Noah Wadhams Jr (1726 - 1806)

Born 17 May 1726 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Ingersoll) Wadhams — married 8 Nov 1758 in New Preston, Litchifeld county, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 22 May 1806 at age 80 in Plymouth, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Reverend Noah Wadhams Jr performed Patriotic Service in Connecticut in the American Revolution.

Noah Wadhams Jr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A119808.

Reverend Noah Wadhams was born at Middletown, Connecticut, a son of Noah Adams, born 1655, who was born at Wethersfield, lived successively at Middletown and Goshen, and there died in 1783. Reverend Noah Wadhams graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, studied theology at Yale and graduated in 1758, with the degree of Master of Arts. Noah married Elizabeth Ingersoll, of New Haven. ^{[1] [2]}

Reverend Noah Wadhams was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church, and settled as the first pastor of the New Preston Society, in the towns of New Milford and Washington, Connecticut, at its organization in 1757, and continued his pastoral relations to that society for eleven years. Reverend Wadhams great-grandson, Calvin Wadhams graduated at the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1854. He studied law and was admitted to the bar April 6, 1857. Calvin and his wife, Fanny D. Lynde erected Memorial Church, in Wilkes-Barré,, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. ^[3]

Marriages Per DAR Record

1. ELIZABETH INGERSOLL
2. DIANA ROSS

Researcher's Notes

Wilkes-Barré was a part of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Wyoming county was created on April 4, 1842, from part of Luzerne county and Wilkes-Barré is in present day Wyoming county.

Oscar Jewell Harvey, in his biography, states that Noah died at Plymouth, Pennsylvania on February 11, 1793. His Find A Grave gives his death as May 22, 1806. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ A history of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania : from its first beginnings ... by Oscar Jewell Harvey, Publshed by Wilkes-Barré : Raeder Press, Volume 5, page 310
2. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74Z-7BM : 11 February 2018), Noah Waddams, 17 May 1726; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown
3. ↑ Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Printed for the Society, Wilkes-Barré,, PA, 1886, pages 132-133
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #186161169

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• Hibbard, Augustine George. History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1897) Page 554