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FATHER

Elijah Wales

MOTHER

Rachel Needham

WIFE

Hannah Griggs
b. 14 Feb 1779 Springfield, MA

CHILDREN

1.Nancy Wales b. 03 Dec 1797

2. Austin E. Wales b. 04 Apr 1800

3. Alvin Wales b. 07 Dec 1802

4. Philander Wales b. 17 Jun 1804

5. Hiram Wales b. 14 Dec 1806

6. Ebenezer Wales b. 15 Apr 1811

Austin Wells and his brother, E. B. Wales ran the National Hotel hotel in Detroit. It opened in 1837 

Early days in Detroit
"Now the Michigan Exchange is opened and all the crowd are about to go there and aid in its christening. So in fall all the gentry, and in double files, led by Governor Steven T. Mason and John Norvell, we march to Shelby Street, corner of Jefferson Avenue, where at the door the entire party are welcomed by Shubal Conant, the owner and builder of that then magnificent palace, and by Austin Wales and his brother, E. B. Wales, then it proud and youthful landlord. Prodigious, indeed, is this grand new hotel, one hundred feet front on the avenue, the same in depth on Shelby Street, four stories high, of pressed brick, with stone trimmings. It begins a new era in Detroit."

In the Rhoades Family Bible it states that "Frederick Pettes, died 25 Oct 1838 in Detroit Michigan at the National Hotel kept by A. Wales"  Frederick Pettes was a son of Charlotte Wales Pettes.

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