DEVOL GENEALOGY
(Deuel, Davol)
"MAYFLOWER"
SURNAMES CONNECTED TO "DEVOL":
ADLEY, ALLEN, AUDLEY, ANDERSON, BECKERSTEAD, BRAYTON, BROWNELL, BUCK, BURRINGTON, CLARK, COMPTON, ELDRED, HICKS, IDEN, KIRBY, MILK, MOSHER, PEABODY, POTTER, SHERMAN, SISSON, SMITH, SOULE, SPOONER, SWIFT, WEEDEN, WHITRIDGE, WING
'DEVOL" Family Crest
RICHARD DEVOL
1530-UNK
Richard DEVOL (or Devill) was born about 1530 in Spalding, Lincolnshire England. It is believed that he was of French origin, his ancestors coming from the village or district of Deyville in northeastern France.
According to Devol, Long, Eckel & Allied Families, by Nellie Devol Long, the Devols were Huguenots (Protestants) who were driven from France during religious persecutions in the 15th century.
On or about his 30th birthday, on October 6, 1560, Richard married Margaret IDEN, in Spalding, Lancashire. The next year, Robert DEVOL, the first of their 10 children, was born. While son Robert matured and lived into his thirties, their next child John lived only nine months. A daughter, Dorothy, came into the world in 1563, followed two years later by, Thomas born in 1565. Four girls and two boys followed.
Richard's wife Margaret, passed away the last day of November, 1581, a month after their 21st wedding anniversary. It is not known when Richard died.
SOURCES:
Devol, Early Settlers in Rhode Island (1639) and in Ohio (1788). Jerry Barker Devol, Herbert G. Devol editor, 1997, Herbert G. Devol. p. 4
Devol, Long, Eckel & Allied Families. Nellie Devol Long, 1942.
Spalding Town Records, the Gentlemen's Society, Spalding, Lincolnshire England, p. 6. Courtesy Mr. Brinsley McCall Fitzgerald & Mr. Leverett of the Museum Staff.
Original parchment records of "Christenings, Marriages, and Burialles," the Parish Church, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. Courtesy of D. Graham Jakeman, Vicar. July 1968
The Devol Family, by Elbert E. Boyd. Published prior to 1997.
CHILDREN OF RICHARD DEVOL AND MARGARET IDEN:
Robert DEVOL b: 1 JUL 1561 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
John DEVOL b: 8 MAR 1561/62 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England (Died as an infant)
Dorothy DEVOL B. 18 JAN 1562/63 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Thomas DEVOL b: 18 SEP 1565 in Spalding, Lincolnshire England
Ann DEVOL b: 2 AUG 1568 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Ann DEVOL II b: 5 OCT 1570 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Joyas DEVOL b: 1 DEC 1573 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
John DEVOL b: MAY 1576 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Sara DEVOLb: 14 NOV 1577 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
THOMAS DEVOL
1565- aft 1637
Thomas DEVOL - or "Thom Davile" as he was known - was the fourth child of Richard DEVOL and Margaret IDEN. He was born September 18, 1565 in Spalding, Lincolnshire and lived a long life for his time, passing away after 1637 when he was 72.
Three months before his 25th birthday, Thomas married Alyce ELDRED of Spalding. Over the next two decades, the couple brought at least seven children into the world, including a girl and a boy that the Devols named for themselves. Their first child was a daughter, Ellin, who was followed by Alyce, named for her mother. Next came a boy, William, who lived less than 22 years, followed by sons Robert and Thomas Jr.
Thomas Jr.'s birth was especially bittersweet. He arrived in the eleventh year of his parents' marriage, but the boy, his father's namesake, lived only a few weeks - in November and December of 1610.
Children Elizabeth and William II rounded out the Devol brood. The latter was born in 1615, two years before Thomas re-married again.
Thomas apparently favored June weddings, because Ellen WATSON became the second Mrs. DEVOL on June 16, 1617 -- two days after the 17th anniversary of Thomas's marriage to Alyce. (We don't know how or why their union ended.)
Nineteen years later, in October 1637, Tom, 72, signed his last will and testament, a copy of which resides in the Lincoln Consistory Court, in Lincolnshire. In that document, he left two homes - one a dwelling, the other a rental property - to "Samuell Davile, my sonne." Samuel's name doesn't appear in family birth records. he was apparently a product of the second marriage, as Thomas calls for the aforementioned homes to be given to his wife, Ellen, and their daughters should Samuel "depart this life before he attaine to the age of one and twenty yeares."
