Surnames: Wells, Shaw
On September 5, 1784, a tract of land including four hundred and twenty three acres and called "Tunis" was surveyed to Tunis Wells and in 1790 patented to him for three pounds, ten shillings and sixpence. Mr Wells made his settlement about 1780 and losing his wife by death soon after coming, married for his second wife, Margaret Williams.By his first wife he had six children of whom none are now living. By his second the children were: Mary Wells, Joseph Wells, Rachel Wells, Elizabeth Wells, Margaret Wells, James Wells, Jacob Wells and Charlotte Wells. The only one living is Charlotte whose home is in Iowa. James Wells died in Jefferson; Jacob Wells in Ohio; and Joseph Wells on the old homestead in 1877; there his widow still lives.
Tunis Wells himself died on his Jefferson farm in 1811 and was buried in the Dunlap Creek churchyard. His widow died in 1845. Joseph Wells' widow, now residing on the Tunis Wells place, came with her father, Issachar Shaw, to Jefferson in 1816.