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Hannah Newell
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Abel Phelps ← Rebecca North ← Hannah Newell
Family
Children
- d. February 2, 1709/1710m. Jane Stebbins, March 19, 1707/1708
- b. 1673 in Farmington, Connecticut · d. March 2, 1724/1725, in Christian Lane (Berlin), Connecticutm. Martha Roys/Ryce/Rice/Royce, December 1, 1698; Mary Roys
- Hannah Northm. Samuel Seymour, May 10, 1706
- Nathaniel Northb. 1688 in Northington (northeastern Avon), Connecticut · d. April 5, 1777, in Northington, Connecticutm. Margaret Holcomb, June 10, 1708
- Mary Northm. William Eno (sibling of David Eno (3877)) in 1709
- Joseph Northb. Abt. 1693 in Northington (Avon), Connecticut · d. March 20, 1781, in Goshen, Connecticutm. Martha Denny, July 18, 1734
- Lydia Northb. Abt. March 1696 · d. August 8, 1736m. Samuel Humphrey, December 6, 1714
- Sarah Northb. 1696
- Ebenezer Northb. 1703 in Northington (Avon), Connecticut · d. August 5, 1789, in Torrington, Connecticutm. Sibyl Curtis, December 10, 1730
Siblings
- Rebeckah Newellb. Abt. January 1643m. Joseph Woodford
- Mary Newellb. Abt. March 1645/1646m. Thomas Bascomb/Bascom, March 20, 1667
- John Newellb. Abt. January 1647 · d. June 16, 1696
- b. March 2, 1650, in Southington, Connecticut · d. October 25, 1723/1733, in Farmington, Connecticutm. Elizabeth Wrotham, November 5, 1679
- Hester, 4/Esther Newellb. Abt. July 1652m. John Stanley, November 18, 1669
- Sarah Newellb. Abt. February 1654/1655m. Arthur Smith
- Martha Newellb. Abt. April 1658
- Samuel Newellb. Abt. December 1660 around Farmington, Connecticut · d. February 15, 1753m. Mary Hart, December 20, 1683
- Joseph Newellb. Abt. April 1664 · d. November 1689
In brief
Born April 14, 16561/16582. She married 1669. She died November 4, 1757.
Life story
A Guardian for Her Children
Hannah Newell was born around 1656–1658, daughter of Thomas Newell, and married in 1669. She inherited twenty-eight pounds from her father's estate in 1689 and joined the church in 1691. In 1713 Hannah was appointed legal guardian of her younger children, Lydia, Sarah, and Ebenezer, while her son Joseph chose his stepfather, Thomas North, as his own guardian. Hannah died November 4, 1757, at around age ninety-nine.
Sources (4)
- Dexter North, John North of Farmington Connecticut and his Descendants (Washington, D.C.: The Rumford Press, 1921); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/johnnorthoffarmi00nortiala : accessed 22 July 2026).
- Mary A. Newell Hall, Thomas Newell, who Settled in Farmington, Conn. A.D. 1632. And His Descendants (Southington, Connecticut: Cochrane Bros., 1878); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/thomasnewellwhos00hall : accessed 22 July 2026).
- Henry King Olmstead and George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmstead Family in America (New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing, 1912); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924029843244 : accessed 22 July 2026).
- Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut: Vol. I (Hartford, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/variousancestral01star : accessed 22 July 2026).