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inventory of his property mentions among other things a negro slave Phibe, a silver tankard, silver spoons, valued at £4 6s. 02d .; a silver beaker valued at £4 Is. 4d .; a silver tankard, valued £8. 6s. 3d., a great looking glass, valued at £4. His clothing likewise listed was rich and valuable; and all goes to show that he was a man whose house was finely furnished, and whose apparel was con- spicuous for its quality. His inventory footed £3,667 13s. 3d. His sons Joseph, Robert and Gideon, and his grandson Robert were given houses as well as lands. Captain Welles mar- ried (first) June 9. 1675, Elizabeth, daughter of Ensign William and Sarah ( Marvin) Good- rich, of Wethersfield. She died February 17, 1698. He married (second) in Boston, Octo- ber 13, 1698, Mary Stoddard, who survived him. The children, all by first marriage, were : Thomas, John, Joseph, Prudence, Robert and Gideon.
(IV) Joseph, son of Captain Robert and Elizabeth ( Goodrich ) Welles, was born Septem- ber, 1680, settled at Wethersfield, and died in 1744. He was a lister in 1712 and collector in 1715, but never was as prominent a man as his father. He married, January 6, 1709, Han- nah, daughter of Captain Joshua Robbins, of Wethersfield. Their children were: John, Prudence, Esther, Hannah, Joseph, Eunice and Christopher.
(V) Joshua, son of Joseph and Hannah (Robbins) Welles, was born September, 1726. He married, in 1757, Experience Dickinson, who died June 27, 1773. Their children were : Experience, Hannah, Joshua, Levi, Gideon, Prudence, Pamelia, Abigail and Daniel.
(VI) Gideon, son of Joshua and Experi- ence (Dickinson) Welles, was born July 15, 1764, died March 19, 1810. He married, Feb- ruary 28, 1790, Emily Hart, by whom he had nine children, as follows: Shuman, William Hart, Emily, Sally, Romanta, Dudley, Mary, Pamela and Prudence.
(VII) Romanta, son of Gideon and Emily ( Hart) Welles, was baptized July 22, 1798. He was a resident of Wethersfield, Connecti- cut. He married, September 25, 1830, Mari- anne Morgan, and they were the parents of Stephen, Emily, Gideon, Dudley and Romanta. (VIII ) Judge Gideon, son of Romanta and Marianne ( Morgan) Wells, was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, August 16, 1835, died in Springfield, Massachusetts, March 26, 1898. His boyhood life was that of the farm. Hle was fitted for college at the East Windsor IIill school and at Williston Seminary in East-
hampton, and then entered Yale, where he was graduated in 1858. Among the best known of his classmates were Dr. William T. Harris, national commissioner of education ; Judge George P. Andrews, of the New York supreme court ; and Bishop E. T. Thomas, of Kansas. Gideon Wells went to Springfield on leaving college, and read law in the office of Chapman & Chamberlain, the late T. M. Brown, who had graduated at Williams the same year, being a fellow student in the office. Mr. Wells was admitted to the Hampden county bar in 1860 and at once became associated in practice with the late Nehemiah A. Leonard, with George Ashmun at the head of the firm. When the Forty-fifth Regiment went out for its nine months' service soon after the war began, Gideon Wells was a member of Company A of Springfield. He served as first lieutenant under Captain L. A. Tifft, and also in the same capacity in the Eighth Regiment. He was always loyal to the association of this period of his life and the festivities of Com- pany A never failed to appeal to him. Memory of the strong and long maintained firm of Leonard & Wells is yet fresh in the public mind. In it were always preserved the most honorable traditions of the Hampden Society bar; it took high rank and kept it; it became distinguished for ability and high principles and the non-litigious character of its advice, which tended to the reasonable settlement of the inflaming of them. This characterization will be recognized by lawyers as a just one. The firm rendered valuable public service in training young lawyers. While Leonard & Wells had much and important court practice, they built up a greater reputation as advisers in business affairs. From 1869 to 1876 Mr. Wells served as register in bankruptcy. His readiness of apprehension gave him speedy mastery of this position and it was not casy for fraudulent operations to escape his notice. In 1876 Gideon Wells succeeded Judge Mor- ton at the head of the local police court, which position he held until 1890. During this period the outside duties of Judge Wells had steadily multiplied to an extent which led to his resig- nation and the appointment of Judge Bos- worth to the vacancy. This released Judge Wells from duties which had grown irksome to enter more absorbingly into the business relationships his professional work had brought him. After Mr. Leonard took the presidency of the Connecticut River railroad the weight of the legal business of Leonard & Wells had fallen on Judge Wells. To his duties as attor-
