Elizabeth Smead1

#5418, (24 December 1698 - 2 May 1773)
Relationship5th great-grandaunt of William David Lewis
Father*Ebenezer Smead1 (c 1674 - 1753)
Mother*Esther Catlin1 (1675 - 1733)

Family

Joshua Wells b. 1695
Children 1.Joshua Wells5 (1721 - )
 2.Ebenezer Wells5 (1723 - 1787)
 3.Martha Wells5 (1724 - )
 4.Elizabeth1 Wells5 (1726 - )
 5.Simeon Wells5 (1727 - )
 6.Asa Wells5 (1729 - )
 7.Elisha Wells5 (1731 - )
 8.Mary Wells5 (1733 - )
 9.Joel1 Wells5 (1735 - )
 10.Esther Wells5 (1736 - )
 11.Elizabeth Wells5 (1737 - )
 12.Joel Wells5 (1739 - )
 13.Abner Wells5 (1742 - )
Birth*24 December 1698She was born on 24 December 1698 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.1 
Marriage*6 April 1720She married Joshua Wells, son of Ebenezer Wells and Mary Waite, on 6 April 1720 at MassachusettsG; text has 1770, an obvious error.2,3 
6 April 1770 As of 6 April 1770,her married name was Wells.4 
Death*2 May 1773She died on 2 May 1773 at age 74; G/H has 1774 (age 75.)5 

Citations

  1. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), p. 116, Elisabath, d. of Ebenezer and Esther, Dec. 24, 1698.
  2. [S593] William Richard Cutter, compiler, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, vol. I (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1910), [text has 1770, an obvious error]. Hereinafter cited as Families of the State of Mass. I (Cutter).
  3. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, 230.
  4. [S593] William Richard Cutter, Families of the State of Mass. I (Cutter).
  5. [S593] William Richard Cutter, Families of the State of Mass. I (Cutter), "(IV) Joshua, third child of Ebenezer and Sarah (Waite) Wells, was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, August 31, 1695, and died in Greenfield, Massachusetts. April 21, 1768. He settled in the Green river district. His house stood on the site of what is now called the Arthur D. Potter place, and was palisaded during the French and Indian war. His lot was number fourteen, and was north of Cheapside and east of Green river. This was given to his son Abner. He sold to Oliver Cooley, in 1819, and Cooley to Gould in 1827. Gould sold to Henry W. Clapp in 1834, and he to Arthur D. Potter. He was sealer of weights and measures. Sixteen acres was laid out to him as his "pitch," number ninety. August 25, 1725, he was with, a party surprised by a band of Indians in ambush near Green river. One Indian was killed and one of the whites wounded. An army of two hundred and eighty men was raised in the Connecticut valley towns to send to the Kennebec during the French Indian wars in August, 1774- They surprised and killed Father Rasle and six chieftains and about thirty of the enemy. Joshua Wells was in this expedition. By death of Father Rasle and the subsequent death of Governor Vaudreuil the Indians lost their leaders and peace was restored. He was one of the organizers of the First Church, and on the committee to invite Rev. Mr. Billings. He married, April 6, 1770, Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Smead; she died May 2, 1773. Children: Joshua, born September 16, 1721; Ebenezer (see next paragraph); Martha, February 16, 1724; Elizabeth, October 17, 1726; Simeon, March 7, 1727; Asa, January 15, 1729; Elisha, November 12, 1731; Mary, August 6,1733; Joel, April 2, 1735; Esther, March 29, 1736; Elizabeth, December 15, 1737; Joel, May 6, 1739; Thankful, July 14, 1741, and Abner, December 15, 1742." (p. 460).