Maj. Samuel Eells

Samuel Eells was a militia officer in King Philip's war and after was at Fairfield, CT in 1687.

The Eells-Stow House is believed to be the oldest house in Milford, CT and takes part of its name from the Eells family, who arrived in Milford in the later 17th century from the Boston area. It was built by Samuel Eells about 1670. It was sold, in 1754, by his grandson, Nathaniel Eells to Captain Stephen Stowe.

Samuel Eells came to Milford with his bride in 1668. In Milford he was town clerk and on a committee to revise town records. Custom master for New Haven County and deputy to General Court Assembly for 12 sessions.

After his wife's death, he moved to Hingham, Mass. Upon his death, the Wharf Lane property (Eells-Stow House) was inherited by his son, Col. Samuel Eells.

Settled at Hingham, of which he was representative in 1705. Purchased nine acres of land, meadow and orchard in Hingham in 1705.

He was an infant when he returned to England with his father in 1641. Just when he returned to America is unknown, however he was married there in 1763. He was a weaver in Milford in 1670.

According to his will, he was a shopkeeper when he died.

Source: http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/eells.htm#name1469

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 362

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Samuel Eells born 1 May 1640 Dorchester, Norfolk, MA bp. Dorchester 3 May 1640 "his father being member of the church of Windsor was by communion of churches baptized" died 21 Apr 1709 Hingham, Plymouth, MA married first on 4/5 Aug 1663 at Lynn, Essex, MA (Lynn VR 2:336 as Samuel Salls) to Anna Lenthal born 1649 Weymouth, MA died Feb 1687 Milford, North Haven, CT daughter of Rev. Robert Lenthal. Samuel married second 22 Aug 1689 at Milford, CT to widow Sarah Bateman North born 10 Jan 1645 Boston, Suffolk, MA died 9 Feb 1717 Scituate, Plymouth, MA daugther of John and Hannah Bateman and widow of Edward North who had died bef 26 July 1683 Boston, Suffolk, MA. After Samuel's death Sarah married 3rd to Joseph Peck who died 1711.

Great Migration Begins shows that Samuel was in MA when he married Anna Lenthal.

Samuel Eells came to Milford, CT with his bride in 1668. After his wife's death, Samuel settled at Hingham, MA of which he was representative in 1705. Purchased nine acres of land, meadow and orchard in Hingham in 1705. Upon his death, the Wharf Lane property was inherited by his son, Col. Samuel Eells.

The Eells-Stow House believed to be the oldest house in Milford, CT, takes part of its name from the Eells family, who arrived in Milford in the later 17th century from the Boston area. It was built by Samuel Eells about 1670. It was sold, in 1754, by his grandson, Nathaniel Eells to Captain Stephen Stowe.

Eells Family History In America 1633-1952 by Rev. Myron Eells

Samuel Eells, and his father John Eells, returned to England at the time of the Cromwell War. He return to America in 1661.

Ells-Eells-Eels, Rust and Allied Families, a genealogical study with biographical notes

by Estelle Ells (Eells) Rust 1954

Major Samuel Eells as he was called, son of John Eells, was baptized at Dorchester, MA, 3 May 1640 about two days old by Rev. Richard Matthew and died in Hingham, MA 21 Apr 1709. He was an infant when his father returned to England and apparently did not return to America until he was at least 21 years old. Next we find him in Milford, CT where his marriage took place. In 1662 he settled at Milford, New Haven, CT where county records show that he served on juries at various dates from Nov 1666 to April 1671. On 15 May 1670 he was admitted to the church and his wife was also admitted 10 July of the same year. He served on committee chosen by the town in 1677 to transcribe from "Old books what is necessary to ye New books as grants of land, etc," at Milford CT. Samuel Eells was a clerk of the County court, deputy, commissioner, town clerk, settler at Hingham, MA in 1689, weaver, owner of a fulling mill, selectman, justice of the peace, deputy to the General Court and soldier in King Philip's War.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~whosefamilyisit/e...

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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. I-IV

He was an infant when his father returned to England , where Samuel is said to have remained until about twenty-one years of age. He settled at Milford, Connecticut , and in 1677 was on a committee to transcribe the old records there. He held many offices, was a juror often before 1671 . He was appointed to collect the customs at Milford on wines and liquors, June 10, 1668 , and was continued in office until after 1681 . In May, 1681 , he was appointed by the town on a committee to obtain from the Indians a deed of the lands purchased by the inhabitants at various dates, and in 1685 was one of the town's representatives on a committee to establish the line between Milford and Derby . In 1681 he was appointed clerk of the county court for one term.

