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Robert Seely

Male 1602 - 1667  (65 years)


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  • Name Robert Seely 
    Born 1602  , , England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 4 Jul 1602  St John's: Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Notable sailed in ship Arbella on 7 APR 1630 arrived 12 JUN 1630, Landed at Naumkeag (Salem), Mass. One of 11 ships in Governor Winthrop's fleet to America 
    _UID 6115666006C1B24C8B6B019B078964D65D99 
    Died 19 Oct 1667  , Long Island, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I570  Irving Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2010 

    Father William Seely,   b. 1564, Earith: Bluntisham, Huntingdon, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jun 1614, Earith: Bluntisham, Huntingdon, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years) 
    Mother Grace Prett,   c. 30 Sep 1563, Earith: Bluntisham, Huntingdon, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 15 Nov 1635, Bluntisham Cum Earith, Huntingdonshire, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Married 30 Sep 1584  Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _STAT MARRIED 
    _UID C6A3B057BD771D44921443BA6C9013C57C12 
    Family ID F288  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Heath Mason,   b. Bef 1601, London, London, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Mar 1647, Watertown, Litchfield, CT, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 46 years) 
    Married 15 Dec 1626  St Stephens Wallbrook, London, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    _STAT MARRIED 
    _UID E0D944C478989840AB411933DAD4E17FEF94 
    Children 
     1. Nathaniel Seely,   b. Abt 1627, London, Essex, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Dec 1675, Kingston, Washington, RI, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years)
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2016 
    Family ID F315  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary Manning 
    Married 22 Dec 1666  New York City, New York, NY, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8] 
    _STAT MARRIED 
    _UID 167F53B89F82B74E87C29C08763A48570264 
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2016 
    Family ID F331  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1602 - , , England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristened - 4 Jul 1602 - St John's: Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 15 Dec 1626 - St Stephens Wallbrook, London, England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 22 Dec 1666 - New York City, New York, NY, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 19 Oct 1667 - , Long Island, NY, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • 1630 Settled in Watertown, Mass. 18 MAY 1631 Made freeman. MAY 1635 Settled Wethersfield. 1663 Commissioner of Huntington, N.Y.

      Robert Seely, son of William Seely county Huntingdon apprenticed to Cordovan dated 10 March 1623. (Cordovan - one who works with cordovan leather, shoemaker.)

      Robert & Mary's first child, Nathaniel, was baptized 16 September 1627 at St Stephen's. Their second child, Obediah is presumed to be born on the voyage to America in 1630 as their is no record on either side of the Atlantic, and this is about the time he would have been born.

      Robert and his family went with a group led by Richard Saltenstall, four miles up the Charles River to found the town of Watertown. Where Robert's land holdings consisted of 160 acres, one of the largest grants alloted, the average being five to six acres. Robert was one of the forty-one to organize the First Church of Watertown, the second oldest church in New England, (the first being Salem). In November of 1630 Robert Seely and Abram Browne were appointed to survey and lay out the roads and lots of Watertown. His home lot was part of what is now Walnut and Grove Streets. In 1635 he sold his lands to Simon Eire and joined a small group to settle Wethersfield, Connecticutt.

      In May 1637 he was appointed a Leiutenant, second in command under Captain John Mason in the expedition against the Pequot Indians on the Mystic and Pequot (Thames) Rivers.

      In June 1637 the General Court gave Lt Seely command of thirty men to preserve the peace. For his service he was paid 30 Shillings a week and 150 bushels of corn by the inhabitants of Wethersfield, CT.

      Robert sold his house and lot in Wethersfield to Mathew Mitchell and in the fall of 1638 joined the Quinpiac or New Haven Colony. This colony included the pastor and many of the parishioners from the Coleman Street St Stephen's Church of London, the church he had belonged to while living in London and where he and his wife were married and their first child was Christened. The Puritans in England were being forced to return to the Episcopalian ways of the Church of England or face persecution.

      In June 1639 the church members of the New Haven Colony met to sign a Fundamental Agreement, which declared that only church members could choose public magistrates and officers and that all new planters to the Colony must sign the Agreement. Robert Seely's name is listed twenty-sixth amoung the original signees and his name appears fourteenth in the original list of Freemen of New Haven Colony.

