Thomas Wells

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Sarah Sally Jones ← Russell Jones ← Nathan Jones ← Hannah Welles ← Noah Welles ← Thomas Wells

In brief

Born 1620/about 1629 in England. Likely 1635 from England to Boston. He married May 1651 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He died September-December 1676 in Hadley, Massachusetts.

Family

Father

Thomas Welles

Mother

Frances Albright

Spouse

Mary Beardsley

m. 1651

Children

Noah Welles · in this line
b. July 26, 1666 · New London, Connecticut
m. Mary White
d. 1712 · Colchester, Connecticut

Siblings

Mary Welles
b. Abt. 1626 in England
m. Jonathan Gilbert around 1650
d. July 3, 1700, in Hartford, Connecticut
John Welles
b. Abt. 1635 in England
m. Sarah Curtis around 1658
d. October 18, 1692, in Hatfield, Massachusetts
Deborah Coleman
b. Abt. 1640 in England
m. Daniel Gunn

Life story

A Falls Fight Soldier

Thomas Wells, son of the weaver Thomas Welles, likely emigrated from England to Boston around 1635 and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, by 1636, later moving to Hadley, Massachusetts, by 1659. He served the Connecticut colony as an assistant magistrate in the late 1660s and, as a soldier under Captain William Turner, fought in the brutal Falls Fight of May 1676 during King Philip's War, one of the war's decisive and bloodiest engagements. He rose to militia captain and owned land in both Hadley and Wethersfield in addition to property back in England. Thomas died in Hadley in the fall of 1676.

Sources (2)

Nathan Henry Jones, The Ancestors of My Daughters (Poultney, Vermont: Nathan Henry Jones, 1914).
Douglas Richardson, “The Widow Frances (Albright) Wells, Wife of Thomas Coleman of Wethersfield and Hadley,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146 (January 1992): 28-34; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11691/28/0 : accessed 18 August 2026).