Zachariah Wells (1739 - 1825)

Born 1739 in Baltimore, Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail Elizabeth (Osborne) Wells — married 1 Jan 1770 in Grayson, Virginia

Descendants

Died 15 Mar 1825 at about age 86 in Big Stone Gap, Wise, Virginia, United States

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Biography

• DO NOT CONFUSE THIS ZACHARIAH WELLS WITH OTHER ZACHARIAH WELLS. Wells-1602

• Zachariah Zachery Wells - Born 1739 at Baltimore, MD. Son of Col. Richard Tidley Wells, Sr. and Nancy Ann Brown.
• Married: Abigail Elizabeth Osborne on January 1, 1770 at Botetourt Parish, Grayson County, VA.
• Death: 15 March 1825 at Big Stone Gap, Lee County, VA
• Actual grave site is unknown; supposed to be in Wells Family Cemetery at Big Gap, Virginia. There are at least 3 or 4 sites in the area designated and all are overgrown and almost impossible to access.^[1]

• According to Sturgill's book, Zachariah arrived in the New River Valley from Maryland. He was an Indian Scout for about 10 days for this area.
• From 1778-1798 he was on Grayson County, VA tax lists, court and deed lists. His land was next to Old James Sturgill and then Francis Sr's land on the New River. In 1798, he sold the land to Francis, Sr. and moved to Wise County, VA near Appalachia.
• John Sturgill (Francis, Sr's son) and wife, Jemima (Zachariah's daughter) moved near his farm when they moved from NC to KY to VA in 1816.

These results are based on the 5.0 cM / 500 SNP threshold with the GEDMatch Multi Kit Analysis Tool^[2] Note: this is causing a 404 non working link error code, so removed the https prefix on 10 March, 2021. It probably no long works due to privacy changes at GEDMATCH.: Morrison-4392

Total Shared cM (Chr 1-22) with 3cM Threshold:

Notes

These notes need citations^{[citation needed]} and do they all belong to this Zachariah?

Property 1: May 24, 1810, Lee County, VA Personal Property Tax List. 1 tithables, 0 slaves over 12, 3 horses.

Property 2: Robert Wells and Elizabeth his wife conveyed two tracts of land, one to William Elkins...100 acres for $300...part of two tracts pat. to John Breckenridge and Zachariah Wells, Sr.... conditional line between Robert and Jacob Wells.

Property 3: Robert Wells and Elizabeth his wife to George Neithercut...land lying on the south side of Powell River at Three Forks...being part of a tract pat. to John Breckenridge and conveyed by him...100 acres for $200.

Property 4: May 03, 1799, Zachariah Wells is listed in the Deed Book A, page 315, as having paid $1,000 for 900 acres of land lying on both sides of Powell River in Lee County from Robert Preston of Washington County.^[3]

Property 5: March 25, 1806, Uriah Shepard and Elizabeth his wife to Zachariah Wells... 100 acres in Lee County...for $133.

Property 6: March 25, 1806, Uriah Shepard to Zacariah Wells...100 acres lying on the North fork of Powell River for forty pounds... .

Property 7: October 01, 1807, Zachariah Wells assignee of James Shepard 1000 acres, lying at the mouth of Looneys Creek in the Big Stone Gap. (entry Bk 1, pg. 165).

Property 8: April 21, 1814, 120 surveyed for Zachariah Wells Sr. Entry made December 18, 1812 assigned to him by John Preston -South side of Stone Mountain below Big Stone Gap..

Property 9: March 31, 1818, Zachariah Wells sold to Jacob Wells for $1.00...part of land granted by the Commonwealth 1 March 1791 to John Breckenridge and Robert Preston...to Zachariah Wells...150 acres.

Property 10: December 06, 1819, Zachariah Wells to Robert Wells, both of Lee County, VA a tract of land lying near Three Forks of Powell River...for $375.

Property 11: December 22, 1819, Zachariah Wells Sr. conveyed land, by deed from Robert Preston and Isaac Burkholder, dated March11, 1801...to Burkholder of Botetourt County...(DBK 4, pg. 35).

