This genealogy of the Some family comes from a four volume set of genealogy research compiled in the early 1900s to which has been added additional material and sources. Each generation is shown in parentheses ( ). Begin with one individual and continue that line through the furthest generation currently known before starting a new descendancy for the next sibling. This method keeps each family group intact, while presenting the families of siblings separately but under the same generational number.
This noted old English name was very early transplanted to America in the settlement of the New England colonies. It has been worthily identified with the settlement and development of New England and has spread to the remotest districts of the United States, where it has sustained the well known traits of New England character, and has contributed by its industry, perseverance and sound sense, to the upbuilding and moral worth of many communities.
(I) Roger Wellington, the emigrant ancestor, was born about 1610, in England, and came to America in 1630. He was a planter, and one of the founders of Watertown, Massachusetts, his name appearing on the earliest list of proprietors. In the division of lands he received a home stall of sixteen acres, four acres of meadow and two of plowland, and the balance distributed in five other parcels. To these he added lands and buildings by purchase. He was elected to town offices, and shared with his associates the duties and privileges of townsmen. He married Mary Palgrave, eldest daughter of Dr. Richard Palgrave, a physician of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Roger Wellington died March 11, 1698. His children were: John, Mary, Joseph, Benjamin, Oliver and Palgrave. Hon. Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and later a United States senator of Connecticut, was a grandson of Roger Wellington.
(II) Joseph Wellington, son of Roger and Mary (Palgrave) Wellington, was born October 9, 1643, in Watertown, and was a farmer of that town. His first wife Sarah died childless, February 5, 1683, and he was married (second), June 6, 1684, to Elizabeth Straight, daughter of Captain Thomas and Elizabeth (Kimball) Straight, of Watertown. Both were admitted to full communion with the Watertown church, July 31, 1687. He died July 30, 1714. Their children were: Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary and Susanna.
(III) Thomas Wellington, only son and second child of Joseph and Elizabeth (Straight) Wellington, was born November 10, 1686, in Watertown, and lived in that part of Cambridge which is now Arlington, Massachusetts. He was one of the prudential committee men in 1737, and a foundation member of the Precinct Church, of which Rev. Samuel Cook was pastor. He married (first), Rebecca Whittemore, who died November 6, 1734, and he married (second), in 1735, to Cherry Stone. He died July 3, 1759, and his widow subsequently married Captain James Lane, of Bedford. Thomas Wellington’s children were: Rebecca, Joseph, Thomas, Susanna and Elizabeth. Susanna married Abraham Hill and their son Isaac was a distinguished governor of New Hampshire.
(IV) Thomas Wellington (2), second son and third child of Thomas (1) and Rebecca (Whittemore) Wellington, was born August 6, 1714, in Cambridge, and was a farmer and inn holder. He lived in the part of Watertown which was incorporated as Waltham in 1738. He was married, March 13, 1734, to Margaret Stone, who was born September 15, 1718, daughter of Jonathan and Chary (Adams) Stone of Lexington. She survived him nearly seventeen years, dying September 7, 1800. He passed away November 4, 1783. Their children were: Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Jonathan, Susanna (died young), Samuel, Josiah, William, George, Rebecca, Susanna, Thaddeus, Sarah and Joel.
(V) George Wellington, seventh son and ninth child of Thomas (2) and Margaret (Stone) Wellington, was born October 21, 1749, in Waltham, and resided in that town and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and Cavendish, Vermont. He was a soldier in the Revolution, participating in the Concord fight, the siege of Boston and the battle of Bunker Hill, and was later in the Continental regiment. He was married in Waltham, December 24, 1772, to Lucy Peirce, who was born March 27, 1755, daughter of Ephraim and Lydia (White) Peirce. She died in Waltham, April 29, 1793, and in 1796 Mr. Wellington removed with his children to Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and thence to Cavendish, Vermont, in 1801. His children were: Ephraim; Lydia, married Richard Wicks of Royalton, Massachusetts; Lucy, married Deacon David Gilmore, of Jaffrey; Leonard; and John and George, who settled in Maine.
(VI) Captain Leonard Wellington, second son and fourth child of George and Lucy (Peirce) Wellington, was born 1780, in Waltham, Massachusetts, and baptized March 5 of that year. He grew up in his native town and settled in Rindge, New Hampshire, in 1803. He was a hatter by trade and established a hat shop in Rindge Center, in the wing of his house. He subsequently engaged in farming, in which he was successful. In the War of 1812 he was in command of a company serving at Portsmouth in the autumn of 1814. For many years he was an auctioneer, and conducted a majority of the local vendues. He was married, December 4, 1805, to Eunice Earle, who was born September 10, 1777, daughter of John and Rebecca (Page) Earle, of Rindge. She died in 1808 and he was married (second), September 6, 1809, to Dorcus Priest, who died August 3, 1817. He was married (third), January, 1818, to Lucinda Page, who was born January 26, 1790, in Rindge, daughter of Abijah and Mary (Sautel) Page. She died December 22, 1847, and he survived her a year and a half, dying May 22, 1849. There were two children by the first marriage, four by the second, and eight by the third, namely: Adeline L., born May 28, 1806, married Ira Lake of Rindge; Eunice E., born October 9, 1807 and died August 21 1820; Eliza G., born December 20, 1810, married her cousin, Addison Weeks, and they resided in Rindge for a few years; Leonard W., born February 5, 1812 and died September 9, 1813; Charles W., born 17 September 1813; Leonard P.; Gilman P.; Lucinda, born March 31, 1821, married Lyman Bennett of Rindge; George P., born September 19, 1823, married Gratia L. Howard of Royalston, Massachusetts, and settled in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he was a manufacturer; Mary Ann W., born August 8, 1825 and died, unmarried, November 8, 1846; Lucy G., born November 13, 1828, married June 24, 1851, Alfred Whittier, of Grafton, New Hampshire, they settled in Empire City, Minnesota; Joel; John, born September 3, 1833 and died in Lowell, Massachusetts, October 2, 1859; and Caroline, born October 12, 1836, and died January 14, 1850.
