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farm near where the old Blue Church was after¬
wards erected. He was one of the first members of
the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, that met
at Newark, now the Town of Niagara. He had two
sons, Samuel Sherwood, Esq., and Mr. Justice Sher¬
wood, before mentioned, who were educated for and
became members of the Bar of Upper Canada. Mr.
Justice Sherwood was elected by the County of
Leeds to the House of Assembly, in 1822, and
became Speaker of that body, and in 1825, was
appointed a Puisne Judge of the Court of King’s
Bench for Upper Canada. He served in this capa¬
city fora number of years, and afterwards retired.
In 1841, during the administration of Lord Syden¬
ham, he was appointed Speaker of the Legislative
Council of Canada. He died in 1850, leaving four
sons and three daughters. Henry, the eldest son,
at one time represented the Town of Brockville, and
afterwards the City of Toronto, and held the offices
of Solicitor and Attorney-General. George, his
second son, represented Brockville for about twenty
years. He held the offices of Receiver-General and
Commissioner of Crown Lands, in the Cartier¬
McDonald Ministry, and retired from Parliament
about the year 1863. He was, in 1865, appointed
Judge of the County of Hastings. Samuel, his third
son, was Registrar of the City of Toronto at the
time of his death, in 1867 ; and Edward, the fourth
son, was at the time of his death, 1877, Registrar
of the County of Carleton. Charlotte, the eldest
daughter, is the widow of the late Hon. John
Elmsley, who was at one time a member of the
Legislative Council of Upper Canada; Amelia, the
second daughter, is the widow of the late John
King, M. D., of Toronto; and Helen, the third
daughter, is the widow of John Crawford, Esaq.,
late Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario,
who died in the year 1875.
THE WELLS FAMILY, OF THE TOWNSHIP OF AUGUSTA,
COUNTY OF GRENVILLE.
The name of Wells or Welles is very ancient in
England. It is probable that Thomas Wells, of
Ipswich, Massachusetts, was the first of that name
who settled in America. He came in 1635 in the
Susan and Ellen, from London, when 30 years of age,
having been born in 1605, probably in the County of
Essex, England, as he had relatives at Colchester, in
that County, at the time of his disease in 1666. He
married Abigail, daughter of William Warner, and
sister of Daniel and John Warner, all people of con¬
sideration among the first settlers. He left three
John and Thomas, and five
daughters, Sarah Massie, of Salem ; Abigail Tread¬
well, of Ipswich; Elizabeth Burnans, Hannah and
Io
Lydia Ropes. He died October 26th, 1666, and his
wife in 1671. He appears to have been a physician,
as his “phissic books” were, after his death, ap¬
praised at £8 6s. 3d., a respectable medical library
for those days. He had land granted him at
Ipswich in 1635, and he took the Freeman’s bath at
Boston, May 17th, 1637. From a branch of his
family the Wells, Maine, took its
His third and youngest son was the
Reverend Thomas Wells, born January rith, 1647,
to whom his father bequeathed two hundred and
fifty pounds, to be paid to him when he came to the
age of 22 years, 4 months and Io days; and also
provided funds for his books. The Rev. Thomas
was settled as the first pastor of the first church in
Amesbury, in 1672. He enjoyed the distinction of
being the first honorary A. M., of Harvard College.
He married in 1671 Mary —, and had children
as follows: (1) John, born February 2nd, 1672; died
April 2nd, 1673. (2) Luke, born March roth, 1674;
married Widow Dorothy Trull, of Haverhill. (3)
Titus (of whom hereafter.) (4) A son, died young ;
(5) ason, died young. (6) Abigail ; married Samuel
Bartlett, of Newbury. (7) Mary: married John
Martin, of Amesbury. (8) Eliezer, born June roth,
1686; married Deborah Worthen, of Amesbury,
(9) Elizabeth, born Decem¬
ber 17th, 1688; married Moses Chase, Jr., of New¬
bury, October 12th, 1709. (10) John, born October
gth, 1692; married Dorothy Hoyt, of Amesbury,
February 5th, 1713, The Rev. Thomas died July
roth, 1734, in the 87th year of his age, and the 62nd
of his ministry; and his wife, Mary, died January
26th, 1727, aged 75 years.
Town of
name.
November 17th, 1714.
Titus Wells, third son of Rev. Thomas, was born
March 14th, 1675; and married, in 1697, Joanna
; and had children as follows: (1) Sarah,
born July 30th, 1698; married Jonathan Farren,
December roth, 1719. (2) Thomas (of whom here¬
after) ; (3) Timothy, born April 16th, 1704; (4) Titus
and (5) Hannah, twins, born February sth, 1706 ; (6)
Philemon, born September 3rd, 1708 ; (7) Jacob, born
August 28th, 1710; (8) Elizabeth, born March rith,
1716; (9) Abigail, born December 18th, 1718.
Thomas Wells, eldest son of Titus, born March
4th, 1700, was a large landholder in Chester, New
Hampshire, and a captain in the Militia. He mar¬
ried first Sarah Hadley (December 15th, 1720) by
whom he had the following children; (1) Phillip,
born September 3rd, 1721 ; (2) Benjamin, born May
3rd, 1724; (3) Winthrop, born August aust, 1726.
He married second Hannah Ingalls, in 1738, by
whom he had: (4) Sarah, born December 2nd, 1739 ;
(5) Thomas (of whom hereafter); (6) Henry, born
March 24th, 1743; (7) Reuben, born August 28th,