George Steele
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1583
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Death: 1663-1664 - Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
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Parents
Father: Richard Steele (1549-1631)
Mother: Elizabeth (Abt 1565-1626)
Spouses and Children
1. *Margery Sorrell ( - )
Marriage: 12 Oct 1608 - Fairsted, Essex, England
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Notes
General:
Presumed to have been an elder brother of John Steel, came to this country with him. He was made a freeman at Cambridge in 1634, moved to Hartford, Conn., was a propretor of lands at the latter placein 1639; he died in teh year 1663, as is said, "very old".
Great Migration Begins, at NEHGS web site
Origin Fairsted, Essex. Migrated 1633. First lived in Cambridge, and removed to Hartford in 1636. Admitted to Cambridge church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. (You had to be admitted to the church to be admitted to the town as a freeman.)
He signed his will, implying that he could write. His inventory included "one great Bible", valued at 16 shillings, and one of Mr. Shipard's books at 11 shillings.
He was ordered with William Spencer on 22 Aug 1635 to measure and divide meadow in Cambridge, to provide a gate and three rods of pales for teh burying ground. in 4 Jan 1635/6. He served on a committee to regulate the slaughtering of cattle in 1642.
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On 5 Aug 1533 granted one half acre for a cowyard in Cambridge, granted two acres planting... 2 Feb1633/4; granted a proportional share of one in undivided meadow ground. In 5 Oct 1635 inventory of Cambridge lands, George Steele held six parcels; one house with backside in town, at rood, half an acre in cowyard row, half an acre in Old Field; two acres in Wigwam Neck; five acres and a ahlf in the new parcels in the new... parcels soon appear in the hands of Edward Goffe.
In the Hartford land inventory in Feb 1639/40 George Steele held 14 parcels (some of them acquired after ... of the inventory), six acres on which his dwelling house now stands with other outhouses, yards and garends, five acres in teh Twenty Acres, two roods "abutting upong the higway leading from his house to the great swamp", eleven acres on the highway leading from his house to the great swamp, three acres in the South Meadow, four acres and two roodsin the forty acres, two roods in the Little Meadow, two acres on the east side of the Great River (acquired by exchanging...acres on the east side of the Great River, two acres of swamp on the east side of theGreat River "which did sometime... to Richard Steele lately deceased adn now belongs to George Steele his father", three acres "called swamp mow mow... which he bought of Mr. John Hayns Esq., two acres and two roods "called swqamp now mowing land which he bought of John Hans Esq, thirty-five acres of woodland which parcel of land he bought of Mr. Thomas Welles, and thirty-five ... woodland in the great swamp.
In his will dated 24 May 1653 and proved 2 March 1654/5, George Steele of Hartford bequeathed to "my dear and loving brother John Steele, 30s, to my daughter Elizabeth Wates, my old mill, and several household objects, to my gra... Martha Harison, best chamber pot, to Moses and Micah Mudg, 10 shillings apiece, to my grandchildren James and Mary one chest apiece, adn to my dear and loving son James Steele, the residue, he to be executor.
The inventory of the estate of George Steele was taken on 21 Dec 1654 by Thomas Bunce and Samuel Steele, totalled 136 pounds, including 58 pounds in real estate, six acres of land in the south meadow, thirty acres of wood, and five acres of upland.
Birth by about 1583 based on date of marriage.
Death Hartford between 24 May 1663 (Date of will) and 21 Dec 1654 (date of inventory)
Marriage: Faristead, Essex, 12 Oct 1608 Margery Soreell; she died before 24 May 1663 (date of husband's will).
His children were all born in Fairsted, Essex, England.
His son Richard must have died unmarried (or she did not outlive him) and without children, since on his death his land reverted to his father.
George Steele's will was much shorter than his brother John's will. He left to his daughter Elizabeth Wates my old mill, my bed and bolsters with all the furniture belonging to it, also my vice, my warming pan, frying pan and fyer pan, my fyer forck and spit, my scales and five and twitny pound of leaden weights, my peck hammer and spincers; also I give to my grandchild, Martha Harrison, my best chamber pot.