Mehetable Stoddard Sumner (Welles)

On August 1, 1784, Mehetable Stoddard Sumner was born in Roxbury, the oldest child to Elizabeth Hyslop (1757-1810) and Increase Sumner (1746-1799). On August 1, 1815, she married Benjamin Welles (1781-1860) of Boston (Harvard class of 1800). They had three children: Elizabeth (1816-1849), Georgiana (1818-1879), and Benjamin Samuel (1823-1904). Mehetable Stoddard Sumner Welles died in Cambridge on February 26, 1826.