A Wells Family Tree

William Wells was captured as a boy and raised by members of the Miami Confederacy, becoming a prominent warrior as the son-in-law of Miami leader Little Turtle. He later became a US Indian agent. His daughters married army officer James Hackley, and William Turner who was a doctor and Indian agent. Hackley and Turner were “Indians when interested and whites when not,” and accumulated land that included the site of Muncie, Indiana. William Well’s nieces married John Ruland who was an Indian subagent for William Clark, and Nathan Heald who was at one point the commandant at Fort Dearborn at the site of Chicago.