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(I) John
Buckley, the immigrant ancestor of the
Buckley family in America here dealt with,
was living in Leipsic, Germany, where he was
drafted against his will into the Hessian
Army that was sent to this country during
the battle of Saratoga, when General
Burgoyne surrendered, he was captured and
sent to Boston, where he escaped and settled
in New Hampshire at Jaffray. The time of
his coming to this country would be about
the year 1777, and he was probably then a
little over twenty years old. He married,
about the year 1784, Margaret Dunlap, and
had children among whom John Jr., mentioned
below.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) and
Margaret (Dunlap) Buckley, was born at
Jaffray, New Hampshire, May 3, 1786, died
at Marlboro, New York, June 1, 1870.
He spend his youth in his native town,
and received his education in the public
schools of the same place. When
he was old enough he learned the wheelwright
and machinist trades, and in 1805 he was
employed by Almy & Brown, of Providence,
Rhode Island, where he remained for three
years. In 1809 the Pleasant Valley
Cotton Manufacturing Company was organized
in Dutchess County, New York, and he was
engaged to superintend the construction
of the water wheel and running gear.
Later he was invited to join the Cornwall
Cotton Manufacturing Company, chartered
in 1811, where he became a stockholder
and superintended the building of their
wheel and machinery. In 1815 he
purchased a carding and spinning mill,
and a small farm in Marlboro, where he
commenced carding and spinning wool for
the farmers of Orange and Dutchess counties.
In 1822 he enlarged the mill and took
his brothers-in-law, James and John Thorne,
and the mill was again enlarged and was
known as the Marlboro Woolen Factory,
making broadcloths and satinettes.
Their
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Products wee regularly
exhibited at the airs in New York, and in
1823 they received a premium of a silver
pitcher for the best piece of blue
broadcloth manufactured from American wool.
The firm was dissolved in 1830, Mr. Buckley
continuing until 1855, in which year he
converted his factory into a cotton mill
making twine and cotton warp until the year
1861, when he retired. Period of about
nine years elapsed between the date of his
retirement and the date of his death. He
was an ardent Republican in politics. He
was a particularly hearty supporter of the
principles advocated by Henry Clay.
The following
is an item from the press relating to John
(2) Buckley: "The first public sermon of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of Marlboro
was held February 12, 1837, in the district
schoolhouse and among the leading persons
present were: Edward Armstrong, Thomas
Fyfe, John Buckley, Gabriel Merritt, Leonard
S. Carpenter, and others"
The following
item also refers to John (2) Buckley:
"Christ church, Marlboro, was consecrated
march 26, 1858, by Bishop Horatio Potter,
and was attended by a large number of
pastors from New York, Brooklyn, and other
towns along the Hudson. After the
ceremonies were concluded the bishop and
clergy were hospitably entertained at the
home of Mr. John Buckley, Sr."
He married,
about the year 1815, Phoebe Thorne. The
children were: 1. John Jr., born at
Cornwell, New York, October 23, 1814, died
at Marlboro, New York, September 27, 1893;
married Catherine Sands, of Cornwell, New
York, June 17, 1840; there were no children;
he passed most of his married life in New
York; was a money broker and about 1880
returned to Marlboro, passing the remainder
of his days in the Buckley homestead;
closely identified with Christ Episcopal
Church, Marlboro, being vestryman from 1850
to 1859, also 1876 to 1879. 2. Thomas
Townsend, mentioned below. 3. Margaret,
died in 1872. 4. William F., mentioned
below. 5. Mercy Townsend, a member of
Christ Episcopal Church, Marlboro; still
occupies the old homestead.
(III) Thomas
Townsend, second son of John (20 and Phoebe
(Thorne) Buckley, was born July 11, 1817, at
Marlboro, New York, died February 6, 1887.
He attended the village schools of his
native town, and at the age of fourteen he
became a clerk in a general store at
Marlboro, later securing a clerkship in
Newburg, New York. In the year 1838 he went
to New York and engaged in the wholesale dry
goods business, and soon became largely
interested in the importing and jobbing
trade. In 1874 he retired from active
business, spending his summers in his native
town of Marlboro, and the winters in
Brooklyn. He was vice-president of the Bank
of the Republic, receiver for the Atlantic &
pacific Railroad, and director of the
Metropolitan Gas Company and Home Insurance
Company. He was a member and patron of the
art and historical societies. He married,
in 1844, Amelia A., born December, 1818,
died June 13, 1893, daughter of William R.
