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Genesee (now Yates) county, New York, and there passed the remainder of his days. He lived to the patriarchal age of one hundred years, and was never sick a day in his life. It is said that the day before his death he showed his sons how they used to dance an old-fash- ioned breakdown. Children : 1. Carey, of whom further. 2. George, resided in Yates county, New York, and raised a family of five children: John, George, Orlando, Olive, Azu- ba. Of these, Olive married Augustus Moon, Azuba married Gideon Moon, and removed to Chautauqua county, New York. 3. Thank- ful; married John Bently, a soldier of the rev- olution, and lived in Chautauqua county ; they had a son Solomon. 4. William, married Cyn- thia Moon, and had a son Arvin, who lived in Chautauqua county, and whose children were: Laura, married Alexander Simmons ; William, married Permelia Dunton : Nicholas, married his cousin, Betsey Bentley ; a son, married Phoebe, daughter of Benjamin Daw- ley. 5. -, married a Mr. Dawley, had a son Benjamin. 6. Thomas, married and reared a large family, including sons Thomas, John, and George. Thomas and his sons before the war built a sloop to carry passengers and mer- chandise into Canada. At the beginning of the second war with England they were among the blockade-runners. Captain Clark, of Ver- mont, supposedly a great-grandson of Thomas Clark, aforementioned, ran the warship "Ore- gon" from San Francisco down around South America in the shortest time on record. It was Captain Clark who said he was not afraid of the whole Spanish fleet when the war de- partment advised him to stop and get more help during the recent war with Spain, and who, when the battle of Santiago was fought. followed the Spanish fleet twenty miles and sunk the last ship. Alvin Clark, who built so many telescopes for European countries and whose last work consisted of a great telescope built for the Lick Observatory in California, was a descendant in the ninth generation from the John Clark who came over in the "May- flower." To this worthy ancestor the Clark who started the Christian Endeavor likewise traced his lineage.
(II) Carey (2), son of Carey (I) Clark. was born at Kingstown, Rhode Island, about 1765, died in 1857. He was a large, active, strong man, and retained his faculties in all their vigor to the last. It is said that a few months before his death he jumped up and
hit his feet together like a young boy. He removed with his brother Thomas, to Swan- ton, Vermont, near the foot of Lake Cham- plain. In the war of 1812, when his sons William and Benoni were drafted to fight at Plattsburg, he rowed in a boat to that place in order to be on hand if they should be killed or wounded, but no harm occurred to the young soldiers. In 1822 he accompanied his son Warren to Ellicott township, Chautauqua county, New York, where he settled on heav- ily-timbered land; this lie cleared, and it is still in the possession of the family. He mar- ried (first) in 1791, Dorcas Moon, who died in 1810; (second) -, who died in 1845 : she married (first) Williams. Chil-
dren, all by first wife: I. Lucy. 2. Louis. 3. William G., born July 22, 1795, died De- cember 23, 1861 ; married and had the follow- ing children : Lucinda, William A., Mahala, Arsula, Melissa, Esther and Cary. 4. Benoni. 5. Caleb, born January 6, 1799, died February 14, 1862 ; married, in 1824. Elizabeth Taylor ; children : Riley G., Cary D., Phebe, Sylvester, Merritt, Nery, Leland. 6. Cary, born January 6, 1799, died September 3, 1866; children : Harriet A., Warren M .. William, Sylvester, Lucy, Morgan, Albert, Roxey A. 7. Mary. 8. Warren, of whom further.
(III) Warren, son of Carey and Dorcas (Moon ) Clark, was born at Swanton, April II, 1804, died at his home near Jamestown, New York, December 10, 1877. He came to Chautauqua county with his father and mother in 1822, and helped to clear the old home- stead. He married, June 24. 1821, Sibyl, daughter of Jonathan Corey, who was born at Bennington, Vermont. March 24, 1791. Her father was of Shaftsbury, near Benning- ton. The Coreys are an old family in Amer- ica, and the resting places of early members are marked by stones in the old graveyard at Salem, Massachusetts. Children of Jona- than Corey: Jonathan, Rufus, Hiram, John, Truman, Sibyl, Charlotte, Dennis. Nancy. Children of Warren and Sibyl (Corey) Clark: I. Mahala, born in 1822, died in 1912. 2. Marvin Dudley, of whom further. 3. Mi- nerva, born in 1826, died in 1869. 4. Charles Wesley, born in 1837, married Martha Put- nam (see Putnam VIII). Two others who did not reach maturity.
