Seventh Generation

261. Prudence TALCOTT¹¹³ was born on 2 Dec 1757 in Glastenbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. She died on 20 Nov 1839 in Oswego, Oswego County, New York. She was buried on 20 Nov 1839 in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Prudence, daughter of Col. Elizur Talcott and Ruth Wright, was born in Glastenbury, Ct., Dec. 2 1757, married George Welles (b. Feb. 13, 1755), Feb. 13, 1780.
George Welles died in Athens, Pa., June 21, 1813. Prudence, widow of Georgr Welles, died at Owego, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1839, and was buried at Athens, Bradford Co., Pa.
George Welles, with threee brothers and one sister, were left without a father's guidance by an accident which happened to their parent, in throwing an axe, at a trial of strength, with some of his friends, he burst a blood vessel and died while yet a young man. He went through his collegiate course at a time when it took the price of an acre of land to buy a pair of shoes. Several years of his life he spent at the South, part of the time in a business connection with Richard Caton, son-in-law of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
In August, 1798, he brought his family from Connecticut to Athens, Pa., which was one of the oldest towns on the Susquehanna, where he lived until his death.
Quite an interesting scrap of family history is connected with George Welles grandmother, which is well worth preserving. She was Jerusha Pitkin, who was an English lady, who came to this country, either with or to visit her brother, Gov. Pitkin, but with the intention of returning to that country. The story is that the gentlemen of Hartford were unwilling to lose so excellent a lady from the colony, and held a meeting to devise some way of keeping her, two of them proposed for her hand, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Woodbridge, she accepted the former, was married to him; he died not long after, leaving her with a young daughter. This daughter, Jerusha Edwards, became the wife of John Welles, father of George Welles, above mentioned. The widow Jerusha (Pitkin) Edwards, was subsequently married to the Mr. Woodbridge, whom she had earlier refused in behalf of his rival. She was the ancestress of all the Woodbridges so plentiful about us. She was the mother of Rev. Wm. Woodbridge, the geographer, and the grandmother of Wm. Channing Woodbridge, who, about fifty years ago, was editor of a scientific magazine, and was considered, at the time, one of the most enlightened men in America. This grandmother Woodbridge, as she was always called, has been ever held in profound veneration by her descendants. Mrs. Mary H. Welles Pumpelly, one of her descendants, has kindly furnished this piece of family history, which is undoubtedly authentic.

Prudence TALCOTT and George WELLES were married on 13 Feb 1780 in Glastenbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. George WELLES was born on 13 Feb 1755 in Glastenbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. He died on 21 Jun 1813 in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Prudence TALCOTT and George WELLES had the following children:

+484	i.	Gen. Henry WELLES.
+485	ii.	Susan WELLES.
+486	iii.	Charles F. WELLES.
487	iv.	Clarisa WELLES was born in 1793 in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. She died in 1793 in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
488	v.	James M. WELLES was born on 17 Jun 1795 in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He died on 24 Oct 1817 in Harrisburg.114
+489	vi.	Mary H. WELLES.