Orin, In the Wells book, Martin was listed as having died early - snake bite, I believe. There were several from this line who came with my Fussell line to south Georgia in the late 1820's. David Wells being one of them. He and some of his family ended up in Texas. Catherine ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrinWells" <orinwells@wells.org> To: <WELLS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:20 AM Subject: Re: [WELLS-L] MARTIN WELLS > "Ellen" <JKWILSONFL@aol.com> wrote: > > No, I have not met Joyce but would like to connect with her and share info > >on our family lines. > > I will send you her address off list. I can not be certain the > address is still current, but it is worth a try to compare notes. > > > >What does family W024 mean??? > > Sorry. I forget everyone does not know what we are doing. For the > past 5 years (how time flies!) we have been running the Wells DNA > study. In the first phase of the project we identified 24 families > we believed we could find enough participants to identify the family > y-Chromosome DNA. This is done by finding two or more descendents > who are widely enough separated on their family tree to give us > confidence the DNA was representative of the "baseline" family, > testing their DNA and matching it. We actually attempted to find > four descendents from four different branches (sons of the earliest > ancestor) where possible. We did not succeed in all cases but in most we did. > > We have since carried on testing still more male Wells descendents to > see which baseline family they might match up with. Some didn't and > in some cases we have uncovered additional "baseline families" - we > are up to 40 now. One we can not find any descendents to test and > three are actually being rolled into other families where we > discovered they were actually one and the same. I will be posting > the revised baseline data on Saturday. > > I assigned arbitrary family ids to each of these families. W001 > through W040 currently for the baseline families and W050 through > W365 (last count) for various ancestors who are in a branch > representing the ancestor of a participant from whom only that > participant is descended. Family W024 is the family of Jacob Wells > b: Cir 1680 who lived in Duplin County, North Carolina. This family > stayed in this area of North Carolina for many years. But looking at > the data I have from the family I do not see your Martin indicated. > > You can view the DNA results by checking the following link: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/dnaproje/dnaproje.html > > (click results to see the data). > > The project is still open to any Wells males who want to see if they > connect with the baselines or anyone else we have tested so > far. Contact me for more information. > > > > > > Orin R. Wells > Wells Family Research Association > P. O. Box 5427 > Kent, Washington 98064-5427 > <OrinWells@wells.org> > http://www.wells.org > Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list > send the command "unsubscribe" > to WELLS-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode > or WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005

Whether Martin died of snake bite or not is still unclear. There is much yet to be learned about the earlier generations of this family. It is, for example, very questionable that Jacob Wells I came from Switzerland although many in the area where he lived did come from there. There is another theory that he came from Germany with the Palatine immigration but there is no proof there either. The only shred of circumstantial evidence has to do with a list of names found in the English archives showing a Jacob Wels in conjunction with a Daniel Teachey (I think that was the name). But there is no evidence to link them to North Carolina. The third and most recent theory is that Martin, Henry and Jacob were grandsons of Richard Wells and Mary Martin of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland through a son Martin. Again, no proof and until we find a willing descendent of another of their sons we will not be able to check that theory. At 04:28 AM 12/9/2005, Catherine Fussell Wells wrote: >Orin, > >In the Wells book, Martin was listed as having died early - snake bite, I >believe. There were several from this line who came with my Fussell line to >south Georgia in the late 1820's. David Wells being one of them. He and >some of his family ended up in Texas. > >Catherine > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "OrinWells" <orinwells@wells.org> >To: <WELLS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:20 AM >Subject: Re: [WELLS-L] MARTIN WELLS > > > > "Ellen" <JKWILSONFL@aol.com> wrote: > > > > No, I have not met Joyce but would like to connect with her and share >info > > >on our family lines. > > > > I will send you her address off list. I can not be certain the > > address is still current, but it is worth a try to compare notes. > > > > > > >What does family W024 mean??? > > > > Sorry. I forget everyone does not know what we are doing. For the > > past 5 years (how time flies!) we have been running the Wells DNA > > study. In the first phase of the project we identified 24 families > > we believed we could find enough participants to identify the family > > y-Chromosome DNA. This is done by finding two or more descendents > > who are widely enough separated on their family tree to give us > > confidence the DNA was representative of the "baseline" family, > > testing their DNA and matching it. We actually attempted to find > > four descendents from four different branches (sons of the earliest > > ancestor) where possible. We did not succeed in all cases but in most we >did. > > > > We have since carried on testing still more male Wells descendents to > > see which baseline family they might match up with. Some didn't and > > in some cases we have uncovered additional "baseline families" - we > > are up to 40 now. One we can not find any descendents to test and > > three are actually being rolled into other families where we > > discovered they were actually one and the same. I will be posting > > the revised baseline data on Saturday. > > > > I assigned arbitrary family ids to each of these families. W001 > > through W040 currently for the baseline families and W050 through > > W365 (last count) for various ancestors who are in a branch > > representing the ancestor of a participant from whom only that > > participant is descended. Family W024 is the family of Jacob Wells > > b: Cir 1680 who lived in Duplin County, North Carolina. This family > > stayed in this area of North Carolina for many years. But looking at > > the data I have from the family I do not see your Martin indicated. > > > > You can view the DNA results by checking the following link: > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/dnaproje/dnaproje.html > > > > (click results to see the data). > > > > The project is still open to any Wells males who want to see if they > > connect with the baselines or anyone else we have tested so > > far. Contact me for more information. > > > > > > > > > > > > Orin R. Wells > > Wells Family Research Association > > P. O. Box 5427 > > Kent, Washington 98064-5427 > > <OrinWells@wells.org> > > http://www.wells.org > > Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb > > > > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this list > > send the command "unsubscribe" > > to WELLS-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode > > or WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 > > > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 > > >==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > Please Support Rootsweb Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <OrinWells@wells.org> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb

