William Buell was born in 1751 in Hebron, Marlborough County, Connecticut. He was the son of Timothy Buell and Mercy Peters.
He married Martha Naughton (Norton).
William Buell, Jr. (1776),
Andrew Norton Buell (1778)
Joseph Peters Buell (1780),
Timothy Buell (1782),
Anne Buell, (1785, married Andrew Prevost),
Sabrina Buell (1787),
Phoebe Buell (1790, married Stephen Richards)
Martha Buell (1795)
His second wife was Margaret Berkley Barnard.
William remained loyal to the British during the American Revoltuion.
In 1779 he joined Robert Rogers’s King’s Rangers.
In 1784 he moved to Elizabethtown (now Brockville) and built the first house there.
William Buell was commissioned justice of the peace for the Luneburg District on July 24, 1788 and for the Midland District on July 15, 1796.
About 1795, he built a flour mill on the 2nd Concession of Elizabethtown.
In 1800 he was elected to the House of Assembly representing Leeds County.
1801
On a complaint being made upon Oath by William T. Slater against Elkany Billings. The Court ordered that the said Elkany Billings should be bound by Recognizance in the sum of one hundred pounds together with his two Surities], William Buell and Jonathan Mills Church, each to be bound in Recognizance in the sum of fifty pounds that the said Elkany Billings shall appear at the next Assizes to be holden in this District to answer to the complaint exhibited against him. The Court also orders that the Complainant William T. Slater should be bound over to appear and prosecute his complaint at the next District Assizes.. in the sum of one hundred pounds.
William Buell deposeth on Oath he is afraid that William B. Sowl will take his life therefore prays that said Sowl do give security of the Person admited to Bail upon paying his fees. Ordered that William B. Sowl be bound in Recognizance in the sum of fifty pounds and that his Surities John McDonald and John Lehy be bound each in the sum of twenty five pounds...
About 1809, he opened the first school in Brockville.
During the War of 1812, Timothy and William, Jr.served in the Leeds County Militia.
In 1820, he built the first stone house in Brockville.
He died from cholera during the epidemic of 1832. |