(IV) Marvin Dudley, son of Warren and Sibyl (Corey) Clark, was born on the old homestead, in the township of Ellicott, Chau-
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tauqua county, New York, July 10, 1824, died December 15, 1901. He received a good ele- mentary education. Throughout his whole active career he followed farming, his estate consisting of two hundred and seventy acres purchased by his father and grandfather from the Holland Land Company. Mr. Clark was one of the most successful farmers in Chau- tauqua county, and took special interest in raising fine stock and high-grade grains. He had a tract of fine pine timber, which he made into lumber. The present commodious residence on the estate, now owned by his son Frank, was erected by him. He was a Republican ; he attended the Baptist church, of which his wife was a member. He mar- ried, January 1, 1851, Rosina, daughter of Rev. Oren and Alvira (Scofield) Putnam, who was born at Stockton, Chautauqua coun- ty, New York, January 7, 1832, died in Buf- falo, May 8, 1909 (see Putnam VIII). Chil- dren : I. Cassius Eugene, born November 16, 1856; married Ida Bowen, and resides at Jamestown ; children : Alene and Dudley. 2. Frank Marvin, of whom further. 3. Mary Rosalind, born February 9. 1872; married Eugene D. Smith ; children: Delight, Gladys. Violet.
(V) Frank Marvin, son of Marvin Dudley and Rosina ( Putnam1) Clark, was born on the old homestead in the township of Ellicott, near Jamestown, April 2, 1863. His early life was passed on the farm, and he attended the dis- trict schools. At the age of sixteen he came to Jamestown, where in June, 1883. he gradu- ated from the high school. While attending school he was a clerk in the drug store of Henderson & Putnam. In the fall of 1883 he matriculated in the University of Michigan. at Ann Arbor, in the pharmacy department : he graduated in 1885 with the degree of phar- maceutical chemist, the highest degree held by any druggist in Western New York. He holds the first certificate, issued by examina- tion by the state board of pharmacy, which was granted in Jamestown. After the com- pletion of his professional education Mr. Clark returned to Jamestown, to the service of his old employers, Henderson & Putnam; he was with this firm about five years in all. In No- vember, 1886, he formed a partnership with Cassius E. Clark and Edward A. Tupper, to conduct a general drug store at No. 11 East Third street, Jamestown, under the firm name of Clark Brothers & Tupper. They removed
in 1891 to the present store at the corner of Third and Main streets. This is one of the largest and most thoroughly equipped drug stores in the western part of the state ; a gen- eral book and stationery business is handled in connection with the drug business. Mr. Clark purchased his brother's interest in 1902, and now conducts the store alone. He has another large drug store at Chautauqua, New York, and is one of the directors of the Elli- cott Drug Company (wholesale), of Buffalo. He owns his residence at No. 513 West Third street : the old Clark homestead ; a fine sunt- mer cottage, the "Ingleside," at Lakewood, New York ; and another cottage at Allegheny Springs, Pennsylvania. He is a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 145, Free and Ac- cepted Masons : Western Sun Chapter, No. 67. Royal Arch Masons; Jamestown Command- ery, No. 61, Knights Templar : the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine : and the Buffalo Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons. He is a member of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, and of the American Microscopical Society. He is affiliated with the Alpha Chapter of the Phi Chi, college fraternity, of Ann Arbor. Michi- gan. Formerly he was a member of the Thir- teenth Separate Company, New York State Militia.
Mr. Clark married, December 30, 1891, Ma- bel, daughter of John and Mary (Gilhooley) Hartan, who was born in Philadelphia, April 28, 1873 ; she is a granddaughter of Thomas Gilhooley, of New York City. Children: I. Donald Marvin, born November 12, 1892, died September 22, 1893. 2. Fitzgerald Hartan, born April 22, 1894, now attending the high school at Jamestown.
(The Putnam Line).
The Putnam family of Salem, Massachu- setts, and its offshoots, have extended to every state of the Union. The family is English in origin ; it has also been planted in Canada and Australia. The coat-of-arms is thus heraldic- ally described : Sable, between eight crosses crosslet-fitchee (or crusily-fitchee) argent, a stork of the last, beaked and legged gules. Crest, a wolf's head, gules.
