Samuel Eells1,2,3,4,5

#2353, b. 3 May 1640, d. 21 April 1709
FatherJohn Eells b. c 1600, d. a 1641
MotherName Unknown

Spouse 1

Anna Lenthal b. c 1642, d. 1687
Child

Spouse 2

Sarah Bateman b. c 1645, d. c 1717

BMDB

     Samuel Eells was baptized on 3 May 1640 at Dorchester, Suffolk, Mass.6,5,4 He married Anna Lenthal, daughter of Robert Lenthal, on 5 August 1663 at Lynn, Essex, Mass.4,7 Samuel Eells married Sarah Bateman on 22 August 1689 at Milford, New Haven, Conn; This was the second marriage for both.8 Samuel Eells died on 21 April 1709 at age 68.9

Other Events

     In 1641, Samuel Eells and his family moved from Massachusetts, to England.10,11 In circa 1661, Samuel Eells emigrated to England from Conn.

Time Line

Baptism1640, Dorchester, Suffolk, Mass6,5,4
Move-to1641, EnglandJohn Eells10,11
Emigrationc 1661, Conn
Marriage1663, Lynn, Essex, MassAnna Lenthal4,7
Birth of Son1666, Milford, New Haven, ConnSamuel Eells12,13,14
Death of Wife1687Anna Lenthal
Marriage1689, Milford, New Haven, ConnSarah Bateman8
Death17099
ChartsDescendants of John Eells

Citations

  1. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 2:105.
  2. Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 1:502.
  3. Frank Farnsworth Starr, compiler, The Eells Family of Dorchester, Mass., in the Line of Nathaniel Eells of Middletown, Conn., 1633-1821 (Hartford: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1903), 102-120.
  4. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1996), 1:619.
  5. Susan Woodruff Abbott & Jacquelyn L. Ricker, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979), 243.
  6. Starr, Eells Family, 102.
  7. Starr, Eells Family, 103.
  8. Anderson, GMB, 1:620.
  9. Starr, Eells Family, 115.
  10. Anderson, GMB, 1:618.
  11. Susan Hardman Moore, Abandoning America: Life Stories from early New England (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England (also Rochester, NY): The Boydell Press, 2013), 102.
  12. Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Milford, 1:7, OL:18.
  13. Starr, Eells Family, 120.
  14. Abbott & Ricker, Families of Early Milford, 244.