Ancestry of
Henry Wells

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

Ebenezer Welles

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• • Great-grandfather of Henry Wells — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Ichabod Welles 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Way   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Oct 1694 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Dec 1737 
  • Death Location:
  • West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Center Cemetery, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rachel Skinner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 May 1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Ashbel Wells (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Ebenezer Welles

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Hartford, p. 341, Birth record for Ebenezer Welles.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Hartford, p. 341, Marriage record for Ebenezer Welles and Rachel Skinner.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/08/2015).
  • ⁴ 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.
  • 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.
  • ⁶ Whittelsey, Charles B., The Ancestry and the Descendants of John Pratt of Hartford, Conn. 1538-1900, Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Press (1900), 21.