William Scovill

Birth and Death
Birth	ABT 1671
Death	10 NOV 1712
Parents
Parent	John Scovell	ABT 1635	England	ABT 18 NOV 1700	CT
Parent	Sarah Barnes	1649		AFT 18 NOV 1700	CT
Marriage	29 MAR 1666	Farmington CT
Family
Marriage	20 JAN 1702
Spouse	Martha Bailey			2 MAY 1753
Notes	[JScovell descendants Helen Edwards.FTW] Reference: "A Survey of the Scovils or Scovills in England and America," by Homer Worthington Brainard, Hartford, 1915, pg 144. Reference: "Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut & 1,766 Descendants, 1615-1994," by Frederic Wayne Barnes and Edna Cloe (Bauer) Barnes, pg 13.

Notes

• [JScovell descendants Helen Edwards.FTW]
  Reference: "A Survey of the Scovils or Scovills in England and America," by Homer Worthington Brainard, Hartford, 1915, pg 138, 144.
  "William Scovill is first mentioned in 1697 as serving in the campaign against the Indians, 'eastward,' by which is meant somewhere on the coast of Maine. In this service he was wounded, and returning to Boston, he somehow attracted the attention of Judge Samuel Sewall, who twice refers to him:---
  "Wm. Scovil with his broken arm from Hadham, Saml Stockin of Middleton, Ebenezer Smith of Saybrook, sick and mortified broken shins, etc" ('Letterbook' under date of Oct. 5, 1697.)
  "Wm. Scovil being well and having on his new Coat, I fitted him with my Musket, Rapier, Ammunition &c. and he served in the South Company." ('Diary', Feb. 9, 1697-8) From 'Sewall Papers', published in Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections, series 5, vol. 5; series 6, vol. 1.
  "The occasion referred to by Sewall was the military funeral of Col. Samuel Shrimpton. Scovil must have again been wounded, or else have had further trouble with the injured arm, for in May, 1698, the General Court of Connecticut voted as follows:---
  'Ordered by this Court that William Scovil that was wounded in the late expedition to the eastward, shall be placed with some able surgeon and be maintained at the countrey charge until he is cured, and Captn George Gates and Mr Daniell Brainard are appointed to take effectual care that this order be attended.' 'Colonial Records of Connecticut', vol. 4, page 252.
  "The first record relating to a town school in Haddam is dated 1705, and on Nov. 8, 1708, the town voted to procure a sufficient schoolmaster to be employed ten months in the year from the middle of February. The master was obliged to teach all children went by their parents to the school both reading and writing. On the tenth of March, 1708-9, the town voted to employ William Scovill as schoolmaster. The school was probably kept in his or other private houses, as a vote to build a schoolhouse was not passed until late in 1709. Haddam at this time contained from forty to fifty families, and the number of children may have been as high as eighty. It is quite possible that Mr. Scovill's wound had disabled him from the labor of tilling the soil, and that he was rather obliged to become the town schoolmaster. He appears to have been living on the farm his father bought of John Hanneson in 1686, and living there alone, his two brothers having removed across the Connecticut River to East Haddam as early as 1703 or 1704.
  "In 1710 thirty-six acres of unimproved land were measured or surveyed on John Hanneson's ancient right and recorded to William Scovill. This land was on Turkey Hill, so called, in the southern part of the town of Haddam near the Saybrook (now Chester) line. William Scovill never lived upon this land, but it fell to his son John, who improved it and made his home upon it.
  "William Scovill left no will and the administration on his estate was granted to Martha Scovill, widow, on April 6, 1713. The inventory taken Dec 8, 1712, by Benjamin Smith, Thomas Shaylor, and Joseph Arnold amounted to 168.05.08 Pounds, an amount below the average even in those times. On May 2, 1715, Mrs Martha Scovill exhibited an account of her administration and was appointed guardian to the two children. The Court then ordered a distribution ot 'Martha Scovell, widow, to William Scovell, eldest son, and to John Scovell.' At this time Mrs. Scovill signed with her mark, apparantly a "C".
  Reference: "Thomas Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut & 1,766 Descendants, 1615-1994," by Frederic Wayne Barnes and Edna Cloe (Bauer) Barnes, pg 13.
  

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