Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume IV, Part 30

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843- joint ed. cn; Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed; Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917, joint ed; Bostwick, Frederick, 1852- , joint ed; Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, joint ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1178

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married James Atwood; Eliza MI., married Frederick Fairchildl. x. Henry, of Cohim- bus. Ohio. xi. Susan, born March 22, 1806, died February 9. 188 ;; married William Hawley, Jr .. and had: Sarah Marshall, mar- ried (first ) Fredericks. ( second)

Sanger. xii. Jane, born June 18, 1808, died October 22. 18;6; married Guy B. Fenn, and had: Mary Ann: Mabel B .. MI. D .. mar- ried Dr. Robert L. King : Amelia. xiii. Ma- rie. horn September 11, 1810, married Oliver Clock, and had: Adaline: Zalmon W. : Wil- liam B .: Edwin . : George E. xiv. Uriah, born September 11. 1810, died December 14, 1851 ; married Elizabeth Abel. xv. Ruhamalı. born December 19, 1812. married Dayton Mattoon. and had: Sarah Elizabeth. married George R. Baldwin: William Bradley. mar- ried Sarah Jane Davis: Amelia Jane. mar- ried Henry Truman Dayton ; Alanson : IJelen Gertrude: Charles Burr, married Mice Kel- logg. xvi. Medad. died in intancy. 9. Aaron, baptized September 26, 1768. died September 30. 1822: married Sarah Sherwood, and had : i. Abigail. born November 27. 1786, died Oc- tober 20. 1841 : married Jonathan Banks, and had: Anna. married Eli Sherwood : Polis. married Bradley Goodsell : Catherine, married Jarvis Patchen: Jonathan, married Paurinda, daughter of Levi Sherwood: Aaron. ii. Mary, born October 6. 1788. died October 20. 1826; married Abijah Merwin. iii. Sarah,

born September 20, 1790, died September 15, 1873. iv. Charles, born May 31, 1792. diedl August 8, 1866: married Marilla, daughter of Nathan Banks. and had: Aaron Burr and Ir- ving. v. Aaron. born March 21, 1794. died February 28, 1810. vi. Laurinda. born Jan- uary 20, 1799. died September 12, 1825 : mar- ried Hanford Nichols. and had: Lloyd : Hen- ry: Laura, married David Sherwoo l. vii. Burr. died in infancy. viii. Burr, born De- cember 23. 1802, died August 20. 1832: mar- ried Mary A. Lyon. and had: William Burr. married Emmeline. daughter of Renben B. and Catherine L. Gilbert: Jane. ix. Betsey, born February 22. 1806. died May 20. 1889: married Emory Sherwood, and had : Laurinda W., married Arthur Merwin : Sarah A .. mar-

ried A. C. Lyon. x. Eli, born October 24. 1800. died October 13. 1838: married Delia M., daughter of Jeremiah and Parmelia ( Wakeman) Sherwood. and had: Hermon, married ( first) Britannia S .. daughter of Richard Tuers, (second ) Mrs. Edith Hall. daughter of William Wilkinson: Amelia : William. married Eveline J .. daughter of William Meeker: Ilenry. married Sarah A .. daughter of Apollos K. and Harriet (U'll- mer) Wadsworth : Elizabeth : Mary : Dwight ;

