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- 1655
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Generation: 2
2. | John STEELE was born in Fairsted, Essex, England; died on 27 Feb 1664/5 in Farmington, Connecticut. Other Events and Attributes:
- 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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3. | Rachel TALCOTT was born in Braintree, Essex, England; died in 1653. Other Events and Attributes:
- Fact: Dau. of John Talcott and Ann Skinner of Brancktree, or Braintee, Essex, England
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