Wright died in New York City. She married, at Milwaukee, Oct. 26, 1869, John. Wilson, of Chicago. JOHN STORER,8 born Jan. 12, 1837.

Alexander B.,8 born April 20, 1840.

SARAH A., born Dec. 10, 1843; married, June 4, 1868, George Carey, of Waltham, Mass., and died Sept. 20, 1872.

CHARLES W., born June 3, 1847, who resides at Mar-
shalltown, Iowa.

SUSAN FANNIE,8 born April 25, 1849; married, at Wells,
Aug. 19, 1869, William H. Flanders, of Boston.

THEODORE,' Jr., (137) married, Feb. 23, 1837, Mary Storer, who died Jan. 24, 1864. They had children:

(184) I.

(185) II.

(186) III.

(187) IV.

(188) V.

(189) VI.

SYLVIA, born May 19, 1838; died Oct. 29, 1862.
SARAH E., born Jan. 15, 1840.

CHARLES, born March 6, 1843; died Oct. 3, 1858.

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THEODORE, born Sept. 5, 1845; died Nov. 22, 1855.
WILLIAM S., born May 29, 1848.

LEONARD, born Dec. 12, 1851.

(190) VII. JENNIE M., born Aug. 20, 1854.

Theodore,' Jr. (137) married, Oct. 2, 1865, Martha M. Goodwin (second wife), and had children:

(191) VIII. SYLVIA M., born Aug. 12, 1866.

WILLIAM S. (151), son of Dr. Eben? of Freeport, Me., married, and had:

ROBERT G. (158), son of Ralph,' married, June 10, 1855, Josephine Durrell, who was born June 21, 1828, and had children :

(196) II. (197) III.

FRANKLIN W., born Aug. 19, 1859.

WALTER S., born March 6, 1866.

(198) IV.

ORRILLA E.,' born Aug. 31, 1868.

STILSON (163), son of Ralph,' married, Sept. 17, 1863, Olive Dunton, and has:

HOWARD W. (168), son of Robert,' married, Sept. 9, 1865, at Sidney, Me., Almira P. Goff, who died Jan. 30, 1866. He married, in Boston, Mass., May 19, 1867, Sophronia G. Oliver, who was born at Garland, Me., Jan. 24, 1836, and had children :

(201) I. (202) II.

MYRA L., born at Roxbury, Mass., June 14, 1868.
MARCIA E., born at Boston Highlands Nov. 3, 1870.

JOHN S. (179) married, April 16, 1867, in Davenport, Iowa, Abigail Carver, and had:

ALEXANDER B.8 (180) married, May 14, 1865, A. Mary Anderson, who died Sept. 1872, and had three children :

The connection of the following persons, whose marriages and births are found on the town records of Wells, is not known:

(207) JOHN WELLS (who may have been (44) John') married Susanna Wells June 21, 1792, and had children :

(211) GEORGE WELLS (perhaps a son of (35) John Light Wells) married Deborah Wells Dec. 12, 1799, and had children :

(216) WILLIAM WELLS (perhaps a son of (21) Joshua1) married, Dec. 27, 1768, Martha Bridges, and had children:

(219) WILLIAM WELLS, Jr., married, June 27, 1803, Mary Howard, and had children:

(222) DANIEL WELLS (who may have been (43) Daniel) married, in 1786, Meribah Wells, and had children :

(230) DANIEL WELLS married, in 1805, Hannah Boothby, and had children:

NOTE TO PAGE 10-CORRECTION.

I am of the opinion that the town of Wells, Me., took its name from the city of Wells, in Somerset County, England, instead of the town of Wells, in Norfolk County; as in the neighborhood of that city Sir Ferdinand Gorges and his associates resided, under whose government the town of Wells, Me., first organized about 1642.' Gorges gave the county the name of Somersetshire, without doubt from the county of Somerset, in England, in which he resided.

C. K. W.

REV. THOMAS WELLS was settled as first pastor of the first church in Amesbury, in 1672 or 1673. Occasional preaching had been enjoyed in the "new town" for ten or twenty years before that time, but he was the first who was recognized as the town's minister. A committee were chosen May 11, 1672, "to see if they can obtain Mr Weels to be helpfull to us in the work of the Ministry." He was admitted as a commoner in 1673-4, and was evidently a man of much influence and usefulness in the new town.

Various circumstances render it extremely probable, if not almost certain, that Rev. Thomas Wells was the Thomas Wells who was born Jan. 11, 1646–7, youngest son of Dea. Thomas Wells of Ipswich. The generations of the family are here numbered in accordance with that idea, Dea. Thomas being considered the first, and Rev. Thomas the second generation. If the above is the date of the birth of Thomas, he must have been eighty-seven years six months old at the time of his death. According to the inscription on his tombstone he was then in his "eighty-seventh year"; but that may have been intended to imply that he was between eighty-seven and eighty-eight, though the expression, if properly used, would justify Farmer's statement that his age was eighty-six. Thomas' Wells of Ipswich was "a gentleman of large property," and it has been supposed that he was a physician. He had land granted to him at Ipswich in 1635, and took the Freeman's oath at Boston May 17, 1637. He died October 26, 1666. From a branch of his family the town of Wells, Me., took its name.