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father Levi Wells was a Yankee who lived under 

 four flags without going outside of the present 

 boundaries of the United States. 



Levi Wells was born in Hartford in 1765. At that 

 time Connecticut was a British Colony. He was 

 descended from its fourth governor Thomas Wells, 

 who was born in England in 1598 and died in Hart- 

 ford in 1660. 



The American Revolution became a matter of 

 history while Levi Wells was a school boy. With it 

 came a transfer of the allegiance of the Wells family 

 to the United States of America. 



Levi Wells took up surveying for a livelihood. 

 In 1786 he was selected by some one connected with 

 the United States government to locate the bound- 

 aries of a tract of land owned by Alexander Fulton 

 and J. Miller in Louisiana. 



Fulton and Miller established a trading place at 

 a military post on the Red River, two hundred miles 

 north of New Orleans. In their transactions with the 

 Indians, the French prior to 1763 and the Spaniards 

 after that date, they acquired considerable land. 

 They wanted it surveyed in order to perfect their 

 title. With that object in view they requested the 

 American government to send some one to do the 

 work. The order was turned over to Levi Wells. After 

 he had completed it he decided to locate there. 



For a future home Levi Wells selected a plot of 

 land in Rapides Parish near the present city of 

 Alexandria. He married Miss Calvit and settled down 

 to grow up with the country. 



