Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Wells was born in 1765, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Wells, was 37 and her mother, Mary Wells, was 31. She married John Fleet on 19 September 1787, in Cutchogue, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 1 March 1839, in Cutchogue, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Cutchogue, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States.
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- Sarah Fleet, "BillionGraves Index"
- Sarah Wells Fleet, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
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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