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18 JAMES SEABROOK, son of Daniel Seabrook, 4, died about 1815. He was simple- minded, "yet sometimes the smartest of them all."
1787, Jan. I. A discharge from James Seabrook to his brother, Thomas, for all sums that he may have collected, as attorney for him, in the settlement of his mother, Mary Seabrooks', estate. Witnesses: Thomas Stout, Thomas Seabrook, Jr., and Hannah Seabrook.
Thomas Seabrook had, apparently, the care of his younger brother, James Seabrook, during his minority, for I have many papers, mostly releases, for board bills and expenses, from one to the other.
42 STEPHEN SEABROOK, son of Thomas Seabrook, II, was born, probably, between 1759-'64, and died in 1843. He was a private, in the Troop of Light Horse during the Revolu- tionary War, when a youth, and was bayonetted through the ceiling of his father's house, over the kitchen, where he had withdrawn himself on the approach of the enemy. He was probably his father's eldest son. He went to New Albany with his children, but returned to New Jersey. He lived near Englishtown. He owned the land now known as Lorrillard's Brick Yard, adjacent to Keyport. Previously, or later, it belonged to Nathan Brown, who built thereon a brown stone house. Here Stephen Seabrook failed, and his failure broke his health. He was buried in the Tennent Church yard.
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1778. Stephen Seabrook signed the Monmouth County Articles of Retaliation.
1786, Sept. 20. Stephen Seabrook sued James Holmes for a bill of £240, dated Nov. 8, 1785.
The Rev. A. H. Anthony says: "It is said a part of the Battle of Monmouth was fought on the Old Seabrook place."
1829, Mch. 9. He wrote to his son, Daniel, a letter in which he stated he was then an old man, upwards of seventy years.
He married, first, Nancy Tice, and second, Sally Hankinson, a widow, and a proud old lady. She died, about 1853-1856, aged about ninety-six years. She was active, in body and mind, until her death, and was visited by her step-children two years before her death. When she married Stephen Seabrook she had been married twice before. Her first marriage was to a Mr. Hankinson, who was killed at the Battle of Monmouth, and her second was to a husband of the same name. It is probable that she had issue by the Hankinson marriages.
Issue by first wife
62 Martha Seabrook; eldest child.
63 Maria Seabrook; second child.
64 James Seabrook
65 John Seabrook
66 Daniel Seabrook
67 Anna Seabrook; youngest child.
43 THOMAS SEABROOK, son of Thomas Seabrook, II, was born Nov. 15, 1771; died July 13, 1844; married Ann, daughter of Aaron and Williampe (Hendrickson) Longstreet, Dec. 17, 1794. She was born Apr. 8, 1779, and died July 10, 1852.
Tombstones in Fairview Cemetery:
Thomas Seabrook died, July 14, 1844, aged 72 years, 7 months and 27 days. Anne Seabrook, his wife, died, July 10, 1852, aged 73 years, 3 months and 2 days.
There are pencil sketches of Thomas and Ann Seabrook; also silver spoons, belonging to them, now in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Wilson. At the Bay Shore house there were three guns and a bayonet, three spinning wheels, old china, silver, old chests, two old silver watches, etc., etc.
Issue
68 Aaron Longstreet Seabrook, born Oct. 13, 1796; buried May 21, 1800. Tomb- stone in Fairview Cemetery reads: Aaron L. Seabrook died, May 19, 1800, aged 4 years, 7 months and 6 days.
69 Mary Seabrook, born Aug. 31, 1797; died May 19, 1864. Tombstone in Fairview Cemetery reads: Mary Seabrook died, May 19, 1864, aged 67 years, 3 months and 12 days.
70 Aaron Seabrook, born Jan. 18, 1802; died Apr. 9, 1872; married Euphemia C., daughter of William and Rebecca (Layton) Wilson. She was born June 7, 1813; living in 1896. He is buried in Fairview Cemetery. No issue.
71 Ellen Seabrook, born Oct. 3, 1803.
72 Lydia H. Seabrook, born Oct. 3, 1805. Tombstone in Fairview Cemetery reads: Lydia H. Seabrook, wife of Rev. William V. Wilson, died, Aug. 12, 1852, aged 46 years, 10 months and 9 days.