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John Eells (Samuel's father), who migrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony from the West of England over three hundred years ago in 1632, settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was a freeman of the Colony and a prosperous farmer, but when the Long Parliament met in England in 1640 John Eells, that stern old Puritan, sniffed the coming battle from afar, sold all he owned for whatever price it would bring, and sailed back to England to take up arms for his religion, carrying with him his son Samuel, the "suckling child" a few weeks old. John never returned to America, but his son Samuel came back to his native Colony in 1661, and soon displayed marked ability and energy. He practiced "the notable profession of the law," and moreover was merchant, miller, selectman, Town Clerk, and often a Deputy in the General Court of Connecticut, as well as "a Major in the Regiment," fighting with distinction against the Indians in King Philip's War.

Source: http://www.adpcolumbia.com/eells.php

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1st Eells born in America. His father John returned to England. After father's death, Samuel returned to America in 1662 (prob.) and settled in Milford, CT. EHE writes (in notes to portrait folder: "Maj. Sam'l was commissioner for purchasing lands and settling boundary lines, town clerk, capt. of training-band, frequently a member of the General Court (of CT). In King Philip's War he commanded a garrison at Dartmouth MA and served with Capt. Church under Robert Treat. [He performed notable service in his protest against the mistreatment of Indian captives by the Plymouth Colony.] He built the historic Eells-Stowe House in Milford about1670 where we presume their their seven (6?) sons and one (4?) daughter were born. His wife Anna died in Feb., 1687. He is believed to have supported regicide judges Goffe and Whalley. In 1689, he removed to Hingham MA where he was J.P., deputy to General Court 1705 and representative in 1706. He married again-- this time Sarah North (nee Bateman).... His very interesting will is on file at the Suffolk Country Registry of Wills."

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Great Migration Begins says:

"SAMUEL, bp. Dorchester 3 May 1640 "his father being member of the church of Windsor was by communion of churches baptized" [ DChR 149, 152]; m. (1) Lynn 4 or 5 August 1663 Anna Lenthal [Lynn VR 2:336 (groom's name read as "Samuel Salls"); Milford CT VR 1:18], daughter of Rev. Robert Lenthal; m. (2) Milford 22 August 1689 Sarah (Bateman) North, daughter of John Bateman, and widow of Edward North [ TAG 35:207-10 (she did not marry first Joseph Peck as some sources state)]."

Source: http://home.earthlink.net/~ellsfam/maine/sgt_wm_01/Records/INDIs/II...

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"Our ancestor, Major Samuel Eells, of Hingham, Mass., spelled his name Eells. It was he who immortalized his name in denouncing the action of the Trustees of Plymouth Colony in selling the 160 Indians as slaves to the West Indies, an act only equal in its infamy and cruelty to that of Judas, who betrayed our Saviour for a price.

" His son, Col. Samuel Eells, of Milford, was for more than forty years in employ of Connecticut provinces in various public offices; at one time secretary of Governor Leete. Nathaniel Eells, of Scituate, a son of Major Samuel, married his wife, Hannah North, an aunt of Lord North, Prime Minister of George III, during the Revolutionary War, but her children were all loyal to the Colonies. Another Nathaniel Eells, of Stonington, an ancestor of Rev. Gushing Eells, the founder of Whitman College; Samuel Eells, of North Branford, a captain in the Revolutionary War, whose father, at the time of the Lexington massacre, preached a strong sermon in favor of the Colonies, dismissed his congregation, came out of his pulpit, opened a recruiting office in the church and raised a company. They chose him as their captain. On account of ill health he declined, and they chose his son for their captain. He went through the Revolutionary War. Rev.. Edward Eells, who married Martha Pitkin, 1740, and whose son Ozias was for 29 years pastor at Barkhamsted, all spelled their name Eells. Harvey Eells, born 1801, on account of a foolish quarrel among school children, who made fun of the name and said it was squirmy, foolishly dropped one 1, and called himself Eels. Most of his descendants moved to Georgia and sided with the Rebellion, and fought against us in the Civil war. There was one notable exception, Major W. B. Eels, of Milford, of the i9th Connecticut Volunteers and id Connecticut Artillery, who was wounded and disabled at the battle of Cold Harbor, made Lieutenant Colonel, but his wounds not allowing him to return to active service, soon after the war he died from the effect of those wounds at Terryville.

