Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Benjamin Wells
1745 - Aft 1820 (> 76 years)-
Name Benjamin Wells [1, 2] Birth 24 Dec 1745 West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island [3, 4] Gender Male Death Aft 1820 Lisbon, St. Lawrence, New York [5] Person ID I1675 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 19 Sep 2024
Father Peter Wells, b. 4 May 1713, South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island d. 6 Mar 1782, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island (Age 68 years) Mother Elizabeth Sweet, b. 14 Nov 1713, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island Marriage 11 Dec 1733 East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island [2, 3, 6] Family ID F2054 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sarah Reynolds Marriage 1764 Lisbon, St. Lawrence, New York Children + 1. Susannah Wells, b. 23 Apr 1767, Hebron, Washington, New York Family ID F734 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 Aug 2015
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Notes - According to the DAR, he was a sergeant in the New York militia in the Revolution, and also a private under Capt. Shaw Older and Colonel Van Rensselaer.
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Sources - [S931] Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants by John Cortland Crandall. New Woodstock, NY, 1949.
- [S6061] Find a Grave page for Elizabeth Sweet Wells.
- [S480] The Gardiners of Narragansett: Being a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Gardiner the Colonist, 1638 by Caroline E. Robinson. Providence, 1919., date only.
- [S481] Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages, and Deaths by James N. Arnold. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912.
- [S28] 1820 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com.
- [S481] Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages, and Deaths by James N. Arnold. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912., date only.
- [S931] Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants by John Cortland Crandall. New Woodstock, NY, 1949.