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73 Thomas Seabrook, born July 26, 1808; died Aug. 19, 1818. Tombstone in Fair- view Cemetery reads: Thomas Seabrook died, Aug. 19, 1818, aged 10 years and 24 days.
74 Martha Seabrook, born Feb. 17, 1810.
75 Henry N. Seabrook, born Sept. 10, 1813.
44 HANNAH SEABROOK, daughter of Thomas Seabrook, 11, was born July 25, 1772; married Dr. William Stillwell, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1793, (by Rev. Benjamin Bennet), who was born Jan. 5-6, 1768; died July 13, 1832. Hannah Seabrook died Apr. 18, 1847.
Issue
76 Dr. John E. Stillwell, of New York City, born 1813.
77 Dr. William E. Stillwell, of New York City.
78 Julia Stillwell; married Willet Bowne.
79 Delia Ann Stillwell; married Enoch Hill.
45 MARY [POLLY] SEABROOK, daughter of Thomas Seabrook, II, died Jan. 9, 1795. She married George Crawford, merchant, of Middletown, N. J.
Issue 80 Kate Crawford; married Edward Burrowes. Issue Daughter; married Jacob McLean. Issue Catharine McLean; married George Tilton, of Middletown, N. J.
46 MARTHA SEABROOK, daughter of Thomas Seabrook, II, married Tunis Vande- vere, of Freehold, N. J. He died, aged about eighty years, at Camillas, N. Y. He had previ- ously lived at Glen, N. Y.
Issue
81 Jane Vandevere; married Dr. Lee, of Camillas, Onondaga County, who had moved there from Glen, Montgomery County.
Issue William Henry Lee Seabrook Lee
82 Patty Vandevere; married Shellac Cady, of Camillas.
Issue David Cady, of Chicago, Ill. Miss Cady; married Dr. Beach. Miss Cady
83 Arthur Vandevere; married and moved to Cincinnati. Had issue.
84 John Vandevere; married a daughter of John D. Voorhees, of Florida, Mont- gomery County. '
Issue Tunis Vandevere, of Glen; now living. John Vandevere
William Vandevere; had a son and a daughter.
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Newton Vandevere Ruth Vandevere; married Mr. Enders. 85 Thomas Vandevere; married a Miss Delancy or Delaney.
Issue
Elizabeth Vandevere; married Mr. Liddle. She died about 1894. Her son, James S. Liddle, was a prominent business man of Lockport, in 1898. Martha Vandevere; lived at Lockport, N. Y .; died, single, in 1892. John Vandevere, born in 1821; lived at Lockport, N. Y .; living in 1898. Seabrook Vandevere; oldest child, and single.
Jacob Vandevere; single. Helen Vandevere; single.
54 JAMES SEABROOK, youngest child of Daniel Seabrook, 12, was born, at Ports- mouth, Va., Oct. 24, 1775. He married, Mch. 23, 1809, his first cousin, Merriam, daughter of John Lambert and his second wife, Hannah Little, widow of Major Benjamin Dennis, born, in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, N. J., Mch. 18, 1787. James Seabrook died Dec. 20, 1852. Merriam, his wife, died July 1, 1868.
After the death of his parents, James Seabrook was brought up by his mother's brother in Monmouth County, but returned to Virginia, where, in Richmond, he received his com- mission, as Lieutenant in the Militia, in 1809. He removed from Richmond, and was living at New Brunswick, N. J., in 1811; at Philadelphia, in 1813; in Amwell Township, in 1815; soon he returned to Philadelphia, where he remained until April, 1823, when he returned to Amwell, where he lived until Apr. 1, 1824, when he finally settled at Lambertville, N. J., where he kept an "Apothecary Shop." He was elected an Elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1829.
Issue
86 John Lambert Seabrook, born, at Richmond, Jan. 7, 1810; died, at Philadelphia, Jan. 30, 1821.
87 Nicholas Brown Seabrook, born, at New Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 6, 1811; died, at Philadelphia, Sept. 8, 1813.
