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Note: These articles were originally published by The Connecticut Society of Genealogists
in the //Connecticut Nutmegger//, volume 22 (1989-1990), issues 24 & 25; 

==== Richard Seymour's Father ====

|  Richard Seymour's Father\\ by S. Allyn Peck, 1989\\ Connecticut Nutmegger, volume 22, issue 24\\ from [[http://www.csginc.org|The Connecticut Society of Genealogists]]  |

Reputable genealogists galore have stated that Robert
Seamer, father of Richard Seymour the Colonial American
immigrant, was buried in England without making a will.  I
therefore have qualms about asserting the contrary.  Where
such a will should be expected to be, the Bishop of London's
__Commissary__ Court of Essex and Hertfordshire, it isn't.
But other courts of probate there abound.  While indexing
and abstracting the records of the __Consistory__ Court of
London including occasional Essex and Herfordshire wills, I
was startled to see peering at me the recognizable name and
place: Robert Seamer of Sabrudsworth in the County of
Hertfd.  Appreciating the significance of the find in the
Register Allen at folio 336, I made the copy annexed
herewith.

| T Robrti\\ Seamer | Memorand that the xxth Day of August\\ Anno Dni 1637 Robert Seamer of\\ Sabrudsworth in the County of Hertfd\\ Shooemaker beinge sicke in bodye but of\\ good & perfect remembrance Did make &\\ Declare his will nuncupative by wordes\\ of mouth in manner & effect followinge\\ that is to say first he bequeathed his\\ soule to God & his body to the earth to\\ bee Decentlie buried; And hee willed &\\ bequeathed all his moveable goodes\\ whatsoever hee had in this present\\ world as well within Dores as without\\ vnto Elizabeth his lovinge wife; for\\ the terme of her naturall life shee\\ payinge & Discharging his Debtes &\\ funerall charges And the remaynder of\\ his goods over & besides to pay his\\ Debtes and funerall charges after the\\ Decease of his wife hee willed to his\\ sonne Richard Seamer And hee appointed\\ the said Elizabeth his Executor And\\ this hee published to bee his very will\\ & mynde, in the prnce & hearing of vs\\ Willm Waller & John Waller.  (Probated\\ 10 Nov. 1637)  |

The will leans to the presumption that indeed Richard Seymour of Norwalk, Conn.
was an only child as Nature prescribes for some couples; and excludes other
contemporary Seamers in America and Hertfordshire, England, dangled like wash on
a clothes line in the New England Genealogical Register volume 71 as sister and
brothers.  The will makes very unlikely that these random contemporary
individuals are his progeny.

==== Additional Notes on S. Allyn Peck's Article ====

|  Additional Notes on S. Allyn Peck's Article\\ by Brainerd T. Peck, 1989\\ Connecticut Nutmegger, volume 22, issue 25\\ from [[http://www.csginc.org|The Connecticut Society of Genealogists]]  |

Richard Seymour (or Seamer) was bapt. 27 Jan. 1604/5 at Sawbridgeworth, co.
Hertfordshire, England, the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Waller) Seamer.
Apparently he came to New England in 1638, was in Hartford, Conn. in 1639 and
Norwalk by 1651.  He died at Norwalk 10 Oct. 1655.  Mr. S. Allyn Peck of New
York City has been researching the origin of many of the first families of
Fairfield County, Conn. by examining English records.  He has kindly furnished
the Connecticut Society of Genealogists Inc. with a copy of the hitherto unknown
will of Robert Seamer, the father of Richard, the immigrant to New England.
Very likely the William and John Waller, witnesses to Robert Seamer's
nuncupative will, were brothers or other close relatives of Elizabeth (Waller)
Seamer.  Robert Seamer, the father, was buried at Sawbridgeworth 23 August 1637.

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