Ancestry of
Emily Dickinson

American Poet

Mary Wells

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Emily Dickinson — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 83 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Wells 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Beardsley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Sep 1664 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Mar 1751 
  • Death Location:
  • Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Stephen Belden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Aug 1682 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Stephen Belding

  Jonathan Belding

  Esther Belding (Ahnentafel No:41 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some secondary sources show Daniel Wells and Elizabeth Foote as the parent of Mary Wells. This seems to be in error and the correct parents are Thomas Wells and Mary Beardsley.

• Additional marriages for Mary Wells

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  • Spouse:
  • Joseph Field
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Jan 1723

• Sources for Mary Wells

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 1890, Vol. 44, p. 209.
  • ² Boltwood, Lucius Manlius, Genealogies of Hadley Families: Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Northampton: Metcalf and Company, Printers (1862), 13.
  • ³ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 101, 118.
  • ⁴ Smith, John Montague, et. al., History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1673-1899: Which Originally Embraced Within Its Limits the . . ., Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall and Company (1899), 383.
  • ⁵ Temple, J. H. and George Sheldon, A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts for 150 Years: With an Account of the Prior Occupation of the . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1875), 406.
  • ⁶ Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner, Vol. 1, Boston, Massachusetts: Unknown (1949), 204.