William
Buel
aka Buell
Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Unknown) Buell
— married
18 Nov 1640 in Windsor, Connecticut Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Samuel Buel Sr., Mary (Buell) Bissell, Peter Buell, Hannah (Buell) Palmer, Hepzibah (Buell) Belden, Sarah Buell and Abigail Buell
Died
at about age 71
in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony
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Caution on Origins
The parents of William Buel are NOT Robert Beville and Goode Buell. They are a fabrication of the fraudulent Albert Welles. DO NOT ATTACH THEM TO THIS PROFILE.
Please disregard Albert Welles' English history of William Buell. His American records are probably correct. BUT his William Beville died in England and has no validity, not even Beville's mother's name which was Coles not Goode. Robert Beville's 2nd mother-in-law.
Biography
Birth & Baptism
William Buell's origins are not currently known. Standard WikiTree policy is to estimate a male birth 25 years before a known marriage which would make born about 1615. Welles in his discredited English history states a birth year of about 1610 in Chesterton, Huntingdonshire. As it is very possible that William Buell had a wife prior to his 1639 marriage to Mary Unknown (see Marriage section below), his estimated birth year is left at 1610. No proof has been found of specific Welsh or English origin.
Immigration
Welles states initial immigration to Dorchester, Mass about 1630 followed by "removal" to Windsor, Connecticut about 1635/36. (In actuality, Dorchester was simply renamed Windsor about this time, per Wikipedia.) He was certainly in New England by that date as is also proved by his documented November 1640 marriage (see below).
McCracken in "William Buell & Early Descendants"[1] states that Buell was granted land in Windsor 1 Dec 1640.
An entry is found in land records cited in "The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut...&c" by Stiles stating that Samuel Pond bought land in Windsor in 1641 "by William Buell" confirming that Buell was in Windsor by at least 1641.[2] William Buell appears several more times in this source, usually listed as a carpenter which is how he is listed by the Windsor Historical Society as a founder of Windsor.[3]
Marriage & Children
McCracken points out an intriguing possibility, the "Goode Buell" who died in Windsor 3 Dec 1639 may have been the mother of William, or it may have been a prior wife. Donald Lines Jacobus was apparently the one who suggested to McCracken that this may have been a prior wife.
William Buell was married 18 November 1640 to Mary _____. Torrey in "New England Marriages to 1700" says this about the marriage
BUEL, William1 (1610-1681) & Mary [POST?/THOMAS?] (-1684); 18 Nov 1640; Windsor, CT/Hadley
Children of William and Mary (_____) Buell (note that Samuel, Peter and Mary were listed by name in William's will and Mary's will also listed Mary as "Milles", listed daughter Hannah Palmer and Hepzibah Welles, gave a hat to Mary which "was Sarah's" implying Sarah was dead by 1684 and listed daughter Hannah with no married name. Neither will listed a daughter Abigail)[1]
- Samuel, b. Sept. 2, 1641, m. Deborah Griswold, Nov. 13, 1662
- Mary, b. Sept. 3, 1642
- Peter, b. Aug. 19, 1644
- Hannah, b. Jan. or March 8, 1646
- Hepzibah, b. Dec. 11, 1649
- Sarah, b. March 21 1650 bef. Aug 1684
- Abigail, b. Feb. 12, 1655 - bef. Nov 1681
The list of children, given in McCracken[1], originally came from a 1677 list of births in Windsor since its founding, created by a Matthew Grant, which matches the above, including Abigail. Subsequent researchers were apparently unable to find other primary sources for Abigail's birth, but she is assumed to have died before her father's 1681 will, in which she is not mentioned.
Death & Estate
He died 16 November 1681 at Windsor, Connecticut, leaving a will dated 26 July 1681].[4] (cited source also gives the will of wife Mary).
Manwaring in "A Digest of the Early Conn. Probate Records" cited above[4] gives his death date as 16 Nov 1681, whereas Welles in "History of the Buell Family in England and America",[5] says that William Buell Sr. died 23 Nov 1681 in Windsor. Although the English history of the Buell family by Welles is suspect, some of his American history may well be accurate and should at least be reviewed.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 George E. McCracken, "William Buell & Early Descendants." The American Genealogist Vol. 54 pp. 65-75, 150-158 $subscription
- ↑ The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut : including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks, and Ellington, 1635-1891 by Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909 Publication date 1893 section "First Settlers and their Home Lots" p. 163
- ↑ The Founders of Windsor, Their Trades and Professions, Windsor Historical Society. Available here
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charles William Manwaring, A digest of the early Connecticut probate records, 3 vols. (1904-1906), William Bewell (Buell); Vol 1. p. 280-281.
