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THE WELLS FAMILY Compilers D. \V. NORRIS AND H. A. FELDMANN THE CRAMER-KRASSELT CO. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 1942 CONTENTS Page Introduction and Scope ......................... III Explanation of Numbering and Mechanics ........ IV Abbreviations . ..... V Bibliography and Key to Foot Notes ......... VI-XY Wells Family, Including Descendants of Daniel Wells .............................. 1 ... 59 Letter from Rufus King to Horace Greeley, Introducing Daniel Wells, Jr. 60 Biographical Sketches and Pictures: Daniel Wells, Jr. ... 61 Mrs. Charles W. Norris .......................65 Charles Wilkins Norris ....................... 67 Daniel Wells Norris ..........................69 Norris Family, Including Grandchildren of Greenleaf Dudley Norris ................. 255-264 Other Related Family Genealogies (Arranged Alphabetically) ..................71-377 Index of Names ...........................379-437 Ancestral Chart . Inside of back cover INTRODUCTION Two previous books on the Wells Family have been published, i.e., "The Genealogy of the Wells Family of Wells, Maine" by Charles K. Wells, published in 1874, and "The Genealogy of the Wells Family and Families Related'' by his daughter, Mrs. Gertrude W. Wells-Cushing (Mrs. William Tileston Cushing), published in 1902. The Wells line is largely a revision to bring Mrs. Cushing's book up-to-dace. The entire ancestry of D. W. Norris on the Norris side has been added. Each family includes the brothers and sisters of the person who married into the direct line of descent. The New England Historic Genealogical Society has been helpful in giving advice and loaning materials. No one from the Society has read the manuscript. All errors and omissions are those of the compilers. Send notice of omissions or corrections to the Wells Estate, Wells Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All notes and manu scripts used in the compilation are on file in the Wells Estate office. D. W. Norris H. A. Feldmann March 14, 1942 III EXPLANATION The number under the family name at the top of the page indicates where the record of the family can be found on the chart at the back of the book. WELLS FAMILY (#512 on Chart) Each individual is designated by a number indicating his or her place in the genealogy. The heavier number to the left marks the generation. The name of a child in capital letters means that person appears again as a parent on the page indicated, where further information is given. For example, quoting from page 5: 3 ii JOHN WELLS, b. abt. 1638. (See p. 6.) 3-means he is the third person in the Wells line. ii-means he is the second child born of his parents. On page 6 he appears as: 3 JOHN WELLS, b. abc. 1638; d. April 11, 1677; m. Sarah Littlefield of Wells, Me., abt. 1664 or 1665. She was b. November 16, 1649. She m. 2d, William Sayer of Wells, before Novem- ber 6, 1677. (See Littlefield Family #13, p. 234.) IV The large 2 indicates that he is of the second recorded generation, and 3 is his number in the Wells line. His wife is number 13 in the Littlefield line. She appears on page 234, and her ancestry is recorded on the pages just preceding page 234. A name printed in italics indicates chat the line of descent is through that person. Immediately after the full record of John \Vells and his wife is the record of their children under CHILDREN-THIRD GENERATION 10 i John Wells, b. 1670; d. 1748; m. Mary Peck, February 18, 1697. This John Wells not capitalized means there is no further record of him and his descendants since he is not in the direct line we are following. Unmarried persons, and chose who married but had no children, also appear only once. Each face in the genealogy is substantiated by a refer ence indicated by the f oocnote, key to which is contained in the bibliography. AaaREVIATioNs: b., born; hp., baptized; dau., daughter; d. in index, daughter; d. in text, died; g. s., gravestone; H. C., Harvard College; h., husband; int., publication of intention of marriage; m., married; p. or pp., page or pages; pub., publication of intention of marriage; s., son; v., volume; w., wife; wid., widow. V BIBLIOGRAPHY A1 - AMERICAN ANCESTRY, published by Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N. Y. A2 - AMERICAN MARRIAGE RECORDS BEFORE 1699, edited and com- piled by William Montgomery Clemens, Pompton Lakes, N. J., 1926. A3 - THE AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA, by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana, published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1876. B1 - BATCHELDER, BATCHELLER GENEALOGY, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Press of W. B. Conkey Company, 1898, Chicago, Ill. B2 - ANCESTORS OF CHARLES DANA BIGELOW AND HIS WIFE, by Charles Emerson Bigelow, Jessie Howe Beecher, and Eunice Ann Howe, published by Frederick H. Hitchcock, New York, N. Y., 1926. B3 - NINTH REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS, containing BOSTON births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1630-99 -City Document 130, City Printers, Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, Mass., 1883. 