Ancestry of
Wells Ely

(c1729–a1804)

Daniel Ely

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• • Father of Wells Ely — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • William Ely 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1693 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Mar 1776 
  • Death Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ely Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Welles
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jan 1725/1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Wells Ely (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Additional marriages for Daniel Ely

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  • Spouse:
  • Ruhamah Arnold
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Nov 1736
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut

• Sources for Daniel Ely

  • ¹ American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Birth record for Daniel Ely.
  • ² Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, Death record for Daniel Ely.
  • ³ Early Connecticut Marriages, Marriage record for Daniel Ely and Ruhamah Turner.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2013).
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1924, Vol. 78, p. 383.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1964, Vol. 41, p. 134.
  • ⁷ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, Marriage record for Daniel Ely and Ruth Welles.
  • ⁸ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 13, 59.
  • ⁹ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2003, Vol. 36, pp. 383-385.
  • ¹⁰ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler, Wife of Willard Underhill Taylor, Brooklyn, New York: Unknown (1939), 300.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 239.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 162, 449.