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Subject: [GM-L] WELD - The Welds of Harvard Yard over the Centuries from John Weld b1625
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:45:10 EDT

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/issues/nd98/welds.html

Welds have been at Harvard almost since the first classroom opened its
door--and the family's genealogy goes back even further than that: one
William Weld was sheriff of London in 1352. Three centuries later, the first
of the family to attend Harvard, John Weld (born in 1625), found himself on
the other end of the constable's stick. In 1644, he and a classmate robbed
two houses of 11 pounds in money and 30 shillings' worth of gunpowder. When
found out, they were expelled from the College after having been whipped by
President Henry Dunster himself. John Weld returned to England, where he
became a minister in the bishopric of Durham.

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