(VII) Leonard P. Wellington, born June 20, 1815; married May 15, 1850, Nancy Demary, daughter of James L. Demary, of Rindge, New Hampshire. She died April 18, 1859; and he married (2d) Nov. 1, 1863, Mrs. Mary A. Reynolds, widow of John I. Reynolds, and removed in 1865 to Maine. Three children: John F., born August 8, 1852; Nancy Mersylvia, born March 28, 1855; and Ida Maria, born August 6, 1858, who was adopted by Lyman Bennett and took the name of Bennett.
(VII) Gilman P. Wellington, born June 18, 1819; a farmer, residing upon the homestead; married September 11, 1849, Mary Ann Jones, daughter of Asia Jones of Rindge. Three children: Henry W., born November 6, 1850; Frank E., born May 27, 1852, married May 27, 1874, Ellen M. Weston, daughter of James A. and Elizabeth Weston; and Addie Flora, born May 24, 1865.
(VII) Joel Wellington, son of Captain Leonard Wellington and third son and sixth child of his third wife, Lucinda (Page) Wellington, was born July 7, 1831, in Rindge, and grew up in his native town, where he early began the manufacture of lumber in the village of East Rindge. In 1870, in connection with Colonel Otis Wright, of Nashua, he bought the box factory of Reuben Ramsdell and a productive area of timber land. They founded at this time the Union Box and Lumber Company, which has long been a successful institution of the town. In a few years Mr. Wellington purchased the interest of his partner, and continued the business thus auspiciously begun. He has ably conducted an important industry. His factory was burned in 1880 and again in 1891. With fortitude and courage he has erected new factories, and was the proprietor and active manager of this substantial industry until very recently, when he retired from business. He has been a useful and interested citizen in the conduct of town affairs, and was a selectman eight years, moderator six years, and representative of the town in 1873-74 and 1893. He married, November 30, 1854, Harriet Elizabeth Ramsdell, who was born March 16, 1837, a daughter of Amos and Harriet (Wright) Ramsdell, and a lineal descendant of Prudence (Cummings) Wright, whose defense of the bridge in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and the arrest of Leonard Whiting, the Tory, is one of the heroic exploits of the Revolution. Mrs. Wellington died November 1, 1902. She was the mother of three sons: Herbert D., Arthur J. and Elsworth. The youngest died in childhood.
(VIII) Herbert D. Wellington, eldest son of Joel and Harriet E. (Ramsdell) Wellington, was born in Rindge, September 18, 1856. He married, September 15, 1881, Harriet A. Wright, born April 1, 1862, daughter of Laban and Susan Adaline (Sawin) Wright of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He was supervisor, selectman and representative of Rindge, and removed, in 1899, from that town to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he now resides. Two of their three children died in infancy. Their daughter, Bertha Elizabeth, born June 16, 1884, graduated at the Fitchburg high school, class of 1902.
(VIII) Arthur James Wellington, second son of Joel and Harriet E. (Ramsdell) Wellington, was born February 28, 1860, in Rindge, and received his primary education in the public schools of his native town. He was subsequently a student at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts. At an early age he became the foreman in the factory of his father and for several years conducted a store owned by the Union Box & Lumber Company. Trained to the business of manufacturing, he easily and naturally assumed the management of the lumber trade and the manufacture of boxes when his father retired from the business, and he is now actively carrying forward this enterprise which was founded so long ago in the town. He is a man of excellent business capacity, has long been a member of the board of education, and has served as supervisor and postmaster at East Rindge since 1897. His energy and industry are indicated by the fact that he became foreman in the factory while yet a youth, and his easy transition from factory to store and vice versa. The business requires the employment of twenty-five hands and is flourishing under his charge. He attends the Congregational Church, and is a member of Monadnock Lodge No. 90, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of East Jaffrey, New Hampshire. In politics he has always been an ardent Republican. He is clerk and treasurer of the Mechanics Hall Association of East Rindge. He was married in Rindge, June 7, 1886, to Susan Elizabeth Lloyd, daughter of James and Agnes Wilson (McAdams) Lloyd. They are the parents of four children, all of whom are graduates or students of Cushing Academy—Ida Maud, the eldest, graduated in 1904; Alice Georgia in 1907; Beatrice Agnes is a member of the class of 1910; Ralph Arthur John is the youngest.
Source
Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, 4 vols., New York : Lewis Publishing Co., 1908.
Stearns, Ezra S., History of the town of Rindge, New Hampshire, from the date of the Rowley Canada or Massachusetts charter, to the present time, 1736-1874, with a genealogical register of the Rindge families, Boston, Press of G. H. Ellis, 1875.