Ancestry of
Henry Wells

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

Rachel Skinner

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• • Great-grandmother of Henry Wells — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • John Skinner 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Pratt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Feb 1694 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jan 1787 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Center Cemetery, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ebenezer Welles
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 May 1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Ashbel Wells (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Rachel Skinner

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/08/2015).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1859, Vol. 13, p. 243, Birth record for Rachel Skinner.
  • 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 White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Hartford, p. 341, Marriage record for Ebenezer Welles and Rachel Skinner.
  • ⁵ Whittelsey, Charles B., The Ancestry and the Descendants of John Pratt of Hartford, Conn. 1538-1900, Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Press (1900), 21.