- CA QUA07531
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Authority record- CA QUA01143
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- n.d.
William Wells was born in 1768 at Sandown, New Hampshire and settled permanently in Augusta Township, Upper Canada in 1787. He was a lumber merchant and farmer, served as a Captain of Militia in the War of 1812-15, was taken prisoner by the Americans and released on parole. He was also a Justice of the Peace. In 1799 he married Sarah Clough and they had eight children: Ruth (b. 1800), Sally (1801-1835), Horace Clough (1802-1876), Maria (1804-1877), William Benjamin (b. 1809), Isaac Brock (b. 1812), Thomas Proctor (1816-1816), and Frances Adaline (b. 1817). Ruth Wells married George Longley in 1824. He was a Maitland lumber merchant and M.P.P. in 1827, as well as a Justice of the Peace.
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