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ney for the Massachusetts Mutual Life In- surance Company and for the Springfield Street Railway Company was then added the presidency of the Holyoke Water Power Com- pany. This was an important place, carrying with it a large salary, and more and more the insurance company came to rely upon Judge. Wells in its large transactions and interests widely scattered over the country. He was hither and yon in its service, the one man seemingly indispensable because of his legal knowledge and business ability. The years more nearly preceding the death of Judge Wells his time had been given to these inter- ests and to the service of individuals and com- panies that insisted upon having his advice. Most large enterprises in Springfield felt his shaping hand. He was the attorney for the First. Second and Third National Banks of that city. He was a director of the Massa- chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, of the Third and John Hancock National Banks, and in a variety of enterprises in which local interests wanted his oversight. Judge Wells delighted in that form of recreation which took him farthest from the toil of his profession. In the earlier years of his professional career he greatly enjoyed a horseback ride before breakfast, and to assume the care of the animal himself, to exploit his choice of garden roses, as more recently he gloried in raising the best melons of the region on his Agawam estate.
The Springfield Republican, from which the part of this article referring to Judge Wells is chiefly taken, further says of him: "The keen intuitive quality of his mind was joined to sound native sense, and he had a knack of doing things, of seizing the essentials in any given situation and producing results. He had a most retentive memory, and knew where to go for his fine points of law. That is some- times better than profound closest knowledge of the law. He seemed to lack interest in cer- tain directions, and yet the end of his under- takings usually justified his way of doing a thing. Back of brusque manner, and cynicism which Judge Wells loved to affect, lay the kindest of hearts and a wealth of neighborli- ness and friendliness that bound people to him by the strongest ties. He was respected in every relation for his strength and force. Scores of people leaned on him in this enter- prise or that one. Then there was the social side of the man-and very delightful and entertaining and informing he was, whether in the casual chat, in the gatherings of the
literary club, the game of whist or the social call. He always gave richly and was ready in the thrust and parry of social interchange. His fund of stories was varied and seemingly inexhaustible. No man in our profession and circles was nearer to the homely life of New England or caught its humor or flavor more accurately or with fuller appreciation. There never was a more genuine New Englander. It was the dream of his life to have a farm, to grow fruits, vegetables and flowers, not to sell but to joy in and dower his friends with- and the satisfaction which he got out of his fine Agawam farm during those recent years was immense. He was hospitable, in a myriad of ways, a caretaker for others, and the void which his going leaves in the life of this com- munity will be keenly felt today." The mem- bers of the Hampden County Bar Association assembled at a special sitting of the supreme court, June 6, 1898, to do honor to the mem- ory of Mr. Wells and passed resolutions prais- ing him as a lawyer and a citizen, which are omitted here to give room for portions of the remarks of some of the lawyers present which illustrate the qualities of the man whom they mourned.
