A son of Joseph Wells was born in Farmington, Ontario Co., N. Y.

The evidence

• “Clinton; born in Farmington, Ontario Co., N. Y., Jan. 13, 1824 ; son of Joseph Wells. The family were originally from Berkshire Co., Mass., and settled in New York in 1794, on the Phelps and Gorham purchase — it was a wilderness at that time.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/35-bios-bradford.md, PDF p. 885

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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