This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Downs, Howell, Wood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/757.2.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello, I just reread my earlier message and realized I had mistakenly said that Esther Howell Wood was the daughter of Obadiah and Johanna Wells. She was actually their granddaughter, her parents were David Howell and Joanna Wells who would have been your Nicholas Sr.'s sister. I found much of this information about my Wells family in historical writings, marriage, birth and death records on the www.longislandgenealogy.com as well as familysearch.com, and census records. These missives would have Obadiah Wells as descended from the original William Wells who came to America.