88 Mary Hannah Seabrook, born, at Amwell, N. J., Dec. 17, 1813.
89 Daniel Seabrook, born Jan. 1, 1816; died July 28, 1816.
90 Thomas Seabrook, born, at Philadelphia, June 30, 1817.
91 George Seabrook, born, at Philadelphia, Oct. 20, 1819; died, at Philadelphia, Jan. 2, 1821.
56 JOHN SEABROOK, son of Nicholas B. Seabrook, 13, was born, Feb. 17, 1768, at Portsmouth, Va. He was educated at Princeton, N. J., and married Ann Sydnor, Oct. 18, 1793, who was born Oct. 6, 1775.
Issue
92 Nicholas Brown Seabrook, born, Aug. 10, 1799, at Dungaroon; married, Oct. 6, 183I, at Lexington, Va.
93 Edward Sydnor Seabrook, born, Dec. 1, 1800, at Dungaroon; died, Oct. 18, 1827, at Savannah.
94 Betsy Seabrook, born, Feb. 11, 1802, at Dungaroon; married, Aug. 31, 1820, at Low Hill, Henrico County, Va., Daniel Trueheart.
Issue
John Seabrook Trueheart, born Aug. 19, 1821.
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Gilbert Lafayette Trueheart, born July 19, 1824. Anna Maria Trueheart
95 John Blair Seabrook, born, Mch. 21, 1803, at Dungaroon; died Sept. 4, 1804.
96 William Seabrook, born, July 28, 1804, at Richmond; died, Aug. 12, 1804, at Richmond.
97 Sally Seabrook, born, Aug. 1, 1805, at Richmond; died, Oct. 8, 1806, at Oakwell, Hanover County.
98 Polly Seabrook, born, Jan. 29, 1807, at Oakwell.
99 Sally Ann Seabrook, born, Nov. 1, 1808, at Oakwell; married, Nov. 23, 1830, John Mickleberry Sheppard, of Nosechthos; died, Dec. 21, 1831, at Nosechthos.
Issue Seabrook Sheppard, born, Sept. 9, 1831, at Brookfield.
100 John Seabrook, born Feb. 18, 1810; died November, 1810.
IOI William Henry Seabrook, born Nov. 28, 18II.
102 John Benjamin Thompson Seabrook, born Sept. 4, 1813.
103 Camilla Tyrrell Seabrook, born, June 23, 1815, at Richmond Hill; married, May 3, 1832, in Rockbridge, Dr. Washington Dorsey, of Baltimore.
104 Elizabeth Seabrook, born, at Lambertville, N. J., Apr. 30, 1824; unmarried and living in 1898.
105 William Seabrook, born, at Lambertville, N. J., July 29, 1826; died, at Lambert- L
ville, Mch. 6, 1830.
There are miniatures of James and Meriam (Lambert) Seabrook in the possession of Mrs. Ashbel Welch.
58 SALLY SEABROOK, daughter of Nicholas B. Seabrook, 13, was born, Oct. 18, 1773, at Norfolk, Va .; died Oct. 8, 1803. She married James Rind, Nov. 3, 1794, at Dungaroon, Hanover County, Va., who died Aug. 4, 1803.
Issue
106 Nicholas B. Rind, born Mch. 13, 1796. Tombstone in St. John's Churchyard reads: Nicholas B. S. Rind died, Mch. 12, 1845, aged 48 years.
107 Maria Duchess Rind, born Jan. 28, 1798.
108 Betsy Rind, born May, 1802; died 1803.
59 POLLY SEABROOK, daughter of Nicholas B. Seabrook, 13, married, Nov. 3, 1794, at Dungaroon, Bartholomew Trueheart. She died, at Richmond, May 11, 1796. There is buried at St. John's Church: "Mary Duchess, consort of Daniel Trueheart, died, 17 August, 1817, in her 20th year."
Mrs. Mary Bealle, of 55 McCulloch St., Baltimore, Md., née Mary Trueheart, possesses a Seabrook Family Bible. Miss Jessie Gordon, of 3 Grace St., Richmond, Va., also has one.
62 MARTHA SEABROOK, daughter of Stephen Seabrook, 42, was living, in 1877, aged eighty-eight years, hence born in 1789. She married Samuel Mash, of Staten Island, a descend- ant of an early settler of that name, in Englishtown, N. J. They emigrated to New Albany, Ind.