Property 12: June 17, 1826, Zachariah Wells, Sr. to Robert Wells both of Lee County, VA, for $100...land in Lee County near the three forks of Powell River granted to Zachariah Wells by patent date 30 December 1819...conditional line between Robert Wells and Jacob Wells.

Property 13: August 21, 1826, Zachariah Wells, Sen. to Jacob Wells...for $100...land lying on the North side of Powell River below three forks...125 acres granted to Zachariah Wells by the Commonwealth...60 acres part of a grant 1819.

• 1810 Lee County, Virginia Tax List.

Deed Book 5, page 438.

Deed Book 5, page 440.

Deed Book A, page 315.

Deed Book 2, page 239.

Deed Book 1, page 165.

Deed Book 4, page 13, page 13.

Deed Book 3, page 461.

Deed Book 4, page 35.

Deed Book 5, Deed Book 5, page 363.

Deed Book 5, page 381, page 381.

Name: Zachariah Wells. Given Name: Zachariah. Surname: Wells. ^{[4] [5]} Born 1745 Eastern, Giles, Virginia, United States. ^[5] Died 1825 Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia, USA. ^[5] Buried Wise County, Virginia, USA. ^[5]

DNA Confirmation

The group of 5 cousins in these tables are presumed to be 5th cousins to 5th cousins once removed through at least 4 different children of Zachariah Wells. Tim P is not sharing his tree information so his line of descent is not known. Laurena Duff is also a 5th cousin once removed, but she has not yet uploaded her DNA to GEDMatch.
The first table uses the standard of 5cM threshold. With relationships that are presumed to be known (especially with significant amounts of women in the link), using a 3cM threshold is of more value.^[6] Count of shared segments (Chr 1-22) with 5cM Threshold:

These results are based on the 3.0 cM / 300 SNP threshold with the GEDMatch Multi Kit Analysis Tool^[7] Note: this is causing a 404 non working link error code, so removed the https prefix on 10 March, 2021. It probably no long works due to privacy changes at GEDMATCH.: Morrison-4392

The second table shows a more reasonable distribution of cM segments between 5th, 5th once removed, and 7th cousins. It would be very interesting to see Laurena Duff's DNA represented in this chart because her father was a direct male descendant of Zachariah and therefore should have passed on longer segments of his DNA to her than any of these other cousins would have. Betty and Mel both have 3 women between them and Zachariah which fits with their resultant smaller shared DNA totals.
This information gives strong support to Margaret, William, Nancy and Zachariah T. all being children of the same Zachariah Wells. It also gives strong support that the same Zachariah has James and Thomas as his brothers thanks to Milton and Laurie. But at this point there are no common DNA strands of sufficient length shared by 3 or more of these cousins to provide DNA proof of relationship through Autosomal Trangulation.

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 08 June 2021), memorial page for Zachariah “Zachery” Wells (1739–1825), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #120573060, citing Wells Cemetery, Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Carole Conrad (contributor 46532185) .
2. ↑ //www.gedmatch.com/fcgi-bin/chr3D_2.fcgi?kit0=M488298&kit1=M084306&kit2=M113426&kit3=A026521&kit4=T222954&kit5=A203770&kit6=A232408&thresh=5&1=3D+Chr-Browse GEDMatch Multi Kit Analysis Tool, Ver: Mar 27 2017 18:41:59, Ran on 23 Jun 2017 ]
3. ↑ Summers, Lewis Preston. Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.p. 1339 Section: Bried of Deeds-Washington County Record of Deeds No. 1
4. ↑ Source: S909203091 Ancestry Record 1222 #601419892
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Source: S909199918 Ancestry Record 60525 #68355498
6. ↑ DNA Geek
7. ↑ //www.gedmatch.com/fcgi-bin/chr3D_2.fcgi?kit0=M488298&kit1=M084306&kit2=M113426&kit3=A026521&kit4=T222954&kit5=A203770&kit6=A232408&thresh=3&1=3D+Chr-Browse GEDMatch Multi Kit Analysis Tool, Ver: Mar 27 2017 18:41:59, Ran on 23 Jun 2017 ]

• Source: S909199918 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012 Provo, UT, USA Record Collection 60525

• Source: S909203091 Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1964 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc 2007 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 1222