Ephriam SEELEY

                   WAS OF NEW MILFORD, CT IN 1742, WAS IN WOODBURY, CT BY 1743 WHEN HIS 1ST CHILD
WAS BORN, AND UNTIL SOMETIME IN THE 1750'S WHEN THEY REMOVED TO CRUM ELBOW
PRECINCT, DUTCHESS CO. NY WHERE EPHRIAM APPEARS ON THE TAX LISTS FEB AND JUN
1759 AND JUN 1761.  ON 4 JUL 1768 EPHRIAM WAS IN POWNAL VT WHEN HE SOLD 5 ACRES
IN FAIRFIELD, CT TO EBENEZER SEELEY FOR 10 LB.  HE WAS IN WALLINGFORD, VT IN
1770 AND BY 1773 WAS IN DANBY, VT.  HE IS ALSO SAID TO HAVE BEEN OF
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA AND IN 1773 THEN OF DANBY SOLD LAND IN WILLIAMSTOWN.
WAS A SOLDIER IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1757.  WAS A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE
OF SAFETY 1777.  SERVED IN THE RE. WAR FROM VT. AND WAS REFERRED TO AS COLONEL.
ON 9 DEC 1778, REUBEN AND EPHRIAM SEELYE WERE APPOINTED TO ADMINISTER THE
ESTATE OF EPHRIAM SEELYE, LATE OF DANBY, VT.  DISTRIBUTION 25 AUG 1781 WAS
SIGNED BY SARAH KETCHUM, WILLIAM AND HANNAH FOSTER, RICHARD AND KEZIAH LATTIN,
MOSES AND LUCE VAIL, ISREAL, JOHN, EPHRIAM, JONATHAN AND REUBEN SEELYE.  ONE
REFERENCE SAYS THAT THE WIDOW KEZIAH AND ALL THE CHILDREN WERE NAMED IN THE
DISTRIBUTION; HOWEVER, AFTER STUDY OF THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, ANOTHER RESEARCHER
COULD FIND NO MENTION OF THE WIDOW KEZIAH.