Rev Habijah Weld (1702-1782) - Find a Grave Memorial

Rev Habijah Weld

Birth

2 Sep 1702

Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Death

14 May 1782 (aged 79)

Burial

Newell Burying Ground

Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map

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Rev. Habijah Weld was born in Dunstable, Mass., Sept. 2, 1702; graduated at Cambridge University in 1723, and on Oct. 1, 1727 was ordained pastor of the first church and congregation in Attleborough, MA. He died May 14, 1782, in the eightieth year of his age, and the fifty-fifth of his ministry.
"Mr. Weld married Mary Fox, of Woburn, who died Jan. 7, 1799, in her ninety-third year, by whom he had fifteen children, four sons and eleven daughters, who were married as follows: Jonathan Philbrook, of Boston, to Dorothy Weld, Aug. 7, 1759; Rev. Oliver Noble, of Newburyport, to Lucy Weld, May 15, 1760 ; Dr. Cardee Parker, of Coventry, Conn., to Mary Weld, April 15, 1762 ; Caleb Fuller, of Windsor, county of Ware, Me., to Hannah Weld, Oct. 28, 1762; Rev. Ezra Weld to Anna Weld, Feb. 9, 1764; Rev. Oakes Shaw of Barnstable, to Elizabeth Weld, July 19, 1764; Rev. Timothy Alden, of Yarmouth, to Sarah Weld, Nov. 22, 1770 ; Eliphaz Day, of Attleborough, to Eunice Weld." Four children died young.
Source p. 530, includes his epitaph (see Inscription): "History of Bristol County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches ... ", edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd, 1883, Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
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Inscription

The Remains of the Rev. Habijah Weld,
M.A., late the faithful, worthy, and be-
loved Pastor of the first Church of Christ
in Attleborough. He was born Sept. 2, 1702.
He was ordained Oct. 1, 1727.
He died May 14, 1782, in the eightieth year
of his age and the fifty-fifth of his pastorate.
Farewell, vain world! as thou hast been to me,
Dust and a shadow, these I leave with thee;
The unseen vital substance I commit
To him that's Substance, Life, Light, Love to it