When Varnum G Wells was born on 4 August 1782, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Capt. Thomas Wells, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Clarke, was 37. He married Sarah Davis on 7 November 1805, in Adams Township, Washington, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1820. He died on 16 October 1828, in Chauncey, Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Nye Cemetery, Chauncey, Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to become a state.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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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