William was next in line to receive the real estate upon his mother's death. Thomas also left all of his apparel "bothe lining and wolling (excepte my coate)" to William. Wife Ellen was made executrix of the estate along with son Samuel, while Thomas requested friends Leonard Snell and Exposer Linwood be named supervisors of the will.
No record was found concerning Thomas's death, nor whether wife Ellen survived him.
SOURCES:
Devol, Early Settlers in Rhode Island (1639) and in Ohio (1788). Jerry Barker Devol, Herbert G. Devol editor, 1997, Herbert G. Devol, p. 6.
Original parchment records of "Christenings, Marriages, and Burialles," the Parish Church, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. Courtesy of D. Graham Jakeman, Vicar. July 1968
Married 14 JUN 1590 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England to Alyce ELDRED
CHILDREN OF THOMAS DEVOL AND ALYCE ELDRED:
Elizabeth DEVOL
Samuel DEVOL
Allyce DEVOL b: NOV 1595 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Ellin DEVOL b: SEP 1601 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
William DEVOL b: 8 MAY 1604 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Robert DEVOL b: 1608 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
Thomas DEVOL Jr b: 16 NOV 1610 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England Died DEC 1610
William DEVOL II b: 4 JUN 1615 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
William DEVOL
(Or DEUEL)
ABT1615-1680
William DEVOL was born on June 4th, 1615 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. He was the son of Thomas DEVOL and Alyce ELDRED.
In 1637, at the age of of 22, he began a short-lived marriage to Ann BECKERSTEAD of Spalding. Two years later, he married Isabel ANDERSON. The young couple sailed to America before their first wedding anniversary. William was a Quaker and may have come to North America as an indentured servant.
He and Isabel settled first at Duxbury, Massachusetts, where on August 3, 1640, court records indicate William petitioned for a parcel of land. By June 2, 1643, he was at Braintree, MS, where John, their first of four children was born.
The day after Christmas in 1645, he was granted a house and lot that had been laid out to John SUTTON "for as much as he has now come to live among us." A week later, on January 7, 1646,William bought a house and lot from John HAZEL.
The second property was in Rehoboth MA, but today would be in East Providence, Rhode Island, on Roger Williams Avenue, between the Agawam Hunt Club and the Roger Williams Spring. A shelter was set upon the cove before the house, and alewives and other fish were sold there.
William became constable in Rehoboth in 1649. In Newport, on May 17, 1653, William was made a freeman -- thirteen years after his arrival in America. Court records show that in 1662, William deeded a parcel land located at Monmouth, New Jersey, near Sandy Hook, to his son Benjamin of Middletown.
Eventually the DEVOLs moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where William died, sometime after 1681.
SOURCES: Devol, Early Settlers in Rhode Island (1639) and in Ohio (1788).Jerry Barker Devol, Herbert G. Devol editor, 1997, Herbert G.Devol. Devol, Long, Eckel & Allied Families. Nellie Devol Long, 1942. Detroit Society of Genealogical Research Magazine. Dartmouth City Records. The Devol family by Elbert E. Boyd. Lincoln Parish Registers, Vol 1, p. 41, 43, edited by Phillimore and Maples, 1905.
Little Compton Families, page 237.
Information taken from the Detroit Society of Genealogical Research magazine, Austin's Dictionary, Dartmouth Records, and from the book, The Devol Family, by Elbart E. Boyd.
"William first appears in America in Duxbury, MA 3 Aug 1640, when he applied for a parcel of land. He is believed to be the William Davol who was married in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England in 1639."
"The origin of the name is supposed to be French, but it has long been in England."
"William was living in Newport in 1681. In June 1643, he was of Braintree, MA and in 1649 of Rehoboth MA. He was made a freeman of Newport 17 March 1653."
