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Eells, Ozias Shelton

American, 1794 - 1890

Biography

Ozias Shelton Eells was the son of Reverend Ozias Eells [1755-1813] Phebe [née Ely] Eells [1760-1829]. On the occassion of his marriage in 1828, his mother gave him a portrait (now in the NGA) of his ancestor, Samuel Eells [1640-1709], painted by an unknown American "naive" artist. The picture was probably copied around 1800 from the earlier original. In 1882 Ozias Eells (then eighty-eight years old) gave it to the Reverend William Woodward Eells; the two were not related, but the latter was active in compiling the Eells family history.

Bibliography

1903
Starr, Frank Farnsworth. The Eells Family of Dorcheste, Massachusetts, in the Line of Nathaniel Eells of Middletown, Connecticut, 1633-1821, With Notes on the Lenthall Family. Hartford, 1903: iv, 102-120.
1920
Eells, Emma Seymour. A History of the Eells-Stow House in Milford, Connecticut. Milford, 1920: 5-22.
1966
Eells, Reverend Earnest Edward. The Eells Family Hitory. Cambridge, Mass., 1966: 3-15.

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