(I) John Putnam, of Aston Abbotts, county of Bucks, England, the founder of this family. was born about 1580, died at Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts. December 30, 1662. He came to New England about 1634.
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and settled on the farm since known as "Oak Knoll," at Danvers, where the poet Whittier made his home during his last years. He was a farmer, and very prosperous for those times. In 1647 he was admitted to the church, and he was made a freeman in the same year, but he was a man of standing in the community before that time. He married Priscilla
(perhaps Gould). Children, baptized at As- ton Abbotts : I. Elizabeth, December 20, 1612. 2. Thomas, of whom further. 3. John, July 24, 1617. buried November 5, 1620. 4. Nathaniel, October 11, 1619, died July 23, 1700: married Elizabeth Hutchinson. 5. Sara, March 7, 1622-23. 6. Phoebe, July 28, 1624. 7. John, May 27, 1627, died April 7, 1710.
( II ) Lieutenant Thomas Putnam, son of John and Priscilla Putnam, was baptized at Aston Abbotts, England, March 7, 1614-15, died at Salem Village, May 5, 1686. He had a good education, and was wealthy. In 1640 he was an inhabitant of Lynn, Massachuetts ; made a freeman in 1642; selectman in 1643. In the last-mentioned year he was admitted to the church at Salem. He held several other important offices. He married (first), at Lynn, August 17, 1643, Ann, daughter of Ed- ward and Prudence (Stockton) Holyoke, who died September I. 1665: (second) at Salem, September 14. 1666, Mary Veren, who died in March, 1694-95. She married (first) Na- thaniel Veren, of Salem. Children, all except the last by first wife: I. Ann, born June 25, 1645, died September 14, 1676; married, Jan- uary 18, 1666-67, William Trask. 2. Sarah, baptized May 23, 1648. 3. Mary, born August 17. 1649. 4. Thomas, born January 12, 1652, died May 24, 1699: married, September 25, 1678. Ann Carr. 5. Edward, of whom fur- ther. 6. Deliverance, born July 5, 1656; mar- ried. April 23, 1685, Jonathan Walcott. 7. Elizabeth, born June 30, 1659 : married Joshua Bayley. 8. Prudence, born December 28, 1661-62: married (first ) William Wyman, (second ) Peter Tufts. 9. Joseph, born Sep- tember 14, 1669. died in 1724 or 1725 : mar- ried. April 21, 1690. Elizabeth Porter ; he was a strenuous opponent of the witchcraft trials.
(III) Deacon Edward Putnam, son of Lieu- tenant Thomas and Ann ( Holyoke) Putnam, was born at Salem Village, July 4, 1654, died at Salem Village, March 10, 1747. He was a man of good education. He was a deacon of the church at Danvers, and figured promi- nently in the witchcraft trials. His occupa-
tion was farming. He married, June 14, 1681, Mary Hale. Children : I. Edward, born April 29, 1682, died October 23, 1755 ; married (first) Sarah -, (second ) September 3, 1735, Priscilla (Bradstreet) Jewett, (third), February 24, 1736-37, Martha Nurse, ( fourth) November 29, 1743, Mary Wilkins. 2. Holy- oke, born September 28, 1683, died July 3, 1706. 3. Elisha, of whom further. 4. Jo- seph, born November 1, 1687 ; married Lydia Flint. 5. Mary, born August 14, 1689; mar- ried, January 8, 1713, Thomas Flint. 6. Pru- dence, born January 25, 1692 ; married, De- cember 3, 1719, William Wyman. 7. Nehe- miah, born December 20, 1693. 8. Ezra, born April 29, 1696, died October 22, 1747; mar- ried, in March, 1719, Elizabeth Fuller. 9. Isaac, born March 14, 1698, died in 1757; married, December 20, 1720, Anna Fuller. 10. Abigail, baptized May 26, 1700, died in Janu- ary, 1764; married, November 11, 1730, Jo- seph Fuller.
