Jonathan SEELEY

                   CAME TO DANBY, VT FROM RHODE ISLAND IN 1780, A WEALTHY LANDOWNER IN THAT TOWN
CONSTABLE IN 1784, SELECTMAN, MANY YEARS IN TOWN OFFICIAL POSITIONS
MOVED TO ST. LAWRENCE CO. NY AND THEN TO OHIO
MARRIED 3 TIMES, NO CHILDREN BY SECOND MARRIAGE, THIRD WAS IN OLD AGE.
THE AMERICAN SEELEY'S DESCENDED FROM 2 BROTHERS, JOHN AND DANIEL, TRADESMEN
FROM WALES ( FUR HAT MANUFACTURERS) BOTH FIRST SETTLED IN CONNECTICUT WHERE
JOHN REMAINED TAKING UP HIS TRADE AS FUR-HATTER WHILE DANIEL, HAVING RECIEVED A
LAND GRANT UNDER THE KING OF ENGLAND FOR A TRACT OF LAND IN NEW JERSEY, SETTLED
THERE.  SEELEYS IN NEW JERSEY, PENN, AND S. NY STATE TRACE THEIR ANCESTRY BACK
TO DANIELO.  THE DATE OF THE COMING OF THESE BROTHERS I DO NOT HAVE ATH THIS
TIME (JULY 1993) I CAN ONLY GO BACK AS FAR AS EPHRIAM SEELEY WHO WAS BORN IN
1717 AND DIED IN 1777.
JONATHAN WAS A VOLUNTEER TO PLATTSBURG IN THE WAR OF 1812 FOR WHICH HE RECIEVED
A LAND TRACT.  DATES TAKEN FROM THE MT. IDA CEMETERY, PAWLING AVE.