MRS. MARTHA MARSH.
We take the following from the Keyport Weekly :-
Died at New Albany, Ind., April, 1878, Martha, widow of Samuel Marsh, and eldest daughter of Stephen Seabrook, aged about ninety-two years.
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
Stephen Seabrook, the father of "Aunt Patty" Marsh, was the eldest son of "Major" Thomas Seabrook, whose name was in the list of Revolutionary soldiers, published the last few weeks in THE MONMOUTH IN- QUIRER, as Lieut. Col. Thomas Seabrook. Stephen Seabrook assisted at the battle of Monmouth, and dying at Englishtown when more than ninety years of age, was buried in the "Old Tennent" churchyard.
Samuel Marsh, accompanied by four of his brothers, and his nephew, Jacob Aumack, moved his family to Cincinnati in 1814, but was induced by his father-in-law, Stephen Seabrook, to go farther down the river- i. e., below the falls of the Ohio, as it would be a better place for his business-that of ship builder. New Albany, now a large city-was then a wilderness. Daniel Seabrook, who was also of the party, joined Marsh in his business, which they were still engaged in, in 1852. D. Seabrook and J. Aumack are both still living, aged respectively 88 and 90 years.
There are but few, living in this vicinity, who remember Patty Mash, as the name was called in the olden time; but there are relatives, nephews and nieces, in Keyport, who will remember her visit here in 1853, at which time she visited her stepmother, Sallie Seabrook, at Englishtown, who was then ninety-four years old.
Issue
109 Sarah Ann Marsh; oldest child, born 1806; married Jacob Anthony.
IIO Alfred Marsh; died leaving issue: George Marsh, etc.
III Samuel Marsh; married and had a large family.
II2 Edwin Marsh; married and had a family.
113 Augustus Marsh; married and had a family.
114 Harriet Marsh; married, first, Mr. Remhardt or Reinhardt, and twice afterwards.
115 Maria Marsh; married; lives in California.
116 Adelina Marsh; married J. K. Woodward. She died in August, 1895.
Mrs. Clara Anthony Bley, of 1615 Alleghany Ave., Philadelphia, Pa., wrote, in January, 1894, that she was the youngest daughter of "Sarah Ann Marsh Anthony," who was living "very active and much interested in the life about her. She is the only daughter left of the family and there are yet two sons remaining, Samuel Stephen and Augustus."
In 1890, the Rev. A. H. Anthony, of Winchester, Ky., wrote me concerning his Seabrook ancestry.
63 MARIA SEABROOK, daughter of Stephen Seabrook, 42, married Joseph, son of Nicholas Johnson, of Keyport, N. J .*
Issue
117 Stephen Johnson; married Miss Wolfe.
118 William Johnson; married, first, Parmela Walling; second, her sister, Mary Elizabeth Walling. He was deceased in 1877.
119 Joseph Johnson; second son; a good man; married Miss Luyster.
120 John Johnson
12I James Johnson; unmarried.
I22 Alfred Johnson; unmarried, in 1877.
123 Mary Ann Johnson, married Elijah Walling. He is deceased.
Issue
Fitzroy Walling; married Elizabeth Curtis.
Bishop Walling; married a Griffith or Griffin, of Keyport, N. J. Isadore Walling
Theresa Walling Annie Walling
*Joseph Johnson had two sisters; one, Betsy Johnson, a maiden lady, and a sister who married William Morford, for his second wife, and was the stepmother of the Poet Morford.
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124 Lucinda Johnson; married Mr. Walling, brother of Elijah Walling. 125 Joanna Johnson; living, in 1880, unmarried.
Mrs. T. W. Seabrook said that the Johnsons had Indian blood in them.
64 JAMES SEABROOK, son of Stephen Seabrook, 42, moved to New Albany, in 1814. Issue
126 Daughter ..... ; married Anderson Marsh.
127 Leonard Seabrook
128 John Seabrook
[Perhaps the above issue is entirely erroneous.]
