Joseph WELLS

1729 - 1804  (75 years)

• Name	Joseph WELLS  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	20 Jul 1729	All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, MD, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Sep 1804	Cane Creek, Orange, NC, USA
  Person ID	I13043	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Joseph WELLS,   b. 30 Sep 1697, Queen Anne's Parish, Prince George's, MD d. 27 May 1758, Cane Creek, Orange, North Carolina, United States (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret SWANSON,   b. Abt 1705, , Prince George, MD, USA d. Abt 1750, , Orange, NY (Age 45 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Apr 1721	All Hallows Episcopal, Anne Arundel, MD, USA   [4]
  Family ID	F5562	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charity CARRINGTON,   b. 1730   d. 26 Feb 1803, Cane Creek M.M., Orange, NC, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	28 May 1750	Fairfax M.M., Loudon, VA
  Family ID	F4008	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He was received into Quaker membership on April 25, 1748 at the Monocacy Monthly Meeting. He and his wife got a certificate to remove to Carver's Creek Monthly Meeting in North Carolina. He received a gift of land from his father in Oran, NC in 1752 and a grant from Lord Granville on Nov. 1, 1755. This later purchase was in tract 11. It is referred to here: "Joseph Welts, 513 acres, (in 1762?)." He sold most of it off in parcels in the following transactions. "Joseph Wells, 208 acres, 6 Jun, 1763; see ODB2/422 to Nathan Wells; William Marshall's line; N/S Cane Ck; crossing creek; part of 2 tracts HEM 6/7/1765 & 4/16/1760. Also ODB4/662 part to John Thompson of Chatham. ODB5/240 Wells to Levi Gifford; s/s Cain Ck?; William Marshall's line; John piggott's line. See also ODB5/247 & 433." (C-575, EL, http://piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html)

  
  

• Sources

  [S247] J.F. Bron to Dudick Letter dated Feb. 1999 at 711 E. Osceola Ave., Lake Wales, FL 33853 (C-1991). [S252] Richard M. Kelly, The Maryland Ancestors of Rachel Wells THE SOUTHERN FRIEND: JOURNAL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY; Vol. XVI Spring-Autumn 1994, Numbers 1-2 p. 35-63. [S286] Wells, Joseph, CD-ROM 102. [S2907] Family Database (http://www.earthtravel.net/our_roots/ged/ged_beck/d0000/g0000074.html#I171).