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-====== 13. Matthew Seymour ======
+====== 14. Matthew Seymour ======
-. MATTHEW<sup>4</sup> SEYMOUR (//[[006.matthew|Matthew]]//<sup>3</sup>,
+. MATTHEW<sup>4</sup> Seymour (//[[006.Matthew|Matthew]]//<sup>3</sup>,
-//[[002.thomas|Thomas]]//<sup>2</sup>, //[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>),
+//[[002.Thomas|Thomas]]//<sup>2</sup>, //[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>),
+of Ridgefield, Conn., born at Norwalk, Conn. about 1690 and baptized in the
+church at Fairfield, Conn, 7 Oct. 1694, died at Ridgefield 30 Apr. 1768, in his
+th year. He married at Ridgefield, 14 June 1722, HANNAH SMITH, baptized at
+Milford, Conn., 24 Oct. 1703, living in 1766, when her husband made his will
+daughter of Thomas<sup>3</sup> (//John//<sup>2</sup>, //John//<sup>1</sup>) and Hannah
+(Camp).
-//(more to come)//
+Matthew Seymour was a resident of Ridgefield as early as 1716, according to a
+deed in which his father Matthew of Norwalk, who was one of the proprietors of
+Ridgefield, gave to the son all right to all his lands in Ridgefield. In his
+will dated 26 June 1766 and proved 7 June 1768, Matthew Seymour names wife
+Hannah, daughter Hannah Keeler and sons Matthew and Thomas Seymour. To his wife
+Hannah he bequeaths the "use and Improvement of my Negro Girl named Ellin((The
+births of the children of "Tamar y<sup>e</sup> Servant woman of Matt<sup>w</sup>
+Seymer" are recorded in the Ridgefield town records. Their names were Pegg,
+Elizabeth, Dover, Betty, Allen (probably the Ellin named above), Naomi, Abigail,
+and twins who died unnamed.)) During the Natural Life of my s<sup>d</sup> Wife,"
+after which said-negro girl is given to the testator's daughter, Hannah Keeler.
+To his son Matthew, "on account of his Birth Right," he gives five acres of
+meadow land which he hath in part cleared.
-^ Children, born at Ridgefield ^^^^
+^ Children, born at Ridgefield: ^^^^
-| 36. | i. | [[036.matthew|MATTHEW]]<sup>5</sup>, ... ||
+| 36. | i. | [[036.matthew|MATTHEW]]<sup>5</sup>, b. 7 Apr. 1723. ||
 | 37. | ii. | [[037.thomas|THOMAS]], b. abt. 1728. ||
+| | iii. | Hannah, b. 15 Nov. 1737; d. at Ridgefield 24 Oct. 1806; m. at Ridgefield, 15 Jan. 1764, JEREMIAH<sup>4</sup> KEELER b. at Ridgefield 14 Apr. 1733 d. there 17 Apr. 1780 s. of Timothy<sup>3</sup> (Samuel<sup>2</sup>, Ralph<sup>1</sup>) and Abigail (Osborne). |||
+| | | Children: |||
+| | | 1. | Hannah, b. 6 July 1765; d. 30 July 1765. ||
+| | | 2. | Jeremiah b. 6 Dec. 1766; m. 20 Mar. 1792, Sarah St. John. ||
+| | | 3. | Hannah, b. 14 July 1770. ||
+| | | 4. | Thaddeus, b. 28 June 1778; m. Esther St. John, sister of the wife of his brother Jeremiah. ||
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