Mercy (Ruscoe) Steele (1610 - aft. 1668)

Born 1610 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Seymour — married 18 Apr 1631 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England

Wife of John Steele Sr. — married 25 Nov 1655 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died after 4 Jul 1668 after age 58 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Mary Ruscoe was born in 1610 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Roger and Sarah Ruscoe. ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

On 18 April 1631, she married Richard Seymour in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Robert Seymour and Elizabeth Waller^[7][8][9][6]

Mercy immigrated to the colonies slightly before 1639 with Richard and their son Thomas and took residence in Hartford, Connecticut.^[10] She later removed with Richard to Norwalk, Connecticut in 1650 and resided there until Richard passed in 1655.^[6]

While living in Norwalk she married for a second time on November 25, 1655 to the Honorable John Steele of Farmington, Connecticut, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Steele. After their marriage, she removed to Farmington with her three minor sons, John, Zachariah, and Richard, becoming members of John's household. Mercy outlived John, who passed in February 27, 1664/5, and bequeathed to his "dear and loving wife Mercy Steele the house wherin I now dwell and the appurtenances belonging to it." ^{[11][12][13][6]}

She passed away after July 4, 1668. This being the date that John Winthrop treated her. She was 67 years old and of Farmington.^[14]

Mercy was born in 1610. She passed away in 1655.

Sources

1. ↑ American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
2. ↑ England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980
3. ↑ New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1625
4. ↑ North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000: Richard Seymour of Hartford and Norwalk, Conn, and some of his descendants
5. ↑ The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Jacobus, D. Lines. (1939). A history of the Seymour family: descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, for six generations ; with extensive amplification of the lines deriving from his son John Seymour of Hartford. New Haven, Conn.: [Printed by the Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor company]. pg 21-28. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058583543;view=1up;seq=51
7. ↑ England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940
8. ↑ England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973
9. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
10. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
11. ↑ Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, Pre-1870(Barbour Collection)
12. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
13. ↑ U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
14. ↑ Anderson's Great Migration Study Project

See Also

• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #35324076

• Volume: 27; SAR Membership Number: 5369. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.

• Morris, Seymour. Richard Seymour of Hartford and Norwalk, Conn., and Some of His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1918) Vol. 72, Page 209.

• Place: Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England; Date Range: 1558 - 1650; Film Number: 991395. Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, copyright 2002.

• Ephriam and Pamela (Converse) Morris, anc. and des. By Tyler Seymour Morris. Chicago, 1894. (204p.):147, 180 A genealogical dict. of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692. By James Savage. Boston. 1861. (4v.)v.4:58. Volume 156, p. 318. Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.

• "English Home and Ancestry of Richard Seamer." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 71:111. 1917.

• Seymour, George Dudley. The English Home and Ancestry of Richard Seamer Or Semer of Hartford, Conn. (Stanhope Press, Boston, 1917) Page 8-9