John Wells

Not the husband of Susanna Wells

William Joseph FAULKNER II married Susanna Wells she must have been born ca. 1747 since she died in 1847 or 1848 at the age of 101. It is thought she was the daughter of John Wells a land surveyor of Patrick and Henry Counties, VA

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wells-6062

Sometime around 1755 the Wells family moved south along the Appalachian Trail from increasingly-congested Pennsylvania to southern Virginia. John Wells was a land surveyor in Patrick and Henry counties in Virginia and no doubt also in neighboring North Carolina. Joseph Wells died in Patrick County, Virginia, in 1761.

In 1772, his daughter Susannah, met and married prosperous trader and plantation owner, William Joseph Faulkner (aka Forkner) Jr. whose family owned land along the Virginia-North Carolina frontier. Their homestead was on Forkner's Creek, near Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina.

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jackamone... (dead link )
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/141314/I617768/-/individual