American Seymour Genealogy

Additional information added by Paul Seymour

Briefly, about the founding of Connecticut, it was established as a retreat for Puritan Nobleman by the Earl of Warwick, via King Charles. The name Puritan has been misinterpreted over the centuries. The Puritans were just basically even more anti-catholic than the average Brit during this period, and Queen Elizabeth, and later King James found their beliefs a little too radical at the time to be politically acceptable. They were having enough problems at the time just breaking away from the Catholic Church and establishing a more moderate alternative.

Roger_Ludlow “Roger Ludlow (1590-1664) was one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut. He was born in March 1590 in Dinton, Wiltshire, England. Roger was the second son of Sir Thomas Ludlow of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire (Maiden Bradley is today the home of John Michael Seymour, Duke of Somerset) and Jane Pyle, sister of Sir Gabriel Pyle. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1609 or 1610, and was admitted to the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 1612.”

According to the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford website http://www.foundersofhartford.org/founders/seymour_richard.htm:

The Founders of Hartford

“Here are the 163 men and women listed in the Book of Distribution of Land as being those who settled in Hartford before February 1640. Their names are on a monument in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground.