John STEELE Fairsted, Essex, England d. 27 Feb 1664/5 Farmington, Connecticut: Darlene's Family Genealogy

- 1665

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Name	John STEELE [1, 2]
	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. [1]
Birth	Fairsted, Essex, England [1]
Gender	Male
Fact	Son of Richard Steele of Fairsted, in Essex, England [1]
Death	27 Feb 1664/5	Farmington, Connecticut [1]
Person ID	I83119	Main Tree
Last Modified	22 Jul 2019

Family 1 Rachel TALCOTT, b. Braintree, Essex, England d. 1653

Marriage 10 Oct 1622 Fairsted, Essex, England [1]

Children

+	1. John STEEL, Jr., b. England d. 1653/4, Farmington, Connecticut [Birth]
+	2. Lieut. Samuel STEELE, b. Abt 1626, England d. 14 Aug 1685, Wethersfield, Connecticut (Age 59 years) [Birth]
	3. Daniel STEELE, b. 29 Apr 1645 d. 1646 (Age 0 years) [Birth]
	4. Rachel STEELE, c. 29 Jun 1632 d. young [Birth]
+	5. Lydia STEELE [Birth]
	6. Mary STEELE, b. Abt 1638 d. 27 Oct 1718 (Age 80 years) [Birth]
	7. Sarah STEELE, b. Abt 1639 d. 22 May 1695 (Age 56 years) [Birth]
	8. Hannah STEELE d. 17 Jul 1655 [Birth]

Family ID F33968 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 22 Jul 2019

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	Birth - - Fairsted, Essex, England
	Fact - - Son of Richard Steele of Fairsted, in Essex, England
	Marriage - 10 Oct 1622 - Fairsted, Essex, England
	Death - 27 Feb 1664/5 - Farmington, Connecticut

[S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.
[S10371] Lucius Barnes Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut.
[S01785] Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry.com: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.;;).