Biles, George (b. )
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Morgan
Title: Appleton, Morgan, A History of the Family of Morgan (New York: n.p. [19
02?])
02?].Page: P. 185.
Given Name: George
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Morgan
Title: Appleton, Morgan, A History of the Family of Morgan (New York: n.p. [19
02?])
02?].Page: P. 185.
Given Name: Martha
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: PMHB
Title: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyPage: Vol. 26, pp. 58-70, 192-206, 348-359
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Dwelly
Title: Chart prepared by E. Dwelly for A. V. Phillips (In NYPL, Vertical FIle u
nder BIles)
nder BIles.
Given Name: William
Death: BEF 19 MAR 1710
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: PMHB
Title: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyPage: Vol. 26, pp. 58-70, 192-206, 348-359
Given Name: Johannah
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Given Name: Alexander
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: HSP
Title: Harleian Society PublicationsPage: Oxf. p, 168
Given Name: Agnes
Death: AFT 1450
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: HSP
Title: Harleian Society PublicationsPage: Oxf. p. 168.
Given Name: Joan
Death: 1470
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: HSP
Title: Harleian Society PublicationsPage: Oxf. p. 168.
Given Name: William
Death: 10 AUG 1481
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Wedgwood
Title: History of ParliamentPage: p. 482.
Given Name: Nicholas
Death: 4 SEP 1432
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Given Name: Isabel
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.
Given Name: Elizabeth
Death: OCT 1638 Roxbury, Massachusetts
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: Daniel
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: John
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: Edmund
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Note: Thomas Weld matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and earned an B.A. degree there in 1613/14. he earned an M.A. in 1618. He was ordained a deacon at Peterborough on Mar 1 1617/18 and a priest the following day. He served as vicar at Haverhill in Suffolk and then Terling in Essex.
His nonconformity to the teachings and practices of the Church of England attracted the attention of Archbishop Laud, who was determined to enforce orthodoxy, and on Nov 24 1631 the Court of High Commission deposed Weld from his pulpit "for his contumacy." He shortly set sail for Boston, arriving on Jun 5 1632. In July, he was appointed pastor of the Roxbury church and was joined there the following November by the Rev. John Eliot as teacher.
Weld was very active in the antinomian controversy and participated in the trials of the leaders of that heresy, including Mrs. Anne Hutchinson (See No. XXX). He was named overseer of Harvard in 1638, the year the university was founded. Together with John Eliot and Richard Mather, he prepared the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in English North America, in 1640.
In 1641 he was sent by the General Court to England to help raise money for the colony and, with others, succeeded in raising two thousand pounds the first year. To help, he and Hugh Peter edited and partly wrote New England's First Fruits, published in London in 1643. he was soon the colony's sole agent in England and succeeded in securing Harvard's first scholarship fund but was unable to prevent Roger Williams from gaining a patent for what became Rhode Island. He was dismissed as agent for Massachusetts on Oct 1 1645 because of this failure and several other disputes but was exonerated of any wrongdoing a few years later.
Weld was active in English politics at this time and plotted to exile Archbishop Laud to New England rather than have him executed. He visited the ousted Archbishop in the Tower in 1643, and upbraided him for having had him suspended from his church ten years earlier.
But Weld was quite as narrow-minded and intolerant as Laud. Made rector of St. Mary's, Gateshead, Durham, on Feb 1 1649/50, a few days after the execution of King Charles I, he supported the Commonwealth, wrote pamphlets denouncing Quakers and Anabaptists and uncovering "Jesuit plots." He excluded all but the "elect" from the sacraments and this alienated most of his parish. He resigned his pulpit shortly before the restoration of the Stuarts in 1660 and moved to London, where he died.
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: Thomas
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: Benjamin
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: James
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: Mary
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p.21
Given Name: Elizabeth
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
Note: Thomas Weld was a draper.
Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Weld
Title: Charles Frederick Robinson, Weld Collections (Ann Arbor, Michigan: priv
ately printed, 1938)
ately printed, 1938.Page: p 19
Given Name: Thomas
Death: 8 APR 1597
Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003
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