Joseph WELLS

Joseph WELLS[1, 2, 3]

Male 1729 - 1804  (75 years)

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  • Name Joseph WELLS 
    Born 20 Jul 1729  All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, MD, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 Sep 1804  Cane Creek, Orange, NC, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2878  Ancestrees
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 

    Father Joseph WELLS,   b. 30 Sep 1697, Queen Anne's Parish, Prince George's, MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1758, Cane Creek, Orange, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Mother Margaret SWANSON,   b. Abt 1705, , Prince George, MD, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1750, , Orange, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Married 11 Apr 1721  All Hallows Episcopal, Anne Arundel, MD, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F6691  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Charity CARRINGTON,   b. 1730,   d. 26 Feb 1803, Cane Creek M.M., Orange, NC, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 28 May 1750  Fairfax M.M., Loudon, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F5108  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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 Orange Co., 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 
    1. [S702] 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.

    2. [S713] Wells, Joseph, CD-ROM 102.

    3. [S552] J.F. Bron to Dudick Letter dated Feb. 1999 at 711 E. Osceola Ave., Lake Wales, FL 33853 (C-1991).

    4. [S2928] Family Database (http://www.earthtravel.net/our_roots/ged/ged_beck/d0000/g0000074.html#I171).