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Eli, married Mary Burr, daughter of Charles W. and Parthena M. Johnson. xi. Moses, born April 6, 1815, died April 19, 1894 : mar- ried Lydia. daughter of Hezekiah Sherwood, and had : Moses Aaron, married Mary, dangh- ter of Bradley Williams; Charles Burr, mar- ried Julia H., daughter of John Lockwood; an unnamed child; Alida Bell, married Melzar Brotherton. 10. Asahel, see forward. II. Daniel, born September 26, 1773. died July, 1849; married, May, 1799. Esther, daughter of David and Abigail ( Waldo) Bucklin, and had: i. Stephen. ii. Waldo, born October 17, 1802, died the same day. iii. John B., born December 6, 1804. died March 31. 1862; married Mary, daughter of Zalmon and Clara (Nichols) Wakeman, and had: Eleanor Couch : Warren Waldo: Hugh B. : John Zal- mon; Horace: Ward; Burrell. iv. Eleanor, born July 11, 1808, died September 4, 1829; married Julius S. Beardsley, and had three children. v. Zalmon Bradley, born August 10, 1809, died September 10, 1887: married Al- vira Thornton, and had: Laura L .: Julia A., married Charles Fancher : Francis Burr, mar- ried Mary E .. daughter of John Luscomb, of Devonshire, England : Phebe Esther, married William S. Inman: Victoria J .; Stephen Quincy: Cora. vi. Esther A., born May 24, 1815, died March 24. 1834: married Wells Brayton, and had one child. vii. Laura, born December 16, 1817. died July 31. 1825. viii. Polly, born December 16, 1817, died June 14. 1819. 12. Betsey, born October 10. 1775, died October 7. 1776. 13. Betsey, born December 14, 1777. died August 26. 1820: married Jona- than Goodsell. May 24. 1795. and had: i. Bradley, born November 2. 1796, died Decem- ber 25. 1815. ii. Maranda. born February, 1799, died 1890; married Ziba Glover. iii. Emily, born July 4. 1808. died June 4. 1809. 14. Zalmon, born May 11, 1779. died February 8. 1856: married. October 8, 1806. Clara Nichols, and had children: i. Mary, born March 22, 1808, married John B., son of Dan- iel and Esther ( Bucklin) Wakeman. men- tioned above. ii. Abigail Turney. baptized July 9, 1809. iii. Esthier, born December 2. 1809. died September 17. 1842. iv. John. born November 12. ISII, died Novem- ber 17. 1807: married ( first) Sarah MI., daughter of David and Mary ( Hubble ) Tay- lor, and had: Mary E .. married Silliman Fanton ; he married ( second) Esther Jane. daughter of David and Rebecca (Barlow) Wakeman. v. Zalmon, born June 13. 1814. died August 26, 1864: married Susan Warner Nichols, and had: Maria Josephine. married Rev. John S. Beers : Emerson Bradley : How- ard Nichols, married Grace Melville, daugh-

ter of Henry and Catharine Silliman (La- cey ) Hall. vi. Eleanor, born January 19. 1817, died February 19, 1825. vii. Elizabeth, born April 25, 1827.

(VII) Asahel, seventh son and tenth child of John (4) and Esther ( Bradley ) Wakeman, was born May 2, 1771. died November 24, 1856. He served as a private at Fairfield. Con- necticut. April, 1814. during the war of 1812. He married (first) February 28, 1798, Polly, born December 20, 1774. died August 4, 1819, daughter of Epaphras and Eunice ( Nichols) Wakeman: (second ) April 26, 1821, Eliza- beth, born September 14. 1786, died May 7, 1841, a sister of his first wife. Children, all by first marriage: 1. Alanson, born January 19, 1800, died December 21, 1881 : married, August 23, 1841, Angeline, daughter of Jud- son Fanton, and had: i. Henry, born August 25, 1842, married (first ) Eleanor Amelia, daughter of George and Eleanor (Lyon) Wildman, ( second) Emma E., daughter of W. O. and Lydia A. ( Wheeler) Sandford; children: Minnie, Anna E .. Mary B. and Ruth A. ii. Jesse. born March 13. 1844. iii. Alecia. born October 10, 1845. married Eli C. Goodsell, and had: Minnie A .. Charles G. and Sarah Louise. iv. Chauncey Cleveland, born March 27, 1850, married Lizzie Maria, daughter of David and Jane (Avaria) Sum- mers, and had: Arthur Sinclair, Jennie Ale- cia, Angeline Fanton, Earl Judson and Irwin Alanson. 2. Gilbert, horn November 29. 1801, died December 29. 1801 : married. November 29, 1832, Elizabeth. daughter of Joseph Beardsley, and had: i. Joseph Sherwood. horn October 3. 1834. married Harriet. daughter of Willis Nichols, of Southport. ii. Caroline A .. born September 25. 1836. iii. Asahel G .. born March 1. 1839. died February 28. 1894: married Harriet A. Keeler, and had: George Wilbur and Elbee Clare. iv. Elizabeth H., born November 26, 1840. married Danici Ful- ler, and had: Stella and Bertha. v. John, born December 11. 1843, died June 10, 1868. 3. Silas. see forward. 4. A daughter. born May. 1805. died April 24. 1806.

