Elizabeth (Merrill) Wells (1685 - 1770)

Born 13 Dec 1685 in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas (Welles) Wells — married 13 May 1720 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 24 Dec 1770 at age 85 in Hebron, Windham, Connecticut

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Biography

Elizabeth was born 13 December 1685 in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut.^[1][2] Her parents were Thomas Merrill and Elizabeth Roe.^[2]

Elizabeth married Thomas Welles [Wells in town records] in Saybrook 13 May 1720.^[1]

Elisabeth [sic.] died 24 December 1770 in Hebron, Windham County, age 84.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870" (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Volume: Saybrook, page 82. Subscription site.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The Families of Hugh Roe and William Dudley, by George McK. Roberts, Esq., in The American Genealogist (New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-). (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Volume 10 (1933), page 76. Subscription site.
3. ↑ The Barbour Collection, Volume: Hebron, page 149.

• *"Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)"
• "Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)"
• "Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934"
• "Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)"
• Note regarding birth date: The original birth date in this profile (and in other unsourced genealogies) was 24 December 1686, without a source. Since there are two sources, Saybrook town records, and the TAG article, for the 13 December 1685 date, that date has been used in this profile edit.
• Note: The TAG article contains the following in a footnote: "...Certain additional matter concerning the daughters Sarah and Elizabeth and their families has been furnished by the Editor-in-Chief." The editor-in-chief being, of course, Donald Lines Jacobus. I believe that adds credence to the information concerning Elizabeth which has been relied on here.

Research Note

1. The original profile contains the following, without citation, or explanation how it affects Elizabeth Merrill:

Marriage Settlement:

Date: 10 Jan 1694

Place: Saybrook, Middlesex, CT