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in our Database | |  | | |  | | Birth Date | 1591 DEC 12 Fairsted, Basildon, Essex, England | | Death Date | 1665 FEV 27 Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut | | Father | Richard II Steele | Born: 1549 APR 12 Fairsted, Essex, England | Died: 1631 JAN 12 | | Mother | | Born: | | | John Steele
Notes: | About John Steele John Steele, bapt. Fairstead, England, Dec. 12, 1591, son of Richard (2). Richard (1) Steele, son of Robert Steele, was buried at Fairstead, England, 10 Jan. 1595. Richard Steele Jr., bapt. in Fairstead, Essex County, England 12 Apr. 1549, died and buried there 12 Jan. 1631, "aged 82". He married Elizabeth, v/ho was buried 1626 at Fairstead. Children - Richard; George (died at Hartford, Conn. 1665); John, bapt. 1591, d. 1665, m. 1622 Rachel Talcott, daughter of John and Anne Skinner Talcott, b. 10 Oct. 1602. Braintree, Essex County, England. Died 24 Oct. 1653. Arriving in America in 1630, he was to become best known as John Steele of Farmington, Conn. From England, probably County Essex, near London. First appears in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630; a proprietor of Cambridge, 1632; freeman, 1634; representative to General Court, 1635. In Autumn of 1635 he led a pioneer band to the wilderness to settle a new town, Hartford, and lay the foundations of a new Colony, Connecticut - 3d of the N.E. Colonies. Having been educated in the duties of a magistrate, he was well qualified as a leader in the new community. For 23 years elected to the principal Colony Court - for four years its Secretary or Recorder. For nearly 20 years he was also Recorder of the town of Hartford, and upon the organization of the town of Farmington acted as its recorder. Here his closing years were passed, and here he died 25 Nov. 1665. He married second, Mary, widow of Richard Seamer or Seymour. Mary, third child of John and Rachel, b. Hartford 31 Mar. 1637, married William Judd, and died 27 Oct. 1718.
| | Notes: | On 11 April 1640 "Mr. Steele is returned Recorder for the town of Hartford, and hath brought into the Court 114 copies of the several parcels of land belonging to & concerning 114 persons" [CCCR 1:48]. On 1 December 1645, as part of the establishment of Farmington, "Mr. Steele is entreated for the present to be recorder there, until the town have one fit among themselves" [CCCR 1:134]. Probably the "Mr. John Steele" requested 5 March 1656[/7] "to go over the great river and take an exact view of the land in difference between Robt: Sanford & Jno White" [PCCR 175]. ESTATE: On 5 August 1633 granted three roods for a cowyard in Cambridge [CaTR 5]; granted two acres in Westend Field, 1 December 1634 [CaTR 10]; in 20 August 1635 division of meadow ground given a proportional share of two [CaTR 13]. In Cambridge land inventory of 20 August 1635 John Steele held nine parcels: one house with garden and backside in town, about half a rood; three roods in cowyard row; half an acre in Old Field; two acres on Small Lot Hill; two acres in Westend Field; ten acres and a half in the neck of land; one acre in the Ox Marsh; three acres and a half in the Long Marsh; and twelve acres in the Great Marsh [CaBOP 13-14]. On 28 August "John Steele of the New towne" sold to Robert Bradish "all his parcels of land lying or being in Newtowne" [CaBOP 15-16]. In the Hartford land inventory John Steele held four parcels: two acres "on which his dwelling house now standeth with other outhouses, yards & gardens"; two acres in the Little Meadow "part whereof was received of Georg[e] Steell"; three acres and thirty perches in the North Meadow; and twenty-one acres, three roods and twenty-two perches "part whereof he bought of John Tayllcott" [HaBOP 410-11].
| | Notes: | The inventory of the estate of John Steele, presented on 20 June 1665, was untotalled, and included £67 in real estate: "house, barn, lot & orchard," £55; and "one piece of pasture land," £1
| | John Steele Will: | In his will, dated 30 January 1663[/4] and proved 15 June 1665,
| |  | | Birth Date | | | Death Date | 1653 | | Father | John Talcott | Born: 1604 | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Rachel Talcott Notes: | | | Individual Notes: | | | Individual Notes: | | | |
Ancestors Chart | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | Richard Steele II
b.1549 Fairsted, Essex, England
d.1631 | Richard Steele I
b.1524
d.1595 |
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