BiographyThomas Welles was born 14 February 1692. He was the son of Ruth Rice Welles and Samuel Welles. He married Martha Pitkin (1692-1763), the daughter of Chief Justice William Pitkin and Mary Stanley Pitkin, on 28 December 1715. They had at least one daughter, Mary Welles Hale (1735-1814). Thomas Welles died 14 May 1767.