Bibliography A wide variety of research sources were accessed in researching this family history. The following list is provided as a resource to others searching for information on these families or these geographic ares.
Colonial New England
Banks, Charles Edward, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1983.
Banks, Charles Edward, The Planters of the Commonwealth, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1979.
Hoadly, Charles J., Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford, 1872, 1873.
Jacobus, Donald Lines, List of Officials Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical of Connecticut Colony; also Soldiers in the Pequot War, Founders and Patriots of America, New Haven, Conn., 1935.
Morgan, Edmund S., The Puritan Family, Harper & Row, New York, 1944.
Paige, Lucius R., List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1978.
Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1977.
Trumbull, J. Hammond, Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Vol. 1. Brown & Parsons, Hartford, 1850.
Van Dusen, Albert E., Puritans Against the Wilderness: Connecticut History to 1763, Pequot Press, Chester, Conn., 1975.
Steele Family
Steele, Col. John P., An Inquiry into the Origin of the Name Stile, Stele, with all Variants of the Same, W. B. Bannerman, Croydon, England, 1923.
Strutt, Charles R., Transcript of Fairstead Parish Registers, 1538-1840, typewritten manuscript, Family History Library, Church of Jeses Christ of Latter day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Durrie, Daniel Steele, A Genealogical History of John and George Steele (Settlers of Hartford, Conn.) 1635-6, and their Descendants, Munsell & Rowland, Albany, N.Y., 1859 & 1862.
John Steele
Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1977.
Connecticut Historical Society, Collections, Vol XIV, Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers, 1639, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1912.
Hurlburt, Mabel S., Farmington Town Clerks and Their Times (1645-1940), Hartford, Conn., 1943.
Love, William DeLoss, The Colonial History of Hartford, Pequot Press, Chester, Conn., 1935 (Reprint, 1974).
Manwaring, Charles William, A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, 3 vols., R. S. Peck & Co., Hartford, Conn., 1902.
Perry, Charles Edward, ed., Founders and Leaders of Connecticut, 1633-1783, D. C. Heath & Co., Boston.
Porter, William S., Historical Notices of Connecticut, No. 1, Hartford, No 2, Hartford and West Hartford, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1842.
Potter, Rockwell Harmon, Hartford's First Church, Hartford, Conn., 1932.
Starr, Frank Farnsworth, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford, 1915.
Steele, Maurice Gaylord, History of the John Steele Family in America, unpublished manuscript, Rome, New York, 1970.
Stuart, Isaac W. (“Scaeba”), Hartford in the Olden Time: Its First Thirty Years, F. A. Brown, Hartford, 1853.
Walker, George Leon, History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1882, Brown & Gross, Hartford, 1884.
Weaver, Glenn, Hartford: An Illustrated History of Connecticut's Capitol, Windsor Publications, Inc., Woodland Hills, Calif., 1983.
John Steele, Jr.
Bickford, Christopher P., Farmington in Connecticut, Phoenix Publishing, Canaan, N.H., 1983.
Goodwin, Joseph O., East Hartford: Its History and Traditions, Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, 1879.
Samuel Steele
Bodge, George Madison, Soldiers in King Philip's War with A Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England from 1620-1677, Boston, Mass., 1906.
Ellis, George W. and John E. Morris, King Philip's War, The Grafton Press, New York.
Landis, John T., Mayflower Descendants and their Marriages for Two Generations after the Landing, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1977.
Parker, Edwin P., History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford, Belknap & Warfield, Hartford, 1892.
Thomas Steele
Burr, Nelson R., From Colonial Parish to Modern Suburb: A Brief Appreciation of West Hartford, Lithographics, Inc., West Hartford, Conn., 1982.
Hall, William H., History of West Hartford, James A. Reid, Hartford, 1930.
Main, Jackson Turner, Connecticut Society in the Era of the American Revolution, New Era Printing Co., Inc., Deep River, Conn., 1977
William Steele
Anon., History of Litchfield County, Conn., with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, J. W. Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1881.