Edward H. Lathrop said : "Among the large accomplishments of his later life, few men with whom he came in contact felt the warmth and the richness of his real life and self. Brother Wells was not a man who opened the sunshine of his heart to every casual acquaint- ence or to the ordinary man of business. He kept the seclusions of the real sweetness of his nature perhaps somewhat too rigidly. In the pathways of daily life he took and gave his full measure of the attritions of experience and of performance. His habit was that of isolation, and not to criticise, but to review him, he has too much of isolation and of seclusion. He had forgotten in the later years how to play. The grind of business was upon him, and unconsciously to himself he was a prisoner to implicable and inescapable demands. The humor of his nature had little opportunity to play the relieving interludes that I believe would have saved him for many more and larger years. Grim and abrupt of speech he sometimes was to his best friends, but he was unconscious of it. He had his affections, and we all recognized and enjoyed them and I think he did. He used to say startling things sometimes on sober and sedate occasions, not, perhaps, because he believed them, but possibly on occasion to relieve the dullness of conver- sational respectability and at other times be-
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cause he enjoyed the effect. He had no rever- ence for the platitudes of place, or the affected profundity that sometimes goes with all our professions, and he hated the Uriah Heeps of society and of business. He was always a cool breeze in a stifling conventional atmos- phere. He had few intimacies but many friends. He had friends whom he never knew, because he was unconscious of or had for- gotten the occasions that made them friends. Behind all his brusqueness of manner and speech lay the largeness and sweetness of a most kindly character. Bold in speech and criticism of men and measures, he never obtruded his opinion and never sought occa- sion to say an unkind thing of any one. His word was always as good as his bond, and his bond was as good as gold. We all felt safe in resting upon an agreement made with "Gid" Wells. He had a rare philosophy in life. He never fretted at matters going wrong, but with redoubled reserve and a more fixed purpose set his face to the accomplishment of his clients' interests. If disturbed he concealed his fear; if unhorsed, he climbed into the saddle again without pause. His courage and his calmness, his philosophy and his imper- turbality in meeting life's eventualities, were all illustrated in the serenity with which he met at the end an ultimate and visibly approach- ing fate."
On the same occasion Charles C. Spellman spoke in part as follows: "Upon the death of Judge Morton, Judge Wells received the appointment as justice of the police courts, and during the first six years of his administration as judge, I was clerk of that court. This brought us into daily intercourse with each other and established a friendship between us which continued until his death. During the six years I was so closely associated with him I had many opportunities to witness exhibi- tions of his character. No single instance of difference, no impatient work or hasty action, severed for one moment our friendship. He had a generous sympathetic heart, always ready to relieve the necessities of others, and many a friend in financial and other trouble, to my knowledge, has not in vain appealed to him for aid. I have seen him amid the per- plexing and embarrassing questions which con- tinually arise upon the criminal side of that court, the persistent and almost annoying de- mands which could not even be considered, in which the patience of the most indulgent man would be put to the severest test. If he erred at all, it was in not always courteously listen-
ing. He had an impulsive nature. He was affected with indignation-which feeling he could hardly repress-when he witnessed any act which was mean and sordid. He could not tolerate the witness which he believed was giving false testimony before his court, and ·very often would give a hasty expression to his own feelings if he felt that all was not as it should be. He decided all cases upon evidence as it seemed to him, without fear or favor. The wishes of the prosecuting officer, the argu- ments of attorneys, the prominence or position of the parties interested, or the comments of the daily press, had no effect on his decision. He held the attorneys strictly to the required evidence, and any failure in essential testi- mony was fatal. He was faithful and punctual in the performance of his duties, and believed that no one should undertake what he could not do and that he should do what he had undertaken. He resigned the judgeship to assume other duties more to his liking. Those best acquainted with the manner in which he performed all his public duties will bear wit- ness to the integrity and moral soundness of his life. His business ability can best be meas- ured by his successful management of large corporate interests which from time to time was reposed in him."
Gideon Wells married, October 13, 1875, Marietta Gilbert, of Norwich, Connecticut, who survives him. She was born at Norwich, daughter of Merit S. and Esther (Jones) Gil- bert. They had one child, Gilbert, born May 7, 1877.
This surname was evidently a STREET place name, doubtless derived from the military roads or streets which were built by the Romans in England. As early as 1300 the name of Alice le Strete is found in the Domesday Book. The coat-of-arms of the family contains three horses on a shield divided by a bar. The crest is a man's arm upraised holding a bell in his hand. Motto: Non nobis solum nati.
(I) Richard Street was of Stogumber, Som- ersetshire, England, and was a clothier. His will is dated September 10, 1591, and proved September 30, 1592. Children: Michael, died 1597; Robert, Thomas, John, Nicholas, men- tioned below.
