Wells

Brief Life History of Wells

When Wells was born about 1786, in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Reuben Wells, was 34 and her mother, Experience Severance, was 36.

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Family Time Line

Reuben Wells
1753–1815
Experience Severance
1751–1825
Dorothy Wells
1773–1861
Wells
1786–
Thankful Wells
1788–1870
Wells
1790–
Wells
1791–
Carilina Metilda Wells
1774–1823
Expearance Wells
1775–1776
Henerite Meriah Wells
1778–1879
Chester Wells
1780–1860
Alamena Wells
1782–1824
Lucinda Wells
1784–1854
Reuben Wells
1793–1850

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    World Events (3)

    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.

    1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

    The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

    1788 · The First Presidential Election

    The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.

    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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