Anon., Sketches of the People and Places of New Hartford in the Past and Present, Office of the Tribune, New Hartford, Conn., 1883.
Gay, Mrs. Catherine M., “A Famous Old Road and its People,” in the Hartford Courant, December 26, 1943.
Roth, David M. and Freeman Meyer, From Revolution to Constitution: Connecticut 1763 to 1818, Pequot Press, Chester, Conn., 1975.
Isaac Steele
Hall, Eileen Creevey, The Town of New Hartford, Litchfield Co., Conn., in 1775 and 1852, The Esperanza Press, New Hartford, Conn., 1976.
Hambrick-Stowe, Charles E., and Donna D. Smerlas, Massachusetts Militia Companies and Officers in the Lexington Alarm, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1976.
Johnston, Henry P., ed., The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military Service During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783, Adjutant-General of Connecticut, Hartford, 1889.
Roderick Steele
Ashely, Janice, and John Reed, An Informal History of Richmond, N.Y., Richmond, N.Y., 1976.
Everts, Ensign & Everts, History of Ontario County, N.Y., with Illustrations, Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876.
French, J. H., Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State, Heart of Lakes Publishing, Interlaken, N.Y., 1980.
McIntosh, ed., History of Ontario County, Evarts, Ensign & Evarts, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876.
Edwin Steele
Anon., History of Clayton County (Iowa), Interstate Publishing Co., Chicago, 1882.
Anon., History of Sandusky County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographies of Prominent Citizens, H. Z. Williams & Bro., Cleveland, Ohio, 1882.
Ash, Pearl N., A History of Edgewood, Iowa, 1842-1976, Formerly Yankee Settlement: The Town in Two Counties, The Historical Book Committee, Edgewood, Iowa, 1976.
Merry, Capt. John F., ed., History of Delaware County, Iowa, and its People, S. J. Clarke, Chicago, 1914.
William Eugene Steele
Bronson, William, The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, N.J., 1959.
The Talcott Family
Jacobus, Donald L. and E. F. Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1952.
Talcott, Sebastian V., Talcott Pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876, Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany, N.Y., 1876.
The Warner Family
Hills, William Sanford and Thomas Hills, The Hills Family in America: Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, Alfred Mudge & Sons, Boston, 1894.
Warner, Lucien C. and Mrs. Josephine G. Nichols, The Descendants of Andrew Warner, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1919.
The Bradford Family
Bradford, William, History “Of Plimouth Plantation”, Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1901, reprinted by Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Md., 1990.
Heaton, Vernon, The Mayflower, Mayflower Books, New York, 1980.
Preston, Belle, Basset-Preston Ancestors, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1930.
Shepard, James, Governor William Bradford and his son, Major William Bradford, James Shepard/Herald, New Britain, Conn., 1900.
Wakefield, Robert S., and Lee D. van Antwerp, William Bradford of the Mayflower, Mayflower Families in Progress, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Mass., 1994.
The Webster Family
Webster, William Holcomb, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut, E. R. Andrews Printing Co., Rochester, N.Y., 1915.
The Seymour Family
Jacobus, Donald Lines, A History of the Seymour Family, Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, New Haven, Conn., 1939.
The Pitkin Family
Daniels, Bruce Colin, Connecticut's First Family: William Pitkin and His Connections, Pequot Press, Chester, Conn., 1975.
Goodwin, James J., and Frank F. Starr, The Goodwins of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., 1891.
Pitkin, A. P., Pitkin Family of America, A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Pitkin, Hartford, Conn., 1887.
Pitkin, Samuel L., The Pitkin Family Genealogy and Some Account of the Early History of Hartford and East Hartford, manuscript, Connecticut Historical Society, 1831.
Warren, Israel P., The Stanley Families of America, as Descended from John, Timothy, and Thomas Stanley, B. Thurston & Co., Portland, Maine, 1887.
