When David Wells was born on 31 January 1699, in Deerfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Wells Sr., was 43 and his mother, Sarah Strong, was 42. He died on 16 February 1699, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in United States.
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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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