Married 8/3/1640 to: Isabel ANDERSON b. 1623, d, 1722
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM DEVOL AND ISABEL ANDERSON:
John DAVOL( DEVOL, DEVILL) was born 24 JUN 1643 in Braintree, Suffolk County, MA, and died 15 JUL 1643 in Braintree, MA
Joseph DAVOL was born ABT. 1645 in Rehobeth, MA, and died BEF. 24 FEB 1715/16 in Stonington, New London County, CT. He married Mary BRAYTON 6 JAN 1670/71 in Portsmouth, RI. She was born 1649 in Newport, RI, and died in childbirth. He married Elizabeth PEABODY 29 JAN 1704/05. She was born ABT. 1651, and died AFT. 1716. He married Emily ? AFT. 1716. She was born 1665.
Benjamin DAVOL was born ABT. 1650 in Rehobeth, MA. He married Phebe SMITH 6 JUL 1682 in Newport, RI. She was born in Newport RI, and died 12 APR 1689 in Middletown, NJ. He married Judith COMPTON 11 JUN 1689 in Middletown, New Cesaria Province, NJ. She was born in Middletown, NJ..
Jonathon DAVOL b: Abt 1649 in Braintree,Norfolk Co., MA Death: 1739 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts
JONATHAN DEVOL
Abt 1645-Abt 1709
Jonathan DEVOL was the second of four sons born to William DEVOL and Isabel ANDERSON. He was born in Duxbury, MA, and died AFT. 9 AUG 1709 in Dartmouth, MA.
He married twice. First he wed Hanna ADLEY (or AUDLEY), 27 JUL 1674 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island . Theirs was a long relationship, lasting some 43 years, and producing 11 children -- six girls and five boys.
Hannah AUDLEY was born 21 AUG 1643 in Boston, Suffolk County, MA or Newport RI, and died 1717 in Newport RI.
Records indicate that on May 1, 1677, the Rhode Island General Assembly gave Jonathan 100 acres at Newport, RI, but he never settled there. He sold 50 acres to Nathaniel POTTER, Sr. of Dartmouth, MA on August 19, 1698 for 15 pounds.
Jonathan and Hanna resided in Little Compton, RI from 1687 to 1692. She passed away around 1717, near the age of 74. Later, Jonathan married again, wedding Mrs. Martha WING SPOONER of New Shoreham, Rhode Island on 29 NOV 1730. She was born ABT. 1656 in Rochester, MA. Martha was the widow of William SPOONER and daughter of John WING.
Before he died, Jonathan Sr. deeded his son Jonathan Jr. a goodly sum of land. As described in Jonathan Jr.'s own will is was "fifty acres more or less beside the salt marsh meadows with ...housing, orchard, fences and appurtenances." He also sold another 50 acres lying at the head of those lands to Jonathan Jr.
CHILDREN OF JONATHAN DEVOL AND HANNAH AUDLEY:
Ann DEVOL was born AFT. 1680. She married Benjamin SWIFT
Joseph DEVOL b. about 1672 in Newport, RI, and died ABT. 1726 in Dartmouth, MA. He married Mary SOULE on 30 JUL 1695 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, MA, daughter of George Jr. SOULE and Deborah ?. She was born ABT. 1681 in Duxbury, MA, and died ABT. 17 JUN 1729 in Dartmouth, MA.
Jonathon DEVOL Jr was born ABT. 1670/75 in Newport, RI, He died on 8 Aug 1709 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co. MA.
He married Mariah (Mary) CLARK ABT. 1697. She was born 1676 in Dartmouth, MA, and died 1709
Mary DEVOL was born 1678 in Newport, RI. She married James MOSHER 22 MAY 1714 in Dartmouth, MA. He was born 1675 in Dartmouth, MA, and died ABT. 1768 in Beekman, Dutchess County NY.
Benjamin DEVOL was born 4 JUN 1680 in Dartmouth, MA, and died 1735 in Dartmouth, MA. He married Ann BROWNELL 4 JUN 1702. She was born 4 JUN 1680 in Portsmouth, RI, and died AFT. 1735
Hannah DEVOL was born 1684 in Newport RI, and died AFT. 1745. She married Joseph WEEDEN He was born 9 JUL 1671, and died 1745.
Abigail DEVOL was born 1686 in Newport, RI. She married Job MILK 12 JUL 1719. He was born 1684 in Boston, MA
William DEVOL was born ABT. 1688 in Dartmouth, MA, and died 1772 in Dartmouth, MA. He married Sarah SISSON 30 MAY 1708 in Dartmouth, MA. She was born ABT. 1687 in Dartmouth, MA, and died BEF. 1772.