(II) Nicholas, son of Richard Street, left a will which was proved May 3, 1610. He married Mary - ,who was living in 1609 and who left a will. Children: Nicholas, mentioned below. 2. Mary, baptized at Taun-
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ton, England, March 22, 1578; married, Janu- ary 17, 1602, Josn Gilberd. 3. Thomas, bap- tized at Taunton, March 28, 1593 ; of Stogum- ber and Bawdrip, by gift of his father. 4. Jane, baptized June 22, 1593 ; buried at Bridge- water, England. .
(III) Nicholas (2), gentleman, son of Nicholas (I) Street, was of Bridgewater, Somersetshire, England. His will was dated November 1, 1616, and proved February 13, 1617. He married, at Bridgewater, January 16, 1602, Susanna Gilberd, who was buried February 22, 1603. He married (second) Mary -, whose will was dated July 16, 1625, and proved February 6, 1626. Child of first wife: I. Nicholas, baptized January 29, 1603, mentioned below. Children of sec- ond wife: 2. Edward, baptized at Bridgewater May 1, 1607, buried November 23, 1616. 3. John. 4. Matthew. 5. William. 6. Francis. 7. Mary, baptized June 10, 1614, buried May 8, 1615. 8. Philip, baptized June 23, 1616, buried November 23. 1616.
(IV) Rev. Nicholas (3), son of Nicholas (2) Street, was baptized at Bridgewater, Eng- land, January 29, 1603. His father died when Nicholas was thirteen years old, leaving his "antient estate of Rowberton neare Taunton, and also my lease of Huntesbell in the Marsh." The estate of Rowberton belonged to the Manor of Canon Street Priory of Taunton. He matriculated at Oxford, November 2, 1621, at the age of eighteen, and received his degree February 21, 1624-25. The first record of him in New England is his ordination as assist- ant of Rev. Mr. Hooke, as teacher of the church at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1637-38. Seven years later Mr. Hooke went to New Haven, and Mr. Street continued as sole pas- tor fifteen years. He followed Mr. Hooke to New Haven and took his place as colleague of Rev. John Davenport, September 26, 1659. From 1667 until his death, April 22, 1674, he was pastor of the First Church. He lived on what is now College street, on the spot where College Street Church now stands. He mar- ried (first) , and (second) Mrs. Mary Newman, widow of Governor Francis New- man, of New Haven. She married (third) Governor Leete, and died December 13, 1683. Children: I. Samuel, born 1635, mentioned below. 2. Susanna, married Mason. 3. Sarah, married James Heaton. 4. Abiah, married Daniel Sherman.
(V) Rev. Samuel, son of Rev. Nicholas (3) Street, was born in 1635. He graduated at Harvard College in 1664, one of a class of
seven, all of whom he outlived by six years. He lived in New Haven and taught in the school Rev. Mr. Davenport had founded, and in which his father also taught. After teach- ing here with his father for ten years, he was installed April 22, 1674, the first settled clergy- man at Wallingford, Connecticut, and re- mained there pastor forty-five years. In 1681 he was granted two hundred acres of land, and in 1686 a house lot of six acres, later other grants. He was one of the original signers of the Plantation Covenant of Wallingford in 1710. He died January 16, 1717, aged eighty- two. He married, November 3, 1664, in New Haven, Anna Miles, who died in Wallingford, April II, 1687, aged ninety-five, daughter of Richard and Katherine (Constable) Miles. Children : I. Anna, born in New Haven, Au- gust 17, 1665. 2. Samuel, July 27, 1667, men- tioned below. 3. Mary, September 6, 1670. 4. Susanna, Wallingford, June 15, 1675, mar- ried Deacon John Peck. 5. Nicholas, July 14, 1677, married Jerusha Morgan. 6. Katherine, November 19, 1679. 7. Sarah, January 15, 1681, married Theophilus Yale.
