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About Col. Richard Wells
A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA - PENNSYLVANIA. DAR Ancestor # A122671
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7310745/richard-wells
Col. Richard Wells was the son of James (2) Wells and Ann Thornborough (possibly Stevenson?). Anyone with primary documentation confirming Richard's mother's maiden name, please contact me, thanks!)
This Richard's middle name may or may not have been Tidley. It had been my understanding that the "Tidley" was not attached until the next generation (this Richard's son and two grandsons) and I had never found anything in primary or even good secondary sources to show a middle name attached to the subject of this memorial.
My research files indicate that my Richard (1) Wells (March 15, 1721/22 - July 13, 1808) was born in Old Baltimore, Baltimore County (not in the current city of Baltimore), Maryland.
He was married first to Nancy Ann Brown in 1740 (Thanks to contributor HBB for the date) and their children were:
George (b. 1745), Mary (1748), James (1751), Richard Tidley (1752), William (1753), Alexander (1754), Robert ('56), Thomas ('58), Patience ('59), John ('64), Nathaniel ('65).
Then Nancy Ann died in 1765. Some records suggest that Richard remarried immediately (presumably for the sake of his two children under the age of 2) to Mary Stevenson (dates uncertain, but some records say 1717-1769) and they had 3 children together:
Joseph ('66), Bazel ('67), and Elizabeth ('69).
Stevenson might or might not have been Mary's maiden name, as she would have been married to Richard at age 48 and given birth to their first child at age 49; kind of late in life for a woman's first family during that era, which leads to the thought that she might have been a widow and Stevenson her name from a first marriage.
But quite clearly, Richard (1) was not the father of Edmund.
m1. Abt 1780; spouse, Nancy Brown, d/o George Brown & Mary Stevenson
Children (incomplete list):
- Thomas Wells, m. Sarah Scott, Nancy Davis (DAR)
- James Wells, m. Rachel Brown (DAR)
- George Wells, b c. 1745[8] m. X Huff, m. Elizabeth Holmes (DAR)
- Patience Wells, m. James Kerr (DAR)
- Joseph Wells, m. Mary Scott (DAR)
- Richard Tidley Wells, Jr[8], m. Jane Brown (DAR)
- Mary Wells, b c. 1748; m. 1767 John Doddridge, children Dr Joseph Doddridge, Phillip Doddridge.[4] (DAR)
- (uncertain) James Wells, Gen.[9] Evidence is lacking. See DAR Correction File note.
- Zachariah Wells
http://www.brookecountywvgenealogy.org/RichardWells2.html
Richard Wells was a brother of Alexander Wells of Cross Creek area. He was born in Baltimore MD> in 1722. He came west at a very early date - first to Frederick County, MD., and by 1763 he was in Cumberland MD. He moved to the Ohio Valley in the early 1770’s. His home was on Cross Creek, few miles northwest of his brother Alexander.
Richard and his wife were the parents of twenty-four children. His daughter, Mary, married John Doddridge in 1767 and among their children were Doctor Joseph Doddridge and Phillip Doddridge.
Richard Wells died in 1816 in Ross County, Ohio at the age of 93 and was buried at George’s Chapel near Luray.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/e/f/Rick-Heflin-Ohio/W...
Richard Wells3818, 3819, 3820 was born Bef. 17213821, 3822, and died date unknown3823, 3824. He married Mary Brown on Bef. 17453825, 3826.
More About Richard Wells and Mary Brown: Marriage: Bef. 17453827, 3828
Children of Richard Wells and Mary Brown are: +Zachariah Wells, b. 17453829, 3830, d. date unknown3831, 3832.
- Updated from Wiki Tree Genealogy by SmartCopy: May 31, 2015, 15:09:20 UTC.
- Residence: Pennsylvania, United States
- Residence: Pennsylvania
- Residence: PA, United States
- Military service: Captain Patriotic Service, Revolutionary War.
- Residence: Washington, Pennsylvania, United States - 1790
- Reference: My Heritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 3, 2017, 20:26:28 UTC
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRM7-ZQ8
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wells-202
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7310745/richard-wells
- https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/richard-tidley-wells-col-birth-...
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LK9Z-QDT
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRM7-ZQ8
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Col. Richard Wells's Timeline
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March 15, 1722
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Old Baltimore, Baltimore County, Province of Maryland
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March 15, 1722
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St Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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1739
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Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
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March 3, 1745
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Metzekers, Prince George's County, Province of Maryland
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September 14, 1748
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June 15, 1751
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Metzekers, Frederick County, Province of Maryland
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1752
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Baltimore County, Maryland
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1753
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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August 22, 1758
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Baltimore County, Maryland
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