Claim: Helena Wells( c.1758) was an American novelist, writer and daughter of Robert Wells, a Loyalist, bookbinder, bookseller, and then a printer from Charleston, South Carolina.
Evidence: Helena Wells, later Whitford (1761?–1824) was an Americans novelist and writer at the end of the eighteenth century. 
Helena Wells was born in South Carolina between 1758 and 1765, the daughter of the printer and bookseller Robert (1727/8-1824) and Mary Wells, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1753.