This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4403 Message Board Post: Mr. William Wells and Jno Bud were chosen constables for Southold for the yeare ensuing, and have the same power as the constables there had the last yeare. I am not related to this family, I'm just passing on this information I found while reading a book titled "Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May 1653 to the Union. Together with the New Haven Code if 1656" by Charles J. Hoadly. Hartford, Case, Lockwood & Company, 1858. pg 215. Joyce