Samuel STEELE

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• Fact: Son of John Steele and Rachel Talcott

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He was Ensign of the Farmington trainband in 1654 and Lieutenant, 1674. He served as Deputy from Farmington, May and October sessions of 1669, 1670, 1671 and 1672; May and August, 1673, October, 1674, May, July and October, 1675, May, 1676 and May 1677. He also served as Deputy from Wethersfield in October, 1681. He acted on a number of committees by appointment of the General Court. In 1673, the town of Farmington obtained from the Indians a deed of the lands of that town, confirmatory of the grant made April 9, 1650; and he was one of the four persons who acted as agents of Farmington in this transaction.

Samuel married Mary BOOSEY before Dec 1652. Mary (daughter of Lieut. James BOOSEY and Alice ?) was born on 10 Sep 1635; died on 16 Mar 1703/4. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of James and Alice Boosey

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• Fact: Son of Richard Steele of Fairsted, in Essex, England

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He came to New England when a young man in 1632 and settled first at Cambridge, Mass., with Rev. Thomas Hooker and Stephen Hart, where he was a proprietor; Freeman, May 14, 1634; Representative the following March, May and September, 1635. March, 1635/6, he was appointed with Ludlow, Pynchon and five others to administer government over the great exodus to Connecticut for one year. He was an original Proprietor of Hartford and his home lot was on Main Street, just north of the present Athenaeum. he served as Representative at 66 regular and special and 27 adjourned sessions from the first Assembly in 1639 to 1659; Town Clerk of Hartford from 1639 until 1645, when he was chosen recorder of Farmington by the General Court in December of that year and probably removed thither soon afterwards. He was Secretary of the Colony , 1639-39 and one of its foremost men, a man of means and education, as well as of ability and energy.

John married Rachel TALCOTT on 10 Oct 1622 in Fairsted, Essex, England. Rachel was born in Braintree, Essex, England; died in 1653. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of John Talcott and Ann Skinner of Brancktree, or Braintee, Essex, England

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He was of Wethersfield, 1635; Representative from 1639 till his death; was chosen clerk of the Wethersfield Trainband in April, 1645 and is called "Lieutenant" in September, 1647, tho' the date of his appointment is unknown. He was a prominent citizen both in town and colonial affairs. By occupation, he was a joiner and wheelwright. Lands were recorded to him at Wethersfield, Mar. 10, 1641. In October, 1644, he was appointed by the General Court a committee with Governor Edward Hopkins, the Deputy Governor John Haynes, Captain John Mason, Mr. John Steele and Mr. William Gaylord, to treat with Mr. George Fenwick about the purchase of the fort and land at Saybrook. They made a bargain with Matthew Griffin. (h. 121) In his will of June 21, 1649, he appointed Mr. Welles, brother of Smith Senior and brother Dickinson overseers; Samuel Smith and nathaniel Dickinson, witnesses. In it, he mentions his daughter Mary "Item I give to my Daughter Mary fifty pounds at the age of on and Twenty years or at the Day of her maridge." He spelled his name Boosye. The best sketch of his life is in Mr. Starr's Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines, I, pp. 263-271.

James married Alice ?. Alice died on 30 Aug 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]