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Feb. 5, 1683. He married (second) June 6,
1684, Elizabeth Straight, who bore him four
children, Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary and Susanna.
(III) Thomas Wellington, son of Joseph,
born Nov. 10, 1686, married Rebecca Whitteraore
for his first wife, and a Chary for his
second. In his will he styles himself "of Cam-
bridge." His children were: Rebecca, Joseph,
Thomas, Susanna and Elizabeth.
(IV) Thomas Wellington (2), son of Thom-
as, born Aug. 6, 1714, was an innholder at
Watertown in 1770-71. He is given as of
Waltham. He died Nov. 4, 1783. His wife,
Marg-aret Stone, died at Lexington. Their
children were : Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Susanna,
Jonathan, Samuel, Josiah, William,
George, Rebecca, Susanna, Thaddeus, Sarah
1774; Polly, born April 16, 1776, who married
Phineas Lawrence, of Lexington, and died June
9, 1850; Isaac, born in 1778, who was a senior
at Harvard University when drowned in Fresh
Pond in November, 1798 ; Charles, born Feb.
20, 1780; Alice, born Oct.' 31, 1781, who married
Jonas Clarke, of Walthaiii; Betsey, born
Feb. 4, 1784, who married Isaac Childs, and
died at Lexington Oct. 10, 1850; Seth, born
Nov. 18, 1785; Sybil, born Sept. 24, 1787, who
married Loring Pierce ; Marshall, born Sept.
26, 1789; Darius, born Jan. 14, 1794; and
Almira, born Aug. 1, 1795, who married Hon.
Francis Bowman, and died Aug. 31, 1872.
(VI) Charles Wellington, son of William,
born Feb. 20, 1780, at Waltham, Mass., graduated
from Harvard University in 1802 with
the degree of A. B. Choosing the ministry
as his calling he pursued his divinity course
at Harvard, and received the desree of D. D.
from that institution. In 1804 he was made
pastor of the church at Templeton, over which
he remained fifty years. He died Aug. 3, 1861.
His wife, Anna Smith, whom he married June
29, 1807, was born Aug. 29, 1783, at Halifax,
N. S., daughter of Henry Smith, of Boston
(born Aug. 7. 1735, died April 8, 1811), and
his wife Elizabeth Draven. The pioneer pro-
genitor of the Smith family in America was
William Smith, born Nov. 6, 1675, in Newton,
near Hingham ferries, Northampton, England ;
he married Martha Turnstall, of Putney. Mrs.
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Anna (Smith) Wellington died April 24, 1830.
Mr. Wellington married (second) July 27,
1831, Adelaide Russell, of Templeton. His
children were : Elizabeth Smith, born July 12,
1808, married Leander Leland, of Templeton,
and died Sept. 23, 1882; Mary Whitney, born
Dec. 30, 1810, married Jacob Batchelder, of
Lynn, and died Dec. 31, 1889; Rebecca Smith,
born April 5, 1812, married June 19, 1834,
Artemas Z. Brown, M. D., of Phillipston, and
died June 16, 1867; William Henry, born Jan.
16, 1814, married Susan Gilpatrick, and died
at St. Louis Oct. 12, 1843; Anna, born June 9,^
1816, married Joseph C. Batchelder, M. D.,
and died Sept. 2, 1905; James Lloyd was born
Jan. 27, 1818; Almira, born Dec. 28, 1819,
married Joseph C. Baldwin, and died at Phil-
and Joel.
(V) William Wellington, son of Thomas
(2), born July 28, 1746, was selectman in
1780-1803. He married Mary Whitney, born
Dec. 22, 1751, and they reared a large family
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of children, namely: William, born Dec. 11,
1769; David, born Nov. 1, 1771, who died
March 10, 1860; Abraham, born March 22,
in January, 1872; Margaret Coffin,
born Dec. 10, 1821, married Leonard Stone,
and died in February, 1893; Charles Woodward
Wilder, born May 17, 1825, married
Eunice Allen Starr, of Deerfield, and died at
Hyde Park, Aug. 3, 1880; Adelaide, born June
30, 1832, died Feb. 26, 1855.
(VII) James Lloyd Wellington, Swansea's
faithful physician and honored citizen, obtained
his education at New Salem Academy, Templeton
high school, and Harvard University, re-
ceiving his degree of A. B. from the latter institution
in 1838. He bears the distinction of
being the second oldest surviving graduate of
that university. His was the class noted for
the number of men who afterward became famous,
including James Russell Lowell, William
Wetmore Story, Dr. George B. Loring
and Gen. Charles Devens (at one time secretary
of state). He was in college at the same
time as the late Rev. Dr. Edward Everett
Hale, and was a classmate of his brother,
Nathan Hale. His freshman year in college he
occupied a Yard room on the first floor of Hollis
Hall, on the left-hand side of the front
entrance; his sophomore year the southwest
corner room of the same dormitory ; in his
junior year the northwest corner of the same
floor. His senior year found him living on
the third floor, west side of the east entrance
of Holworthy Hall, in which in those days
only seniors were allowed to room. During
his college course the Doctor was elected a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society for
his rank in bis studies. For diligence in hi&
studies he was given a "detur," two volumes
of Burns's poems. At one of the annual class
exhibitions he read an original Latin oration,
and at another a Latin translation, and he took
a prominent part in the commencement exercises
of his class. While he was a junior he