(VI) Lieutenant Samuel (2), son of Rev. Samuel ( I) Street, was born in New Haven, July 27, 1667. He was made lieutenant of the train band, May 10, 1716, in Wallingford. His estate was administered February 18, 1719-20. He married (first) July 14, 1690, Hannah Glover, born October 10, 1672, died July 8, 1715, daughter of John Glover, of New Haven. He married ( second ) December 20, 1716, Mrs. Elizabeth ( Brown) Todd, daughter of Eleazer and Sarah ( Bulkley) Brown, and widow of Michael Todd. She married (third) Captain John Merriman. Children: I. Eleanor, born December 3, 1691. 2. Nathaniel, January 19, 1693, married Mary Raymond. 3. Elnathan, September 2, 1695, married Damaris Hull. 4. Mary, April 16, 1698, married John Hall. 5. Mehitable, February 15, 1699, married Abra- ham Bassett. 6. John, October 25, 1703, mar- ried Hannah Hall. 7. Samuel, May 10, 1707, mentioned below.
(VII) Samuel (3), son of Lieutenant Sam- uel (2) Street, was born May 10, 1707, died in Wallingford, October 15, 1792. He mar- ried ( first) November 12, 1734, Keziah Mun- son, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth (Her- mon) Munson. He married (second) Sarah Atwater, born November 28, 1727, died Octo- ber I, 1795, daughter of Caleb and Mehitable ( Mix) Atwater. Child of first wife: I. Glover, born May 28, 1735, mentioned below. Children of second wife: 2. Titus, June 4,
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1758, married Lydia Allen. 3. Caleb, Octo- ber 26, 1763.
(VIII) Glover, son of Samuel (3) Street, was born May 28, 1735, died November 28, 1826. He was taken prisoner by the French during the French and Indian war, while sail- ing in a merchant ship from New Haven to the West Indies, carried to Guadaloupe a pris- oner and confined there a number of months. He married, in 1755, Lydia Allen, of North Haven, who died February 13, 1817, aged eighty. Children: I. Esther, born February 24, 1757. 2. Hannah, October 18, 1758, mar- ried Jehiel Todd. 3. Keziah, March 7, 1761, died young. 4. Samuel, October 2, 1762, men- tioned below. 5. Glover, May 7, 1764, mar- ried Deborah Bradley. 6. Caleb Munson, July 13, 1766, married Bathsheba Chapin. 7. Keziah, July 23, 1768, married Zenas Hastings. 8. George, January 2, 1771, died September 23, 1836; married, October 17, 1808, Miriam Munson. 9. Joshua, November 24, 1772. 10. Elizabeth, July 30, 1775, married Elijah Mor- gan. II. John, May 29, 1778, married Sally Williams.
(IX) Samuel (4), son of Glover Street, was born October 2, 1762, died February 20, 1818. He removed in 1800 to West Spring- field, and thence to Holyoke, Massachusetts. He married, May 10, 1785, Anna Munson, born June 28, 1760, died 1829. Children: I. Orren, born August 25, 1786, married Rox- anna Bassett. 2. Eunecia, August 28, 1790, married Ichabod Howe. 3. Manly, 1792, men- tioned below. 4. Lydia, 1797, married Will- iam Ardway. 5. Anna, 1800, died June 9. 1821. 6. Atwater, West Springfield, April 7, 1803.
(X) Manly, son of Samuel (4) Street, was born at Wallingford, Connecticut, 1792, died February 14, 1856. He married, in 1818, Sus- anna Clark, of Easthampton, who died April 28, 1854, aged fifty-nine. It is a singular fact that all his children except Uriel were born on Saturday. Children: 1. Sydenham, born 1820 died 1870; married Sarah Waterman. 2. Samuel J., 1822, married, 1856, Elizabeth E. Lanckton. 3. Austin Dwight, July 15, 1825, mentioned below. 4. Uriel, May, 1827, died June 2, 1852, unmarried. 5. Edwin, August 6, 1828, died November 4, 1889. 6. Ann, 1832, unmarried. 7. William, 1838, unmarried.
(XI) Austin Dwight, son of Manly Street, was born at West Springfield, July 15, 1825, died December 25, 1896. He was a farmer in Holyoke, a quiet, honest, upright citizen. He married, October 15, 1856, Sophia Dickinson
(see Dickinson family). He resided at Holyoke. Children : I. Austin Dickinson, born June 14, 1862. 2. Franklin Manly, April 9, 1869, married Jennie E. Sears, and they have one child, Florence Street, born March 4, 1897.