Thompson of New York. Children: 1. William
T., mentioned below. 2. John D., mentioned
below. 3. Charles R., mentioned below.
(III) William F., third son of John
(2) and Phoebe (Thorne) Buckley, was born
in 1820 at Marlboro, New York, died November
29, 1902. He was a man of wide business
experience, clear judgment, strict integrity
and a high sense of duty. After
several years' experience in a silk importing
house in New York, he purchased and loaded
a vessel for San Francisco in 1840 and
took out as a part of his cargo the timber
and machinery of the first steamboat which
ascended the Sacramento River. He
was afterwards associated with the banking
firm of Geldermeister De Fremery &
Company, which built, after disastrous
fires had laid the city to waste, the
first fire-proof structure in San Francisco.
Returning to New York in 1854 he engaged
in the shipping and commission business,
and after the Civil War established a
branch of the firm of N. L. and G. Griswold
in New Orleans. In 1873 he became
interested in railroads and served at
different times as director of the Atlantic
& pacific Railroad, the St. Louis
& San Francisco Railroad, the Missouri
pacific Railroad, and the Mahopac Falls
Railroad. He was one of the incorporators
of the St. Louis & San Francisco Company,
and was for many years its treasurer.
In 1875 he was chosen to succeed Samuel
J. Tilden as president of the new York
Balana Dry Dock
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Company, a position he
held for many years. In 1889 he was one of
the incorporators of the New York Security
& Trust Company. Two years previously he
had been elected a trustee of the New York
Life and at different times served as a
member of the supervisory and agency
committee, the fiancee committee and the
loss, auditing and executive committee.
(IV) William
T., eldest son of Thomas Townsend and Amelia
A. (Thompson) Buckley, was born at Brooklyn,
New York, September 20, 1848, died in
January, 1898. He was educated at a private
school and was three years at Columbia
College, New York. He left college in order
to go into the dry goods business, becoming
in course of time a partner in Buckley,
Welling & Company. In the year 1875
Buckley, Welling & Company went out of
business and he became a partner in Dunham,
Buckley and Company, continuing in the
business until January 1, 1898. He married,
in November, 18780, Frederica R., daughter
of William C. Fowler. Children: 1.
Margaret Requa, died in infancy. 2. Thomas
T., born may 9, 1875. 3. Freida Requa,
born May 30, 1879, died in 1888.
(IV) John
D., second son of Thomas Townsend and Amelia
A. (Thompson) Buckley, was born March 30,
1850, at Brooklyn, New York. He was
educated at the Polytechnic Institute,
Brooklyn, New York. In 1870 he became
engaged in the wholesale grocery business in
New York, and continued until the year 1898
wen he retired. He married, September 21,
1887, Mary, daughter of Eli A. Bronson, of
Geneva, New York, there has been one
daughter of the marriage: Marian Dunlap.
(IV) Charles
Ramsay, third son of Thomas Townsend and
Amelia A. (Thompson) Buckley, was born at
Brooklyn, New York, March 5, 1852. He was
educated at the Polytechnic Institute,
Brooklyn, and graduated at Columbia
University in the class of 1874. He also
graduated from the School of Mines in the
class of 1877. In addition he spent one
year at the Columbia Law School. For a
short time he was engaged in the mining
business, but is now retired. He married
Agnes, daughter of Eli A. Bronson, of
Geneva, New York; there had been one
daughter of the marriage, Isobel Ramsay.
ROOSA.
This is a very old Dutch
family, early identified with the history
of Southern New York, and still has numerous
representatives scattered over the region.
It appears very early in the settlement
at Kingston, and Ulster County owes much
of its development and progress to the
industry, intelligence and enterprise
of this family.
(I) Albert Heyman Roosa (whose father
was Heyman when surnames were unknown
among the Dutch people) arrived in New
Netherlands in April, 1660, in the ship
"Spotted Cow", coming from Gelderland,
Holland. He was accompanied by his
wife, Wyntje Allard, and eight children.
he settled in that part of Esopus which
is now the town of Hurley, Ulster County,
New York, and there engaged in farming.
He participated in the first administration
of the Lord's Supper at Esopus, December
25, 1660 Being possessed of considerable
means he owned much property and exercised
a large influence in the community.
In the spring of 1661 his name was entered
on a contract to secure the salary of
Dominie Bloem at Wiltwyck, now Kingston.