(VIII ) Silas, third son and child of Asa- hel and Polly (Wakeman ) Wakeman, was born May 6. 1804. died March 28. 1888. He married (first) December 23. 1827, Abbey Bradley, born October 13. 1807. died June 10. 1842. daughter of Nathan and Clarina Whee- ler. and granddaughter of Nathan Wheeler. He married ( second) December 2 1857. Sally, born January 31. 1800. died August 16. 1804. daughter of Samuel Wilson. Children, all by first marriage: 1. Dr. Moses H., born No- vember 4. 1829. died January 6, 1802: mar- ried, May 31, 1864, Harriet W .. daughter of

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Samuel James Collins, and had : i. Mary Col- lins, married Dr. Ernest Smith, of West Rox- bury, Massachusetts, and had : Herman White and Homer Morgan. ii. Henry Whee- ler, born March 6. 1869, died February 25, 1870. ili. Harriet Wheeler, born June 13, I871. 2. Polly Sophia, born September II, 1831, died April 6. 1854; married Horace Bradley Coley (see Coley VIII) 3. Betsey Ann, born January 31. 1834, married, May 15, 1853. Morris Wakeman Salmon, and had : Charles Curtis : Fanny Wakeman, married Dr. Gorham, of Weston, Connecticut. 4. Clarina Bradley, see forward. 5. Abigail B., born June 6, 1812, married Erastus B. Sherwood, and had: Everett S., William F. and Clarence.

(IX) Clarina Bradley, daughter of Silas and Abbey Bradley ( Wheeler) Wakeman, born December 15. 1837. died 1863. She married Horace Bradley Coley (see Coley VIII).

SEYMOUR The Seymour family is one of great antiquity in Eng- land. The seal on the will of Thomas Seymour, eldest son of Richard Seymour, the first settler of the name in this country, bears the impress of two wings con- joined in lure. the device of the English Sey- mours from the time of William de St. Maur of Penhow. A "Bishop's Bible", printed in 1584. in the possession of Hon. Morris Wood- ruff Seymour, of Litchfield, a descendant of Richard Seymour, has on one of the fly-leaves a drawing of the arms of the Seymours of Berry Pomeroy, viz .: two wings conjoined in lure. quartered with the Royal Arms as -~ on the highway leading from Stamford to granted by Henry VIII to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, and the legend: "Richard Seymor, of Berry Pomery, heytor hund. in ye Com. Devon, his Booke. Hartford, in ye Collony of Connecticut in Newe England, An- noque Domini 1640". On another page of this Bible there is a memorandum relating to some business transaction, and the name, "John Seimor. Hartford. 1666". The fact, moreover, that John, the son of Richard. died possessed of a "great Bible" is established by the listing in his inventory dated 1713, and still preserved at Hartford, of "a great bible IOS."

(I) Richard Seymour, though not an orig- inal proprietor, was one of the early settlers of Hartford. Just when he joined the little settlement near "Dutch Point" on the Con- necticut river we do not know, but probably in 1639, when we find his name in the list of those "inhabitants who were granted lotts to have only at the town's coartesie with liberty to fetch woode and keep swine or cones on

the common". His lot was No. 70, on the north side, near the "cow pasture". His house stood on what is now North Main street, near the Ely place. He also owned outlying pieces of land including a portion of the tract run- ning westward from the bhiffs of the Trinity College property to what is now West Hart- ford. In 1647 he was elected chimney-viewer, which calls to mind that the houses of the first settlers were thatched, as in the old England they had left behind them, and on that account were particularly exposed to fire loss, and all the more because built of wood rather than of masonry as most of the corresponding Eng- lish houses of the period were. Richard's duties, then, as chimney-viewer, were allied to those of a building inspector and fire chief of our time. Why he left Hartford is not known, though there is a vague tradition that he was not in sympathy with the Rev. Thomas Hoo- ker, who dominated the Hartford country. Whatever the cause of his removal, we find his name among the number who made the agreement with Captain Patrick and the bril- liant and restless Roger Ludlow "for the settlinge and plantinge of Norwalke",. June 19, 1650. As one of the planters of Nor- walk, Richard Seymour's name appears in the indenture dated February 15, 1651. between the Planters and Runckinheage and other Indians. The exact date of his removal from Hartford to Norwalk cannot be fixed, but he had undoubtedly taken up his residence there before the end of 1652, and perhaps earlier. His home-lot was well situated, directly oppo- site the meeting house and parade ground, and

