When Samuel Wells was born on 4 September 1805, in Vermont, United States, his father, Samuel Wells Jr, was 38 and his mother, Silvia Allis, was 37. He married Luceria West about 1826, in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 11 April 1891, in Cranesville, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Cranesville, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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