On the organization of the village of
Hurley he was one of the first three schepens,
or magistrates, who administered the affairs
of the community. In 1661 he was
one of a committee of three to enclose
the village of Hurley as a means of protection
against the Indians. He owned lot
No. 24, where his home was destroyed by
the Indians, June 7, 1663, at which time
two of his children were carried away
captives. He was one of those who
resented the unjust treatment accorded
to the people of the village by the British
soldiers then quartered there in 1667,
and because of his vigorous resistance
he was adjudged quietly of sedition by
the court in New York and banished from
the colony. He was, however, restored
to favor in 1669 by Governor Lovelace,
who appointed him one of the overseers
of New Dorp (Hurley). In the same
year he was granted the privilege of setting
up tanning vats and a brewing house.
He was one of the petitioners for the
appointment of a minister, who could speak
both Dutch and English; served as a mustering
officer; on April 5, 1670, was a sergeant
in Captain Henry Pawling's Company of
Militia, and in 1673 was captain of a
company composed of men from Hurley and
Marbletown.
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He died at Harley,
February 27, 1679, and in 1685 his widow was
granted three hundred and twenty acres of
land on account of his public service.
Children: 1. Arie. 2. Heyman. 3. Jan.
4. Albertse. 5. Ikee. 6. Maritje. 7.
Neeltien. 8. Janntje. 9. Aert. 10,
Albertse. 11. Guert.
(II) Jan
Albertse, third son of Albert Heyman and
Wyntje (Allard) Roosa, resided in Hurley,
New York. he married Hillegond Willems Van
Buren. The family came from Holland and was
known by the name of Williams. He was a
town officer, October 19, 1708.
(III) Albert
Jansen, son of Jan Albertse and Hillegond
(Williams) Roosa, resided in Hurley, New
York, where he received deeds for land March
24, 1724, and September 27, 1742. He was
elected colonel of the Hurley militia, April
5, 1720; fence viewer in 1721; trustee,
1722-27-32-37. In 1738 his name appears on
the muster roll of a foot company commanded
by Captain Cornelis Wynkoop. He married, in
1709, Rebecca Schepmoes, baptized at
Kingston, New York, November 6, 1687,
daughter of Derick and Marye (Williams)
Schepmoes. They had children baptized at
Kingston: 1. Dirck, October 2, 1715. 2.
Abraham, mentioned below. 3. Hillegond,
died young. 4. Zara, December 2, 1722;
Hillegond, September 5, 1725. Ysaak, May
19, 1728.
(IV)
Abraham, second son of Albert Jansen and
Rebecca (Schepmoes) Roosa, was baptized
March 23, 1718, in Kingston, New York, and
probably resided at Hurley, which was under
the ecclesiastic jurisdiction of Kingston.
Because of the remoteness of residence it is
apparent that many members of this family
were not recorded at Kingston. The banns
for the marriage of Abraham Roosa and
Elizabeth Rutsz were published June 17,
1744, at Kingston, and they were given a
certificate July 8, following, but the date
of marriage is not in the church records.
She was baptized November 15, 1724,
according to the Kingston church records,
and was born at Rosendaal, daughter of jacob
and lea (Nieuwkerk) Rutsz. The baptism of
three of their children are recorded at
Kingston. 1. Albert, April 7, 1745. 2.
Lea, April 12, 1747. 3. Jacob, December
31, 1749. It is probable that their parents
removed about this time to a remote section
of Ulster County, or to Orange County.
(V) Isaac
Abrahamse, son of Abraham and Elizabeth
(Rutsz) Roosa, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary Army. He first was a private
in the Albany Company Militia, Second
Regiment; he was commissioned September 20,
1775, as ensign in the Tenth Company of
Mamakating Precinct, under Captain John
Creag and Colonel James McClaughrey. He was
appointed first lieutenant, November 4,
1778, in the Hanover Precinct Company, under
Captain William Simrall.
(VI) John,
son of Isaac Abrahamse Roosa, was born in
Orange County, New York. he was buried in
Bethel, Sullivan County, New York. He
married Dolly Duryea.
(VII) Dr.
Isaac Roosa, son of John and Dolly (Duryea)
Roosa., was born 1792, died at Bethany,
Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in 1837. He was
a very eminent and successful physician and
surgeon and rode on horseback through a wide
region surrounding Bethany in the care of
his patients. He married mary Kellogg.
(VIII) John Percival, son of Dr.