(The Dickinson Line).
Eleven centuries ago a soldier of fortune made his appearance at the court of Halfdan Huilbein, King of Norway. His name was Ivar. He had been a shepherd and had been captured by the Northmen and carried to sea. He drifted into a life of adventure. He be- came a favorite at the Norwegian court. The King made him general of his army and in 725 gave him his daughter Eurithea in mar- riage. He was called Prince of the Uplands. When the king died the son of Ivar became heir to the throne and during his minority Ivar was regent. This son, Eystein, reigned until 755. He was succeeded by his son, Harold Harfager. Rollo, a Prince of this line, over- ran Norway in 910. His sixth and youngest son, Walter, received the castle and town of Caen as an inheritance. His great-grandson, Walter de Caen, accompanied William the Norman to England at the time of the Con- quest. To this nobleman the line of Dickinsons descended from the first American pioneer, Nathaniel, may be traced.
(I) Walter de Caen, later de Kenson, tak- ing the name from his manor in Yorkshire.
(II) Johnne Dykonson, freeholder of Kings- ton upon Hull, Yorkshire ; married, 1260, Mar- garet Lambert and died 1316.
(III) William Dykenson, freeholder as
above, died 1330.
(IV) Hugh Dykensonne, freeholder above, died 1 376.
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(V) Anthoyne Dickensonne, freeholder as above, married, 1376, Catherine De La Pole and died 1396.
(VI) Richard Dickerson, freeholder as above, married, 1399, Margaret Cooper and died 1441.
(VII) Thomas Dickinson, frecholder as above, married, 1470, Margaret Lambert ; alderman of Hull, 1443-44; mayor 1444-45; died 1475.
(VIII) Hugh Dickinson, freeholder as above, married, 1451, Agnes Swillington ; re- moved 1475 to Kenson manor, Yorkshire; died 1509.
(IX) William Dickinson, frecholder of Kenson Manor, died 1546; married, 1475, Isabel Langton.
(X) John Dickinson settled in Leeds, York-
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shire : married, 1499, Elizabeth Danby ; alder- man 1525-54; died 1554.
(XI) William Dickinson settled at Brindley Hall, Staffordshire; married, 1520, Rachel Kinge; died 1580.
(XII) Richard Dickinson, of Bradley Hall, married. 1540, Elizabeth Bagnall; died 1605.
(XIII) Thomas Dickinson, clerk in the Portsmouth navy yard. 1567 to 1587 ; removed to Cambridge, 1587; married, 1567, Judith Carey : died 1590.
(XIV) William Dickinson settled in Ely, Cambridge, and married, 1594, Sarah Stacey, of Ely; died 1628.
(XV) Nathaniel, son of William Dickinson, was born in Ely, Cambridge, in 1600. He married, in January, 1630, at East Bergolat, county Suffolk, Anna Gull, widow of William Gull. They came to Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, in 1636 or 1637. He was one of the leaders of the colony. He was town clerk in 1645, deputy to the general court in 1646-47. He removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1659, and was admitted a freeman there in 1661. He was chosen deacon of the church and first recorder of the town. He was selectman, assessor, and town magistrate. He was a member of the Hampshire Troop, and on the first board of trustees of Hopkins Academy. He resided a few years at Hatfield. He died at Hadley. June 16, 1676. He married (sec- ond ) Anne -, when he went to Hadley. Children of first wife: I. John, born 1630, killed in King Philip's war. 2. Joseph, 1632, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, 1634, married Hannah Crow. 4. Anna, 1636, married (first) John Clary; (second) Enos Kingsley. 5. Samuel, July, 1638. 6. Obadiah, April 15, 1641. 7. Nathaniel, August, 1643. 8. Nehe- miah, about 1644. 9. Hezekiah, February, 1645-46. 10. Azariah, October 4, 1648, killed in Swamp fight, August 25, 1675.
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