At this point there are several possibilities. 1. The Joseph Wells, son of Thomas and Frances was not the Joseph Wells who married Margaret Swanson and thus was not the father of the Joseph Wells who married Charity Carrington. As an aside someone will have to prove to me her surname was Smith as I have never seen anything that does. Over the years everyone I have come across who has claimed this has gone silent on me when I pressed them for the proof. Thomas Wells DID have a neighbor named Smith and, I think, bought property from him. But that does not make him Thomas' father-in-law. 2. The Joseph Wells, son of Thomas and Frances, married Margaret Swanson but they were not the parents of the Joseph Wells who married Charity Carrington. 3. The Joseph Wells, son of Thomas and Frances, married Margaret Swanson but HE was not the father of his alleged son Joseph. 4. The parents of Joseph Wells who married Charity Carrington was the son of another couple named Joseph and Margaret Wells. 5. Joseph Wells was the son of someone else entirely. Do the quaker records make any specific mention of the parents of Joseph Wells? Or are there any other records that do? At 08:56 AM 9/17/2005, Jane Sarles wrote: >Orin, > >I have, in my notes, a page of information, done by Leota Klinker, Pauline >DeWitt and Mary C. Scott, on the ancestry of the Joseph who married >Margaret Swanson. It shows Joseph as the son of Thomas Wells & Frances >Smith. Is this a possibility, do you think? > >Jane Sarles > > >==== 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