Thomas (Welles) Wells (1694 - 1760)

Born 10 Jan 1694 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Merrill) Wells — married 13 May 1720 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 4 Feb 1760 at age 66 in Hebron, Windham, Connecticut

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Biography

Thomas Welles was born to his parents Thomas Welles and Grace Wright in Dudley, Worcestershire, England on January 10, 1694.^[1]

Came to America A. D. 1712, and landed at Saybrook, Conn., whence he removed in the year 1725 to Gilead Parish, town of Hebron, Conn., where he purchased a small landed property, and died Feb. 4, 1760 (N. S.), aged 66 years.^[1]

He passed away in 1760.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Welles, Albert. History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy: With the Derivation from Their Progenitors of Some of the Descendants in the United States,. 1876. Print. Page 161.

• "Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)"
• "U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970"
• "History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy," by Albert Welles (1876)
• "The New York genealogical and biographical record," Volume 44, p. 337 "Edmund, Thomas and Joseph Wells were among the original proprietors of land in what is now Cambridge, Washington Co., N.Y. They were son of Capt. Thomas Wells from England, who first settled at Saybrook, Ct., but soon move to Hebron, Ct." goes on to say where lists of the children of the three sons can be found.
• "Indiana magazine of history," Volume 34
• Family Search Records