 Both these Welds were born in Hampton, Connecticut and both are the sons of Ludovicus Weld.Ludovicus Weld's son Theodore Dwight Weld was one of the most important abolitionists in American history, a colleague of John Quincy Adams, and a disciple of Charles Grandison Finney.Theodore Dwight Weld married civil rights advocate Angelina Emily Grimké who then became Angelina Emily Grimké Weld.