John SEELEY

                   MAY HAVE GONE TO POWNAL, VT IT IS SAID THAT HE THEN WENT TO NY..  LIVING IN
1740
                  

                   SECOND HUSBAND OBADIAH WELLER WAS BROTHER OF JONATHAN WELLER, THE 1ST HUSBAND
OF THANKFUL BARTLETT WHO LATER MARRIED JOSEPH SEELYE BROTHER OF THIS PERSON
MARY.
                  

                   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
                  

                   WAS OF NEW MILFORD, CT.  HE AND JOEL HERVEY BUILT A SAWMILL AND POSSIBLY A
GRIST MILL AT THE MOUTH OF ROCKY RIVER.  THEY SOLD THIS TO PARTRIDGE THATCHER,
JOEL'S BROTHER IN LAW.  JOEL HERVEY HAD COM FROM LEBANON WHERE HE MARRIED SARAH
THATCHER.  THEY REMOVED TO SHARON, CT.
ON 26 MAR 1765 JOSEPH SEELYE OF NEW MILFORD, GAVE TO HIS SON JOSEPH SEELYE JR.,
FOR CONSIDERATION OF LOVE AND PARENTAL AFFECTION 13 ACRES SOUTHWARD FROM
EPHRIAM RICHMOND'S PLACE.
15 FEB 1773, JOSEPH SEELYE OF NEW MILFORD SOLD TO HIS SON JUSTUS SEELYE
39 ACRES WITH HIS DWELLING HOUSE AND BARN.  16 FEB 1773, JUSTUS SEELYE OF NEW
MILFORD GAVE HIS FATHER JOSEPH SEELYE A LIFE INTEREST IN THE FARM LOT, HOUSE
AND BARN WHICH JOSEPH HAD DEEDED TO HIM 15 FEB, TO USE DURING HIS NATURAL LIFE
OR THAT OF THANKFUL, HIS WIFE OR THE LONGEST LIVES OF EITHER OF THEM.
20 JULO 1786, EPHRIAM RICHMOND DEEDED TO JOSEPH SEELYE OF NEW MILFORD, 1 ACRE
PURCHASED OF MY HONORED FATHER JOSEPH SEELYE.  12 MAR 1794, JOSEPH SEELYE OF
NEW MILFORD DEEDED LAND IN NEW MILFORD TO HIS GRANDSON, JONATHAN RICHMOND
                  

                   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.
                  

                   NEW MILFORD, CT RECORDS SHOW THAT RUTH SEELYE, SINGLE WOMAN, GAVE BIRTH TO A
DAUGHTER IN 1739.  THE WILL OF JOHN SEELYE STATES  I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER
RUTH THAT BOND OF 15 WHICH IS DUE FROM MR. HAMBLIN, ALSO I GIVE HER DAUGHTER
ABIGAIL HAMBLIN 5 TO BE PAID BY MY EXECUTORS.
                  

                   ACCORDING TO DEEDS 1742, NATHANIEL HAD GONE FROM NEW MILFORD TO BRISTOL, MASS.
HE LATER RETURNED TO NEW MILFORD, WHERE HE HAD LAND LAID OUT TO HIM 5 FEB 1748.
WAS APPARENTLY OF LITCHFIELD AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.  HIS ESTATE WAS
ADMINISTERED 3 MAY 1757 AND 1 DEC 1757, INVENTORY 29 NOV 1758; ESTATE WAS
INSOLVENT
                  

                   HE WAS OF NEW MILFORD, CT WHERE HIS WIFE WAS ADMITTED TO THE CHURCH.  IN APR
1752 HE PURCHASED LAND IN LITCHFIELD, CT. IN 1754, HE RECIEVED LAND FROM THE
ESTATE OF BENJAMIN BISSELL OF LITCHFIELD.  19 JUN 1754 SOLD TO BROTHER DAVID
SEELYE OF NEW FAIRFIELD,CT 18 ACRES.  27 MAR 1789, DEEDED 3 ACRES IN LITCHFIELD
TO HIS SON JUSTUS SEELYE, JR.
JUSTUS WAS TOO OLD FOR ARMY SERVICE IN FIGHTING DURING THE REVOLUTION, HOWEVER
HE ASSISTED IN FOREWARDING THE ARMY AND MILITIA OF CT. IN THEIR MARCHES AS FAR
AS ALBANY AND OTHER PLACES MANY TIMES FOR WHICH HE NEVER CARRIED ANY ACCOUNT OR
EXPECTED ANY OTHER REWARD THAN THE SATISFACTION OF SERVING HIS COUNTRY.  WILL
WAS DATED 25 OCT 1795; INVENTORY TAKEN 12 DEC 1795; PROVED 14 DEC 1795.  STATES
THAT AS THE ESTATE IS SMALL AND WILL REPRESENT LITTLE TO HIS INDIVIDUAL
CHILDREN, HE IS LEAVING ALL TO HIS WIFE PHEBE.  ESTATE WAS INSOLVENT.
                  

                   WAS OF NEW FAIRFIELD, KENT AND CORNWALL, CT.  19 JUN 1754, DAVID SEELYE OF NEW
FAIRFIELD BOUGHT 28 ACRES IN LITCHFIELD FROM HIS BROTHER JUSTUS SEELYE.  IN
1773, THE TOWN OF CORNWALL, CT PRUCHASED THE LAND FOR THE CALHOUN CEM. FOR 25
SHILLINGS FROM DAVID SEELYE OF CORNWALL AND JONATHAN MILLER OF KENT.