WILLIAM BUELL

Occupation Details

• WILLIAM's occupation was A Welshman, joiner by trade; an early ands respectable settler at Windsor. .

  • Occupation Notes
    • George E. McCracken in TAG, vol 54 (April 1978) pages 65-71, titled William Buell & Early Descendants indicates that there is no documented proof that the immigrant William was the son of Sir Robert Bevill and Catherine Goode.
      
      William Buell married, perhaps at Windsor where the marriage is recorded, a woman whose name is not identified in this record. We know from other sources that her first name was Mary but we have not found her maiden surname recorded anywhere, though there is a claim that she was either a Thomas or a Post. Good old Matthew Grant, who was responsible for theses records, gives us dates of marriage for several other couples without stating the maiden names of the brides. I have long had a theory that he was more concerned to discover that between the wedding and the birth of the eldest child a full cononical nine-month period had elapsed, and that in most of these cases the wedding had taken place elsewhere. Matthew might well have asked these ladies what their maiden names had been, but apparently his curiosity did not lead him to do so. In this case, the fact that "Goode Buell" had died in the preceding year at Windsor makes it seem likely that the wedding actually took place in Windsor and that Grant was unusually remiss in not setting down Mary's maiden name. 1
      
      His will was written July 26, 1681, inventory taken November 16, 1681, and probated March 6, 1681/2 (Manwaring 1:280 f.)
      
      According to the inventory of her estate the widow Mary Buell died on September 1, 1684, but the Windsor Vital Records and Colonial Deeds D:56 say she died on the day following. She left an unsigned will dated August 29, 1684, probated March 24, 1684/5 (Manwaring 1:280).