Sarah WELLES

Sarah married Ephraim HAWLEY on 04 Dec 1683 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Ephraim (son of Joseph HAWLEY and Catherine BIRDSEY) was born on 07 Aug 1659 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 18 Apr 1690 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Agur TOMLINSON on 19 Oct 1692 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Agur (son of Henry TOMLINSON and Alice ?) was born on 01 Nov 1658 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 05 Mar 1727/8 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1657-1661, Representative
• Military Service: 1665, Lieutenant
• Military Service: 1670, Captain

Samuel married Elizabeth HOLLISTER in 1659. Elizabeth (daughter of John HOLLISTER and Joanna TREAT) was born before 1640 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died about 1670 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Hollister and Joanna Treat
• Death: 1683

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Between 1637 and 1660; Chosen As Magistrate
• Occupation: 1639; Elected treasurer of the colony
• Occupation: 1643; Elected secretary
• Occupation: 1649; Commissioner to represent Connecticut in the confederation of New England colonies
• Occupation: 1654; Acting governor
• Occupation: 1655; Governor
• Occupation: 1656; Deputy governor
• Occupation: 1658; Governor
• Occupation: 1659; Deputy governor

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He was among the fist settlers of Hartford, coming probably from Cambridge, for 8 Feb 1635/6, "Thos. Wells" owned a house there, (Starr's Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines, I, p. 221.) and he was made Freeman May 17, 1637. (Col. Hist. of Hartford, Love, p. 32.) Was also an early settler of Wethersfield, removing thither in 1646, and an original proprietor at both places. At Wethersfield he bought a house and 18 acres of Mr. John Plumb. He was a magistrate of the colony of Connecticut in 1637, which office he held every successive year until 1654, when he was chosen deputy governor. Besides holding other offices, he was elected governor in 1655 and as this office could not be held by the same man in consecutive terms, he was again elected deputy governor in 1656/7 and governor in 1658; deputy governor in 1659, which position he held at his death. He was first treasurer of the Colony 1639, and secretary of the Colon from 1640 to 1648. In 1649, 1654 and 1659, he was commissioner of the United Colonies. Trumbull includes him in a list of twelve men whom he calls the civil and religious fathers of Connecticut.

The information here given concerning the parentage of Governor Wells and the name of his wife was obtained from pleadings in a chancery suit brought in 1648 by John Welles of Tidmington, (Nephew ofGovernor) and his son Robert, a minor, against the grantees of land in Burmington, Warwickshire, conveyed by Thomas Welles of Hartford, Conn., in 1638. The pleadings show that the property in dispute at one time belonged to Robert Welles, father of the Governor. It seems probable, therefore, that the family home was in Burmington or one of the neighboring parishes.

Thomas married Alice TOMES in 1618 in England. Alice died about 1640 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: ? Hunt

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: One of the first Settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut

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He is said to have come to New England about 1642; was made a freeman, May 10, 1643, in Weymouth, Mass. there is reason, however, for thinking that there were two John Hollisters in New England at the same time, one at Weymouth who afterwards returned to England, and the other at Wethersfield. In June, 1644, was a member of the jury at Hartford, from Wethers, Conn. he was a deputy fourteen ties from 1644 to 1658, and had the title of Mr. when he first came to Conn., but after 1657, was styled Lieut. Hollister. In 1656, he became involved in a church quarrel with the Rev. John Russell, of Wethersfield, who excommunicated him that year, and refused to give any reason for his act. Hollister and his friends petitioned the Court, Aug. 17, 1658, for an order compelling Mr. Russell to give his reasons. this petition was granted. As near as we can judge from the scant records which have come down to us, Mr. Hollister had accused Mr. Russell of having given false testimony in a certain case which was probably true, through perhaps, not intentional. the result of the quarrel was that Mr. Russell and his friends moved to Hadley, under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, in 1659.

John married Joanna TREAT. Joanna (daughter of Hon. Richard TREAT and Alice GAYLARD) was born in 1618 in Pitminster, Somerset, England; was christened on 24 May 1618; died in Oct 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Richard Treat