Brief Life History of Cook
When Cook Wells was born in 1819, in New York, United States, his father, Leonard Wells, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Betsy Cook, was 34. He married Henrietta Farnum in 1844, in Almont, Almont Township, Lapeer, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Dryden, Dryden Township, Lapeer, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Imlay Township, Lapeer, Michigan, United States in 1894. He died on 1 March 1897, in Imlay City, Lapeer, Michigan, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Ferguson Cemetery, Almont, Almont Township, Lapeer, Michigan, United States.
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- Cook Wells, "Michigan State Census, 1894"
- Cook Wells, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"
- Cook Wells, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
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1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
1837
Michigan is the 26th state.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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