Joseph Weld, [Captain]/Elizabeth Shatswell (Wyse)

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Husband: Joseph Weld, [Captain](See notes at the bottom of this page.)   Born: 1598             at: Sudbury, Suffolk, England  
Married: 1620             at: Sudbury, Suffolk, England  
   Died: 7 Oct 1646       at: Rosbury, Mass  
 Father:Edmund Weld
 Mother:Amy Brewster Clark
        Other Spouses: Barbara Clapp  
NOTES  
   Wife: Elizabeth Shatswell (Wyse)
   Born: 1600             at: of Suffolk, England  
   Died: Oct 1638         at: Ipswich, Essex, Mass.  
 Father:John Shatswell
 Mother:Judith 
        Other Spouses: Anthony Stoddery  
CHILDREN
   Name: John Weld
   Born: 28 Oct 1623      at: Sudbury, Suffolk, England  
Married: 24 Dec 1647      at: Oxwich, Glamorgan, Wales  
   Died: 20 Sep 1691      at: Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts  
Spouses: Margaret Bowen  
   Name: Elizabeth Weld
   Born: 1625             at: Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng  
Married: 20 Mar 1641      at:   
   Died: 5 Feb 1716       at:   
Spouses: Edward Denison  
   Name: Mary Weld
   Born: 1627             at: of, Rowley, Mass.  
Married: 1648/1649        at: Rowley, Essex, Mass  
   Died: 5 Sep 1711       at: Middletown, Middlesex, Conn  
Spouses: Daniel Harris  
   Name: Hannah Weld
   Born: 1629             at: Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng  
Married:                  at:   
   Died: 7 Jul 1647       at:   
Spouses: Thomas Hooker  William Goodwin  
   Name: Thomas Weld
   Born: 1632             at: Sudbury, Suffolk, Eng  
Married:                  at:   
   Died: 9 Sep 1649       at:   
Spouses: 
   Name: Edmund Weld
   Born: 14 Jul 1636      at: Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma  
Married:                  at:   
   Died:                  at:   
Spouses: 
   Name: Denisson Weld
   Born: ABT 1638         at: , Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma  
Married:                  at:   
   Died:                  at:   
Spouses:

NOTES: From G. W. Vanderhoof --

Captain Joseph WELD b 7 Apr 1599 Sudbury Suffolk ENG; will dtd 2 Jun 1646, bur 7 Oct 1646 St. Eustice Burial Grounds Roxbury Suffolk MA, son of Edmund WELD & Amye BREWSTER, m (1) 11 Oct 1620 All Saint's Church Sudbury ENG Elizabeth WYSE/SHATSWELL b 1600 Ipswitch Suffolk ENG; d 16 Oct 1638 Roxbury Suffolk MA; dau John SHATSWELL & Judith CLAPP, m (2) 20 Apr 1639 Roxbury Suffolk MA Barbara CLAPP b 1614 Venn Ottery Sudbury Suffolk ENG; d 15 Feb 1655 Boston Suffolk MA; dau Nicholas CLAPP Sr. & Elizabeth, of Venn Ottery ENG.
Capt. Joseph arrived in Boston MA Jun 1632 in the William and Francis with his first wife, Elizabeth, and four children, leaving eldest son John in England. The family was among the early members of the First Church in Roxbury, of which his brother Thomas was later pastor.
Joseph was an aid to Gov. Winthrop and a deputy to the Massachusetts General Court. He was a "mercer" or cloth merchant, as his inventory shows. The store was granted a license granted to "draw wine," on 22 May 1639, an occupation of which he seems to have tired, for on 14 May, 1645, the General Court votes, "Richard Woody, Senior, is granted to drawe wine." Joseph combined his store business with the acquisition and management of a considerable farm. Capt. Joseph showed a quixotic sense of humor in naming properties, for instance, "The Wolftrapp" and "Squirrel's Delite."
Justin Winsor speaks of him among the prominent early inhabitants of Roxbury as "a wealthy merchant active in military affairs." He became a freeman 3 Mar, 1635. He was a selectman of Roxbury prior to 1643, deputy from Roxbury to General Court, and was a witness of Indian statement of submission to MA Govt, signed by Sacanonoco and Pumhorn, 22 June, 1643.
His military career began by his being recorded as "Ensigne" as early as Mar 1637/8. He was Captain of the Roxbury Training Band. As such, he was an original member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. "The Roxbury Company of Militia of which Joseph Weld was first captain was in 1636 included in the regiment of which Winthrop was Colonel and Dudley Lieut-Colonel. There were Roxbury men in the expedition under Stroughton against the Pequods in 1637." He served in other Indian warfare. He was "one of the leaders in every good movement for the benefit of Roxbury." When the "Free School" was founded in 1645 and a board of "Feofees" or trustees, were chosen to govern it, his name heads the list. Joseph Weld was one of first donors to Harvard College. Weld Hall and an addition to Harvard's library, the Weld collection, are named for him. He also founded Roxbury Latin School. His interest in education is further seen by the gift of a brief term scholarship for worthy but poor students in Harvard, as his will, quoted in "Weld Collections" shows.
When his last child was born, 2 Aug 1645, Eliot wrote the father being "now in great affliction by a soare on his tongue."
Will of "richest man in the colony," inventoried as 10,000 pounds sterling.
(Desc: B. Barbour, K. Beal, J. Bryant, R. Clinesmith, M. Daley, T. Goodwill, M. Gray, D. Hinman, John Kerry, P Miller, M. Olney, D. Reed, D. Rudgers, L. Sirois, Richard Turk, Vanderhoof, L. Webb, Roger Weld, Ted Weld, Wally Weld, Gov. Wm. Weld, B. Zierow)

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