The Merrill Family
Merrill, Samuel, A Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, Cambridge, Mass., 1917-1928.
The Barber Family
Barber, Donald S., The Connecticut Barbers, McDowell Publications, Utica, NY, 1992.
Hartford Bicentennial Committee, Hartford, New York, A Pictorial History, Telescope Folding Furniture Co., Inc., Hartford, N.Y., 1976.
Helligso, Martha Stuart, Captain Michael Pierce, Including one line of Descent, Omaha, Neb., 1981.
White, John Barber, Barber Genealogy, Descendants of Thomas Barber, 1909; reprinted by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1994.
The Annis Family
Annis, Verle L., The Annis Genealogy, Charles Annis, 1638-1717, Of Newbury, Mass., & Descendants, Verle L. Annis, Laguna Beach, Calif., 1978.
Chase, George W., The History of Haverhill, Mass., from its First Settlement, in 1640, to the Year 1860, ….., 1861.
Currier, John J., History of Newbury, Mass, 1635-1902, Damrell & Upham, Boston, 1902.
Holton, David-Parsons and Mrs. Frances K. Holton, Winslow Memorial, Family Records of the Winslows and their Descendants, D-P. Holton, New York, 1877.
Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1990.
The Wheeler Family
Biographical Review, The Leading Citizens of Broome County, New York, Biographical Review Publishing Co., Boston, 1894.
Brownell, George Grant, Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Thomas Brownell, 1619 to 1910, Jamestown, N.Y., 1910.
French, Mansfield Joseph, Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford, Connecticut, Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., 1940.
Hubbell, Walter, History of the Hubbell Family Containing a Genealogical Record, J. H. Hubbell & Co., New York, 1881.
Munsell, W. W., History of Delaware County, N.Y. with Illustrations, Biographical Sketches, and Portraits of some Pioneers, W. W. Munsell & Co., New York, 1880.
Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedia History of the Wheeler Family in America, American College of Genealogy, Boston, 1914.
Wilbour, Benjamin F., Little Compton Families, Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, RI, 1967; reprinted by Clearfield Co., Baltimore, MD, 1997
The Lowe-West Family
Anon., “Chauncey Walker West,” in The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, January, 1911.
Cornwall, Edward E., Francis West of Duxbury, Mass., and some of his Descendants, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1906.
Stone, Letta Brock, The West Family Register, Important Lines Traced: 1326-1928, W. F. Roberts Co., Inc., Washington, D.C., 1928.
West, Carlton Prince, A Survey of the Descendants of Francis West of Duxbury, Winston-Salem, NC, 1987.
West, Franklin L., Chauncey W. West, Pioneer - Churchman, Franklin L. West, 1965.
The Wood Family
Blodgett, George Brainard, Early Settlers of Rowley, Mass., A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley, Amos Everett Jewett, Rowley, Mass., 1933.
Delorey, Janet Ireland, “The English Origins and Descendants to the Fourth Generation of Edward Wood of Charlestown, Massachusetts,” in The Genealogist, Vol. 9, 1988.
Howe, G. L., “A Study of the Identity of Thomas Wood, of Rowley, Mass., and his Wife, Ann,” in The American Genealogist, Vol. XXI, 1944.
Johnson, Donald Blake, Upton's Heritage, The History of a Massachusetts Town, Phoenix Publishing, Canaan, N.H., 1984.
Newman, Harry Wright, Charles County Gentry, A Genealogical History of Six Emigrants ... Richard Edelen, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1971.
Wood, Amasa, Brief History of the Descendants of Thomas Wood and Ann, His Wife, Daniel Seagrave, Worcester, Mass., 1884.
Wood, Ann Maria, An Account of the Ancestry of Arba Thayer Wood, Lincoln & Smith Press, Boston, 1908.
Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818, David Clapp and Son, Boston, 1879.
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