" In Stonington there is a Hannah Eells Society, a branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution."

Source: The Connecticut Quarterly

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Massachusetts Census, 1790-1890

about Samuel Eells

Name: Samuel Eells

State: MA

County: Plymouth County

Township: Hingham

Year: 1708

Page: 263

Database: MA Early Census Index

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American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)

about Samuel Eells

Name: Samuel Eells

Birth Date: 1640

Birthplace: Millinois.

Volume: 49

Page Number: 177

Reference: Records of Will. Spooner, of Plymouth, Ms., and his des. By Thom. Spooner, Cincinnati. 1883. V.1. (694p.):432

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Samuel Eells - was born on 1 May 1640 in Dorchester, Mass. and died on 21 Apr 1709 in Hingham, Mass. . He was the son of John Eells.

Samuel married Anna Lenthall on 1 Aug 1663 in Milford, Conn.. Anna was born about 1644 in Surrey, England. She was the daughter of Robert Lenthall. She died Feb 1687 in Milford, Conn. .

Anna - in Nans fathers will he mentioned a infirmity in Nans sight. (Sources: - 4)

Then Samuel married Sarah Bateman on 22 Aug 1689 in Hingham, Mass.. Sarah was born about 1668. She was the daughter of John Bateman. She died on 2 Nov 1738 .

Samuel - was a militia officer in Phillip's was and after was at Fairfield in 1687.

The Eells-Stow House is believed to be the oldest house in Milford, CT and takes part of its name from the Eells family, who arrived in Milford in the later 17th century from the Boston area. It was built by Samuel Eells about 1670. It was sold, in 1754, by his grandson, Nathaniel Eells to Captain Stephen Stowe.

Samuel Eells came to Milford with his bride in 1668. In Milford he was town clerk and on committee to revise town records. Custom master for New Haven County and deputy to General Court Assembly for 12 sessions.

After his wife's death, he moved to Hingham, Mass. Upon his death, the Wharf Lane property was inherited by his son, Col. Samuel Eells.

Settled at Hingham, of which he was representative in 1705. Purchased nine acres of land, meadow and orchard in Hingham in 1705.

He was an infant when he returned to England with his father in 1641. Just when he returned to America is unknown, however he was married there in 1763. He was a weaver in Milford in 1670.

According to his will, he was a shopkeeper when he died.

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The Will of Major Samuel Eells:

"The last will and testament of Samuel Eells of Hingham, in the County of Suffolk in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Shopkeeper, In the name of god Amen.

I the afForesaid Samuel Eells being in good health of body, and of perfect and Sound memory and understanding, blessed be god for it, yet being Sencable of my Mortallity, doe hereby make this my Last Will and testament, in manner and form following, hereby Revoking and making Null and void, all or any will or wills by me heretofore by me made, either by word or writing, and this only to be taken and held for my last Will and testament.

First I giue and bequeath my Soul to god (through Jesus Christ) who gaue it, and my Body to a decent and Christian Buriall at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named, and as to what worldly Estate god hath blessed me with, I doe giue bestow And bequeath as followeth.

Imprimis I giue and bequeath to my dearly beloued wife Sarah Eells all my reall estate in Hingham afforesaid to her & to her heirs And assignes foreuer, alsoe giue unto her my said wife all my personall Estate in Hingham, and all my Debts & personall Estate Due and of right belonging to me else where in the province afforesaid, vpon this Condition that she my said wife doe & perform and pay what is here- after Expressed and mentioned in my said Will for her to doe and perform & pay.

First that she pay all my Just Debts, Secondly that she Doe within eight moneth after my Decease, or upon the demand of my son Samuel Eells of Milford, in Connecticut Colony, Quitt her claim vnto my said Son, & to his heires & Assignes for euer of in and vnto my house and land in Milford, that I made ouer to my said wife upon her marriage with me, by Instrument Bearing date the 28th day of July 1689.

