Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . ] >ell, » >dell and Dale. The family is of di;tinguished ancestry, Dall, win. appears thave been present at the battle of Clontar( 1014 .\., having been a descendant in thfourteenth generation of Daire Cearbbrother of Lughaidh, son of < )lioll Flann-bea<king of Minister for thirty years, and grealgrandson of the celebrated Olioll Glum, kinof both Ministers in the third century, frotwhom were d
Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . ] >ell, » >dell and Dale. The family is of di;tinguished ancestry, Dall, win. appears thave been present at the battle of Clontar( 1014 .\., having been a descendant in thfourteenth generation of Daire Cearbbrother of Lughaidh, son of < )lioll Flann-bea<king of Minister for thirty years, and grealgrandson of the celebrated Olioll Glum, kinof both Ministers in the third century, frotwhom were descended all the Heberian nobiity and gentry of Thomond and Desmond. (I) William Odell, the founder and fir;immigrant ancestor of the Odell family herdealt with, was born either in Britain or Inland, died in Fairfield, Connecticut, in \6jtHe came to New England in the early part 0the seventeenth century, and he is first traceat Concord, Massachusetts, where his namappears in the town records as early as 163clie removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, abov1644, and became the owner of a large estat<His name appears there in the probate recordwith the comparatively rare prefix of Mr.,. W. &. *yfai4wartA SOUTHERN NEW YORK 587 which in those early days was a distinctivemd honorable title. His will, recorded atFairfield, Connecticut, and dated June 6, 1676,nentions his sons William and John, hislaughter Rebecca, who had married ThomasVIoorehouse, his daughter-in-law, MaryDdell, and others. In this will he bequeathedands in Concord and Fairfield and makeslis son, John Odell, and his son-in-law, Sam-iel Moorehouse, his executors. WilliamDdell married before coming to America, its thought, but the name of his wife has re-named unknown. There is no trace of residence in Concord, the first book)f the records of that town having been the early records of Boston, however, may<ie found A Register of the births and burialsn Concord for the years 1639 until the firstnonth
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