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There were three other brothers of James Wasson, Stephen and Abram Conklin Deuel:
Jeremiah Deuel (1823-1883), married Sarah McArthur McDonald. He was a lawyer and judge in Urbana.
Lee Deuel (born 1846). He served in the Civil War, supposedly after running away from home to serve as a drummer boy. He later became a merchant in Michigan.
Wilbur Deuel.
There were also three sisters, Agnes, Sarah, and Hannah, the last marrying William Smythe.
It's fascinating to see the oral histories that families have developed to answer the question "where did we come from." The parents of James Wasson Deuel were Wilbur7(Silas6, Wilbur5, Silas4, Jeremiah3, Jonathan2, William1) Deuel and Mariah Conklin. Wilbur Deuel was born in the town of Washington, Dutchess County NY in 1793. He moved to Esperance (or more likely Duanesburgh) with his father Silas5 Deuel around 1800-1810.
Wilbur's great-grandfather, Silas4 Deuel (1717-1799) was born in that part of Dartmouth that is now Westport, MA (in the extreme southeast corner of MA on the RI border). Like many Quaker families from that area, he moved to Dutchess County around 1750. Silas' wife was Mary Wilbur, which is how that name was introduced as a first name in this line of Deuels. The Deuel family went by the name "Devol" or "Davol" when they lived in MA, and to this day the descendants of those who stayed behind in the MA/RI area use those spellings to the exclusion of Deuel or Dewell, for reasons no one has ever been able to explain.
The immigrant ancestor was William Devol, who was usually referred to as Deuell in Plymouth Colony Records (in the 17th century, a U was used where we would use a V), who first appears in Duxbury, MA in 1640. He then moved to Rehoboth, MA where he became associated with what was perhaps the first Baptist church in America, founded by John Clarke in 1644. William moved to Newport, RI in the late 1640s and then likely moved to Dartmouth or Little Compton, RI.
As your oral history relates, most of James Wasson Deuel's siblings relocated to Ohio, although their father Wilbur Deuel actually went with them, as he appears in the 1850 Ohio census, but later he returned to NY. Many of James Wasson Deuel's descendants appear to have lived in York, PA and Erie, PA.
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