"WELLES, or WELLS, ...(4864) THOMAS, Hartford, an orig. propr. as also at Wethersfield, appears first in the Rec. of that Col. Trumbull I. 9, as the sec. magistr. at the Gen. Ct. 1 May 1637, when war was denounc. against the Pequots, they hav. long been hostile, and the proportion of 90 men fixed for the sev. plana. viz. Hartford, 42, Windsor, 30, and Wethersfield, 18. Yet it is quite uncert. when he came from Eng. tho. satisfactor. kn. that he brot. three s. (4865i) John, (2432) Thomas, and (4865vi) Samuel, and three ds. (4865iv) Mary, wh. d. bef. her f. prob. unm. (4865v) Ann, and (4865vii) Sarah; equal. uncert. is the name of his (4865) w. though we can hardly doubt whether he brot. one; and stranger still is the uncertainty of his prior resid. in Mass.

"He had good proportion of the patents for Swampscot and Dover, wh. he sold Aug. 1648, to Christopher Lawson. We may then safely conclude, that a person of his educ. and good est. had not come over the water bef. 1636, and that he staid so short a time at Boston or Cambridge as to leave no trace of hims. at either, and he was estab. at Hartford bef. Gov. Haynes left Cambridge. There is, indeed, a very precise tradit. of his coming, with f. Nathaniel, in the fleet with Higginson, 1629, to Salem; but that is merely ridiculous.

"He took, for sec. w. a. 1645, (9887) Elizabeth wid. of (9886) Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield; on the d. of Gov. Haynes, 1 Mar. 1654, the Dept. Edward Hopkins being in Eng. on pub. business, he was made head of the Col. with title of Moderator, but on the day of elect, in May, Hopkins was chos. Gov. and Welles Dept. tho. H. never came back to conn. being tak. by the great Protector into his Parliam. so that in 1655, hav. had the duty to fulfil in the vaction of the chair, he was chos. Gov. and Webster, Dept. and in 1656, accord. to the constitut. of the Col. "that no person be chos. Gov. above once in two yrs." Webster was made Gov. and in 1657, Winthrop Gov. while Welles was Dept. both yrs. and in 1658 made Gov. again with Winthrop for Dept. Both chang. places in May 1659, and Welles d. 14 Jan. foll. at Wethersfield.

"His wid. d. 28 July 1683; d. Ann m. 14 Apr. 1646, (4865v[1]) Thomas Thompson of Farmington, and next, (4865v[2]) Anthony Hawkins; and Sarah m. Feb. 1654, (4865vii[1]) capt. John Chester, outliv. him less than ten yrs. and d. 16 Dec. 1698."

-- James Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692" c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/

Many lines have been shown to be related to (4864) Gov. Thomas Welles, Family W015 in the Wells Family DNA Project. Our line, conjectured to be that of Family W348, tested by a descendant of (153vi) Lieut. James Wells, has yDNA that exactly matches that of the Governor. I have postulated that the line passes through (2432) Thomas Welles who married (2433) Hannah Tuttle. This line was sampled through a descendant as Family W217. That sample differs from the Governor and from James at the same marker (DYS 437), and it can be safely supposed that this mutation occurred after that line branched off from ours. Otherwise, we must look for a common ancestor in the line of (4865vi) Capt. Samuel Welles (Family W216 and thence W360), who married Elizabeth Hollister, and whose yDNA, like Family W348, preserves the markers of the Governor. The science used does not warrant this, however; and since a very plausible line of descent issues from (2432) Thomas, there is no reason at this point to quibble over one marker.

Hg	DYS 19/ 394	DYS 385 a	DYS 385 b	DYS 388	DYS 389	DYS 389 II	DYS 390	DYS 391	DYS 392	DYS 393	DYS 426	DYS 437	DYS 438	DYS 439	DYS 447	DYS 449	DYS 454	DYS 455	DYS 456	DYS 460	DYS 461	DYS 462	DYS 464b	DYS 635	GG AAT 1B07	YCA IIa	YCA IIb	YG ATA A10	YG ATA H4.1
Family W217 - Thomas Welles b. ABT 1627 Stourton, Warwick, England to Wethersfield, Hartford, CT m. Hannah Tuttle
R1b	14	11	14	12	13	29	23	11	13	13	12	14	11	12	24	28	11	11	16	10	12	11	15	23	10	19	23	14	22
Family W348 - James Wells b. 13 Mar. 1792 m. Persis Earle; W015 Gov. Thomas Welles m. Alice Tomes; W216 Samuel Welles (~1629-) m. Eliz. Hollister; W220 John Welles (1674/75-) m. Mary Judson; W360 Thomas Wells (1662-) m. Jerusha Treat
R1b	14	11	14	12	13	29	23	11	13	13	12	15	11	12	24	28	11	11	16	10	12	11	15	23	10	19	23	14	22
Family W218 - John Welles b. ABT 1648 Stratford, Fairfield, CT m. Mary Hollister
R1b	14	11	14	12	13	29	23	11	13	13	12	15	11	12	24	28	11	11	17	10	12	11	16	23	10	19	23	14	22
Family W219 - Robert Welles b. ABT 1651 Stratford, Fairfield, CT m. Elizabeth Goodrich
R1b	14	11	14	12	13	29	23	11	13	13	12	15	11	12	24	30	11	11	15	10	12	11	15	23	10	19	23	14	22

For common errors concerning this line, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wellsfam/genealgy/govwels2.html

I have endeavored to correlate individuals in this line with the 1790 Census. Supposed links follow:

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