Sarah DEVOL was born 1690 in Newport, RI. She married Hugh MOSHER 25 JUL 1717 in Dartmouth, MA. He was born 16 NOV 1690 in Newport, RI.
Jeremiah DEVOL was born ABT. 1691 in Dartmouth, MA, and died 29 NOV 1753 in Dartmouth, MA. He married Sarah ALLEN 14 MAY 1711 in Dartmouth, MS. He married Sarah WHITRIDGE 20 AUG 1746. She was born in Rochester, MA (?), and died AFT. 1753.
Elizabeth DEVOL was born 13 APR 1693 in Newport, RI, and died AFT. 1742. She married George BROWNELL 22 JUN 1716 in Dartmouth, MA. He was born 13 APR 1693, and died 1742.
JOSEPH DEVOL
ABT1672 -1729
Both Mary and Joseph were grandchildren of Plymouth colonists. Joseph's grandfather, William, came to Massachusetts in 1640. Mary's grandfather, George SOULE had arrived twenty years earlier, with the Pilgrims. George SOULE was also a signer of the Mayflower Compact, the first proclamation of self-government in the New World. Over the years, George SOULE's family line has been well researched.
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants followed his bloodline through five generations of descendants, including three generations of DEVOLs - all the way down toJoseph DEVOL. Joseph DAVOL Sr. was the second of 11 children belonging toJonathan DAVOL and Hannah ADLEY, and was born about 1672. At the age of 23, he met and married 14-year old Mary SOULE, daughter of George and Deborah SOULE. They were wed in Dartmouth. At the time, Joseph was a Quaker and a member of the Dartmouth Friends Monthly meeting. Five years later, on January 3, 1710, Joseph signed the receipt for Mary's inheritance, from her father. The DEVOLs lived in Easton MA and had six children. Joseph, made out his will November 14th, 1726. He died three years later at the age of 54. Mary died around 1729, when she would have been 48.
Marriage 1 Mary SOULE She was born 1675 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA, USA, and died 1726 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA.
CHILDREN OF JOSEPH DEVOL AND MARY SOULE:
Christopher DEVOL, b. 27 Jan 1700; and died 24 DEC 1759 in Crum Elbow, NY, USA. m. PATIENCE MOSHER ABT 1720, daughter of John MOSHER and Experience KIRBY. She was born 30 MAR 1698 in Bristol, Dartmouth Co., MA, USA, and died 1754..
LYDIA DEVOL, b. 03 Apr 1701
JOSEPH DEVOL, b. 15 Jan 1703
MARY DEVOL, b. 14 Jul 1705
HANNAH DEVOL, b. 04 Apr 1707
BENJAMIN DEVOL, b. 26 Jan 1709
JONATHAN DEVOL, b. 04 Aug 1711
JONATHON DEVOL
Oil painting of Jonathan Devol (1711-1782) painted by Mather Brown in Rhode Island, ca. 1765. Devol, who was of Tiverton, Rhode Island, engaged in West Indies trade in 1763, and was a representative of the Rhode Island Assembly. The painting hung in his home at Tiverton in 1782.
"Revolutionary War Soldier"
1711-1782
Jonathan DEVOL Revolutionary War Soldier was
born 4 AUG 1711 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts and died August 1782 in Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode IslandRevolutionary War Veteran. Jonathan DEVOL was a Rhode Island businessman and colonial legislator whose sons became some of Ohio's earliest settlers. He was born August 11, 1711 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, the seventh of Joseph DEVOL and Mary SOULE DEVOL's nine children.
In April of 1738, when he was 26, Jonathan married Priscilla ALLEN, daughter of Gideon and Anna (BUCK) ALLEN of Sandwich,Massachusetts. Priscilla, who was probably 22 or 23 years old at the time, was a Quaker. Two years later, their first baby boy was born, and over the next 15 years Priscilla would deliver eight more sons. As an adult, Jonathan DEVOL was active in commerce and civil service. He became a prominent businessman, dealing in West India Produce. In 1763 he was elected to the Rhode Island Assembly, and for a time, also served as treasurer of Tiverton, Rhode Island, his hometown.