Item I giue and bequeath vnto my said Sonne Samuell Eells my old Dweling house, Barn and homelott & orchard in Milford afores'^ with all my out lands of what Kinde or nature soeuer, and that two Hundred acres of Land granted to Me by the general Court at Hart- ford, all to him and to his heires and assignes for ever, with ye ap- partinances he paying to my Daughter in Law frances Eells of sd Milford, the sume of thirty pounds, and I doe forgiue my said son what he oweth me, Except for Eight thousand of Shingles he had of me

Item I giue to my sd Daughter ffrances Eells my New house in s'^ Mil- ford, with the land it standeth on, & the vse of the well and pump what she shall have occation for, and free egresse and regresse in the yard to goe & come from s'^ well and pump, and some fruit in the orchard (when it bareth it) as much as she Shall have occation for, for her own vse and all this dureing her widowhood, but if she should marry a man that hath no house, then she shall haue the house, & the s priuilidges Dureing her Naturall life, alsoe I give to my said Daughter ffrances Eells five pounds to be paid by my Executrix, in goods at money pris

Item My will is that my Son Samuell Eells pay to his three Children out of what I have giuen him twenty shillings a piece

Item I giue to my grand Child Elizabeth Eells my feather bed that is at Milford, with what belongeth to it.

Item I giue to my grand Children ffrances Eells and Anna Eells, fourty shillings A piece to be paid in goods by my Executrix

Item I giue vnto my son Samuel Eells all my Law books, and three duzon of Coat Silver buttons and the coat that they shall be on at my decease, & my smalest Silver buttons for a Jackcoat, & the Jackcoat that they shall then be on, and my pistolls and Holsters, and my silver watch which he gaue me, and my best hatt and belt, & my siluer seal, & my great gold ring,

fiurther my will is that if my Daughter in Law Martha Eells, wife of my said son Samuel Eells, should be forced to part w"* the house that was her former husbands, to pay her Childrens portions that she had by her former Husband, Cap^ Sam". Bryan And if she should Survive my said son, that then she shall haue the one halfe my afforesd old dweling house. Barns home lott & orchard dureing her widowhood which halfe she pleaseth, the keeping of it in repair dureing sd time.

Item I giue vnto my Son Nathanael Eells of Scituate and my Daugh- ter Hannah his wife one hundred pounds in money, or goods at money price, at the Death of my now wife, or at her Day of Marriage againe, which shall first Happen.

Item I giue to my said Son Nathanael Eells three duzen of Silver Coat Butons, and all my largest sort of Jackcoat silver Buttons, and my clock, and my Cloth Cloak and my gun, & my Silver headed Cane.

And I do hereby make sd Louing wife Sarah Eells whole and sole Executrix of this my last will and testament

In Witnes that this is my last will and testament I haue hereunto Sett my hand and seal this first day of August In the fourth year of her Majesties Reign Annoque Domini 1705.

Signed sealed & declared by the above sd Samuel Eells that the aboue written instrument was his last will and testament in the presents of us witnesses

Nathaniel Hall

Benjamin Lincoln

John Fearing

Jeremiah Lincoln "

"Suflfolk, ss.

By the Hono * Is*. Addington Esq.

Judge of probate &c

The before written will being presented for probate by the Exe' yrein named Benjamin Lincoln & John Fearing psonally appearing made Oath That he saw Samuel Eells the subscriber to the above Instrum*. Sign & Seal & heard him Declare the same to be his Last Will & Testam', & that when he so did he was of sound Disposing Mind & Memory according to these Depon'" best Discerning & that they the Depon together with Nath'. Hall & Jeremiah Lincoln subscribed their Names as Witnesses thereof in the

Testators presence

Jur' Cor Is*. Addington

Boston 23"^ June 1713"

Source: "The Eells family of Dorchester, Massachusetts : in the line of Nathaniel Eells of Middleton, Connecticut, 1633-1821 : with notes on the Lenthall family"

http://archive.org/stream/eellsfamilyofdor1903star/eellsfamilyofdor...

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http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/samuel-eells_28883356
http://dunhamwilcox.net/bios/eells.htm

John Eeles (Eells, Eales) was born about 1600, a year estimated upon the birth year of his elder son. John's origin is unknown but some have speculated with no sources that he was from the vicinity of Chichester, Sussex.

The name of John Iles first appears in this country on the records of Dorchester, Mass., under date of "The 6th January, Mooneday, 1633."

1. John Eales was made a freeman at the General Court, May 14, 1634. He was therefore a church member. The majority of the Dorchester church had removed to Windsor. The records of the present First Church of Dorchester contain the following:

2. "Samuell Eelles, his ffather beinge memb of the church of Winso was by