When Jesse Wells was born on 14 October 1797, in Prince George, Virginia, United States, his father, William Allen Wells, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Lavicey Westmoreland, was 42. He married Nancy Harwell about 1820, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Giles, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died on 28 December 1874, in Aspen Hill, Giles, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Giles, Tennessee, 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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