William Wells Family Papers 1749-1966 1820-1880

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William Wells Family Papers 1749-1966 1820-1880

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0546

Correspondence, diaries, wills, inventories of estates, financial records, daguerreotypes, drawings, clippings and genealogies of three branches and of seventeen individual members of the Wells family, whose founder William Wells migrated to Brattleboro, Vermont from England in 1793. Major figures in the papers are Jane Wells Howard Green (1808-1884), Edward Watkins Wells (1819-1898) and James Hancox Wells (1774-1857). The diaries of five family members include accounts of travel both in the United States and Europe during the nineteenth century. A three volume diary kept by Jane Green from 1827 to 1830 describes her visit to family in England. Her papers also include extensive correspondence (1845-1904) with various women in the Howard family discussing family affairs and their daily lives, as well as household accounts, an inventory and a photograph. A steamboat trip to Florida (ca. 1855-1860) is described in the diary of Edward Watkinson Wells who also writes of social life in Hartford between 1856 and 1860. Also by Edward Watkinson Wells are a large number of drawings, correspondence, a will, and financial accounts. The papers of James Hancox Wells includes financial records, correspondence, and a daguerreotype. The Wells family material is made up of genealogical records, financial papers, and memorabilia.

2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350605

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Wells, Mary Watkinson, 1813 or 1814-1887

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Green, Jane Wells Howard, 1808-1884.

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Burgess, Elisabeth Howard.

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Wells family.

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Wells, Edward Watkinson, 1819-1898.

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Wells, William, 1744-1827

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Wells, James Hancox, 1774-1857.

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Wells, Alfred, 1782-1847.

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Wells, Anne Watkinson, 1781-1836.

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Wells, Henry, b. 1875.

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Howard, Thomas M.

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Howard, Joseph, d. 1837.

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