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1. TAG 46:180-183: "The Wells (Welles) Family of Hebron, CT. and Cambridge, N.Y.," by John G. Hunt:
"...Edmund Henry4 Wells, born about 1771, died at Cambridge, N.Y., "of the spotted fever" in 1813; by his wife, who was also his kinswoman, Hepzibah (daughter of that Ichabod Buell named at p. 131 of cited Bradford Genealogy), he left these Wells Children...
v. Elizabeth, m. Ransom Curtis of Busti; had issue..."
2. Website "1800s Antislavery Activist" http://ugrr.orbitist.com/content/curtis accessed 5 Nov 2016 (includes photo of farm in Busti):
"One source says that Ransom B. Curtis was born on 20 August 1803 in Genesee NY, and another says Peru MA. His parents were Comfort and Priscilla A. (Whitney) Curtis. Comfort Curtis is listed in the 1800 Census of Peru but in Warsaw, Genesee County NY in the 1810 Census, where he remained until his death in 1831. Ransom Curtis married Elizabeth (Betsey) Wells. According to Young's History of Chautauqua County, p.228, Ransom Curtis contracted for or bought on Lot 39 in Busti in September 1822. Their son Sidney was born there in April 1829. Ransom Curtis' role as a conductor on the UGRR was described in a talk given by Eleazar Green at the Busti NY Centennial celebration on 18 August 1923. The talk was reprinted Emma by Gourdey, et al, in the Busti Centennial Booklet, 1923. Green described what he saw as a very young child when his father, also Eleazar Green, and their neighbor, Ransom Curtis, hid runaway slaves and then transported them on to the next station. The censuses for 1850 and 1855 show the Ransom Curtis and Eleazar Green families as close neighbors in Busti. The 1854 wall map locates R. Curtis on Lot 39 on the east side of a road with "Green & Co." across the road. Ransom Curtis died in Sugar Grove PA on 16 April 1876."
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