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The Wetmore Family

of Charlotte County, New Brunswick.^[1]

Part II.

HE WETMORE family of America is descended from Thomas Whitmore, who came from the west of England to Boston, Mass., in 1635, being the eleventh year of the reign of Charles the First; and was among the early settlers in the Connecticut colony. He was born in England in 1615, and the first mention that is found of him in colonial archives is in the Wethersfield Town records, in 1639–40, as the owner of certain lands upon which he appears to have settled on arriving at the Connecticut river, and from which he subsequently removed to Hartford. He was thrice married, first to Sarah, daughter of John and Ann (Willocke) Hall, as has been previously stated ; second, to Mary, daughter of Richard Platt, of Milford, and widow of Luke Atconson (Atkinson?), January 3rd, 1667; third, Katharine Leet, widow of Mr. Robards, October 8th, 1673.

He had in all seventeen children, of whom three were by the first wife, one by the second, and thirteen by the third.

↑ [Since the publication of the first article of this series, the writer is in receipt of some additional information, and our readers would do well to note the following errata and correct their own copies of that article with pen and ink. Page 247, lines 11 and 12, read, "He beareth argent, on a chief azure; three martlets or. Crest—A Falcon, ppr." Page 248, line 30, read, "Of the last three generations mentioned above, two were Loyalists, namely, James and Josiah." Page 248, last line, read, "the former of whom died unmarried." Page 249, first line, read, "Josiah Wetmore was the ancestor of all the Wetmores of Charlotte County, N. B."—D. R. J.]

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[1] [Since the publication of the first article of this series, the writer is in receipt of some additional information, and our readers would do well to note the following errata and correct their own copies of that article with pen and ink. Page 247, lines 11 and 12, read, "He beareth argent, on a chief azure; three martlets or. Crest—A Falcon, ppr." Page 248, line 30, read, "Of the last three generations mentioned above, two were Loyalists, namely, James and Josiah." Page 248, last line, read, "the former of whom died unmarried." Page 249, first line, read, "Josiah Wetmore was the ancestor of all the Wetmores of Charlotte County, N. B."—D. R. J.]

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