(IV) Deacon Elisha Putnam, son of Dea- con Edward and Mary ( Hale) Putnam, was born at Salem Village, November 3, 1685, died at Sutton, Massachusetts, June 10, 1745. He was a farmer. He was for several years a deacon of the church, and he served as town clerk, town treasurer, and representative in the general court of Massachusetts. He mar- ried (first ), at Salem, February 10, 1710, Han- nah Marble, (second) February 15, 1713, Su- sanna, daughter of Jonathan and Susan (Trask) Fuller, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, who was born in 1695. Children, all by sec- ond wife: I. Elisha, of whom further. 2. Hannah, baptized September 8, 1717 : married, August 18, 1736, Jonathan Dudley. 3. Nehe- miah, born March 22, 1719, died November 27. 1791 ; married, October 5, 1742, Sarah Mail- ning. 4. Jonathan, born July 19. 1721 ; mar- ried, November 3, 1743, Anne (Chase) Stock- well. 5. Susanna, baptized September 8, 1723 ; married (first). February 24, 1742, Timothy Holton, (second) John Whipple. 6. Mary, born June 12, 1725, died April 22, 1736. 7. Stephen, born April 4, 1728: married, March 4, 1755, Mary Gibbs. 8. Amos, born July 22, 1730, died September 17, 1811 ; married, June 26, 1760, Sarah Swift. 9. Eunice, born July 6, 1732. 10. Huldah, born May 25, 1734; married Daniel Matthews. II. Rufus, born April 9, 1738, died May 4, 1824; married (first), in April, 1761, Elizabeth Ayers. (sec- ond) January 10, 1765, Persis Rice ; he was
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a general in the revolution, and the leader of the first colony which settled in Ohio.
(V) Elisha (2), son of Elisha (I) and Su- sanna (Fuller) Putnam, was born at Tops- field, Massachusets, December 2, 1715, died at or near Crown Point, New York, in 1758. He was at that time a soldier in the provincial army, in the campaign against Ticonderoga. He married, March 3, 1742, Lydia, daughter of Philip and Mary (Follansbee) Chase, who was born August 12, 1722. She married (sec- ond), May 26, 1762, John Daniels. Children: I. Andrew, of whom further. 2. Elisha, born December 4, 1745, died May 25, 1784; mar- ried, April 2, 1765, Abigail Chamberlain. 3. Antipas, born July 24, 1747, died in 1764. 4. Jokton, born May 1, 1750; married, April 7, 1770, Anne Harris. 5. Luke, born October 5, 1755 ; married, November 23, 1786, Mary Put- nam. 6. William, born January 7, 1758, died July 22, 1818 ; married, June 25, 1778, Submit Fisk.
(VI) Andrew, son of Elisha (2) and Lydia (Chase) Putnam, was born at Sutton, Massa- chusetts, May 4 or 6, 1742, died at Townsend, Massachusetts, aged over seventy years. He owned and cultivated a farm at Greenfield, and fitted young men for college. About 1794 he removed to Townsend. He was a fine- looking man, six feet two inches in height: his wife was said to be the handsomest girl who ever entered Sutton meeting house. He married, January 10, 1764, Lucy Parks, of Sutton, who died at Townsend, aged over seventy. Children: 1. Lydia, born April 20, 1765, died March 13, 1787. 2. Eunice, born May 25. 1767, died February 8, 1821 ; married. in1 1790, Allen. 3. Andrew, of whom further. 4. Malachi, born October 14, 1772, died about 1848 ; married, September 13, 1802, Sarah 5. Sarah, born July 28, 1774, died August 30. 1776. 6. Peter, born August 5, 1776, died February 25, 1847; married (first), December 3, 1801, Susanna Keep, (second) 7. Stephen, born April 8, 1778, died September 2, 1867 ; married, Jan- uary II, 1801, Deborah Egory. 8. David, born January II, 1783, died July 22, 1834 ; married, February 14, 1811, Orpha Scales. 9. Eliza- beth, married Eliphaz Allen. 10. Sally, mar- ried, February 2, 1808, Isaac Colburn. II. Lucy, married Jeremiah Ball. 12. Mary, born April 5, 1789, died October 1, 1874; married (first ), in 1808, John Humphrey, (second) July 13, 1843, William Rugg.
