Ancestors of Edward Eugene STEELE

Ted's Colonial New England Ancestry

Several of these family lines include Mayflower Pilgrim ancestors:

William Bradford	Samuel Fuller
Peter Brown	John Howland
Edward Fuller	George Soule

John Tilley / Elizabeth Tilley

A number of Ted's ancestors were also original settlers of the city of Hartford, Connecticut.

Many of these ancestors have their names inscribed on Hartford's Founders' Monument, which is located in the Ancient Burial Ground.

Jeremy Adams	William Holton	William Spencer	George Steele
Francis Andrews	Thomas Judd	Thomas Stanley	John Talcott
Ozias Goodwin	William Lewis	Timothy Stanley	Andrew Warner
Samuel Hale	Thomas Lord	Thomas Stanton	Gov. John Webster
William Hills	Richard Lyman	John Steele

Witches

Two of Ted's ancestors were involved in the Witchcraft Delusion of the 1690s:

Elizabeth Thomas (Mrs. John Fosdick) of Malden was indicted for witchcraft in Salem by accusation of Marcy Lewis, age 17, and Mary Warren, age 20 -- both domestic servants. She was arrested on 2 June, but no further record of her trial exists. She was apparently acquitted, for she lived an additional 24 years.

Thomas Farrar was accused of witchcraft and jailed in Boston. He was eventually released. Connecticut's witchcraft trials preceeded Salem's by 30 years:

Robert Webster was on the Hartford jury that convicted Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith of witchcraft. They were hanged in January 1663.

Revolutionary War Ancestors

The following ancestors served in some capacity in the Revolutionary War:

James Annis	Daniel Pierce	Samuel Webster
Thomas Benedict	Daniel Spike	Daniel West
George Brownell	Lucy Sprague	William Wheeler
John French	Isaac Steele	Jonathan Winslow
Lot Osborne	Thomas Tracy