Isaac and May (Kellogg) Roosa, was born
November 8, 1823, in Bethany, Pennsylvania,
died July 5, 1902. He was deprived
of a liberal education by the death of
his father when he was less than fourteen
years old. It had been his
father's hope to give him a college training.
When fifteen years of age he went to Bethel,
Sullivan County, New York, to reside with
an uncle, Charles B. Roosa, and was employed
as a clerk in the latter's store.
Being intelligent and active he became
thoroughly familiar with the mercantile
business, and in 1853 he opened a store
at White Lake, New York, where he continued
in business several years. later
he operated a store at Bethel, New York,
which he conducted for a period of twelve
years, and then turned it over to his
son, Charles B. After spending
one year at Walton, New York, he removed
to Monticello, Sullivan County, where
he lived retired from active business.
He married Hannah J., daughter of Moses
and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Calkin, of Cochecton,
New York, where her grandfather
built his first house of hewed pine logs
in 1787. Moses Calkin was born 1785,
died February 12, 1865. Children
of John P. Roosa and wife: 1.
Mary Elizabeth, born September 17, 1847;
married Rev. E. B. Wells, a Presbyterian
clergyman, and lived in Chase, Kansas;
they had no children, but reared an adopted
daughter Anna, who be-
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J. P. Roosa.
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Came the wife of Henry
Kerr, and resided in Oklahoma, having three
daughters. 2. Charles Baker, born
September 23, 1851; succeeded his father in
business at Bethel, which he sold, and
removed to Spokane, Washington; he married
Charity Sturtevant, of Bethel, in 1890, and
has children: i. Percival Floyd, ii.
Charles Baker, iii. Susia Sturtevant. 3.
Isaac Percival, mentioned below. 4. Frank
Judson, born March 1, 1856; is head of the
drug firm of Roosa & Radcliff, of
Cincinnati, Ohio; his son, John Percival
Roosa, was born in 1896. 5. Sarah Curtis,
born November 9, 1859; married in Spokane,
Washington ; her son, Richard Hamilton
Oakley, was born in 1887. 6. John
Percival, mentioned below. The mother of
these children now resides in the home at
Monticello, which was purchased by her
husband thirty-six years ago.
(IX) Isaac
Percival, son of John Percival (1) and
Hannah (Calkin) Roosa, was born January 28,
1854, in Bethel, New York, where he spent a
part of his youth, and where he acquired the
elementary parts of his education. He
attended the Monticello Academy and
graduated from Cornell University in 1874.
He was for several years in the foreign
freight department of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at New York, and in 1886 was
appointed deputy United States dispatch
agent in New York City. he became despatch
agent,. October 31, 1890.
(IX) John
Percival (2), youngest child of John
Percival (1) and Hannah (Calkin) Roosa, was
born January 6, 1862, in Bethel, New York,
where he spent his boyhood and was wont to
make himself useful about his father's
store. Early in life he conceived the idea
of taking up the profession of law and began
his studies with Judge Bush at Monticello.
In order to prepare himself thoroughly for
his life's work he entered Princeton
College, and later graduated from Columbia
Law School, New York. In 1884 he was
admitted to the bar and immediately took up
the practice of his profession in
Monticello, where he had a distinguished
career as a pleader and jurist. In 1889 he
was elected special county judge, and in
1895 was elected district attorney,
succeeding himself by re-election in 1898.
In 1905 he was elected county judge and
surrogate and was subsequently considered as
a candidate for judge of the third judicial
district to succeed the late judge Fitts.
Always taking a keen interest in the
progress of his home and state, he became
actively interested in politics and was made
chairman of the Republican county committee
in 1891, continuing in this capacity for
several years. In 1904 he was an alternate
delegate to the Philadelphia convention
which nominated William McKinley for
president and was a regular delegate to the
Chicago convention which nominated Theodore
Roosevelt. He participated in many
Congressional district conventions and was
always recognized as a leader in the
councils of his party. Being much
interested in historical matters, Judge
Roosa became an early member of the Holland
Society of New York, and was identified with
several societies. He was a member of the
State Bar Association of New York, serving
as a member of its admission committee and
was also a member of the Princeton Club of
New York. he was an associate member of the
Hook and Ladder Firemen of Monticello,
president of the Village Improvement
Society, and trustee of the Sullivan County
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. He served as a member of the board
of education, and was two terms village
president. A man of sympathetic nature,
generous in judgment and purse, loyal to his
friends , cook and judicious in business
judgment and a gentleman at all times, he
was very popular among all classes of people
in his home town. He died at his home in
Monticello, February 22, 1910, and his
untimely death was regretted by the entire
community, For some years his health had
been failing, but he bravely struggled
against physical weakness, continuing his
practice until a short time before his
death.
