Thomas WELLS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1st Minister of the First Church, Amesbury, Mass.
• Birth: 1647, Amesbury, Massachusetts
• Education: 1669, Graduated Harvard College
• Religion: 1672, Was Ordained and was the first minister of Amesbury, Massachusetts
• Fact: 1673/4, Admitted Commoner- man of much influence and usefulness in the new town.
• Death: 10 Jul 1734

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Vol. II: Thomas was of Ipswich in 1667, when he bought land in Wells, but was living in the town of Wells in Dec., 1669, as a deed to his bro Nathl. expressly states. Sv. states that he preached at Kittery and Isle of Shoals in 1670. He was the first settled minister of the first church in Amesbury, having been settled in 1672 or '3; though preqaching had been enjoyed in the "new town" for ten or twenty years before that time. For the next half century he was the leading spirit of the town.

Inscriptions upon the tombstones:

Interred here the Body of
the Rev. Mr. Thomas Wells
first Pastor, of the first Church
of Christ in Amesbury. who
Departed this life. July ye 10th,
1734. in the 87th year of his
Age, & the 62d. of his Ministry,
having served his Generation by
the will of God, he fell on sleep, and
(we trust) enjoys a Prophets reward.

for tho' Israel should not
be Gathered, yet would
the faithfull ministers of
the Gospel, be glorious
in the Eyes of the Lord.

Thomas married Mary PERKINS on 03 Mar 1671 in Newbury, Massachsuetts. Mary (daughter of Sergt. Jacob PERKINS and Elizabeth LOVELL) was born on 14 May 1658 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 26 Jan 1726/7 in Amesbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Samuel BARTLETT between 06 Feb 1704 and 1705 in Amesbury, Mass.. Samuel (son of Samuel BARTLETT and Elizabeth TITCOMB) was born on 28 Mar 1676 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]