65 JOHN SEABROOK, son of Stephen Seabrook, 42, married Catharine ..... , and lived and died in Keyport, N. J.
Issue
129 Stephen Seabrook 130 Ann Seabrook 131 Mary Seabrook
I32 Elias Seabrook
66 DANIEL SEABROOK, son of Stephen Seabrook, 42, moved to New Albany, Ind., about 1814, and married twice, both wives being Western women. The family records were lost in the burning of his house, in 1830.
Issue by first wife 133 James Seabrook 134 Alfred Seabrook 135 Ann Maria Seabrook
Issue by second wife 136 John Seabrook I37 Daughter
67 ANNA SEABROOK, daughter of Stephen Seabrook, 42, married, probably in 1820, William Hoff, son of William and Elizabeth (Walling) Huff. All of their descendants live in Elizabeth, N. J., save Daniel S. Hoff's widow and children. Anna (Seabrook) Hoff probably · died about 1855.
Issue 138 Ann Eliza Hoff, born Oct. 13, 1821; married Richard Poole Walling. Issue Mary Ann Walling; married James Van Dike.
Issue Cessie Van Dike
139 Daniel Seabrook Hoff, born Oct. 24, 1825; married Mary Ann Collins, of English birth, and died Nov. 18, [1877?]
Issue William Hoff Ann Hoff Nellie Hoff
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71 ELLEN SEABROOK, daughter of Thomas Seabrook, 43, was born Oct. 3, 1803; died Feb. 20, 1877; married William Applegate.
72 LYDIA SEABROOK, daughter of Thomas Seabrook, 43, was born Oct. 3, 1805; married Rev. William V. Wilson, of Fort Monmouth, N. J., and died, Aug. 13, 1852, aged 46 years, 10 months and 10 days. P
Issue
140 Mary Anna Wilson; married Capt. George Bowne; has issue. 14I Mat [Martha?] Wilson; married Capt. Benjamin Griggs; no issue.
74 MARTHA SEABROOK, daughter of Thomas Seabrook, 43, was born Feb. 17, 1810; married Rev. William V. Wilson, his second wife; no issue.
75 HENRY SEABROOK, son of Thomas Seabrook, 43, was born Sept. 10, 1813; died Mch. 30, 1872; married Theresa, daughter of Leonard and Catharine (Aumack) Walling, who was born Aug. 8, 1821. Catharine Aumack's mother was a Marsh, a sister to Samuel Marsh, who married Martha Seabrook. "My great-grandmother, Gertje Conover, married Jacobus Aumack," said Mrs. T. W. Seabrook.
Issue
142 Annie Seabrook, born Aug. 12, 1852; married William Conover.
143 Thomas Leonard Seabrook, born June 16, 1854.
144 Henry Seabrook, born Aug. 3, 1856; died Oct. 12, 1856.
145 Elena Seabrook, born Nov. 1, 1857; died Mch. 15, 1861.
146 Harry Seabrook, born Oct. 23, 1859; married May Nason.
147 Martha Washington Seabrook, born Nov. 26, 1863; married John Schenck.
88 MARY HANNAH SEABROOK, daughter of James Seabrook, 54, was born, Dec. 17, 1813, at the home of her grandfather, John Lambert, in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, N. J. She married, Oct. 25, 1834, Ashbel Welch, a well-known Civil Engineer and railroad man, of New Jersey. He was the son of Ashbel and Margaret (Dorrance) Welch, and was born, Dec. 4, 1809, in Nelson, Madison County, N. J., whither his parents had removed from Windham, Conn. He resided at Lambertville, N. J., where all of his children were born, and where he died Sept. 25, 1882. Mary Hannah Welch, his wife, died Apr. 1, 1874.
Issue
148 Son, unnamed, born and died Oct. 28, 1835.
149 Margaret Welch, born Mch. 8, 1837; died May 1, 1838.
150 Caroline Corsen Welch; married William Corwin, of Lambertville, N. J.
15I Mary Merriam Welch; unmarried; living, at Lambertville, N. J., in 1898.
152 Elizabeth Seabrook Welch; first wife of the Rev. Roswell Randall Hoes; died Apr. 7, 1879.
153 Margaret Welch, born Sept. 21, 1851; died Dec. 30, 1853.
1 54 Ashbel Welch, born Feb. 5, 1854.
