Ancestry of
Henry Wells

Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.

Ashbel Wells

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• • Grandfather of Henry Wells — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Welles 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Skinner   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Aug 1734 
  • Birth Location:
  • West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Dec 1806 
  • Death Location:
  • West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • North Cemetery, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Kellogg
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Apr 1757 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Shipley Wells (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Ashbell Wells's surname is also seen as Welles.

    Some sources give Ashbel's birth date as 23 AUG 1734.

• Sources for Ashbel Wells

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Baptism record for son Shiply Welles.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/08/2015).
  • ³ Goodwin, Nathaniel, Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, Hartford: F. A. Brown (1856), 256.
  • ⁴ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 69, 124.
  • ⁵ Welles, Albert, History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy: With the Derivation From Their Progenitors of . . ., New York: Albert Welles (1876), 184.