When George Wells was born on 28 July 1802, in Grayson, Virginia, United States, his father, Barna Wells Jr., was 23 and his mother, Sarah Anne Bayles, was 28. He married Mary "Polly" Daniels on 24 September 1829, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Wise, Virginia, United States in 1860. He died in 1870, in Russell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 68.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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