155 William Welch; married Marie Lair, who died, Feb. 12, 1897, leaving
Issue Olivia Welch
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90 THOMAS SEABROOK, son of James Seabrook, 54, was born, in Philadelphia, June 30, 1817; married, first, Eveline Barber, adopted daughter of Mrs. Tingey, Dec. 6, 1842. She died in 1854. He married, second, June 16, 1857, Mrs. Sarah (Lambert) Smith, who, in 1898, was still living. He died, Feb. 24, 1897, in Philadelphia. He was "a civil engineer, prominently identified with the construction and extention of the Penna. R. R." See Philadelphia Ledger, Feb. 27, 1897.
Issue by first wife 156 James Seabrook; died in the Civil War. 157 Ashbel Seabrook; died, in infancy, in 1854. 158 *Thomas Seabrook; married, in 1871, Josephine Adams.
Issue William Seabrook Eveline Tingey Seabrook Walter Seabrook Thomas Arthur Seabrook 159 Annie Seabrook; unmarried.
Issue by second wife 160 Elizabeth Seabrook; married, March, 1885, Henry P. Hunter, of Warren, Pa. Issue Marion Hunter, born January, 1886. Henry P. Hunter, born January, 1890. 16I Marion Pollard Seabrook, born August, 1865; died Jan. 10, 1890.
129 STEPHEN SEABROOK, son of John Seabrook, 65, married Mary Walling. Mrs. T. W. Seabrook said that he "was intemperate and a fiddler."
Issue 162 Hannah Seabrook
163 Elias Seabrook minors in 1877.
130 ANN SEABROOK, daughter of John Seabrook, 65, married, first, Samuel Walling ; second, Josiah Rogers, who is now deceased.
Issue
164 Emilius Rogers 165 Catharine Rogers } all live in Wisconsin, near Janesville. 166 Amelia Rogers
131 MARY SEABROOK, daughter of John Seabrook, 65, married Thomas S. Clark. She was deceased in 1877.
Issue 167 Thomas Clark; he "was intemperate and a fiddler, like his uncle Stephen, and his cousin Steve, but he is not musical," wrote Mrs. T. W. Seabrook.
132 ELIAS SEABROOK, son of John Seabrook, 65, married Sarah Walling.
*Thomas Seabrook is now living at Paterson, N. J. He has the family records of his father, Thomas Seabrook, and his grandfather, James Seabrook, and can give information relating to his own and his father's family.
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Issue
168 Elizabeth Seabrook
169 Mary Seabrook; died at the age of fourteen years.
170 Stephen Seabrook; married Harriet Jones.
171 John Seabrook
twins "steady and industrious."
172 Kate Seabrook married [Asbury] Aumack. He is deceased.
154 ASHBEL WELCH, JR., seventh child and oldest son of Ashbel and MARY HANNAH (SEABROOK) Welch, 88, was born, at Lambertville, N. J., Feb. 5, 1854, and married, at Lambert- ville, N. J., Jan. 1, 1878, Emma D., daughter of John and Eliza Boice (Coriell) Finney, born, May 27, 1855, at Middlebush, Somerset County, N. J.
In 1898, he was General Manager of the Philadelphia Belt Line R. R., and resided at 275 Harvey St., Germantown, Pa.
Issue 173 Ashbel Russell Welch, born, at Lambertville, N. J., July 17, 1879.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
The following items have been collected from various sources.
1569, March. 7. "Rob' Seabroke, serv' to Mr. Lister," was buried. The Registers of St. Thomas, the Apostle, London, from 1558 to 1754.
1620. Richard Seabrook issued, in London, a caveat on the eye.
Allibone's Dictionary of Authors.
1632 [?] Bishop Gibson, in Camden, speaking of the famous church of Gloucester, with its great and stately tower, says: Abbot Seabrooke, the designer, dying, left it to the care of Robert Tully, a monk of the place, which is intimated in those verses, written in black letters, under the arch of the quire:
"Hoc quod digestem specularis, opus que politum, "Tullii haec ex onere, Seabroke Abbate jubente."