      On Oct 25, 1639 Robert appears as a member of the General Court of New Haven. He was appointed Marshall of the Colony at this session and reappionted to this office the following years: 1640, 1641 and 1642.

      In 1653 Robert was appointed Captain to the New Haven forces under Major Sedgewick and Captain Leverett, English officers, against the New Netherlands, and in 1654 was put in p;ace at "Dutch Point" in Hartford.

      After his wife's death Robert returned to England and reamined for some time. In 1662 at a town meeting in Huntinton, Long Island it was ordered a boat be sent to Connecticutt to bring Captain Robert Seely to the town at the first opportunity. "Captain Seely being returned from England, a motion made on his behalf for some encouragement for his settling amoung us." In October 1662 the General Court awarded him 15 Pounds and the use of a house in Saybrook where he took charge of the Fort and ammunition. In 1663 Seely was appointed Commisioner and Chief Military Officer for the town of Huntington to exercise and train soldiers.

      In 1665 Robert Seely and John Ogden, with others, settled the town of Elizabeth New Jersey.

  • Sources 
    1. [S146] Seelys of New Brunswick, Fanjoy and Ward, (ISBN 0-9696285-0-1), Pg 20 (Reliability: 2).
      Robert bp 15 Dec 1626 St John Huntingdon, England
      Seely book Individual No, 1-1

    2. [S146] Seelys of New Brunswick, Fanjoy and Ward, (ISBN 0-9696285-0-1), Pg 20 (Reliability: 2).
      Robert died 19 Oct 1667 Long Island, NY
      Seely book Individual No, 1-1

    3. [S259] CD-New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, Clarence A., Record No. 29,294 (Reliability: 2).
      SEELEY, Robert2 (-1668) & 1/wf Mary MASON; 15 or 25 Dec 1626, by 1625; Watertown/Wethersfield, CT/?New Haven/Saybrook {NYGBR 76:19; Briggs-DeGroff 308, 393; Ackley-Bosworth 65; Nichols (#1) 69; Fulton Anc.; TAG 9:127, 20:Supp. 29; Fairfield Fam. 1:524; Cilley 2; Fairfield 1:405; Seeley (ms); Wethersfield 2:616-7}
      See citation from Torrey's Third Supplement

    4. [S146] Seelys of New Brunswick, Fanjoy and Ward, (ISBN 0-9696285-0-1), Pg 20 (Reliability: 2).
      Robert m. (1) 15 Dec 1626 St. Stephen Coleman Street London [England] Mary (??) (Heath) (Mason)
      Mary's birth surname is unknown. Robert was her third husband.

    5. [S289] Third Supplement To Torrey, Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, (Genelaogical Publishing Co. Inc. Baltimore Maryland. Copyright 2003, Second printing (2005)), Pg 231 (Reliability: 2).
      SEELEY, Robert (bp 1602-by 1668) & 1/wf Mary (___) (HEATH) MASON ( -bef 1651); m1 William HEATH; m2 Walter MASON; m. St. Stephen, Coleman St., London 15 Dec. 1626 [GMB 3:1649]
      This corrects marriage location to London, England and agrees with the Seely book.

    6. [S146] Seelys of New Brunswick, Fanjoy and Ward, (ISBN 0-9696285-0-1), pg 20 (Reliability: 2).
      Robert m. (2) Mary (Manning) Walker 22 Dec 1666 New York City; sister of Capt. John Manning.

    7. [S259] CD-New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, Clarence A., Recond No. 29,295 (Reliability: 2).
      SEELEY, Robert (-1668) & 2/wf Mary (MANNING) WALKER; N.Y. Mar. Lic. 22 Dec 1666; Fairfield {New York Mar. 345; Fairfield Fam. 1:629; Seeley (ms) 1; NYGBR 48:385. 76:19}
      See Torrey third supplement citation

    8. [S289] Third Supplement To Torrey, Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, (Genelaogical Publishing Co. Inc. Baltimore Maryland. Copyright 2003, Second printing (2005)), Pg 231 (Reliability: 2).
      SEELEY, Robert (bp 1602-by 1668) & 2/wf Mary (MANNING) WALKER ( -1669+); m by lic. 22 Dec 1666 NY [GMB 3:1649]
      Corrects location to New York


 

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