Thomas was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts. He lived briefly in nearby Northfield, and then returned to Deerfield. He was a doctor and a cordwainer (shoemaker) and according to an entry in Deerfield's Fourth Meetinghouse records, he was also a justice of the peace. He and his wife Sarah had eight children who lived to adulthood.
Thomas enslaved Adam and Peter, whom he had baptized in 1734. That same year both men "confessed the Sin of fornication" (Fourth Meetinghouse records). An entry in Joseph Barnard's account book shows that he rented a man named Prince from Wells. In 1743, Barnard bought Wells' "Negro fellow", which probably referred to Prince, as soon after Thomas died in 1744, Sarah Wells rented Prince to dig her husband's grave. In 1745, Joseph Barnard balanced Sarah's account, giving her credit for Prince's bed and bedding.
There are three men by the name of Thomas Wells in this database. This one is a cousin of Thomas Wells (1678-1750) and a distant relative of Thomas Wells (1770-1845).
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