At 08:31 AM 1/22/2003 -0800, Patricia Straube wrote:
Our preliminary research indicates that he may be a descendant of John
Boyd Wells who married Margaret Hawkins. (The trail of evidence is too
long for this post but I can email it to anyone who is interested.)
Post it in pieces. I think having the information available to search in
the archives would be worthwhile.
Though Orin has been in contact with descendants of this man, none
participated in the DNA Project.
I am not sure I have had contact with descendants. I have had contact with
some Wells families from Jefferson Co., IN, but I do not recall any of them
claiming John Boyd Wells as an ancestor. I could be wrong.
According to Mary Ann Wells Nay, Daughter of Samuel (1799)...Four
brothers, John, Samuel, William, and Thomas came from Scotland and
settled in Hagerstown, Pa. (now Maryland}.
And it might be worthwhile for Raymond to concentrate on this area to see
what he can find.
John and one brother, believed to be William left Pa. over the
mountains
and down the Ohio River on a raft to Ohio territory.
My. Does this sound familiar to any of the Aaron Wells family?
Marriage 1 Margaret HAWKINS b: 1772 in Maryland
1850 census shows the following for a Margaret Wells who surely is the same
(although the date is not in agreement)
Graham, Jefferson Co., IN - page 486, dwelling 259, family 267
John Phillips 61 b: NC
Sarah Phillips 45 b: OH (matches the daughter listed below but born in Ohio
which makes sense if the description of the migration is correct)
Wesley Phillips 19 b: IN
Allen Phillips 16 b: IN
Margaret Phillips 12 b: IN
Dilia Phillips 10 b: IN
Caroline Phillips 02 b: IN
Margaret Wells 70 b: IN
Married: WFT Est. 1788-1818 1
Children
Elizabeth WELLS b: WFT Est. 1791-1845 in Hamilton Co. Ind
William WELLS b: 20 FEB 1789 in Pa.
Levi WELLS b: 15 OCT 1792 in Pa.
Samuel WELLS b: 11 NOV 1799 in Fayette Co, Pa.
John WELLS , Jr. b: 1800 in Maryland
Lemuel WELLS b: 9 SEP 1801 in Kentucky
Sarah Sally WELLS b: 1805 in Hamilton Co. Ind
Mary WELLS b: 1807 in Hamilton Co. Ind
Laurana WELLS b: 12 FEB 1813 in Hamilton Co. Ind
Also in Jefferson Co., IN
Graham - Dwelling 256, Family 264
William Wells 62 b: PA
Nancy Wells 59 b: KY
Graham - Dwelling 264, family 272
Samuel Wells 50 b: PA
Elizabeth Wells 50 b: PA
Phebe Wells 27 b: IN
John Wells 22 b: IN
Grunswell Wells 18 b: IN
Mary A. Wells 14 b: IN
Eli Wells 11 b: IN
Graham - Dwelling 291, Family - 299
John Wells 50 b: MD
Elizabeth Wells 30 b: KY
Joseph Wells 20 b: IN
John W. Wells 19 b: IN
Francis Wells 17 b: IN
Sarah M. Wells 16 b: IN
Mary M. Wells 13 b: IN
Simeon R. Wells 11 b: IN
George W. Wells 09 b: IN
Mary M. Wells 04 b: IN
The George W. Wells here may be Raymond's ancestor. The second Mary M.
Wells is curious. Why would they name two children Mary M.? Possibly Mary
is a granddaughter, but who are the parents?
The following may not be the correct Lemuel Wells, but he is the only one
in the 1850 census who is near the right age according to the above list of
alleged children of John Boyd Wells.
Montgomery, Jennings Co., IN
Lemuel Wells 45 b: KY
Polly Wells 42 b: ME
Sarah J. Wells 25 b: IN
Mary A. Wells 23 b: IN
Dudley Wells 21 b: IN
Irena Wells 19 b: IN
Maritt Wells 17 b: IN (male)
Martin Wells 15 b: IN
Eliza Wells 11 b: IN
Abraham Wells 09 b: IN
John Wells 06 b: IN
Margaret Wells 04 b: IN
Green-District 137, Parke Co., IN
William Wells 57 b: PA
Patient Wells 54 b: MA
Jane Wells 16 b: IN
Levi Wells 12 b: IN
Someone should attempt to contact this Dean Weasner to see if he has any
additional information and what his source was for the names and birth
locations for the children of John Boyd Wells and Margaret Hawkins.
As you can see, there is a mish-mash of places of birth given for the
children but the migration pattern seems to be Maryland to Fayette Co., PA
to Kentucky to Ohio to Indiana.
And that makes me wonder if the family was not "assembled" from census
records because they lived near each other. I presume given the dates
assigned that there may have been another source.
I checked the 1880 census for these children of John Boyd Wells and
Margaret Hawkins. The only one I could find was Samuel still living in Graham.
Samuel Wells 80 b: PA - parents born PA and PA (where did Scotland get off
to? MD became PA for Margaret?)
Phoebe Hutcison 57 b: IN (daughter)
Unless Samuel did not know his father was from Scotland OR his daughter did
not know her grandfather was from Scotland, this sort of puts the Scotland
connection in doubt.
There are certainly quite a number of male offspring for the several
brothers which may have resulted in descendents for the DNA testing if we
could find some.
Orin R. Wells
Wells Family Research Association
P. O. Box 5427
Kent, Washington 98064-5427
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