In his later years, at a time when most men's lives wind down, Jonathan's underwent turbulent change. In 1775, the first skirmishes of the Revolution disrupted his West India trade. The following February, Priscilla, his wife of 30 years, died."There deceased my mother Pricilla Devol at 3 o'clock in the afternoon," read the diary of her son Stephen DEVOL.
A year later, in 1776, the colonies declared their independence, breaking forever, all ties with England.
Sometime before year's end, Jonathan married a second time, declaring his love for Mary SHERMANof Freetown, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Jenny) SHERMAN.
It is said that in his home, Jonathan DEVOL maintained a small but select library of books, which was the basis for his sons' education. It must have been more than adequate, for despite a lack of formal training, all became successful. One son, Gilbert, even became a Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice. Another made a name for himself as an inventor of an ingenious floating Mill on the Ohio River. But long before that, as seafarers and shipbuilders, Jonathan's sons crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean. As soldiers and sailors, they became military officers, and even built ships for the infant American navy.
He lived through those turbulent years of the American Revolutionary War, dying in 1782 at the age of 71, ten months after Cornwallis's surrender. Jonathan's will, dated just days before his death, bequeathed land in Sandwich to his wife Mary, and sons Gilbert, Stephen, Daniel, Benjamin, Jonathan and Silas.
Tragically, Silas, a former Boston trader, couldn't return home for the funeral. A naval hero, he was still being held captive with scores of other Americans on an infamous British prisonship, anchored in New York harbor. He died there later that year. In the 17 years after their father's death, three of Jonathan's surviving sons -- Jonathan Jr., Gilbert and Stephen -- packed up their families and headed to the Northwest Territory, where they became pioneers on the Ohio frontier. A portrait of Jonathan Sr., painted by 18th century artist Mather Brown, is in the collection of the Ohio Historical Society Museum in Marietta.
Jonathon DEVOL b: 4 AUG 1711 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Ma d, 8/1782 Tiverton, Newport Co., Rhode Island Married on 4/28/1738 to: Priscilla ALLEN b. FEB 1714/15 in Sandwich, Barn, Ma
CHILDREN OF JONATHON DEVOL AND PRISCILLA ALLEN :
Gilbert DEVOL b: 11 MAY 1740
Silas DEVOL b: 23 JUN 1743
Stephen DEVOL b: 25 JUL 1745
Daniel DEVOL
Benjamin DEVOL Revolutionary War Soldier b: 5 OCT 1752 in Tiverton, Newport County,Rhode Island
Jonathan DEVOL b: 22 OCT 1755
BENJAMIN DEVOL
"Revolutionary War Soldier"
1752- 1829
Benjamin DEVOL Revolutionary War Soldier was born 5 OCT 1752 in Tiverton, Newport County,Rhode Island and died 1829 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island He married about 1777 to Christiana HICKS. She was born about 1753.
Revolutionary War Veteran. Sergeant in Colonel Elliott's regiment, 1776. In 1781 Benjamin was Lieutenant, 3rd Company, 2nd Regiment, Tiverton, Rhode Island. In 1783-1785 Lieutenant, 2nd Company, 2nd Regiment, Tiverton, Rhode Island. Served as Lieutenant under Captain John Howland's 2nd & 3rd Companies Lt. Col. Com Lemuel Bailey's regiment Major William Southworth.1800 - 3 males & 6 females.
A search of Patriot Index provided the information found below:
DUVAL, Benjamin Birth: RI 5 Oct 1752 Service: RI Rank: LTDeath: RI 1829 Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No Spouse: (1) Christiania X
CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN DEVOL AND CHRISTIANA HICKS:
SUSSANAH DEVOL
ANNA DEVOL b: ABT 1777 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
ELIZABETH "Betsey" DEVOL b: 1787 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
WELCOME DEVOL b: 21 JUL 1790 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
CHRISTIANA DEVOL b: 23 AUG 1795 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
PHEBE HICKS DEVOL b: 1802 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
ALEXANDER DEVOL
ANNA DEVOL
1777- AFT 1850
Anna DEVOL was born ABT 1777 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island and died after 1850 in probably Colrain, Franklin, MA Married Roger BURRINGTON b: 27 AUG 1773 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
CHILDREN OF ANNA DEVOL AND ROGER BURRINGTON:
JONATHAN BURRINGTON b: 18 DEC 1798 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI Death: 09 NOV 1870 in Windsor, Dane Co., Wisconsin