- ↑ History of the Buell Family in England and America by Albert Welles, American College Genealogy Registry, Family History Heraldry Society Library, 1881, NY, p. 23
See Also
- Find A Grave: Memorial #162140766
- Hinman, R.R. A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford, Connecticut: Printed by E. Gleason, 1852) Page 368: Buel, Bewell, Buell, William.
- U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls
- The Holcombes, nation builders : a family having as great a part as any in the making of all North American civilization; their biographies, genealogies and pedigrees" by McPherson, Hannah Elizabeth Weir, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/466227-the-holcombes-nation-builders (the name "Buell" appears many times in this book)
- Welles, Albert. American Family Antiquity (Society Library, New York, 1881) Vol. 1, Page 47-9
- Starr, Frank. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford, Conn., 1915) Vol. 1, Page 123-31
- Phelps, Noah Amherst. History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton, from 1642 to 1845 (Case, Tiffany and Burnham, Hartford, 1845) Page 168
- Andrews, Henry Porter The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn., 1635-9 (G.W. Ball, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1893) Vol. 1, Page 92
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He died in London in 1637. Not America
He paid to have his families monument improved in his church. He and his brother Robert entered together Grey's Inn of Court London to practice law at an early age. In his Will he left money to the poor and gifts to children of his mother's [Maria Coles] first marriage as well as to the Rector of the Church
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Buel in Holland has one "L". I believe the family is Dutch, with William (Willem) born in North Holland, NNE of Amsterdam. I theorize he sought to marry a younger girl, Mary Post or Mary van der Poste, and was refused marriage by Dutch Reform ministers because he, as a ship's carpenter, was a seaman and wouldn't be home for a young wife. Fearful to return to Dutch culture, the couple eloped to Dorchester, Mass for marriage, mixed in with the Puritans, and removed to Windsor with the group in May or Oct 1635. I am descent from Peter Buel's line. Oct 2023, Robert Buel Palmer
Plausible theory, Rob. The challenge will be to find proof to back it up.
This page of a will belongs to Beville-15, I add the link there https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beville-15.
Should this be removed from Buel-138?
Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for noticing that!
I see nothing in the biography to indicate that he was born in Wales. The Great Migration Directory (page 48) indicates his origins are Unknown. Should Wales be deleted from his birth location?
Private Message received from Ed Poor in response:
"At least he doesn't say he was a Beville of Huntingdonshire. England. Henry Stiles called him a " Welchman". That's where it came from. Via "History of Ancient Windsor CT" page 153 Vol 1 Believe him or not, At least it deserves a mention to start searching I searched an online phone book. No Buels any spellings. current when I checked. Years ago. Ed"
Bevilles Mother Maria COLES died in 1610. William was born in 1605. Would someone PLEASE READ!! Asailia Licliter and her fellow reseachers book " 700 Years OF THE BEVILLE FAMILY etc." and did the actual research, not Welles and his apparently lazy "researches" who {I guess} did not go to the Courts to find the Will and Church Where the Bevilles were buried.
Dare I ( ) be to ask if Mr Anderson travels to anywhere to check his workers research. Some claim his parents died over here when very well they were known to have died in England and one was his stepmother not mother.
I'm sorry, but I don't think I understand. Isn't the William Beville that you speak of (died childless 1638ish in Chesterton) an entirely different person than this profile.
For his date of death, why are we reporting 23 November 1681 in the vital data as opposed to the date given in the historical record, 16 November 1681?
Did Welles provide a reference for his alternate date (23 November 1681)?
Hoping to learn how we come to know if William died at England and in 1637 or in the colonies still much later? (See entry in "Memories.")
Thank you in advance.
Do not merge this with William Beville NOT a Buel no matter who said it.
Albert Welles did a very botched up, guessed at tree. Even he said "IT APPEARS TO BE,,,,,,"
Sorry this is not William Beville who died in England in 1638. He was a lawyer or Barrister in London, Not a carpenter. His Will which names his sisters and others mentioned by Welles was probated in 1638. Find Asselia Lichliter's "700 Years of the Beville Family in England" His mother or 1st wife did die here. Goode was probably short for Goodwife a common title of respect. ADD this fact William Beville's mother was Maria Cole who died about 1610. His step grandmother was Elizabeth Goode. Mother of Catherine Hampson who separated from his father and died a wealthy woman.
The notion of Albert Welles and his researchers was totally twisted. Beville was never Buel
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Categories: Albert Welles Fraud | Founders of Windsor | Puritan Great Migration
History of the Buell Family in England from the Remotest Times Ascertainable from our Ancient Histories and in America, From Town, Parish, Church and Family Records compiled by Albert Welles, President of the American College for Genealogical Registry, Family History and Heraldry, Society Library, New York 1881