Fairfield. His house was only a short dis- tance from the present roadbed of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. Many of his descendants have probably un- consciously viewed the spot where their an- cestor lived, while being carried past the place in a manner of which he never dreamed. In the new plantation of Norwalk, Richard's abil- ities were fully recognized. On March 29, 1655, he was elected townsman, or selectman. as we should now say, succeeding Mr. Thomas Fitch, who had in 1654 been elected governor of the colony. But Richard did not live to hold this office long, since in his will, which he executed July 29, 1655. lie is described "very weak & sike". The fact that Governor Fitch was translated. so to speak, from the office of townsman of Norwalk to that of governor of the colony shows what a dignified and important office that of townsman was. In that primitive social order the townsman shared with the minister the first honors of the community, since the duties of the office

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demanded a man of dignity, ability. and force of character. Richard's election as towns- man in succession to Governor Fitch helps us to see the kind of a man that he was.

The exact date of his death has not come down to us, but it probably took place soon after the execution of his will, which on Oc- tober 25, 1655. was proved before the county court at Fairfield. His "loving Wife Mercy" and his "faythfull friend Richard Olmsted" were designate:l by him as the "sole Execu- tors & Administrators" of his last will and testament. His widow was by his will ap- pointed guardian of the three minor sons : "It is also my Will that my loving wife should have the dispose of my three Sons. John. Zachary and Richard untill such time as they shall be fit to receive & dispose of their Es- tate". These minor sons were probably born after the arrival of Richard and Merc in this country. Thomas, referred to in the will as "my Eldest Sonn Thomas," was probably born in England, but whether or not he had the same mother is not known. When Thom- as Seymour executed his will September 22. 1712, he sealed it with a small seal engraved with the wings "conjoined in lure," forming the paternal coat-of-arms of the English Sey- mours. It is significant that Thomas, the eldl- est son of Richard. the settler, should have had possession of this seal. which as a piece of evidence supports and reinforces the arms on a flyleaf of the "great Bible" already re- ferred to as in the possession of the Hon. Morris Woodruff Seymour. of Litchfield.

Richard Seymour left a fair estate. inven- toried October 10. 1655, at #255-09-00. Mler- cy, his widow. married, November 25, 1655. the Hon. John Steele, of Farmington, one of the foremost men of the colony, a man of means and education as well as of ability and energy. He was town clerk of Hartford. town clerk of Farmington. and often deputy. &c. &c. His marriage to Mrs. Mercy Sey- mour he recorded on the Farmington records in his own hand. We may forgive her for her speedy re-marriage when we consider that it provided a home and a wise counsellor for her three young sons, who now left Norwalk and became members of the household of their stepfather. at Farmington. Of her parentage nothing is known, nor the date of her death. though she survived John Stecle. who died November 25, 1665. In his will. dated Janu- ary 30, 1664. he bequeaths to his "dear and loving wife Mercy Steele the house wherein I now dwell and the appurtenances belonging to it."

Thomas Seymour. Richard's eldest son, remained in Norwalk and became the

progenitor of the Norwalk family of the name.

Richard Seymour's English home and par- entage and precise connection with the Eng- lish family of the name has never been posi- tively ascertained; the loss of records may now make that impossible, but the evidence of the "Bishop's Bible" referred to and the seal used in 1712 by his son Thomas, of Nor- walk, leaves no doubt of his being a scion of the English Seymours.

In his "History of the Rev. Hugh Peters", ( pub. 1781) the Rev. Samuel Peters gives a list of some of the early Connecticut settlers credited with gentle blood :

"Among them was Thomas Seymour. a younger branch of the family of the Duke of Somerset who settled at El tford. did honor to the stock from which he descended, and his numerous posterity. have distinguished themselves by their virtues, piety and literary merits. The Honorable Thomas Sey- mour now of Hartford. is the head of the family. and for his great and general knowledge of the law and belle lettres has been employed by the pub- lic in many exalted situations which he has dis- charged with honor to himself and benefit to the State."

