Benjamin SEELEY

                   SOURCE CITATION:
Title: Ancestral File (TM)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
Repository Name: Family History Library
Address: 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150  USA
SOURCE CITATION:
Title: Ancestral File (TM)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
Repository Name: Family History Library
Address: 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150  USA
KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF RIDGEFIELD
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
WAS OF NEW MILFORD AND NEW FAIRFIELD, CT.  HE WAS CHOSEN ENSIGN AT NEW
FAIRFIELD, NORTH PARISH, 13 MAY 1745.  ELECTED LT. 1750.  IN THE 9TH CO., 4TH
REGIMENT ARMY AUG 1755; 1ST LT. 7TH CO., 3RD REGIMENT MAR 1756; LT. 23 MAY 1760
WAS AMONG A GROUP OF MENT FROM DUTCHESS CO, NY TO FORM AN ASSOC. FOR THE
PURCHASE OF 23,000 ACRES OF LAND FOR A FEW CENTS AN ACRE, IN THE VICINITY OF
LAKE GEORGE, NY.  (THEN ALBANY, NOW WARREN AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES) ON 31 MAR
1762.  THEY THEN RETAILED THIS LAND TO SETTLERS AT REEPORTEDLY, $1.25 AN ACRE.
SOME OF THOSE WHO JOINED FROM NEW FAIRFIELD WERE THOMAS AND SAMUEL HUNGERFORD
AND BENJAMIN AND JOHN SEELYE.  EBENEZER SEELYE MUST HAVE OWNED SOME, AS HE SOLD
HIS 1000TH PART ALTHOUGH HIS NAME IS NOT AMONG THE ORIGINAL SIGNERS.
BENJAMIN DIED INTESTATE 4 NOV 1777, HIS SONS ABEL AND BRADLEY WERE APPOINTED
ADMINISTRATORS OF HIS ESTATE.  INVENTORY WAS TAKEN 28 NOV 1777. HIS HEIRS MADE
AN ARRANGEMENT AMONG THEMSELVES ON THE DIVISION OF THE ESTATE.  ON 7 APR 1778
THE COURT APPROVED THE INVENTORY OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OF BENJAMIN
SEELYE.  NEHEMIAH, ABEL SEELYE AND PAUL AND DEBORAH YATES MENTIONED AS HEIRS.
INVENTORY AND PROBATE OF THE ESTATE RECORDED IN DANBURY,CT