[\u2026] of the late Colonel Wells (whose Sufferings and Services during the late War in America were [\u2026] well known to Your Lordship at New York).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\nYour Petitioner [\u2026] humbly prays<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That Your Lordship will be favourably pleased to grant to him and to the Surviving Parts of the Family of the said late Colonel Wells the undermentioned Quantities of Land in the Tract ordered to be laid out by the Name of the Township of Farnham on the River Yamaska, or such Parts thereof as may in Your Lordship\u2019s Wisdom appear meet \u2014<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The request was approved in principle in 1795, but it was 1798 before the land had been surveyed, the paperwork had been completed, and Samuel\u2019s children and grandchildren were able to travel north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that his how the Wells family, the Loyalist branch of my family tree, came to Canada at the turn of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Submitted by Descendant Paul Warner UE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secret Agent for the Crown Based on a presentation made to the Hamilton Branch on United Empire Loyalists’ Day, June 18, 2022 See also, for more detail, Samuel Wells of Brattleboro: The Life of a Loyalist in Vermont, base on a presentation made to the Hamilton Branch on February 27, 2024 and the Governor Simcoe… Read More »Samuel Wells<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uel-hamilton.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}