Asahel Alford was born in 1760 in Becket, Massachusetts. His parents were Elijah Alford and Hannah Higley. He served in the American Revolution. He married Lydia and had seven children. He died in 1853 in Herkimer County, New York. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York Ohio and elsewhere.

Thomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca. 1646. She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote and the sister of John Deming. She had seven children from her previous marriage.