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This is an Oral Family History that was passed down for almost 2 hundred years, before it was written. So some dates may not be exact. Also, some names were lost over the years.
The following was written by Mrs. Effie (Euphemia) Isabella (Cook) Deuel, for her children.
Father, Abram Conklin Deuel ("Connie"), the son of James Wasson Deuel and Martha Bronk Deuel, was born August 15, 1855, and was married July 12, 1882, to Euphemia Cook by Rev. F.M. Bogardus. Euphemia (Effie) was born April 16, 1856. Her parents were William and Elizabeth Leslie Cook, both born in Scotland. Connie and Effie Deuel had he following children: James Wasson Deuel; Ella (Alice) May Deuel; William Cook Deuel; Joseph Cook Deuel; Martha Bronk Deuel; Louis Leslie Deuel; Beatrice Leslie Deuel and Donald MacLeod (pronounced MacLoud) Deuel.
Deuel Family History
When Sir William Johnson was granted a tract of ten thousand acres of land in the Mohawk Valley by the British Government for his services in the French and Indian War, he went to England and brought over to America several hundred Englishmen to help cultivate the soil, build saw mills and grist mills, church and schools and formed a town which is now Johnstown (Johnston?), New York. Among those people who came over in the year 1753 were three brothers named DEUEL. _______ DEUEL from whom we descended was granted a large tract of land and cultivated it very successfully. His son _____DEUEL was also a farmer who established the village which is now called Esperance in Cherry Valley, New York, about twenty miles west of Schenectady. His son James was educated at Union College and was a very successful school teacher for twenty years, when he purchased the hotel at Schenectady on the post road from Albany to Buffalo, which was then considered the West.
James and _____DEUEL had seven sons and one daughter. Only three sons' names are known at this time; they were Stephen, Abram Conklin, and James Wasson DEUEL. (This is the James we descended from)
At the time there was a great deal said about the rich lands in Ohio and so, selling off their property, James DEUEL was about to leave with his family from New York state when he suddenly died. His widow and six of their seven sons and one daughter (name?) went West anyhow. They traveled in canvas covered praire schooners on the long journey, and instead of the horrors one reads about that the Mormons and others encountered, our Grandmother DEUEL said her mother-in-law (our Great-Grandmother) told her it was a most delightful trip. Whenever they came to a grass-grown place beside a steam, they camped out for several days. The streams were full of fish, and game of all kinds were abundant. The men would hunt and fish and the women, while the children played, would get out the tubs and get all of the clothes and things washed, bundle everything in the wagons and again go on their journey with renewed zest.
Our great grandmother DEUEL settled in a place which is now Urbana, Ohio, with her sons Stephen DEUEL, who became a leading lawyer, and Abram Conklin DEUEL, who for many years was superintendent of schools at Urbana, (and supposedly her daughter). Her other four sons went farther west. (There is a DEUEL County in Nebraska and a DEUEL County in South Dekota). Her son, James Wasson DEUEL, our grandfather, did not go with his mother to Ohio, but remained in the East in New York state and married Martha Bronk. He taught school in his private school for boys in Englewood, New Jersey, after teaching at Leonia, N.J., and about (1859 ?) offered his school room for a place of Sunday worship and mid-week prayer meetings, which was the beginning of the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, N.J. Our grandmother also taught school in a one-room school house underneath the Palisades. Some of our cousins on the Cook side of the family attended her school.
Grandfather, James Wasson DEUEL, died in Englewood, N.J. in 1892
Grandmother, Martha Bronk DEUEL, died in Englewood, N.J. about 1901 (Jan. 26, 1901)
***If anyone can shed some light as to who the other seven sons and the Daughter of James Deuel was, please let me know.***
Shannon
727-236-3300
martini@tampabay.rr.com
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