"This fabrick which you see, exact and neat, "The Abbot charged monk Tully make complete." New England Genealogical Register, Vol. III.
1640, July 20. "Isacke Sebrooke, son of Edward Sebrooke," was baptized. 1642, Dec. 10. "Isaac Seabrooke, son of Edward Sebrooke," was buried.
1649, July 18. "Joseph Seabrooke, son of Edward Seabrooke," was buried.
1661, Apr. 24. "Sarah Seabrooke, daughter of Edward Seabrooke, Shoemaker," was buried.
1663, Nov. 5. "M's Seabrooke, stranger," buried.
1726, Nov. 24. "John Seabrooke, of S' Bartholomeio, the Less, London, Wid', & Mary Drake, of the same place & parish, Sp'," were married.
1732, Dec. 17. "Edwd Seabrooke, of St Peter, at St Albans, Herts, & Ann Langley, of S' Vedast, Foster lane, Lond. Licence," [were married]. The Rejester Booke, of Saynte De'nis, Backchurch parishe, (City of London), Begynnynge in the Yeare of O' Lord God 1538."
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1659, January. Will of Joseph Seabrook.
1659, Jan. 15. Will of William Seabrook. On record at Somerset House, London, Eng- land.
1661, May 16. "Thomas Croxon, of St Nicholas Ackons, & Ann Sebrooke, of Stepney, [were married], by Mr. Conyrs." The Parish Registers of St. Mary Aldermary, London, from 1558 to 1754.
1728, Sept. 19. "W" Coombs, of St Giles, Cripplegate, Midx, & Mary Seabrook, of St Peters, Cornhill, Lond. Licence," [were married]. A Register of the Parish of Saint Peters, vpon Cornhill, Beginning at the Raigne of Queen Elizabeth.
About 1730, one of this name, an officer in the Royal Navy, died. "Gentleman's Magazine."
Peplow and Seabrook, [Milward Seabrook], surgeons, III Great Russell St., Bloomsbury, London, W. C.
Lady Seabrook married a Governor-General, of Dublin.
Sir Charles Seabrook was a Member of Parliament.
1879. In the Directory of London, England, of this date, the following references to Sea- brooks were found:
I John Wm Seabrook, "Panther" P. H., [Public House], 15 Turin St., Bethnal Green.
2 Thomas Seabrook, furniture dealer, 98 Back St., Church Lane, E.
3 Wm Seabrook, chandler shop, I Graham St., City Road, N.
4 Reuben Seabrook, bonnet manufacturer, 85 East St., Manchester Sq., W.
The first and third of these could not be found. The second was visited and proved to be a specimen worthy of Dicken's description. The man was unprepossessing, his immediate surroundings still worse, and the section of London that he occupied, notoriously bad. How- ever, led astray possibly by a thought that I was seeking heirs to an estate, he became com- municative, in a rough way; told me that he hailed from Bairden, County of Essex, about nine miles from Bishop Stortford, and that he occasionally saw passing his door, farmers' wagons with the name, which came by Rumford way. My visit to the last on the list was more pleas- ing than this. Here I met an old gentleman, who was happy to converse concerning those of his name, on the other side of the water. He informed me that there had been Seabrooks, in Buckingham, about thirty-five miles from London, but none were there now; that his grand- father was John Seabrook, of Slapton, who had a son, Frank, who had among others, my in- formant, then in his seventieth year. He, Reuben Seabrook, was married and his wife was still living. Their family consisted of two sons, Frank and William. So far as he knew, in his family, at least, Joseph and Robert were not family names, and the peculiar characteristics of all he knew were blue eyes and high foreheads. In relating my trip to Dunstable, and its disap- pointments, it recalled to him that there was a "Seabrook House," surrounded with a moat, and itself old and moss-grown; in shape it was square, built of brick and had a tiled roof. It had probably passed from the family of that name to other hands. It could be reached by the North Western railway, and lay between Dunstable and London, one having to get out at Cheddington station. It was a matter of regret with me that the information came so late as to prevent my visiting the neighborhood, for it seems likely that, from its proximity to Dun- stable, that it would furnish a clue to the ancestry of the South Carolina family of Seabrook.
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