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- John Odell, son of William, signed as witness in 1683. He removed to Fordham, and is the ancestor of the numerous family of this name in the western part of our county. In 1706, John Odell of Fordham sold to George Kniffen of Rye his interest in the undivided lands, ‘below the marked trees which belongs unto the Eighteen,’ namely a thirty-sixth part of said lands, which part ‘was his deceased father William Odell's.’ For the descendants of John, see Bolton's History, vol. ii. Pp. 536, 537.
source: Baird, Charles Washington. Chronicle of a Border Town. History of Rye, Westchester County, New York, 1660-1870, Including Harrison and the White Plains Till 1788. New York, NY: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1871.
- Another of the old families of Greenburgh, who have always been prominent in its history, is that of the Odells.
The progenitor of the Odell family in America was Mr. William Odell, who, with his wife and family, came to Concord, Mass., about 1639. He afterwards removed to Fairfield, Conn., where he died, and his will dated, June 6, 1676, was proved by his son, John Odell, and his son-in-law, Samuel Moorehouse. Another son of the emigrant was William Odell, Jr., of Rye, N. Y., who married a daughter of Richard Vowles, of Rye, and had three children, one of whom was John Odell, of Fordham, N. Y., who married Hannah ____, and had, among other children, a son, John Odell, Jr., of Fordham, who married Hannah Vermilyea, and died leaving a will dated September 25, 1735 (N. Y. Liber 13, p. 183), in which he mentions his “honored father, John Odell,” his wife, Hannah, and his children – John, Isaac, Jonathan, Abraham, Hannah and Altien.
source: Scharf, John Thomas. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been Annexed to New York City, Volume 2. Philadelphia, PA: L. E. Preston and Company, 1886.
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