John Sabler

Died after 20 May 1658 in Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Puritan Great Migration Project WikiTree [send private message]

John Sabler migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 293) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

There is almost no statistical information on the original Hartford proprietor known as John Sabell/Sable/Sables/Savell/Savles in the town and colony records. There is no information on his birth, his parents, his death, his wife, or whether he had children.

Besides the spellings above and perhaps others Barbour in the Families of Early Hartford^[1] calls him Sabler and on the Hartford map by William Porter he is called John Serles, and is lot #122. Neither of these spellings were noticed in the records.

John was a member of the first church.^[2]

Jan 1639/40. "The Names of such Inhabitances as were Granted lotts. to have onely at The Townes Courtesie wth liberty to fetch wood & keepe swine or cowes By proportion on the common: John Sabell / Sables 6 acres."^[3]

About the same time, land owners were required to register their land holdings in the town, the land record books contain references to John's land abutting different persons, but it seems he never registered his parcel. (Thomas Woodford, was also granted six acres by the towns courtesy. He went on to own several parcels, but none fits the description of his first six acres, although that same parcel is mentioned as an abutter.) Some of the undated entries referencing John's land as a boundary refer to that land as once belonging to John Savell (etc.),^[4] indicating that at some unspecified time he left Hartford. Savage and others suggested he went to Wethersfield.^[5][1]

6 Dec 1642 "It is ordred allso by the towne that goodman Blis shall hafe the ves [use] of John sables hous lot ad planting lot adjoyning unto goodman Blises lote untill John be thought fite to ves [use] it himselfe John is to gife goodman Blis what his lote is beater when goodman Blis leafes it then it was when he entred upon it to be Judged by to indefrant men ad if he be not fite to ves [use] it then goodman Blis is to hafe it for his owne.^[3]

Also on the early pages of the town record there is an account list. Two items pertain to John Sable, but there is no explanatory information, or dates.

pd Will Cargill for Jno Sabl 1.4.0^[3]

pd [ ] Jn^o Sabls cloths ? 0.0.8^[3]

The estate of Richard Rissley was distributed in 1648. John Sabell was owed £10. Most of his debts were small, except he owed £16 to Mr Edward Hopkins, sometime Governor of the Colony, and 9 pounds to Mr. Thomas Olcott.^[6] Olcott, according to Barbour let and sold lands, and loaned money.^[1]

At: "A Perticular Courte in Hartford, the 6th of December 1649: John Sable plt contra Jervis Mudge defendt, in an action of debt to the value of 44s. dammages 15s. The defendt is to put in security to answer the plt, next Courte."^[7]

20 May 1658 Court of Election- These persons underwritten were made free, before the Court; John Sables.^[7]

No more is heard of John.

Probably not
A John Sbeller, son of Ralphe Sbeller, was christened on January 8, 1599/1600 at St. Marys Parish, London, Middlesex ^[8] there is no reason to believe that this record belongs To John

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut. Sabler p.490. Olcott 426/7.
2. ↑ Historical Catalogue of the First Church in Hartford. 1633-1885 Published by the Church, 1885. p.13 p. 13
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Hoadly, Charles J. Hartford town votes, 1635-1716 In Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society Vol. IV. Hartford: Published by the Society, 1897. Town grant pp 19, 20, 23, 50; List of accounts pp 20, 21; one half to Goodman Bliss pp 63, 64)
4. ↑ Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers, 1639. Hartford (Conn.).: Connecticut historical Society, 1912. Google Books (Sabell, Sabells, Sables pp 117, 118, 257; Savell, Savle, Savles, 205, 286, 335 356 365; also 218, 530; p. 501 Proprietor; Woodford p. 175.
5. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862.
6. ↑ Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records.Volume 1. Hartford District 1635-1700. Hartford, Conn., R.S. Peck & Co., Printers, 1904. p. 32.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Public_Records_of_the_Colony_of_Conn.html?id=X8VSAAAAcAAJ Google Books (1649 p. 203; freeman p. 315
8. ↑ Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London Metropolitan Archives, London, England

See Also:

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford "