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Walter Raleigh

Male 1755 - 1803  (48 years)


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  • Name Walter Raleigh 
    Born 12 Aug 1755  Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 10 Dec 1803  Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Gilead Cemetery, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4461  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Mary Howell Wells,   b. 16 May 1748, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Oct 1799, Cambridge, Washington, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Married Sep 1776  Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2077  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The book "History of Washington County, New York," reprinted 1979 by Heart of the Lakes Publishing, Interlaken, NY, copy in public library of Cambridge Village, Washington Co., NY, pp. 256-257: Principal town officers since 1774:
      a. Walter Raleigh, 1785, collector.
      b. Daniel Wells, 1801, supervisor.

      2. FHL book 929.273 W462c "History and Genealogy of the Wells Family. Some Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Wells of Saybrook and Hebron, Connecticut, who had come from Dudley, Worcestershire, England in 1712. Supplementing: "The History and Genealogy of the Wells Family" by Philip L. Cobb, 1897"; compiled by John. L. Cobb, 1999, pp. 9-12:
      "Mary Howell Wells. Daughter of Edmund and Mary (HOWELL) W. of Hebron, CT and Cambridge, NY, b. 16 May 1745 [sic; author notes 16 May 1748 in another note], Hebron vi. rec.: 1:49, CT; she married Sept. 1776, Hebron, CT, to Esq. James Walter RALEIGH, ROLLO, ROWLEY, son of John and Mary (Phelps) R. of Hebron, CT, born there, 14 Aug. 1775 [sic; 1745?]; family resided in Hebron, CT and Cambridge, NY where she died 20 Oct. 1799: "in her 52nd yr.", and buried in the cemetery on the Turnpike south of Cambridge village, NY; Esq. RALEIGH m. 2nd 12 May 1800 at Cambridge, NY to Abigail Wells, dau. of Daniel and Hannah (LOTHROP) W. of Cambridge, NY, b. 18 Oct. 1780 at Cambridge; Esq. RALEIGH died 10 Dec. 1803, at Hebron, CT, and widow Abigail married 2nd, 2 Dec. 1805 by Rev. Chapman, Cambridge, NY (30 Nov., 1805, Dartmouth, MA: I.G.I.: MA: A456880 0749), to Paul CORNELL, 1759-1851, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (ALLEN) C., his 2nd marriage and they resided: Easton, and White Creek, NY (he had married 1st, July 1781, Schaghticoke, Rensselaer Co., NY to Elizabeth SOULE, dau. of Timothy S. of Dutchess Co., NY: see page 55-6; Esq. RALEIGH's children: [Lists 9 children b. 1779-?.]
      Refer: Notes: "Hist. Washington Co., NY," by A. Fitch (1809-1879): 474, 475, 806, 1285, 254:#3; I.G.I.: MA for CORNELL, NY State for Wells and CORNELL; U.S. Census indexes: NY State, 1800, 1850, 1860; "Barbour Indexes of CT Vital Records: East Haddam, CT probate district records for (RALEIGH), ROLLO, ROLO, ROWLEE, (ROWLEY); Hist.: Washington Co.. NY 1878: 66, 116, 253, 256, 461 (RALEIGH)."

      DEATH:
      1. The book "Abstracts of Wills of Washington County, New York: 1788-1825," by Gertrude A. Barber: "Edmund Wells of Cambridge, dated 7 Jan 1800, probated 1 Jul 1805. Mentions:
      Sons: John, Edmund, Daniel
      Children of my daughter Molly, wife of Walter Raleigh.
      Children of my daughter Sarah, wife of Joseph Peters, decd.
      Executors: sons Edmund, Daniel, Austin, brother Joseph.
      Witnesses: Lamhlin Wright, James Niles, Gerrit Wendell, signed 'X'."