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• Gender	Male
  Person ID	I90045	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Elisha WINCHELL
  Mother	Mary THRALL, b. 21 May 1730
  Family ID	F39276	Group Sheet
  Family	Abigail PHELPS
  Notes	_STATMARRIED Eli bought, 18 Feb.. 1787.10 acres of land in Windsor, for 100 pounds ; 5 Jan., 1793, bought of Elisha, his father, for 15 pounds, 7 acres "with all the rye now standing or growing on it" ; 28 Mar., 1798, he and Elisha his brother of Suffield, bought 10 acres in Windsor for 15 pounds ; 22 Mar., 1803, sold Elisha, for $200, 37 acres, partly "on the Pine Plain, so called," and bought of Elisha 20 acres in sundry pieces for $90; 14 Oct., 1803, bought of Mary Winchell land for $20 ; 20 Oct., 1803, sold 6 acres for $220; 29 Oct.,land for 106 pounds; 8 Feb., 1804, 21 acres on Pine Plain for $180; 1 May, 20acres for $100.
  Children	> 1. Eli WINCHELL, Jr   2. Talcott WINCHELL > 3. Jemima WINCHELL, b. Abt 1770, Turkey Hills,East Granby,Hartford County,Connecticut
  Family ID	F39281	Group Sheet

• Notes

  In 1805 Eli moved his family from Turkey Hills (East Granby) CT to E. Granville, MA and bought a farm in the southwest part of the town. He lived there until May, 1842 when he moved into the northeast part of the town to live with hisson Luke. In the history of Granville, MA, it is written that the Winchellsare one of the oldest families of the town, being people of prominence in thisvicinity for many generations. Winchell mountain carries the name of this family. "Eli Winchell, a native of Granby and followed farming in that vicinityfor some years, but removed to Hampden County at an early day, buying a farm in East Granville; in connection with tilling the soil he kept a public house for several years.". In 1814, Eli was a licensed tavern keeper in Granville

• Sources

  [S1561] Ancestry of Norb Bankert, Norbert Bankert, Jr., (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bankert/report/anc00008.htm#subj180).