Eliphalet Steele

Brief Life History of Eliphalet

When Eliphalet Steele was born on 23 June 1700, in Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Steele, was 48 and his mother, Mercy Bradford, was 39. He married Catherine Marshfield on 4 October 1722, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He died in July 1773, in West Division Parish, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 73, and was buried in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Eliphalet Steele
1700–1773
Catherine Marshfield
1701–1788
Marriage: 4 October 1722
Eliphalet Steele
1723–
Josiah Marshfield Steele
1724–1801
Katherine Steele
1726–1774
Mercy Steele
1727–1794
Theophilas Steele
1730–1775
Eliphaz Steele
1732–
Elijah Steele
1735–1818
Rachel Marshfield Steele
1737–1763
Catharine Steele
1740–
Rev. Eliphalet Marshfield Steele
1742–1817
Jerusha Steele
1746–1780

Sources (5)

  • Eliphalet Steel, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Eliphalet Steele, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Samuel Steele 1652, 'MyHeritage Family Trees'

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’, perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel, or for a foundry worker.

English: variant of Stile .

Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from Scots steel ‘steep bank, spur of a ridge’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Eliphalet Steele ( in line of Samuel, John Jr. John Sr. Founder of Cambridge Mass. And that of Mercy, Maj.William, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth, Mass.) The Steel and the Bradford name derived fro …

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