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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Parents are Charles Whiting and Elizabeth Bradford, whose ancestry is well established and which I do not follow.
2. Society of Mayflower Descendants has a proven pedigree of Edmund Henry Wells through Elizabeth Whiting back to the Mayflower passenger William Bradford:
Elizabeth Whiting
b. Hartford, CT, bp 8 Aug 1725, MF 16:2:9; MF 19:153; MF 22:94, 371
d. prob Hebron, CT, aft 16 Oct 1780, MF 22:371
m. Wethersfield, CT, 10 Jun 1747, MF 22:371
married to Samuel Goodrich
b. Wethersfield, CT, 1 Nov 1721, MF 22:371
d. Hebron, CT, 16 Nov 1773, MF 22:371
Wealthy Ann/Wealthian Goodrich
b. Wethersfield, CT, 24 Sep 1750, MF 22:372
d. Cambridge, NY, 11 Sep 1814, Desc of Thomas Wells (Jones, MMS) 4 (no pars); J D Wells Fam Rec 15 (no pars)
m. Hebron, CT, 22 Feb 1770, Early Ct Marr 3:92 (no pars); JD Wells Fam Rec 15 (no pars); TAG 46:181 (no pars); Asa Fitch Papers 2:59 (no pars)
married to Edmund Wells Jr [Edmund Wells - Mary Howell]
b. Hebron, CT, 30 Aug 1746, Hebron/Barbour 18:274; Asa Fitch Papers 2:59 ("10 Sep 1744"); JD Wells Fam Rec 15 ("10 Sep 1746")
d. Cambridge, NY, 17 Sep 1826/8, Wells MMS 4; A Fitch 2:59; JD Wells Fam Rec 15 (80y & 7d)
Edmund Henry Wells
b. Hebron, CT, 14 Dec 1771, VR 1:44(no mo); JD Wells Fam Rec 17
d. Cambridge, NY, 2 Apr 1813, JD Wells Fam Rec 17 (pars)
married to Hepzibah Buell
3. Society of Mayflower Descendants has a proven pedigree of Elizabeth Whiting back to the Mayflower passenger William Bradford:
Elizabeth Whiting
b. Hartford, CT, bp 8 Aug 1725, MF 16:2:9; MF 19:153; MF 22:94, 371
d. prob Hebron, CT, aft 16 Oct 1780, MF 22:371
m. Wethersfield, CT, 10 Jun 1747, MF 22:371
married to Samuel Goodrich
b. Wethersfield, CT, 1 Nov 1721, MF 22:371
d. Hebron, CT, 16 Nov 1773, MF 22:371
4. FHL book 929.273 W462c "History and Genealogy of the Wells Family. Some Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Wells of Saybrook and Hebron, Connecticut, who had come from Dudley, Worcestershire, England in 1712. Supplementing: "The History and Genealogy of the Wells Family" by Philip L. Cobb, 1897"; compiled by John. L. Cobb, 1999, pp. 9-12:
"Edmund Wells. Second son of Edmund and Mary (HOWELL) W. of Hebron, CT and Cambridge, NY, born 30 Aug. 1746, Hebron, CT; was town clerk of Cambridge, NY: 1777-1781, 1789-1805; in the Revolutionary War, he served as private and sergeant; VanWoert's regiment, Albany Co., NY militia; was a Yale College graduate 1768; m. Feb. 1770, Hebron, CT (Bailey's "Early CT Marr.") to Welthia Ann Goodrich, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (WHITING) G. of Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, b. 24 Sept. 1750 at Wethersfield, and died 11 Sept. 1814 in 65th yr., in Cambridge, Washington Co., NY; he died 17 Sept. 1826 at the Wells's homestead, Cambridge, where buried 26 Sept., age 80 yrs. and 7 days, in the cemetery on the Turnpike, south of the village of Cambridge...
Refer: Notes: Hist.: Washington Co., NY, by A. Fitch (1809-1879): 839, 1131; "Hist. and Gen.: Wells Fam.," by P.L. Cobb 1897: 3, 3a, 3b, 4; Wash. Co., NY deeds; BB: 206-7 (Apr. 8, 1830); "Hist.: Wash. Co.. NY," 1878: 68, 116, 150, 253, 255-7, 266, 271; "Cambridge. NY Cem. Inscrip., comp.," P.L. and L.B. Cobb 1913; "Hebron. CT vi. rec.," Bailey's "Early CT Marr.": I.G.I.: NY State as of Apr. 1988, CT as Mar. 1992; "Welles Fam.," by A. Wells 1876: 224-7; "Brewster Gen.," by E.C.B Jones 1908: 448 (DUNLAP); "Records: Prot. Presby. Congreg., Cambridge. NY (N.Y.G. and B. Soc., ed.: R.W. Vosburg 1916, reprint: 1994); Hall's "Bradford Gen."1951: 111, 400 (Goodrich, WHITTING)."
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