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.
LIVED IN EASTON, NY
KICKED IN HEAD BY COLT HORSE
MOVED TO DUNHAM, QUEBEC, CANADA
DIED OF OLD AGE
DIED IN OLD AGE
He married Blocked 1 Nov 1781 at Danby, Rutland, Vt .
They were the parents of 9
children:
Hannah Seley
born 5 Nov 1785.
Ira Seley
born 10 Feb 1783.
William Bromley Seley
born 10 Feb 1791.
Elizabeth Seley
born 18 Nov 1788.
Jonathan Seeley, Jr
born 30 Mar 1793.
Hiram Seley, (Doctor)
born 4 Feb 1798.
Lucy Seley
born 27 Sep 1795.
Benjamin Seley
born 11 Apr 1800.
Isaac Seley
born 16 Jul 1802.
Jonathan Seeley died 30 Oct 1839 at Seneca, Mi .