Sarah (Turner) Buell (1737 - 1824)

Born 25 Sep 1737 in Coventry, Windham, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Elias Buell — married 8 Aug 1758 in Coventry, Tolland Co., Connecticut

Descendants

Died 4 Apr 1824 at age 86 in Albany, New York, United States

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Biography

Sarah Turner, b. 1737, descended from Habakkuk Turner and his wife Ann Davenport married Elias Buel in Coventry CT before the Revolution in which he was Major in Geo Washington's Continental Army, and they later migrated up to Vermont, usually traveling in winter when the Connecticut River was frozen and a good path for horses and freight.

Elias eventually purchased shares of interest for land which had been subscribed to before the Revolution by people in Connecticut, but for which the participants had since lost interest, and merging these into larger parcels, he and his son Elias Jr, operating from Rutland, planned to become land developers in northern Vermont, reasoning that the country could only develop in that direction.

However they did not anticipate Napoleon's need of cash (for his constant warfare, I guess) and the ensuing Louisiana purchase which opened up the whole midwest after 1803 and made the Buel's land in Vermont less desirable and marketable. Son Elias died and was buried in 1808 at Waterbury, and Elias and his wife Sarah became more "land poor" when both NY and NH levied taxes upon his holdings, both states claiming the territory as Vermont hadn't yet defined itself.

Later Jesse Buel, the couple's youngest son, onetime state printer at Albany, internationally known agronomist and publisher of The Cultivator, and also honored passenger on the inaugural run of the DeWitt Clinton, the tracks of which crossed his farm, and his wife, took in the elderly couple at their home in Albany, where they died in 1824. First buried in the churchyard of the Dutch Reformed Church in downtown Albany, New York.^[1] their graves were moved north to a rural cemetery when the location was needed to build the state capitol building.

Sources

1. ↑ Proceedings of the Common council, and the various religious corporations of the city of Albany, relative to the State street burial grounds; by Albany, N.Y. Common council, 1867; Burials at the Reformed Dutch Protestant Church, pg. 11. Retrieved from Archive.org, July 19, 2018.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #123801513
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed March 4, 2020), "Record of BUELL, ELIAS", Ancestor # A016637.Meehan-411