(VII) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (1) and Lucy (Parks) Putnam, was born at Win- chester, Massachusetts, March II, 1769, died June 14, 1828. He settled at Stockton, Chau- tauqua county, New York. He married, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, December 7, 1791, Azuba, daughter of Samuel and ( An- gie) Stanhope, who was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, November 25, 1770, died at her son Newell's home at Stockton, January 18, 1864. She was descended from the well known Stanhope family. Children: I. Har- riet, born October 28, 1792, died October 7, 1880; married, in February, 1813, Jonathan Bugbee; they settled at Stockton, and had seven children, Andrew, Charity, Delight, James, Judge, Harriet, Damerras. Judge
married Mary Ann Flagg, and had Eugene and Florence; Eugene lives on the old home- stead ; Florence married Walter B. Horton, but died childless. 2. Newell, born February 28, 1795 ; he came with his father to Stockton, where he held several offices of trust in the town; he afterward removed to Conneaut, Ohio; he married Tracy Fenner ; his only son, Welcome, died at his father's homestead, October 28, 1871. 3. Gilbert, born June 21, 1797, died in 1859 ; he married Thankful Rog- ers; children : James, George. Calvin, Delos, Charles, Worthy, Angeline, Avis. Wealthy. Of these, James married Maria Flagg, sister of Mrs. Judge Bugbee; they had one child, Major Edgar P. Putnam, of Jamestown, whose daughter Pearl is now Mrs. Norris, and resides at Attica, New York. After the death of James Putnam, his wife married Welcome Putnam, the son of Newell. by which union there were two children, Sumner, postmaster at Conneaut, Ohio, and May, the second wife of Walter B. Horton ; she has one daughter. 4. Lovell, born December 4, 1799, died Janu- uary 31, 1815. 5. Hiram, born March 30, 1802 ; he settled at Ellington in 1823; he had four children : Olvin, resided on the old home- stead: Azuba: Eveline; Edwin, resided at Clear Creek. died in 1912 at Conewango. 6. Olvin, born July 27, 1804, died January 22, 1863 ; he bought of Jonathan Bugbee the farm on which he lived ; children: Alonzo, of Sin- clairville, and Mrs. M. L. Ford, of Jamestown. 7. Oren, of whom further. 8. Royal, born June 6, 1809 ; he settled on a part of the old Putnam homestead ; children : Melville and Murry (twins). 9. Union, twin of Royal ; also settled on the old homestead, but after
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ward removed to Rochester, Minnesota ; chil- dren, four, of whom only one, Leroy, is living. IO. Worthy, born October 11, 1811 ; he was a successful teacher, and afterward superin- tendent of schools of Chautauqua county ; later he studied first medicine and then law and was admitted to the bar: removing to Valparaiso, Indiana, he continued the practice of law, and also held the chair of elocution in the college of Valparaiso : he was the author of a well known work on elocution. In 1864 he removed to Barrien Springs, Michigan, where he died ; he had two children, Clarence and Florence. Florence married Job Barnard, a noted lawyer, who is judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.
(VIII) Rev. Oren Putnam, son of Andrew (2) and Azuba ( Stanhope) Putnam, was born at Brookfield. Madison county, New York, January 5. 1807, died at Ellicott, Chautauqua county, at the age of nearly eighty-eight years. He was a Baptist minister, and lived the most of his life in Chautauqua county. He settled and resided until 1856 near his father-in-law. Shadrach Scofield, in the southwest part of the township of Stockton. He set out a large orchard, which still bears good fruit. This section was "beech and maple" land : he pro- duced quantities of maple sugar and pearlash. He also kept a fine dairy and marketed butter and cheese. After disposing of this farm he resided at various times at Ellington, Frews- burg and Sinclairville, New York, and finally with his daughters. Mrs. Marvin D. Clark and Mrs. Alvin Shunk, at Ellicott, where he died. at the latter's home.
