Seth Seely

1737 - 1823  (85 years)

• Name	Seth Seely
  Born	30 Dec 1737	Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	8C2CA26FE2647C43A43EBE570C42CEF1D266
  Died	6 May 1823	Long Reach, Kings, NB, Canada
  Person ID	I560	Irving Genealogy
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2011

  
  

  Father	Obadiah Seely,   b. 7 Aug 1701, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 13 Apr 1783, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Sarah Holly,   b. 30 Sep 1701, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 29 May 1765, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA  (Age 63 years)
  Married	22 Jun 1727	Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA
  _STAT	MARRIED
  _UID	CF5E6954030AFF4E848C381E1EDBB665BE6E
  Family ID	F323	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Schofield,   b. 11 Nov 1737, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 2 Feb 1820, Long Reach, Kings, NB, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Married	21 Nov 1756	Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA
  _STAT	MARRIED
  _UID	2538AFDE0B324B4EAEA13E07A824BB09E4BF
  Children	1. Sarah Seely,   b. 19 Nov 1757, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 19 Nov 1757, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA  (Age 0 years)   2. Tamar Seely,   b. 19 Nov 1757, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA   3. Ruth Seely,   b. 14 Feb 1763, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA   4. Annah Seely,   b. 3 Mar 1765, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 1820  (Age 54 years) + 5. Seth Seely, Capt,   b. 29 Nov 1767, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 23 May 1852, Saint John, Saint John, NB, Canada  (Age 84 years)   6. Beach Seely,   b. 3 Apr 1770, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 1797, New York City, New York, NY, USA  (Age 26 years)   7. Jerome Seely,   b. 7 Jun 1772, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA + 8. Linus Seely,   b. 30 Apr 1774, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA ,   d. 12 Nov 1852, Carleton, Saint John, NB, Canada  (Age 78 years)   9. Sarah Armitage Seely,   b. 12 Feb 1777, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA   10. William Seely,   b. 9 Jun 1779, Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2016
  Family ID	F234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 30 Dec 1737 - Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA Married - 21 Nov 1756 - Stamford, Fairfield, CT, USA Died - 6 May 1823 - Long Reach, Kings, NB, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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• Headstones

  Seth SEELY and Wife Sarah Gravestone Located in family plot, Kingston, New Brunswick, Canada. Photo by Nancy Irving (Spring 1998)

  
  

• Notes

  Seth was a farmer in Stamford, Connecticut with a house and eleven acres of land. On 2 May 1776 he was brought before the Committee of Public Safety in Stamford and charged with signing a Loyalist Statement which he had circulated and obtained eighteen signatures. He refused to sign a similar statement for the Committee. He was carried through the streets on a rail, then put in the stocks and smeared with eggs and robbed of any money, "for the entertainment of the company". During the American Revolutionary War, Seth joined the British, under the command of General Howe in Long Island, NY on 3 September 1776. He worked for the British as a wagoner and woodcutter. He returned to Stamford in 1777 where he was imprisoned in the Fairfield jail for six months. After his imprisonment his properties were confiscated and he returned to Long Island, this time with his family. Due his allegiance with the British during the American Revolution Seth Seely was sentenced to one year imprisonment and to forfeit all of his properties, real and personal to the government of the state of Connecticut, United States of America. Dated Fourth Tuesday of November AD 1777. He sailed for Saint John on Sunday 27 April 1783 as a Loyalist refugee. Seth Seely arrived at Saint John in the Spring Fleet on the ship "Union" on 12 May 1783. He arrived with a wife, four children ten years of age or older and three children under the age of ten. (His Daughter Tamar later joined the family in Saint John and his son Seth arrived as an adult years later) He was granted lot 389 in Parrtown (Saint John) which he sold to John Ward on 24 Nov 1794. Seth is buried in his homestead graveyard, Lot #15 a 200 acre land grant dated 14 July 1784, Long Reach, Kings County, New Brunswick. He submitted a land petition, dated 22 Aug 1812 which states that he was originally granted 200 acres, and that he and his son Linus were applying for 300 acres each in the Parish of Norton on the north side of the Kennebecasis River. He received this grant, Lot 2, Redding Brook, on 19 October 1816. Refer to the book "The Seelys of New Brunswick" starting on page 345.

  
  

• Sources

  [S146] Seelys of New Brunswick, Fanjoy and Ward, (ISBN 0-9696285-0-1), Pg 345 (Reliability: 2). Seth Seely b. 30 Dec 1737 Seth is individual No. 6-121157 in the Seely book.