Ancestors of Edward Eugene STEELE
Ted's Colonial New England Ancestry
Several of these family lines include
Mayflower
Pilgrim ancestors:
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.
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:
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