84 - TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON, containing BOSTON births from A. D. 1700 to A. D. 1800, City Printers, Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, Mass., 1894. City Document 43. B5 -TWENTY-EIGHTH REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON J containing BOSTON MARRIAGES from 1700 to 1751-City Document No. 150, Municipal Printing Office, Boston, Mass., 1898. B6 - BOSTON TRANSCRIPT, a former daily paper published by the Boston Transcript Company, Boston, Mass. B7 - BRACKETT GENEALOGY, by Herbert I. Brackett, published in 1907, Washington, D. C. VI BB - RECORDS OF THE TOWN OF BRAINTREE, 1640 to 1793, edited by Samuel A. Bates, printer Daniel H. Huxford, Randolph, Mass., 1886. B9 -HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER, IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, by Nahum Mitchell, Boston, 1840; republished by Edward Alden, 1897. B 1 o- VITAL RECORDS OF BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS to the year 1850, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1916. B11-A HISTORY OF THE TOWNS OF BRISTOL AND BREMEN in the State of Maine, including the Pemaquid Settlement, by John Johnston, LL.D., published by Joel Munsell, Albany, N. Y., 1873. B12- BULLARD AND ALLIED FAMILIES, by Edgar J. Bullard, De uoit, Mich., 1930. B13 - NECROLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY' reprinted in Union Advocate, October 7, 1863. C1 - HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 1630..-1877, Gen ealogical Register, by Lucius R. Paige, Riverside Press, Boston, Mass., 1877. C2 - THE GENEALOGIES AND ESTATES OF CHARLESTOWN, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachu setts, 1629-1818, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, published by David Clapp & Son, Boston, Mass., 1879. C3 - CHASE AND ALLIED FAMILIES, by the American Historical Society, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1930. C4 - THE DESCENDANTS OF AQ.UILA AND THOMAS CHASE, compiled by John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain, published 1928, Derry, N. H. C5 - CHURCHILL FAMILY IN AMERICA, compilers Gardner Asaph Churchill and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, associate com piler Rev. George M. Badge, published 1904. C6 - A GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM COLBY and ELIZABETH BLAISDELL: his Wife, by Harrison Colby, pub ... lished in 1895, Concord, N. H., printed by The Republi can Press Association. VII C7 - COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, edited by George Norbury Mackenzie, LL.B., The: Sea forth Press, Baltimore, Md. CB - GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, published by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, N. Y., 1911. C9 - GENEALOGY OF THE CONVERSE, WHEATON, EDMONDS AND COOLIDGE FAMILIES, by William G. Hill, Malden, Mass., 1887. C10- FAMILY RECORD OF JULIA NORRIS CONWAY, now in possession of her daughters Margaret and Dorothy Conway, Milwau kee, Wis. C11-HISTORY OF THE CUTTER FAMILY OF NEW ENGLAND, by Dr. Benjamin Cutter of Woburn, Mass., published by David Clapp & Son, Boston, Mass., 1871. 01 - DAGUERREOTYPE of Elizabeth (Sewall) Norris and Shepp~rd Haines Norris, now in possession of D. W. Norris, Mil waukee, Wis. 02 - TOWN OF DEDHAM VITAL STATISTICS 1635-1845, by Don Gleason Hill, Dedham, Mass., 1886. 03 -HISTORY OF THE DUDLEY FAMILY, by Dean Dudley, Wake field, Mass., 1886. D4 - THE DUDLEY GENEALOGIES AND FAMILY RECORDS, by Dean Dudley, Boston, Mass., 1848. 05 - THE HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN DWIGHT OF DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, by Benjamin W. Dwight, New York, N. Y., 1874; John F. Trow and Son, Printers and Bookbinders. Et - GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT, 1598-1905, prepared and published by Committee, Wilimena H. (Eliot) Emerson, Chairman, Ellsworth Eliot, M. D., George Edwin Eliot, Jr. (A New Edition, 1905. ) E2 -ESSEX COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Second Quarter, 189 5, published by Independent Printing Company, Ipswich, Mass. VIII £3 - HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE, SALEM, printed at Swasey's Job Office, 1865. E4 - HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF EXETER, N. H., by Charles H. Be:11, The Quarter-Millenial Year, 1888-Exete:r. F1 - A GENEALOGY OF THE FOLSOM FAMILY, 1615-1882, by Jacob Chapman, A. M., Concord, N. H., 1882. Repub lican Press Association. f 2 - INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES IN· FOREST HOME CEMETERY, Milwaukee:, Wis. F3 - A HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, by William Barry, published by James Munroe & Co., Boston, Mass., 1847. f4 - HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, 1640-1880, by J. H. Temple, published by The Town of Framingham, 1887. rl1 - I.?EACON SAMUEL HAl~""ES of Westbury, Wiltshire, England, and His Descendants in America, 1635-1901, compiled by Andrew Mack Haines, Genealogist and Thomas Van buren Haines, North Hampton, N. H., 1902. H2 - VITAL RECORDS OF THE TOWN OF HALIFAX, MASSACHUSETTS, to the end of the year 1849, by George Ernest Bowman, published by Massachusetts Society of May flower De scendants, Boston, Mass., 1905. H3 -THE HAMMATT PAPERS No. 2, Ipswich, 1881. H4 -- THE HAMMATT PAPERS No. 6, printed from MS in Public Library, The Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass., 1633- 1700, by Abraham Hammatt, 1894.