George STEELE

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George Steel came from England, and after a few years residence in Cambridge, Mass., was one of the earliest settlers of Hartford, Conn., and was one of the forty-two Hartford soldiers who served under Captain Mason in the Pequot war. He died in 1663 at an advanced age. His farm, now a portion of the city, of immense value, was situated around the present Washington and Lafayette streets; his house stood on this latter just out of Washington street.

James Steel, his son, married for his first wife Anna Bishop, of guilford, who died in the year 1675. He afterwards married Bethiah, widow of Samuel Stocking. James Steel, the son of James and Anna Steel, and the grandson of George Steel, was born about the year 1658, and died in 1712. He married Sarah Barnard, who died his widow in 1730. STEPHEN STEEL, the son of James and Sarah Steel, and the great grandson of George Steel, was born in Hartford in the year 1696, in the house, yet standing, on the spot where George Steel first settled. He was the first minister of Tolland.

Family/Spouse: unknown ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Ann BISHOP on 18 Oct 1651. Ann died in 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bethia HOPKINS. Bethia died before Nov 1695. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]