He married,
June 25, 1890, Caroline, daughter of John P.
and Mary Jones, and great-granddaughter of
John P. Jones, founder of the village of
Monticello.
SEABURY.
The family name is said to have been
originally Sedborough, and to have belonged
to a Somersetshire family, which though
not conspicuous in English history appears
to have been in good standing.
Weaver, in his "Visitations of Somerset",
gives four generations of this family.
They are associated with Porlock, Frome,
and other
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parts of that county.
A hamlet of the name of Seaborough is on the
southerly border of Somerset, near to Devon
and Dorset, and a surname of this form
appears in 1667. Bolton, in his "History of
the Church in Westchester County" (new York,
1844, pp. 70, 80), in an account of the
family affirms its identity with that of
Sedborough, and gives its arms as:
Argent a fesse engrailles between three
ibexes passant sable. In E. de
Vermont's "American Heraldica" these arms
are depicted, and included among those of
families settled in this country before
1789. They are in use in various branches
of the Seabury family.
The name
appears in the western world, first in 1638,
in the records of an English company
chartered for the settlement and plantation
of Providence Island in the West Indies, and
soon after, in 1639, in New England. The
name has in its history had perhaps more
than the usual variations in spelling:
Seabery, Saberry, Sebery, Sibery, Seabree,
Sebree, Sedbery and Seaburry, are actual
instances of variation.
(I) John
Seabury and Grace, his wife, appear in
Boston in 1639, he having, according to the
town records, with leave bought a house and
small plat of land there, and being in
November of that year, "Allowed for an
inhabitant." He is described in that record
as a "Seaman." In the church record of the
admission of his wife Grace to membership,
May 15, 1642, he is described as a planter.
He is supposed to have been the person who
under the same name was a resident in the
Providence Plantation in 1638, and who,
being dissatisfied with his treatment by the
local authorities, although he was sustained
by the government, and company resident in
England, departed from that island. It is
notable that the John Seabury, of Boston,
appears there within a year from the
departure from Providence Island, and that
after residing in Boston a few years he went
to the West Indies with his wife Grace,
residing in Barbadoes until his death about
1659.
During his
residence in Boston, the town records shoe
the birth of Samuel, son of John and Grace
Seabury, December 10, 1640. The baptism of
this Samuel is shown by the church records
to have been on the 22nd of May,
1642, where he is described as "being about
a yeare & half old." It appears from
records of a suit brought by this Samuel
Seabury, in 1662, in relation to the Boston
property, that his father had before that
date in Barbadoes, and had left beside
Samuel, another son, John, and daughters.
No subsequent record of John or his sisters
in Barbadoes has appeared. All the known
descendants of John and Grace Seabury, of
Boston, in 1639, trace through their son
Samuel, above-mentioned.
(II) Dr.
Samuel Seabury, son of John Seabury,
according to Winsor, came from Boston and
settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, before
1660. He was a physician and surgeon, and a
man eminent and influential in the early
history of that town, where he spent the
remainder of his life, dying August 5, 1681,
in his forty-first year. His name was
written Seabury, Seaberry, and also Saberry;
and his will was signed "Samuel Saberrey."
In the family descriptions he is called, in
distinction from other Samuels, Dr. Samuel
Seabury, of Duxbury. He married (first)
November 9, 1660, Patience, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Partridge) Kemp;
children: 1. Samuel, born April 20, 1666.
2. John, born in 1674. Also of this
marriage there were several daughters, the
only one of whom to marry was Hannah, wife
of John Partridge trace to Dr. Samuel
Seabury. He married (second) April 4, 1677,
Martha, daughter of William Pabodie and his
wife, Elizabeth Alden, daughter of John and
Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Children: i.
Joseph, born June 8, 1678, ii. Martha,
September 23, 1679, married Joseph Sawyer,
through whom many descendants of that name
trace to Dr. Samuel Seabury.
It appears
from the foregoing that the name of Seabury,
after the time of Dr. Samuel Seabury, is
carried on in three main lines of descent
from him. After a brief general account of
each of the heads of those three lines, will
be given, more in detail the descendants of
John, the head of the second of the three
mainlines.
