The Florence Montgomery
Wells Collection
Page 2 - Samuel Wells Family #115
Family #115-2
Samuel Wells - Virginia and Kentucky
From "Ky. Historical Register" - Jan. 1955 - page 37 Minute Book A
1780-1783 - Jefferson County Court, Va. - abstracted by W. Jillson.
1781 - Page 13, Admin. Samuel Wells' estate granted to his son Samuel Wells.
- Bond 30,000 pounds; John Floyd and William Pope his securities.
Ibid - Page 33-34, 1782-
A poll taken Apr. 2, 1782 for delegates to the Assembly in Va. - those voting
for John May were --- Samuel Wells
Ibid - page 50-53 - 1782;
Bond of Valentine Crawford of Bedford Co.; Gent. to Dorsey Penticoat of same, Esq. ---
dated Jan. 4, 1773- At a court in Jefferson Co., Aug. 17, 1782 --- assignees Samuel Wells
Collins: History of KY. - (Second edition - page 239)
John FLoyd, 1781, hearing of the disaster at Squire Boone's Station, near Shelbyville,
went to aid- Capt. Samuel Wells (who had retained his horse) dismounted, gave it to Floyd, who was injured and ran by his side to
support him. This magnaniminity was greatly enhanced because of previous personal
hostility between those officers, which was thus cancelled forever. They lived and died friends.
Ibid - page 550- Mason County
May 1775, a company of 10 young men, Samuel Wells, Hayden Wells,
Thomas Tibbs, John Tibbs, John Rust, Matthew Rust, Thomas Young, William
Triplett, Richard Masterson and Jonathan Higgs came from Virginia to Mason Co.,
to survey between 12,000 and 30,000 acres, lying between the Ohio River hills
and the North Fork, from the mouth of Wells' Creek to above Mill Creek. They
built for each a cabin, covered with bark and deadened trees about them; John
Rust and Hayden Wells had such a prolonged and desperate fight - Matthew Rust called
it in his deposition a "damnation fight". --- The creek was for some years called
"Battle Creek" but since as Wells Creek.
In Feb 1776 came a third company of ten - Samuel Wells, Hayden Wells, Tibbs, Rust,
etc.- improved mainly on th eNorth Fork of the Licking, building 10 cabins between mouths
of Lee and Mill Creeks (Depositions - Mason County)
Ibid - page 710. Shelby County, Capt. Samuel Wells' station about 3 and 1/2 miles NW of Shelbyville -
about 1780-1785.
Ibid - Page 776 - Jefferson County, House of Representatives - Samuel Wells, 1795, 1796 and 1799.