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====== 215. Lot Norton Seymour ====== | ====== 215. Lot Norton Seymour ====== | ||
- | 215. LOT NORTON< | + | 215. LOT NORTON< |
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- | // | + | 1788, died there 27 Oct. 1844; married at New Hartford, 26 Feb. 1812, BELINDA |
- | // | + | SPENCER, born at Bristol, 4 June 1792, died at Springfield, |
- | // | + | daughter of Henry and Eunice |
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- | ^ Children: ^^^^ | + | In personal appearance Lot Norton Seymour was tall, spare, with very black hair |
- | | 295 | i. | [[295.ralph_cowles|RALPH COWLES]]< | + | and eyes, and had a dark complexion. He was a farmer and millwright, but seems |
- | | | ii. | HARRIET ADELINE, ... || | + | to have devoted more time to his books than to either his farm or mill, and more |
- | | 296 | iii. | [[296.henry_albert|HENRY ALBERT]], b. 22 Jan. 1818. || | + | time to religion than to his books. He was a man of a sensitive, emotional and |
+ | religious nature, and left behind him the record of a singularly pure and | ||
+ | blameless life. He had a remarkable memory, and committed the entire poem of | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | could recite all or any part of it. Even Lord Macauley, distinguished as he was | ||
+ | for feats of memorization, | ||
+ | Whether our New England student of Milton would have been better occupied | ||
+ | tilling his stony farm than with his volume of Milton, is an open question which | ||
+ | no one need decide. | ||
- | \\ | + | Belinda (Spencer) Seymour, his wife, was also tall, of dark complexion, and had |
- | [[214.ebenezer|(< | + | piercing black eyes. Her father, Henry Spencer, had marched as a boy with a |
+ | company of Wallingford men to repel the British troops at New London. She was a | ||
+ | woman of keen mind, great energy, had a trenchant and sarcastic way of speaking, | ||
+ | and in her later years was a constant reader and greatly interested in public | ||
+ | affairs. It was natural to a man of his temperament and idealism to break away | ||
+ | from the political faith of his family just as he broke away from its religious | ||
+ | faith, at least to the extent of abjuring CalVID1Sm. He became imbued with the | ||
+ | principles of Jefferson, and transferred his allegiance to the Democrats, and in | ||
+ | that small community and in a strong Federalist family, may be said to have | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | volumes. Ultimately he became affiliated with the Whig party. | ||
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+ | His granddaughter Mrs. Vadakin recalled him as "a very kindhearted man, always | ||
+ | good to the children, taking us to long rambles over the fields with him,-that | ||
+ | is, myself and Aunt Harriet, we taking turns in being carried on his back when | ||
+ | we were too tired. He was tall and spare and very erect. I was never allowed to | ||
+ | visit him on the Sabbath until almost dark, and then I would go out and look in | ||
+ | at his bedroom window, and he would smile and I would run around the house and | ||
+ | go in and be greeted very lovingly." | ||
+ | carding machines, traveling about the state to erect them; and mechanics were | ||
+ | more congenial to him than farming. "He had no music in him; he said the babies | ||
+ | would rather go to sleep than hear him try to sing." He prayed very loud, | ||
+ | doubtless because of his deafness. "When Uncle Alborn was buried, he rose in the | ||
+ | church and exhorted sinners to believe." | ||
+ | wife and family, but there was no doubt of his sincerity and zeal. "He delighted | ||
+ | to entertain the circuit ministers. I think his last years were mostly concerned | ||
+ | with the life to come." | ||
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+ | Mrs. Maria (Watson) Pinney, granddaughter of " | ||
+ | Hartford, lived there as a little girl, and remembered Lot Norton Seymour very | ||
+ | well. She recalled him as dark and thin and very deaf. He was very pious and led | ||
+ | the neighborhood meetings in prayer. On account of his deafness, he did not | ||
+ | always know when to stop, and sometimes kept on after the next man had begun. | ||
+ | His wife, Mrs. Pinney thought, was not at all pious, and unappreciative of his | ||
+ | genius for godliness, but a woman of unusual executive capacity. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ^ Children: ^^^ | ||
+ | | 295. | i. | [[295.ralph_cowles|RALPH COWLES]]< | ||
+ | | | ii. | HARRIET ADELINE, b. 20 Dec. 1814; d. 22 Apr. 1817 ae, 2. | | ||
+ | | 296. | iii. | [[296.henry_albert|HENRY ALBERT]], b. 22 Jan. 1818. | | ||
+ | | | iv. | ALBORN A., b. 6 Oct. 1820; d. 23 Nov. 1842 ae. 22, drowned in the Farmington River; buried at Nepaug in the old yard by the Nepash. | | ||
+ | | | v. | HARRIET JANE, b. 11 July 1831; d. 27 May 1871; m. 11 June 1854[?], ELISHA E.< | ||
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+ | The author cannot forbear to insert here a tribute to his Aunt Harriet, a tall, | ||
+ | angular, plain, old-fashioned woman, pleasant spoken and with singularly | ||
+ | ingratiating manners. My father, her brother, was very fond of her, and was much | ||
+ | opposed to her marriage to Mr. Hawley, who, he felt, was not good enough for his | ||
+ | sister. | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ [[214.ebenezer|(< | ||
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