{"id":9807,"date":"2013-04-17T05:10:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2013-03-05T05:15:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T05:15:23","slug":"the-scagels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/9807\/the-scagels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scagels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following pages cover the Scagels concerning this blog<\/a>, who eventually married into the Atwell family in 1830. Thanks to Nancy Benton for the pages.<\/p>\n

\n

The Scagels<\/h1>\n

Orson Patrick BRYAN, having married Sally, the daughter of George Scagel, the
\n descendents of this marriage would also be part of the Scagel family. It has
\n been a long time since anyone with the Scagel surname had lived in Waterbury.
\n There are Scagel descendents presently living in Morrisville and Richmond. Of
\n course, the Bryans and Scagels had close family ties. Two of my father\u2019s
\n brothers and one sister, who died as infants or young children, are buried in
\n the George Scagel lot in the old Center cemetery.<\/p>\n

George Scagel came to Waterbury in 1794. Lewis\u2019 History of Waterbury says p.
\n 30, \u201cGeorge Scagel took up his residence on a center plot in 1794, and spent
\n his life there. \u201cThis was early in Waterbury\u2019s history as a political entity.
\n The first settler in the area of Waterbury was a Mr. Marsh, who arrived in
\n 1783. Ezra Butler, who is considered to be the first permanent resident in
\n what was to become the town of Waterbury, arrived in 1785. Note that Georg
\n Scagel arrived a scant nine years later. The Bryans, thorough the Scagels, are
\n one of the oldest families in Waterbury to continually reside or own property
\n and pay taxes in the town. Book 2, Page 123 of the Waterbury Town records
\n states that George Scagel purchased from Josiah Smith on January 6, 1797, land
\n in the Center for which he paid $200. This was \u201cthe original right of Joseph
\n Badgley in the township of Waterbury.\u201d A map of the lots assigned to the
\n original grantors, shows this to be the lot where the brick house, opposite the
\n Methodist Church, now stands.<\/p>\n

George Scagel apparently was a man of considerable substance. The brick house
\n was originally a farm house built by George Scagel. Even today, it is the most
\n imposing structure in the Center. We have noted that the community\u2019s first
\n church services were held in a barn. When the present brick church was built
\n opposite the Scagel home, it was built on land donated by George Scagel in
\n accordance with family tradi-<\/p>\n

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tion. Among my mother\u2019s newspaper clippings is an article written about the
\n church in 1949. This article states, \u201cLand for this church was leased for the
\n sum of $10 by George Scagel to Chester Lyon, Thomas B. Scagel, and Ira Hudson,
\n trustees of the church.\u201d Thomas Best Scagel was a son of George Scagel. He
\n was later the postmaster at Waterbury Street. Apparently the $10 involved was
\n a good faith token payment for the land. An interesting story involving the
\n church is that the church bell was pealed 100 times on the 100th birthday of
\n Rachel Lee Scagel, the mother of George Scagel. She was born in 1733, and so
\n this event occurred in 1833, shortly after the completion of the church. On
\n that same day, at 100 years of age, she took a stroll from her son George\u2019s
\n house in the Center, to her granddaughter Sally Bryan\u2019s house. This would, of
\n course, be the house on present Route 100, where my father was born forty years
\n later.<\/p>\n

A resume of the movement of the Scagel family to northern Vermont may be of
\n interest. Jacob Scagel, fourth and last known child of Christopher and Deborah
\n (Wallis) Scagel, was born at Rye, New Hampshire, October 25, 1736. An entry in
\n the marriage register of the Congregational Church of Rye for the year 1755
\n states: \u201cJan 21 Jacob Scadgel and Rachel Lee were married.\u201d In a record
\n published by the Hunkins family, in 1961, it states that George Scagel was born
\n in Maine on October 8, 1765. In the genealogy chart of the Scagel family, his
\n birthplace is given as Rye, New Hampshire. In the reminisences (sic) written
\n by Edith Emma Atkins, it states that George Scagel came to Vermont from Saco,
\n Maine. George Scagel may have been born in Maine, but authenticated
\n information shows that the family started moving north from Rye, New
\n Hampshire.<\/p>\n

Over the years, there have developed many variations in the spellling of the
\n Scagel name. In 1766, Jacob \u201cSchagell\u201d was living in Rye, New Hampshire. In
\n 1769, Jacob \u201cScagel\u201d was employed in building the road from Middleton to
\n Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Also, in 1769, Jacob \u201cSceggel\u201d became a resident of
\n the latter town. The New Hampshire State Papers report that by 29 January 1770
\n Jacob \u201cSeageal\u201d had fulfilled the conditions of the deed issued to him in
\n Wolfeboro. Jacob and Rachel (she who lived to be 103 and died in Waterbury
\n Center in 1836) lived in Wolfeboro for five years, during which time their last
\n three children were born. On December 8, 1770, Jacob mortgaged his land for
\n fifty pounds. Unable to meet the payment on the morgage, the court forced
\n Jacob out of his home in April, 1775.<\/p>\n

The family next moved east to Parsonfield, Maine which area was just opening up
\n for settlement. In 1785, the family was still in Parsonfield<\/p>\n

10<\/p>\n

field, for the history of the town states that in that year Jacob \u201cSchagel\u201d
\n owned a potash works. It is not known when Jacob Scagel left Parsonfield.
\n Possibly, he turned over the potash works to his son, Jacob Jr., when the
\n latter returned from the Revolutionary War. He may have turned the business
\n over to his son, George. In those days, no recording of deeds was required
\n when property was transferred from father to son, so the possibility of
\n following the movement of people through transfer of property is made
\n difficult.<\/p>\n

At the taking of the 1790 census, Jacob and Rachel Scagel were living in
\n Newbury, Orange County, Vermont. Official records there show that also in
\n Newbury, Vermont were Jacob\u2019s sons, Jacob Jr., Elijah and William. No where is
\n mention made of George Scagel, Jacob\u2019s son, being in Newbury.<\/p>\n

George Scagel probably came to Waterbury from Saco, Maine as noted in the Bryan
\n family records. Later, George\u2019s older brother, Jacob Jr., moved north to
\n Stanbridge East, Quebec. Also, later, Jacob and Rachel Scagel moved to
\n Waterbury. Later activity of Jacob is not known. He died March 18, 1817. We
\n have been unable to find a gravestone marking his place of burial. He was in
\n his 81st year, and his wife Rachel was nearly 84 years old. They had been
\n married for 62 years. Rachel continued to make her home with her son, George,
\n for another nineteen years.<\/p>\n

Two of my grandfather\u2019s brothers married two Scagel sisters from Standridge,
\n Quebec. They were second cousins. My second cousin Macie Bryan Evans is
\n descended from Jacob Scagel, from both her grandfather Denis Bryan and her
\n grandmother Mary Scagel Bryan.<\/p>\n

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Scagel 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following pages cover the Scagels concerning this blog, who eventually married into the Atwell family in 1830. Thanks to Nancy Benton for the pages. The Scagels Orson Patrick BRYAN, having married Sally, the daughter of George Scagel, the descendents of this marriage would also be part of the Scagel family. It has been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[301,359],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noyes-line","category-uncategorized","tag-george-scagel","tag-jacob-scagel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}