Steele (Y-DNA)

Status summary

Still to do of January 1, 2023:

• Recruit patrilineal descendants of John Steele (preferably through grandson Samuel) to Y-DNA test and publish their results. Such descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

Biography

First Generation

(Sgt.) Samuel³ Steele (John, John, Richard, Richard) was born Farmington, CT 15 Mar 1652 and died Hartford, CT bef 2 Jan 1710. He married Hartford 16 Sep 1680 Mercy Bradford and they had eight children: Thomas (1681), Elizabeth (c1682), Jerusha (twin, 1684), Samuel (twin, 1684-c1710 unm.), William (1687-1712 unm.), Abial (dau, 1693), Daniel (1697) and Eliphalet (1700)

Second Generation

Thomas Steele was born Hartford, CT 9 Sep 1681 and died there 27 Nov 1757. He married Hartford 10 May 1709 Susanna Webster and they had: Jerusha (1710), Samuel (1711/2), William (1713), Susanna (1715), Thomas (1717), James (1719), Nathaniel (1721) and John (1723).

Daniel Steele was born Hartford, CT 3 Apr 1697 and died there 13 Mar 1788. He married Hartford 20 Jun 1725 Mary Hopkins and they had eight children: Daniel (1726), Mary (1728), Welthia (1730), Timothy (1736), Rosewell (1738), Thomas (1738), Lemuel (1742) and Submit (1736).

Eliphalet Steele was born (West) Hartford, CT 23 Jun 1700 and died there Jul 1773. He married Hartford 4 Oct 1722 Catherine Marshfield and they had eleven children: Eliphalet (1723 d.y.), Josiah (1724/5), Catherine (1725/6), Mercy (1727), Theophilus (1730), Eliphaz (1732), Elijah (1735), Rachel (1737), Catherine (1739/40), Eliphalet (1742) and Jerusha (1746).

Third Generation

Samuel Steele was born Hartford 11 Mar 1711/2 and died West Hartford 12/13 Sep 1779. He married twice, first West Hartford 20 Dec 1739 Elizabeth Merry and second Martha ____ (no ch.) By his first wife he had: Timothy (bp 1739), Samuel (bp 1740 d.y.), Elizabeth (1741), Thomas (bp 1742), Anna (1745), Mary & Sarah (twins, 1747 both d.y.), Mary & Sarah (twins, 1749), Martha (1751), Lucretia (1753), Samuel (1755-1776 unm.), Allyn (1757), Martin (1760-1769), Sybil (1763) and Joel (1767).

William Steele was born Hartford 10 Dec 1713 and died New Hartford, CT bet. will (10 Feb) and Probate (22 Apr) 1777. He married abt 1741 Lydia Seymour and they had seven children: William (1742), Timothy (1745), Lydia (1747/8), Hulda (1749), Isaac (1752), Roderick (1755) and Seth (1757).

James Steele was born Hartford 22 Dec 1719 and died 1776. He married abt 1745 Lois ____ and they had eight children (New Hartford): James (1746), Lois (1748), Sarah (1750), John (1753), Jesse (1755), Susanna (1760), Elizabeth (1763) and Anna (1764).

Nathaniel Steele was born West Hartford 11 Mar 1721 and died Hartford 5 Oct 1787 or 15 Oct 1789. He married West Hartford 16 Oct 1746 Susanna Olmstead and they had ten children: Susanna (bp 1747 d.y.), Nathaniel (bp 1747), Moses (bp 1750), Anna (bp 1753), Susanna (1753-1770), Abigail (bp 1755), Sarah (bp 1758), Hezekiah (bp 1760), Frederick (1762) and stillborn child (1764).

John Steele was baptized West Hartford 17 Nov 1723 and died there 5 Dec 1760. He married Lydia Francis and they had two children: John (bp 1749) and Timothy (bp 1759).

DNA results TBD

The Steele DNA project currently does not list their DNA results.

Further DNA testing needed

Testing of patrilineal descendants is needed. Any male who believes their patrilineal ancestry goes through John Martin is encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com