The writer is well aware that the irascible Tory parson has never been popular as an au- thority, and offers the above quotation merely as showing that the tradition of the connection of Richard Seymour, the settler, with the his- toric English family was current over a hun- dred years ago. Peters made a mistake in saying that it was Thomas rather than Rich . ard Seymour who settled at Hartford, but his reference to the settler as belonging to the younger branch of the family of the Duke of Somerset is at least interesting. Evidence is not wanting to show that the Honorable Thomas Seymour, first mayor of Hartford, had received this tradition from his ancestors. Mayor Seymour was the last king's attorney for Connecticut ( he succeeding his father in this office), the first state's attorney of Con- necticut. the first mayor of Hartford. and one of the foremost men of his day in New Eng- land, and of all the members of the American family of that time was perhaps in the best position to know the facts. It may be admit- ted. however, that Mayor Seymour makes no claim to a noble origin for Richard, the -Li- tler. in the brief statement he made regarding the family in his eighty-second year, and to be found in Dr. Parker's "History of the Sec- ond Church at Hartford." p. 134. Still. Pe- ters' statement must have been based upon traditions current in Hartford and attaching themselves to the family of Mayor Seymour who, by the use of the Seymour arm-, gave their endorsement to the tradition.

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To all this may be added the force of fam- ily traditions and striking family likenesses and traits, connecting the American with the English family of the name. Some of these traditions were gathered up and woven into a romance entitled, "The Fawn of the Pale Faces", written in Hartford. by J. P. Brace, and published in 1853 by D. Appleton & Com- pany. This work contains an unflattering por- trait of Richard Seymour, and is only signfi- cant as making use of the tradition that Rich- ard Seymour was not in accord with the "Pious Hooker" and his company, but was a Church of England man. Whatever his per- sonal sympathies may have been, it cannot be doubted that Mercy, his wife, was of a non- conformist family. Of that her given name alone is sufficient proof. If more proof were wanted it may be found in the name of their son Zachary. Only Puritan England employed these Biblical names. It may well be that his marriage to a woman of a non-conformist family had much to do with his emigration to New England. That she was a second wife and considerably his junior is more than likely.

In Richard's time the name was unquestion- ably pronounced See-mer, which is the tra- ditional and correct pronunciation of the name, and the pronunciation always insisted upon by members of the present English family, who are never addressed as Seymour. In some branches of the Connecticut family Sce-mer as the pronunciation of the name has been adhered to and is continued to the present day. Chief Justice Seymour, of Connecticut, was always addressed as Judge See-mer, and in the family of the writer See-mer was the pronunciation invariably employed until with- in a few years. The pronunciation Seymour now current seems to be an innovation of the last half century and is quite wrong. That See-mer was the pronunciation employed in Richard's time is sufficiently proved by the early records, in which the spelling is unques- tionably phonetic. The marriage of Mercy. the widow of Richard, to the Honorable John Steele, is recorded in Farmington in his own hand-writing as follows: "John Steel was marved to Mercy Semer Novem the twenty & five one thousand six hundredth fifty & fixe."

One would have supposed that a man of Steele's position and superior education would in making such an entry have taken pains to have spelled the name of his wife correctly : that he did not do so shows how indifferent even educated people were in those days to questions of orthography. In another instru- ment to which Steele was a party. the name

is -jelled not Semer, as in the marriage rec- ord, but Seamer. Reference is made to Vol 1, tolio 10, of the Norwalk Land Records. in which is found the following deed :

"A true and perfect coppie of the deeide of sale made April 26, 1661, by Mst. John Steeile of ffarm- misten into Mathias Sention Son of Norwalk, which syed Mt. Siceile was administrator unto the cstate of Richd Seamer and married with the sayed Summers widow. These give testimonies to all whom it may concerne that John Steeile of ffar- mington in N. E. have sould unto Mathias Sention son of Norwalke all the land in Norwake that was Richd Seamer's now deceased, except the house and home-lott that was the sayed Richd. Seamer's, and by exchange for that the sayed Mathias hath the true possession of that house and house-lott that was lhos. Seamer's" &c &c.

