DO NOT CONFUSE THIS ZACHARIAH WELLS WITH THE WISE COUNTY ZACHARIAH WELLS (Wells-13565)........
NOTE: I HAVE REMOVED ABIGAIL OSBORNE, as a wife. This Zachariah's wife is unknown, Abigail is the wife of Zachariah (Murray-2307)
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Children of this Zachariah Wells are as follows, dates are unknown. These were taken from court papers dated in the 1700's:
Abraham Wells, William Wells, Jacob Wells, Caty Wells Shipley (married Benjamin Shipley), Polly Wells Jones (married John Jones), Jeremiah Wells, Jesse Wells
Born about 1750. He was aged 80 when he applied for a pension in 1825. He had a wife, deceased, and children who were not mentioned by name, but were all adults in 1825.
Died after 1825 is frequently seen (true enough), but 5 Mar 1833, he was in Whitley County, Kentucky swearing that he was the same Zachariah Wells, in order to receive his pension through the Kentucky offfice. According to his final payment voucher, that payment was received the first quarter of 1833. Speculation is that he moved in with one of his children in Kentucky, and then died shortly.
Zachariah was captured while defending the Continental Army crossing into Valley Forge. The British General Cornwallis attacked the Continental Army on December 11th preventing them from crossing the Schuylkill River (known as the Battle of Matson's Ford). On December 12th, General Washington sent out scouting parties to keep track of Cornwallis's location. Zachariah must have been in one of these parties and was captured 15 miles from the rest of the Continental Army who were at Swede's Ford (present-day Norristown) on that day. The army reached Valley Forge on December 19th.[3] Perhaps his 5 months as a POW in Philadelphia saved his life from that hard winter in Valley Forge.
According to records found in the National Archives, Military Service Records Section, the following is the Pension Request filed and granted to Zachariah Wells while living in Sullivan County, TN on March 29, 1825, aged 80 years.
Zachariah Wells appears to have enlisted in Loudoun County, VA, July 28, 1776 and served in Capt. Henry Lee's Company, Col. Theodoria Bland's Regiment of Light Horse. He continued to serve until Capt. Lee was promoted to Col. of Calvary, he then served in Capt. Henry Peyton's Company of Col. Lee's Regiment. He was in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, at which time he was one of General Washington's Life Guard. He was taken prisoner, December 12, 1777, at "Fox Chase", about fifteen miles above Philadelphia. He was held prisoner for five months, when exchanged he returned to Col. Lee's Reg. He was also in the Battle of Bordentown and served in all two years and five months.
Zachariah was a blacksmith after his war service.
War Pension Statements[4] Index to Final Payments[5] Revolutionary War Pension Documents[6]
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Best regards. Douglas W. Fisher(Wells) [email address removed]
Evelyn McKelvey (Murray-2307)
That is correct. Here[1] is where my brother left it 13 years ago with essentially no sourcing. There is significant research on Mary "Granny" (Miller) Yates as the daughter of Zachariah T, but nothing sourced beyond that from my side. Evelyn is researching from William Mahal Wells M.D. (1824 - 1902) who is also a descendant of Zachariah T, so perhaps she has more of an idea of which Zachariah was his father?
"Granny Yates" was the sister of William Mahal Wells, M.D. and they were the children of Zachariah Wells-13565 and his wife was Abigail ........ Do Not confuse with Zachariah Wells-1602 Evelyn McKelvey (Murray-2307)
I am definitely descended from his son, Zachariah (1780 - 1870) and I authored the DNA section on this page. I do believe that the four siblings listed there do belong to the same Zachariah, though I have no citations other than the DNA triangulation from the group of 5th cousins. So I have no idea which Zachariah they would belong to.
Let me see if I can help you straighten out this profile. The first thing is to decide who this profile is Zachariah (1745-1833) or (1739-after 1825).
So that we're not working at cross purposes, I need to hear from each of you. Which of the two men is your ancestor? (1745-1833) or (1739-after 1825), or you don't know?
Leave a comment on the profile to let me know. I've temporarily added myself as a manager to facilitate communication.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.