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26. Moses Seymour
26. MOSES4 SEYMOUR (John3, John2, Richard1), of West Hartford, Conn., born at Hartford, Conn., 17 Feb 1710/11, died at West Hartford 241) Sept. 1795, in his 85th year. He married at Hartford, 14 Mar. 1737/8, RACHEL4 GOODWIN, baptized at Hartford 22 Jan. 1715/16, died at West Hartford 232) July 1763, in her 47th year, daughter of Nathaniel3 (Nathaniel2, Ozias1) and Sarah (Easton).
Moses Seymour settled in the West Parish of Harford, now West Hartford, where he and his wife and some of their children are buried. He lived east of his brother Timothy, at the foot of the hill, where Romanta Seymour's house afterwards stood. He was admitted to the church in 1746, his wife before 1757. In his will, dated 25 July 1791 and proved 11 Dec. 1795, he names sons Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, and daughters Sarah, Rachel, Dorothy, Katy, and Eunice, of whom the last was unmarried in Dec. 1795.
Children: | |||
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i. | SARAH5, b. 16 Feb. 1740; d. at West Hartford 23 June 1798; m. at West Hartford, 13 May 1764, THOMAS4 GOODMAN, bapt. at West Hartford 1 Apr. 1739, d. there 17 Sept. 1809, aged 70, s. of Timothy3 (Richard2, Richard1) and Johanna (Wadsworth).3) He m. (2) Ruth (Skinner) Gay, who d. 21 Sept. 1820, aged 81. | ||
Children, bapt. at West Hartford: | |||
1. | Sarah, bapt. 31 Mar. 1765; m. 1 Nov 1789, Elijah Gridley of Farmington, Conn. | ||
2. | Timothy, bapt. 10 Aug. 1766; d. 23 Jan. 1770. | ||
3. | Timothy, bapt. 9 Sept. 1770; d. at Demerara,4) South America, 7 Dec. 1788, aged 18 (gravestone record). | ||
4. | Thomas, bapt. 2 Aug. 1772; d. 10 Aug. 1800, aged 28; m. 24 Dec. 1795, Abigail7 Seymour, dau. of Timothy6 and Abigal (Skinner). | ||
5. | A child, stillborn 2 May 1775. | ||
75. | ii. | MOSES, b. 23 July 1742. | |
iii. | RACHEL, b. 17 Dec. 1744; d. at Windsor, Conn., 14 July 1794; m. (1) at West Hartford, 14 Nov. 1776, CAPT. ELIJAH TRYON,5) who was lost at sea 27 Sept. 1785, s. of John; m. (2) at West Hartford, 3 Feb. 1791, as his second wife, CAPT. SOLOMON5 ALLYN of Windsor, b. 8 Oct. 1732, d. 16 Nov. 1810, s. of Pelatiah4 (Matthew3, Thomas2, Matthew1) and Mary (Stoughton). | ||
Child by first husband: | |||
1. | A child, stillborn in Sept. 1782. |
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