This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Almon, Jones, Power, Finnell, Roberts, Cox, Adams, Eaton, Vandiver, Elkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4435.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: While not familiar with your brick wall ancestor, the fact that he came from North Carolina and that the names Joseph, John, and Isaac run in this family suggest to me that your lineage may be through John Wells and Britter Holloway. Descendants of this couple also attach to the Henry Wells family of PA. My best guess is that John Wells b ca 1741 is a grandson of John Wells, who died in 1749 at New Brittain in Pennsylvania. John Wells b 1692 was the third son of Henry Wells. Little is known of him except that he had at four children, including sons John and Isaac, born before 1721 in Pennsylvania who disappeared from PA records soon after the death of their father. John Wells of Pennsylvania had an association with the Pennington family, later found in Lancaster Co PA and still later identified as among the earliest residents of Rowan Co NC [on the first tax list]. Also in Rowan Co at that time was at least one Whisenhunt-surname individual [married into John Wells-Britter Holloway line]. This Wells line also married into the Hambright family, a name found early on in Lancaster Co. Of Henry Wells's children, only three have descent lines that have not been rather thoroughly explored. John is one of these ... because he died early and without a will and because his children appear to have left Pennsylvania. The other two possibilities (Henry b ca 1707, Samuel b ca 1709) do not appear as likely. Samuel was at Doylestown PA as late as 1730, but disappears thereafter (although he may be the man of that name at Loudoun Co VA in the 1760s with sons Joseph, Daniel, and Abraham). Henry has proven to be equally elusive. Finally, Henry Wells appears to have had a brother Joseph who can be found in some early PA records. (He also had a son Joseph whose line is rather well known, but who is too young to be the earlier Joseph Wells found in PA records.) This Joseph Wells had some association with the Burson family who migrated into Virginia at an early date, but nothing definitive is found on this man after about 1722. If you go to the Wells PA list at rootsweb and browse through the archived messages you will find a great deal of information on the lineage of Henry Wells as well as some contacts there.