[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] tate. The present proprietor of the Manor House is his nephew, Lemuel Wells, Esq. The Wells family are originally from Cambridgeshire, England, and descend from Richard Wells, who held the manor of Wells at a very early period. In the possession of the present Lemuel Wells, Esq, is a coat of arms beautifully embroidered in silk needlework. These arms were granted to the Cambridge Wells's, A. D. 1614. a-The pre-sent family are more immediately descended from Samuel Wells of Wethersfield, Conn., who removed A. D. 1639, with his three sons, John, Thomas and Samuel, to Milford, Conn.b This family gave a Governor to that State. The last lord of the manor, Colonel Frederick Philipse, re-turned to Chester, in England, where he died, A.D. 1785, after a short illness, and has a monument there erected to his mem-ory.•= His faithful colored valet, Angevinc, who had accom-* Berry's Encj-clopedia of Arms... b Trumbull's Conn., 105. = " Frederick Philipse (says Mr. Sabine) occupied an elevated position in Colo-nial society, but he does not appear to have been a prominent actor in public atTairs. He was, however, a member of tlie House of Assembly, and held the commis-fiion of colonel in the militia. Nor does it seem that, though a friend of existing institutions, and an opposer of the whigs, he was an active partisan.