her "of Norwich." No other individual with the surname "Ween" appears in any Connecticut vital records. This has led some to speculate that "Ween" was a typographical error for "Weed" and to identify her with the Rachel Weed who (according to the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington's Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families) was born 31 Aug 1737, a daughter of David Weed and Mary Weed who married one another in Stamford, Connecticut on 8 Nov 1733. But although this is attractive on chronological grounds, it is difficult to understand how a woman born of a couple in far-to-the-west Stamford would be referred to as "of Norwich", a town in the nearly-easternmost part of Connecticut. And furthermore, no daughter Rachel is mentioned in the will (9 Feb 1763 -- 17 Aug 1764) of David Weed. We are in possession of a "family group record" sheet based on research performed by Lea (James) O'Neal and Elaine Smart that asserts that Rachel Weed married Joseph Bingham and that she was indeed a daughter of the aforementioned David and Mary Weed. The sources given are the aforementioned Rev. Huntington, the vital records of Norwich, and the 1917-23 Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography, none of which actually say anything about the parentage of Joseph Bingham's wife. Also cited are "Records of Frederick Weed, 374 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass."

  
  

• Sources

  [S166] Vital Records of Norwich, Connecticut, 1659-1848, database at AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007. [S1297] The Bingham Family in the United States: The Descendants of Thomas Bingham of Connecticut by Donna Bingham Munger. New York: The Bingham Association, 1996. [S163] Genealogy of the Bingham Family in the United States, Especially of the State of Connecticut by Theodore Alfred Bingham. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1898. [S181] Ancestors of the Bingham Family of Utah by Lester S. Scoville and Vance M. Holland. Salt Lake City, 1963. [S1289] Early Vermont Settlers to 1784 by Scott Andrew Bartlet, lead genealogist. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.