Richard Ducket Wells served during the American Revolution as a Private. His pension records state that he served under Captain John Richardson's MD company from 1777-1778 (one of three enlistment periods).
The marker was placed by Iris Well Higby with the assistance of the The Daughters of the Nathan Davis Chapter of West Union WV and the Tyler County American Legion Post No. 48 in 1965. Iris Higby researched and authored "The Genealogy of the Wells Family".
The graves of Richard Duckett and his wife, Sarah Lakin (1755-1843), are actually lost but they are believed to be buried in graves, with missing or disintegrated markers, in an old cemetery on the south bank of Middle Island Creek in Bridgeway, a section of Middlebourne, Tyler County, WV where the family owned land and lived.
The marker was placed by Iris Well Higby with the assistance of the The Daughters of the Nathan Davis Chapter of West Union WV and the Tyler County American Legion Post No. 48 in 1965. Iris Higby researched and authored "The Genealogy of the Wells Family".
The graves of Richard Duckett and his wife, Sarah Lakin (1755-1843), are actually lost but they are believed to be buried in graves, with missing or disintegrated markers, in an old cemetery on the south bank of Middle Island Creek in Bridgeway, a section of Middlebourne, Tyler County, WV where the family owned land and lived.
Richard Ducket Wells served during the American Revolution as a Private. His pension records state that he served under Captain John Richardson's MD company from 1777-1778 (one of three enlistment periods).
The marker was placed by Iris Well Higby with the assistance of the The Daughters of the Nathan Davis Chapter of West Union WV and the Tyler County American Legion Post No. 48 in 1965. Iris Higby researched and authored "The Genealogy of the Wells Family".
The graves of Richard Duckett and his wife, Sarah Lakin (1755-1843), are actually lost but they are believed to be buried in graves, with missing or disintegrated markers, in an old cemetery on the south bank of Middle Island Creek in Bridgeway, a section of Middlebourne, Tyler County, WV where the family owned land and lived.
The marker was placed by Iris Well Higby with the assistance of the The Daughters of the Nathan Davis Chapter of West Union WV and the Tyler County American Legion Post No. 48 in 1965. Iris Higby researched and authored "The Genealogy of the Wells Family".
The graves of Richard Duckett and his wife, Sarah Lakin (1755-1843), are actually lost but they are believed to be buried in graves, with missing or disintegrated markers, in an old cemetery on the south bank of Middle Island Creek in Bridgeway, a section of Middlebourne, Tyler County, WV where the family owned land and lived.
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MARYLAND
CAPT
J RICHARDSON'S
MD REGT
REVOLUTIONARY
WAR
MARCH 22 1752
APRIL 13 1833
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