This could be from either of the two primary Wells famlies in Rhode Island as both had descendents in Kingston about this time. I have a Theodore Backus Wells b: 1840 son of Thomas Potter Wells and Sarah Elizabeth Clarke. He had a brother named Thomas Clarke Wells who is the one who wrote a number of letters in the 1850s-1860s that have been placed on-line from the Kansas Historical Society. I wonder if this is the same family with a mispelling in one or the other account? I don't have anything on Theodore Backus Wells to help us here. Yes, I think this is the same Theodore. I found something here about him: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kfaella1&id=I00342 At 09:07 PM 10/23/2009, LadyBonita \(USA\) wrote: >I found this and it is not in my database so thought someone might know/need >them: >Spelman genealogy: the English ancestry and American descendants of Richard >... > By Fannie Cooley Williams Barbour >576 MARY AUGUSTA' JOHNSON (Parsons', Statira' Spelman, Eber', Thomas', >Richard1) was born in Coleraine, Mass., 7 May, 1845, ar)d married in Beloit, >Wis., 10 May, 1864, Theodore Baker Wells, born in Kingston, R. I., 2 >February, 1840, son of Thomas C. Wells. They have resided in Chicago ever >since their marriage, and Mrs. Wells has taken an active part in the social >and philanthropic affairs of that city. She served as Treasurer on the Board >of the Juvenile Court Committee when that was first organized. That and the >Home of the Juvenile Court were the first Juvenile Court organizations in >this country, the work having now spread to almost every State in the Union. >The results of this work in Chicago have been very satisfactory. >Child: >i Edgar Sherman Wells, b. Beloit, Wis., 8 Dec., 1873; d. Chicago, I Jan., >1890. > >http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA394&dq=statira%20wells%20oswego&id=il >VVAAAAMAAJ&output=text > > > >Bonita > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > >Lady Bonita >Arizona, USA > > > > > >--- >avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. >Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 >Tested on: 10/23/2009 9:07:51 PM >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <[email protected]> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb

The merge database DOES have Theodore Backus Wells and his father Thomas Potter Wells. It does seem unusual that this book was off from both, but I guess it was another person's research ... so who knows unless first person sources are found. Bonita -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of OrinWells Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WELLS] Theodore Baker Wells of Rhode Island This could be from either of the two primary Wells famlies in Rhode Island as both had descendents in Kingston about this time. I have a Theodore Backus Wells b: 1840 son of Thomas Potter Wells and Sarah Elizabeth Clarke. He had a brother named Thomas Clarke Wells who is the one who wrote a number of letters in the 1850s-1860s that have been placed on-line from the Kansas Historical Society. I wonder if this is the same family with a mispelling in one or the other account? I don't have anything on Theodore Backus Wells to help us here. Yes, I think this is the same Theodore. I found something here about him: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kfaella1&id=I00342 At 09:07 PM 10/23/2009, LadyBonita \(USA\) wrote: >I found this and it is not in my database so thought someone might know/need >them: >Spelman genealogy: the English ancestry and American descendants of Richard >... > By Fannie Cooley Williams Barbour >576 MARY AUGUSTA' JOHNSON (Parsons', Statira' Spelman, Eber', Thomas', >Richard1) was born in Coleraine, Mass., 7 May, 1845, ar)d married in Beloit, >Wis., 10 May, 1864, Theodore Baker Wells, born in Kingston, R. I., 2 >February, 1840, son of Thomas C. Wells. They have resided in Chicago ever >since their marriage, and Mrs. Wells has taken an active part in the social >and philanthropic affairs of that city. She served as Treasurer on the Board >of the Juvenile Court Committee when that was first organized. That and the >Home of the Juvenile Court were the first Juvenile Court organizations in >this country, the work having now spread to almost every State in the Union. >The results of this work in Chicago have been very satisfactory. >Child: >i Edgar Sherman Wells, b. Beloit, Wis., 8 Dec., 1873; d. Chicago, I Jan., >1890. > >http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA394&dq=statira%20wells%20oswego&id=i l >VVAAAAMAAJ&output=text > > > >Bonita > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > >Lady Bonita >Arizona, USA > > > > > >--- >avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. >Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 >Tested on: 10/23/2009 9:07:51 PM >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <[email protected]> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 Tested on: 10/24/2009 10:06:47 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com