Wells Wedding

Wells is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 9,400 at the 2000 census. Wells Beach is a popular summer destination.

In 1622, the Plymouth Company in England awarded to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor of Maine, territory which included the "Plantation of Wells." His young cousin, Thomas Gorges, acting as deputy and agent, in 1641 granted settlers from Exeter, New Hampshire the right to populate the land from northeast of the Ogunquit River to southwest of the Kennebunk River.

With the death of the elder Gorges, the Massachusetts Bay Company laid claim to all of Maine. In 1653 Wells was incorporated, the third town in Maine to do so, and named for Wells, England. The Abenaki Indians had called it "Webhannet," which means "at the clear stream," a reference to the Webhannet River. After 1675, inhabitants were beleaguered through the French and Indian Wars, with devastating attacks in 1692 and 1703. Native American hostility, encouraged by the French, would end with the Battle of Louisburg.