He married Alvira, daughter of Shadrach and Betsey ( Waterbury ) Scofield, who sur- vived him about four years, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. Wesley Clark, near Fluvanna, New York. Shadrach Sco- field, Samuel Waterbury, and David Water- bury ( son of Samuel ) came from Saratoga county, New York, and in 1810 made the first settlement in the southern part of the town- ship of Stockton. Samuel Waterbury had been a revolutionary soldier : Shadrach Sco- field afterward served at Buffalo, in the war of 1812. Shadrach Scofield owned a consid- erable amount of property, and conducted a general mercantile business, at what is now designated as Denton Corners. He married Betsey, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Sco- field) Waterbury : she was, on her mother's side, a distant relative. He married ( second)
Mrs. Dalrimple, a widow with one child ; they afterward removed to a place near Janesville, Wisconsin, where he died. Children of Shad- rach and Betsey (Waterbury ) Scofield : I. Alvira, born in 1807, died in 1898; she taught for some time in one of the first schools in the northern part of Ellery township: she married Rev. Oren Putnam. 2. Polly, married Henry LeBarren, of Dewittville, and had Or- lando, Betsey. deceased, Hixen, Horace. Or- lando has one son, Hixen one daughter, Hor- ace three children. Children of Rev. Oren and Alvira ( Scofield ) Putnam: 1. Luman, a soldier in the civil war; he married Lavina Vanderwark and has children: Mary, Celes- tia, Emily, Frank. 2. Betsey Cordelia, mar- ried William Lee ; removed to Cokato, Minne- sota ; children : Marion, deceased, Fayette, Eugene, Marvin. deceased, Viola, deceased, Charles, deceased, James, Edwin. 3. Rosina, married Marvin Dudley Clark ( see Clark IV ). 4. Mary Ann, married Americus Sanders, who is now deceased : she resides at Maynard, Iowa : no children. 5. Martha, married Charles Wesley Clark, brother of Marvin Dudley : children : Myron, married Cora Thompson, and has Lucille. Alta. Irene : De- Forest, married Mary Langhenberger, one child. Roscoe W .: Almon, married Clara Ma- gee, one child, Charles : Minnie, married Da- vid Green. 6. Maria, married Alvin Stumk ; resides at Ellicott : one child, Bert Clarence. married Mertie Brunson, but has no children living.
SEYMOUR The Seymour family is one of great antiquity in England. The seal on the will of
Thomas Seymour. eldest son of Richard Sey- mour, the first settler of the name in this country, bears the impress of two wings con- joined in line, 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 Morris Woodruff Seymour, of Litchfield, Connecticut, a descen- dant of Richard Seymour, has on one of the fly leaves a drawing of the arms of the Sey- mours of Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, Eng- land, viz .: "Two wings conjoined in line" quartered with the Royal Arms as granted by Henry VIII. to Edward Seymour. Duke of Somerset. Although some authorities differ. it is believed Richard Seymour was the grand- son of Sir Edward Lord Seymour, a lineal
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descendant in the eleventh generation from King Edward III., of England.
(II) Richard, son of Edward Seymour, though not a proprietor, was an early settler of Hartford, Connecticut, probably settling there as early as 1639. He held some of the town offices but did not long remain there, for in June, 1650, his name appears among the number who made the agreement with Roger Ludlow "For the settlinge and plantinge of Norwalk." He was selectman of Norwalk in 1655. His will made October 25. 1655, names his "Loving wife Mercy" and his three sons "John, Zachary and Richard." His will is sealed with a small seal engraved with the wings "Conjoined in Lure." His wife Mercy survived him and married (second) John Steele, one of the foremost men of the colony. Children of Richard Seymour: I. Thomas, died in Norwalk. 1710. 2. Richard, became a leading citizen of the colony, captain of militia, held many offices and was killed by a falling tree in 1710. 3. John, of whom fur- ther. 4. Mary. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Zachary, a merchant of Wethersfield, died 1702.
( III ) John, son of Richard Seymour, was probably born in Hartford at date unknown. He moved to Norwalk with his father and then to Farmington with his mother after her marriage to John Steele, later returning to Hartford, where he appears on the records. March 15, 1664, as one of a party, fined ten shillings apiece for "their unreasonable con- veening themselves together at the house of Thomas Bunce, in his and his wife's offence." This fixed the date of his marriage prior to 1664. He was one of the founders of the Second Church. "February 12, 1669, where he and his wife owned the Covenant" and re- ceived into full communion, March 31. 1678. He held various offices in the town and owned considerable land. He married Mary, daugh- ter of John and Margaret (Smith ) Watson. He died prior to August 3. 1713, the date his will was probated. Children: John, of whom further : Thomas, born March 12, 1669: Mary, November, 1670; Zachary. December 22, 1672, died young ; Margaret, July 17. 1674 ; Richard, February 11, 1676: Jonathan, January 10, 1678: Nathaniel, November 6. 1680: Zachary (2). January 10, 1684.
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