An unknown "Negro man" was enslaved by John Wells and left in his estate to his son John Wells and daughter Hannah Goodwin.

The 1748 will of John Wells had no specific mention of servants. It just stated "I give and bequeath unto my said son John Wells and my said daughter Hannah Goodwin ... every part and parcel of my estate, real and personal, of what name, nature or kind soever it be, not otherwise disposed of, to be equally divided between them." However the subsequent 1749 probate record includes "a Negro man, at £100."

Any record of how this estate was "equally divided" has not been located.

Bibliography:

Genealogy of the Wells Family of Wells, Maine - Charles K. Wells (1874)

Maine Probate Abstracts Vol I 1687-1775 - John Eldridge Frost (1991)