Wealthy Ann Gore Spalding Wealthy Ann Gore was born on Aug. 10, 1767, in Connecticut, possibly in Norwich , the second of five children of Obadiah Gore Jr. (1744-1821), whose portrait is in the North Room of this museum, and Anna Avery (1744-1829). Wealthy Ann came to Ulster township with her parents in 1783, when she was 16 years old. Wealthy Ann Gore married John Spalding on Oct. 1, 1783, in Sheshequin. Theirs was the first marriage of a white couple performed in Sheshequin