(III) Dr. Samuel (2) Seabury, the
fifth of the name coming from John the
emigrant, and patience (Kemp) Seabury,
was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, April
20, 1666. He lived in that place somewhat
more than the first half of his nearly
a century of life. His father's
will gave him the surgical books and
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instruments which he
had used as a doctor, and also gave to him
his landed property in Duxbury. He made
extensive additions to this, acquiring land
in other parts of Massachusetts and in
Connecticut. In 1695 he deeded to his
brother John the property, some eight acres,
at the Brick Kilns, which was part of the
inheritance from his father. During his
residence in Duxbury he was often engaged as
agent of the town; represented it in general
court of the colony, and served as town
treasurer and representative, and also as a
prominent member of the church, and an
ensign in militia. In 1727, being then at
the end of his sixty-first years, he sold
his farm in Duxbury, and removed to North
Yarmouth, Maine, where he resided until his
death, November 10, 1763, in the
ninety-eighth year of his age. He was
prominent in that place throughout his
residence, and acquired a large landed
property there. He acted as moderator in
the formal re-organization of the settlement
as a town in 1733, and previous to that,
under their pastor, Ammi R. Cutter,
organized a Congregational Church there, of
which congregation he was deacon and elder.
He is commonly spoken of for this reason as
Elder Samuel Seabury. He married (first)
Abigail Allen, who died march 31, 1733; he
married (second) in his seventy-third year,
September 27, 1738, Margaret ---------,
widow of Stephen Larrabee, who died may 18,
1754, there being no issue by this second
marriage. By the first marriage he had
twelve children, of whom five lived to
maturity and left issue, viz.: 1.
Benjamin, 2. Samuel, 3. Barnabas, 4.
Abigail, 5. Patience. The daughter,
Abigail, was married to he cousin, David
Seabury, son of John, of the third
generation, of which marriage there have
been many Seabury Descendants; and the
daughter, Patience, was married to Dr.
Gilbert Winslow, whence came many Winslow
descendants from the Seabury stock. The
sons, Benjamin, Samuel and Barnabas, have
many descendants; those of Benjamin in
Connecticut, New York and elsewhere; those
of Samuel at Duxbury, and those of Barnabas
(who removed with his father to Yarmouth) in
Maine. It is to be observed that this
Maine branch, in whatever states its members
may since have settled, is the oldest branch
of the family, since they are descended from
the oldest son of Dr. Samuel Seabury. The
number of those descendants is very greatly
increased by the marriage of Elder Samuel
Seabury's daughter Abigail to David, son of
John Seabury, as above noted. These,
however, though descended from the oldest
son of Dr. Samuel, are so descended through
a female line, and their line of descent
from David Seabury properly classifies them
s belonging to that younger branch of the
family which derives from Dr. Samuel's
second son, John.
(III)
Lieutenant Joseph Seabury, the eleventh of
the name coming from John the emigrant, and
the youngest son of Dr. Samuel (1), though
the first child of second marriage with
Martha Pabodie, was born June 8, 1678, and
is known as Lieutenant Joseph Seabury. He
settled in Tiverton, Rhode Island, where he
built a house, which has remained in the
hands of several generations after him. His
descendants are very numerous in Rhode
Island, Massachusetts and elsewhere. Many
of them have been eminent, and the care of
some of them for the preservation of the
family history has been very noticeable. A
good deal of the family lore has come from
the records of Tiverton and Little Compton,
the home places of the Rhode Island branch.
Lieutenant Joseph Seabury died August 22,
1755, and was buried at Little Compton. He
married (first), September 25, 1701, Phoebe
Smith, born in 1679, died April 21, 1715,
widow of John Smith and daughter of
Lieutenant William Fobes, and Elizabeth
Southworth, his wife. Children: 1.
Samuel, born June 5, 1702. 2. Martha,
February 7, 1704. 3. Joseph, December 2,
1705. 4. Benjamin, January 20, 1708. 5.
Sion, March 27, 1713. 6. Mary, April 17,
1715. He married (second) Mary Ladd, born
in 1699, died in 1734, daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Tompkins) Ladd. Children:
7. Phoebe, born March 2, 1723-24. 8.
Hannah, February 7, 1724-25. 9. Gideon,
May 16, 1726. 10. John, November 26,
1727. 11. Elizabeth, February 2, 1729.
12. Sarah, December 4, 1732. 13, Ichabod,
January 18, 1734.
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