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Jaa farm near where the old Blue Church was afterwards 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 Sherwood, 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 capacity fora number of years, and afterwards retired. In 1841, during the administration of Lord Sydenham, 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 CartierMcDonald 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 consideration among the first settlers. He left three John and Thomas, and five daughters, Sarah Massie, of Salem ; Abigail Treadwell, 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, appraised 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 December 17th, 1688; married Moses Chase, Jr., of Newbury, 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 hereafter) ; (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 married 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,
