Family Tree of Willard T. Weeks

He & wife emigrated 1799

Circuit Travell was born in Eaton Bray, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, was christened 27 Jun 1773 in Husborne Crawley, Bedford, England, and died 15 Dec 1841 in Schoharie County Ny. He married Judith Pursell 24 Aug 1799 in Eaton Bray, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, daughter of William Pursell and Martha Hows. She was born 1776 in Eaton Bray, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, was christened 3 Nov 1776, and died 11 Apr 1846 in Schoharie County Ny.

Ira Rose Travell's great grandfather was Circuit Travell whose mother was
Martha Circuit. Circuit was born in 1776 in England at Eaton Bray, Dunstable,
Bedfordshire. He married Judith Purcell from the same region. In about 1799,
Circuit and Judey came to America by ship. Their only child, John Travell, was
born in Albany, New York, in 1803. Circuit worked as a gardner on the property of
John Lansing, Jr., Chancellor of the State of New York. Later, he bought his
own farm from him.

Circuit, Judith, John, and Celecta are buried at a cemetery in Gilboa, according to the Schoharie County NY GenWeb SIte. Their graves had to be relocated from the old to the new cemetery in the 1920s when a lake was built by the town.