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59. Capt. John Seymour

59. CAPT. JOHN⁵ SEYMOUR (John⁴, John³, John², Richard¹), born at Hartford, Conn., 24 Nov. 1726, died at West Hartford, Conn., 5 Feb. (2 Feb. by gravestone) 1809 aged 82; married at West Hartford, 19 June 1749, LYDIA⁴ WADSWORTH, born at Hartford, 1 Feb. 1731/2, died at West Hartford, 16 Mar. 1817 aged 87, daughter of Jonathan³ (Joseph², William¹) and Abigail (Flagg).

John Seymour fought in the Indian war in 1746, and in 1756 was drafted to march against the Indians and French. He was appointed 2d Lieut. of Lt.-Col. Payson's Co., 1st Regt., in 1758. He served also in the Revolution, as Lieut. of Capt. Noah Webster's Co., Sept. 1777. “He was a brave soldier and officer, and the sword he wore when a captain is in the Historical Society collection at Hartford.”

Children:
	i.	JOHN⁶, b. 29 Oct. 1749; d. at sea ¹⁾23 Feb. 1773 ae. 25, unm. Administration upon the estate of John Seymour, Jr., late of Hartford granted to James Seymour of Hartford, 28 Apr. 1773.
110.	ii.	JAMES, b. 12 May 1751.
111.	iii.	ROGER, b. 23 July 1753.
	iv.	ALEXANDER b. 30 Sept. 1755; d. at sea in the naval service, Dec. 1777, being shot on board Captain Pond's ship.²⁾
112.	v.	ASA, b. 16 Sept. 1757.
	vi.	ANNE, b. 16 Aug. 1759; d. 31 Oct. 1825;³⁾ m. ELISHA Fox, of Enfield, Conn., and Lee, Mass.
	vii.	LUCRETIA b. 10 Sept. 1761; d. 8 Aug. 1813 ae. 52, unm. (7 Aug. ae. 51 by gravestone).
113.	viii.	NATHANIEL, b. 23 Aug. 1763.
	ix.	LUCINA, b. 19 Aug. 1765; d. at Hartford, 16 Nov. 1802 ae. 37; m. BENJAMIN WOOD, b. at Norwich, Conn., 24 Jan. 1763, d. at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 July 1834, s. of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Dodge). He m. (2) 24 Jan. 1804, Fanny Loomis, b. 9 July 1780, d. 22 Aug. 1849.
	x.	LYDIA, b. 3 Sept. 1767; d. 23 Feb. 1806; m. (published 17 Nov. 1788), JEHIEL MEACHAM of Hartford, b. in 1763, d. 20 May 1840. Seven children. They were emigrating to Granville, Ohio, but she was taken sick on the journey, and died in Canandaigua, N.Y.
	xi.	SYLVIA(twin), b. 24 Dec. 1770; d. in Illinois; m. (published 17 Jan. 1796) at West Hartford, ERASTUS CADWELL bapt. at West Hartford, 2 June 1771, s. of Joseph.
	xii.	CYNTHIA(twin), b. 24 Dec. 1770; d. at Granger, Medina Co., Ohio; m. (1) JOHN HALMS of Lee, Mass.; m. (2) THOMAS HATCHof Lee, Mass., and Ohio.⁴⁾
114.	xiii.	JOHN, b. 29 Jan. 1774.

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Asa Seymour's Copy Book.

²⁾

Doubtless tbe Captain Charles Pond (1744.1832), of Milford, Conn., who ferried Captain Nathan Hale and his friend. Sergeant Stephen Hempstead, across tbe Sound from Norwalk to Huntington, Long Island, where Hale entered the enemy's lines, never to return, in September, 1776.-G. D. S.

⁴⁾

In 1849, Cynthia Gilbert, aged 78, of Hartford. testified regarding Revolutionary service of James Seymour (No. 110); she was married in 1796. Although the age corresponds, she does not appear to be identical with Cynthia Seymour.