Then follows the description of eleven pieces of land.

It is to be noted that the only possible pro- nunciation of Semer and Seamer is See-mer. Undoubtedly proof of this sort might be mul- tiplied to show that when Richard first came to the country he pronounced his name "See- mer" just as the historie English family pronounced it: it is not without some signiti- cance that this pronunciation of the name con- tinued down to our own time, and is adhered to to-day among some of his descendants.

As to the spelling of Richard's name, no autograph of his is known to exist. The first occurrence of his name known to the writer is in the original manuscript of Hartford Town Votes. p. 19. in which the name is writ- ten "Richard Seamonre". In the list writ- ten in the hand-writing of John Allyn in the Book of Original Distributions the name is spelled "Seymore". P. 550. In the same book on page 166, the following entry occurs :

"Febr: Anno Dom: 1630:

Several parcells of land in Hartford upon the river of Conecticott belonginge to Richard Sea- mer and to his heirs forever:"

This is followed by a description of lands occupying some two pages. The name Sey- mour frequently occurs in the Book of Orig- inal Distributions in which it is variously spelled "Semor. Seamor, Seemer and Sey- more": but in the fore part of the next cen- tury the name seems to have been spelled "Seymour," at least in legal documents.

The four sons of Richard Seymour were : 1. Thomas, "my eldest sonn". undoubtedly born in England : date of birth unknown : set- tied in Norwall:, where he died, 1712: pro- genitor of the Norwalk Seymours.

2. John, probably born in Hartford: date of birth unknown ; removed to Norwalk with his father in 1652; removed to Farinington in 1655 after the death of his father : died at Hartford. 1713; progenitor of the Hartford,

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Litchfield, New Hartford and Utica (New York) Seymours.

3. Zachary, born 1642. probably at Hart- ford; removed to Notwalk with his father in 1652; removed to Farmington in 1655, after the death of his father : freeman of Farming- ton, 1669; he was a merchant engaged in trade with the Barbadoes. He remove l to Weth- ersfield, where he died August, 1702, ae. 60. He had no sons.

4. Richard, probably born at Hartford: date of birth unknown : removed to Norwalk with his father, 1652; removed to Farmington with his mother in 1655: settled in Farmington ; freeman in Farmington, 1069: one of the 81 proprietors of 1672; townsman, 1685; leader in 1686 in the pioneer settlement at the Great Swamp ( Kensington) ; captain of the Sey- mour fort built for the protection of these set- tlers and made of palisades sixteen feet long, sharp at the top and firmly set in the ground near together. Captain Seymour was killed in 1710 by the fall of a tree. and was the first person to be interred in a plot which he had. according to tradition. given to the town as a burial place. He was the progenitor of the Wethersfield, Newington, and Troy (New York) Seymours.

(II) John, son of Richard Seymour, prob- ably born in Hartford and presumably the eldest son of Richard by Mercy : date of birth unknown: removed to Norwalk with his fa- ther about 1852; undoubtedly went to Far- mington in 1655 with his mother after her marriage to the Hon. Jolin Steele. From Far- mington he removed to Hartford, but when we do not know. He appears in Hartford as early as March 15. 1664, when John Seymour. Joseph Stonhard. Nathaniel Butler. Joseph Easton Jr., Joseph Butler. Beuill Waters and John Watson, were fined ten shillings apiece for "their unreasonable conveening them- selves together at the house of Thomas Bunce. In his and his wives offence". While we must deplore this "unscasonable conveening". whatever it was all about. we are grateful for the record of it. as it enables us to place John Seymour's marriage as prior to this date since his wife seems to have been present at this "party" which, from this circumstance we cannot believe was a very reprehensible af- fair except in the eyes of a magistrate with an overheated imagination. His marriage probably took place not long before this gath- ering on March 15, 1664. His wife was Mary, daughter of John Watson and Marga- ret (Smith) 'Watson. Watson was an early comer in Hartford. although rot an original proprietor, his name first appearing in 1641. John Seymour, who was made a freeman in

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