American Seymour Genealogy

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{{silver_seal.jpg|Silver Seal of Thomas Seymour, Esq. (1705-1767) of Hartford}}

**SILVER SEAL OF THOMAS SEYMOUR, ESQ. (1705-1767) OF HARTFORD**

This seal was used by Thomas Seymour, Esq. (1705-1767), in executing his will in
1767 and was passed on by him to his eldest son, the First Mayor, who also used
it in the execution of his will in 1821. It is reasonable to suppose that
knowledge of the wings with which this seal ring is charged was derived from
Thomas of Norwalk. It is thought that this particular ring was made by John
Potwine (1698-1792), the celebrated silversmith, whose son married Eunice
Seymour, daughter of the Thomas Seymour, Esq., who sealed his will with it in
1767. The cresting and mantling seem purely conventional. If Potwine, or whoever
made the ring, had simply been instructed to make a ring with the Seymour arms,
he would naturally have turned to some book of heraldry and would have used the
full ducal arms, in which the wings are quartered with the lions of England and
the lilies of France; for at that period, when silversmiths were ordered to mark
silver, they commonly referred to books of heraldry and adopted arms
corresponding to the surname of the client. Clearly, in this case a family
tradition was followed. No book of heraldry with which the author is familiar,
illustrates the wings alone as the arms of the Seymours of Penhow. Miss Talcott
well remembered being shown a drawing of the wings which had been in the
possession of Capt. Charles Seymour, a Revolutionary soldier, her great-grandfather,
and she recalled that other members of the family had copies of
the arms with the wings alone.

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