An American Family History

Samuel Peters Buell

also spelled Bull

Samuel Peters Buell, Jr. was born about 1801 in Elizabethtown (now Brockville), Leeds County, Ontario.

He married Adelina Mary Giddings on May 10, 1825. The witnesses were George Gardiner and David Cornell. The reverend William Smart performed the ceremony.

Samuel and Adelina's children may have included:

Lois Buell (1829, married, married John Ferguson),
Adeline Mary Buell (1833, married Archibald Ferguson),
William Samuel Buell (1837)
John Giddings Buell (1838)
Amelia Buell (1842)
James Peters Buell (1845)
Jannett Buell (1848)
Keziah Adeline Buell (1851, married Michael James Connolly).

At the time of the 1861 census the household consisted of

S.P. Buell 60
Mary 54
Amelia 19
James 13
Jannett 16
Keziah 11
Isabella Connol 81 b. USA

The next households included:

John Buell and his wife Mary 23

William Buell and his wife Nancy 25

William Smart

William Smart
Minister of the Presbyterian Church
Brockville

Brockville, Ontario was called Elizabethtown. The area was first settled by English speakers in 1785, when Americans who had remained loyal to the crown fled to Canada after the American Revolution.

Brockville

Brockville
1840

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