WELCH Mary "Molly"^[1]

1745 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	WELCH Mary "Molly"
  Birth	13 May 1745	North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine]   [2]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	BE64AE737C31F8459F798FDFE5F7DDBD290B
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Lived with her father, and her father after giving 20 acres to his son Thomas and 20 acres to his son-in-law, Jeremiah Mason, gave the rest of the homestead to her in consideration of her kindness and care of him in sickness and old age. The last deed is dated and acknowledged Sept. 1, 1789; so her father must have died very soon after, or he would have been in the 1790 census as head of the family instead of his daughter. The farm she deeded to her son, Colby Welch, a minor, in 1793. In the 1790 census for Freeport she was called Molly Welch and was the head of the family. Evidently she had more than her fair share of human frailty - she never married, yet was the mother of two children. Her first child was Dorcas. By the Sessions Court records, volume 1, page 194, Mary Welch of North Yarmouth, accused Joshua Brown of Cape Elizabeth, mariner, of being the father of her female child born July 13, 1766. The case never came to trial. There were three Joshua Brown's living in the vicinity and one of them went to Machias, Maine soon after the above suit was brought. Her second child was Colby Welch. She named him Sampson Welch but when he grew older he called himself Colby Welch. So by his two names it is known that his father was Sampson Colby, a Revolutionary soldier, who lived in or near Yarmouth.
  Person ID	I32708	Old North Yarmouth, Maine
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2007

  
  

  Father	WELCH Benjamin,   b. Abt 1708, Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. Abt 1789/90, Freeport, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	[WELCH] Elizabeth   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1738  [3]
  Family ID	F9385	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	BROWN Joshua   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. WELCH Dorcas,   b. 13 Jul 1766, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] d. Abt 1851, Freeman, Hancock, Maine (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F9390	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2020

  
  

  Family 2	COLBY Sampson   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. WELCH Sampson "Colby",   b. 1774/5, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F9391	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2020

  
  

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  [S2335] Book-Welch and Allied Families, pp.89-90. [S2335] Book-Welch and Allied Families, p.89. [S2335] Book-Welch and Allied Families, p.88.