Gurdon Welles

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family History: From The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, Volume 2, Part B, By Barbara Jean Mathews, CG, FASG, Welles Family Association, 2015, p. 839 - 844. 2958 vii. (Rev.) GURDON, b. 20 Jul 1773; d. 8Jun 1852, at age 78, in Oswego, Tioga Co., New York (Hale Death Notices, Hartford Courant, issue of 3Jul 1852, p. 1326, which notes he was from Glastonbury but died in Oswego); m. 25 Mar 1798 (Conn. Marriages 5:110; Glastonbury Buckingham Eastbury Church Records, slip index citing 2:88; NEHGR 1:398) POLLY (CLARKE) NICHOLSON, widow of Ambrose Nicholson, Jr. (his death at Genesee [New York] reported in a letter dated 2 Jan 1798 to Gideon Hale, Jr., Barbour citing Glastonbury Private Record), b. 15 Feb 1771, perhaps in Wethersfield, Connecticut (HH 797). He div. Polly 14 May 1819 on grounds of her adultery with Ichabod Goodrich (Conn. Divorces 11:27). Gurdon was a “wandering Methodist preacher” (Welles (1927) 10).