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- came to Westminster Tp middle of winter 1811 with his first cousin Captain Joseph Lewis Odell and James Lester.
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served in War of 1812
O’DELL / ODELL, John, Pte., served under Captain Daniel Springer 1812, received Land Claim Certificate Unit - Flank Company 1st Regiment Middlesex Militia, Vol 22, File 65, pages 1848-1851. Possible identification: born May 18, 1788 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York; son of John O’Dell & Elizabeth Schryver; married Annis Griffith; died February 27, 1852 in London; buried Old Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery, Middlesex Co. First cousin of Joseph O’Dell. [Elgin OGS website]
first school Odell schoolhouse, one of earliest in Westminster Tp, built on his land 1817
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11 children
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