I looked on the LDS site and saw the info for Jacob Porter Wells - same one? It shows a son for him by the name of William and born the same year as my William would have been. But I don't think he was my William after all, who went from TN to TX. Another lister has Bible information that indicates my William was Benjamin Wells' s brother and they were the sons of James C. Wells. He was very nice to share and I hope I have stated the info correctly - I don't have any of my files handy right now. Karen >From: OrinWells <orinwells@wells.org> >Reply-To: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com >To: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WELLS-L] MARTIN WELLS >Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:58:25 -0800 > >Whether Martin died of snake bite or not is still unclear. There is much >yet to be learned about the earlier generations of this family. It is, >for example, very questionable that Jacob Wells I came from Switzerland >although many in the area where he lived did come from there. > >There is another theory that he came from Germany with the Palatine >immigration but there is no proof there either. The only shred of >circumstantial evidence has to do with a list of names found in the English >archives showing a Jacob Wels in conjunction with a Daniel Teachey (I think >that was the name). But there is no evidence to link them to North >Carolina. > >The third and most recent theory is that Martin, Henry and Jacob were >grandsons of Richard Wells and Mary Martin of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland >through a son Martin. Again, no proof and until we find a willing >descendent of another of their sons we will not be able to check that >theory. > >At 04:28 AM 12/9/2005, Catherine Fussell Wells wrote: >>Orin, >> >>In the Wells book, Martin was listed as having died early - snake bite, I >>believe. There were several from this line who came with my Fussell line >>to >>south Georgia in the late 1820's. David Wells being one of them. He and >>some of his family ended up in Texas. >> >>Catherine >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "OrinWells" <orinwells@wells.org> >>To: <WELLS-L@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:20 AM >>Subject: Re: [WELLS-L] MARTIN WELLS >> >> >> > "Ellen" <JKWILSONFL@aol.com> wrote: >> > >> > No, I have not met Joyce but would like to connect with her and >>share >>info >> > >on our family lines. >> > >> > I will send you her address off list. I can not be certain the >> > address is still current, but it is worth a try to compare notes. >> > >> > >> > >What does family W024 mean??? >> > >> > Sorry. I forget everyone does not know what we are doing. For the >> > past 5 years (how time flies!) we have been running the Wells DNA >> > study. In the first phase of the project we identified 24 families >> > we believed we could find enough participants to identify the family >> > y-Chromosome DNA. This is done by finding two or more descendents >> > who are widely enough separated on their family tree to give us >> > confidence the DNA was representative of the "baseline" family, >> > testing their DNA and matching it. We actually attempted to find >> > four descendents from four different branches (sons of the earliest >> > ancestor) where possible. We did not succeed in all cases but in most >>we >>did. >> > >> > We have since carried on testing still more male Wells descendents to >> > see which baseline family they might match up with. Some didn't and >> > in some cases we have uncovered additional "baseline families" - we >> > are up to 40 now. One we can not find any descendents to test and >> > three are actually being rolled into other families where we >> > discovered they were actually one and the same. I will be posting >> > the revised baseline data on Saturday. >> > >> > I assigned arbitrary family ids to each of these families. W001 >> > through W040 currently for the baseline families and W050 through >> > W365 (last count) for various ancestors who are in a branch >> > representing the ancestor of a participant from whom only that >> > participant is descended. Family W024 is the family of Jacob Wells >> > b: Cir 1680 who lived in Duplin County, North Carolina. This family >> > stayed in this area of North Carolina for many years. But looking at >> > the data I have from the family I do not see your Martin indicated. >> > >> > You can view the DNA results by checking the following link: >> > >> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/dnaproje/dnaproje.html >> > >> > (click results to see the data). >> > >> > The project is still open to any Wells males who want to see if they >> > connect with the baselines or anyone else we have tested so >> > far. Contact me for more information. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Orin R. Wells >> > Wells Family Research Association >> > P. O. Box 5427 >> > Kent, Washington 98064-5427 >> > <OrinWells@wells.org> >> > http://www.wells.org >> > Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb >> > >> > >> > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== >> > To unsubscribe from this list >> > send the command "unsubscribe" >> > to WELLS-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode >> > or WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > No virus found in this incoming message. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: >>12/7/2005 >> > >> > >> >> >> >>-- >>No virus found in this outgoing message. >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 >> >> >>==== WELLS Mailing List ==== >> Please Support Rootsweb > > >Orin R. Wells >Wells Family Research Association >P. O. Box 5427 >Kent, Washington 98064-5427 ><OrinWells@wells.org> >http://www.wells.org >Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb > > >==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > Don't Forget > The Wells Family Research Association > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/wfrahome.html >