Queries are free to the subscribers of the WELLS FAMILY RESEARCH BULLETIN and you should submit them on a separate sheet of paper with as much information as possible in order to acquaint the readers with the details that you already have, and then outline what you need to know. Your Editor will search her files and see if she can offer any further help and we request the subscribers to all help in whatever way they can to answer these queries.

HELMUS M. WELLS, born 10 Sept. 1816 in Vermont (as shown on Death Certificate). He was married 3 Sept. 1838 and died 20 April 1878 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn,.N. Y. He was,my Gr Grandfather. Need information concerning his family.

Mrs. Curtis Meyer, 1031 E. Donges Rd., Millwaukee, Wisc. 53217

Editor Note: Mrs. Meyer is a new subscriber and has not sent in her Family Group Sheet. Mrs. Meyer please do this and also tell where and to whom he was married. Please let me know if you have located him or his family on any of the census records. His family 1880 or he and his family 1850-1870. There are 17 rolls of microfilm for 1870 Brooklyn, N.Y. census and for the 1850 census there are 4 rolls of film. Do you have any idea of where and what Ward Helmus Wells lived.? Send me what you have and we will go from there.

WILLIAM WELLS born ca 1761 of Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vt. Married Patience Wellman who was born 28 Sept. 1756 at Killingsworth, Middlesex, Conn. Their dau MARY WELLS was born 15 April 1793 at Arlington, Bennington, Vermont and she married John Hawley - when? She died 12 Sept. 1843, where?

Beverly Gould, 4202 S. 175th, Seattle, Wash. 98188

Editor Note: Ms. Gould, another newcomer,to WFRB and welcome. Bennington Vermont was formed 1779 as an original county but Shaftesbury was in existence since 1763, two years after William Wells was born. The people from this area came from Mass. and Conn. Birth, Marriage and death records from ca 1760 are on file in the office of Secy. of State Div. of Vital Records, State House, Montepelier, Vt. 05601. I would write and see what they have for Wells of Shaftesbury. Have you located William Wells on any other census other than the 1790 Arlington, Vt. where you say he had 3 daus. Mary not yet born. If you have anything else please send it and in the meantime we will do some searching from here to see what can be found.

MARGARET GASTON Could John V. Wells be John Vardeman Wells?

Mrs. A. DURWARD WELLS Please send your Family Group Sheet and your problem for your query.

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