Luke Wells

  General Notes:

per " A Brief sketch of the Family of Rev Thomas Wells, First Minister of Amesbury, MA (1858); Gen of the Wells Family of Wells, ME by Charles K. Wells: Luke was the 3rd of 10 children and the 3rd of 7 sons of Thomas and Mary Hoyt ? Wells

Reference: "Vital Records of Amesbury Massachusetts To the End of the Year 1849," pub. by Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1913. page 255. Births ====== "WELLS, John, s. Luke and Dorithy, Mar. 17, 1710-11." "WELLS, Obadiah, s. Luck and Dorithy, June 27, 1712." "WELLS, William, s. Luke and Dorythy, Oct. 5, 1713."
Children of LUKE and Dorothy Wells:
I. JOHN,4 born March 17, 1710-1.
II. OBADIAH,4 born June 27, 1712; married Judith (???). Children: Dorothy, born 1738; Lydia, born 1740; Sarah, born 1742; perhaps others. An Obadiah Wells married Jemima Wiburn, Salisbury, May 25, 1749.
III. WILLIAM,4 born Oct. 5, 1713.

"Vital Records of Amesbury Massachusetts To the End of the Year 1849," pub. by Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1913. page 255.
Births: "WELLS, Luke, s. Tho[mas] and Mary, Mar. 19, 1673-4.
Marriages : "WELLS, Luke, and wid. Dority Trull of Haverhill, int. Dec. 9, 1710."


Hoyt's Old Fams of Salisbury/Amesbury gives Luke's mother as Mary Perkins and states Luke was still living as of 1728

Luke married Dorothy Straw, daughter of William Straw and Mehitable Hoyt, on 9 Dec 1710 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (Dorothy Straw was born about 1684 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts and died on 29 Sep 1715 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.)