SUSAN LUCRITA LOWERY

JOHN married MARY WILCOX on 1 Feb 1824 in MADISON, MONROE, MO. MARY (daughter of HAZARD WILCOX and SARAH SEELEY) was born on 6 Oct 1802 in ERNESTOWN, L-ADDN, ONTARIO, CAN; died on 11 Nov 1859 in MANTI, SANPETE, UT; was buried in Nov 1859 in MANTI, SANPTE, UT. [Group Sheet]

WILLIAM married MARY (POLLY) NORRIS about 1799 in KNOX, KNOX, TN. MARY (daughter of THOMAS NORRIS and JANE OR JENNIE) was born in 1795 in , , TENNESSEE; died in 1832. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

TIMELINE OF HAZARD WILLCOX

25 DEC 1775 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.' S BIRTH AT WALLUMSCOCK, ALBANY, NEW YORK.
1777 HAZARD WILLCOX, SR. FLED WITH FAMILY TO CANADA AFTER LOSING HIS PROPERTY IN THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.
02 MAR 1779 HAZARD WILLCOX, SR.'S DEATH. (HAZARD WILCOX, JR. 3 YEARS OLD).
1779 EUNICE SABRA WATSON DIED. (HAZARD WILCOX, JR. 3 YEARS OLD).
14 OCT 1801 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S MARRIAGE TO SARAH SEELEY IN OSWEGATCHIE, ONTARIO, CANADA.
27 DEC 1810 SABRA WILCOX PURDY'S PETITION LISTED HAZARD WILCOX, JR. AS "OF LOUGHBOROUGH".
14 MAY 1793 HAZARD JR. AND WILLIAM WILLCOX BOTH PETITION FOR 800 ACRES IN GRANVILLE, UPPER CANADA.
16 OCT 1802 FIRST CHILD MARY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
10 AUG 1804 SECOND CHILD SARAH SEELEY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
07 JAN 1806 THIRD CHILD WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
08 MAR 1808 HAZARD JR. WROTE TO THE BOARD LISTED AS "U. E. LOYALIST OF LOUGHBOROUGH".
19 MAY 1808 FORTH CHILD EUNICE SEELEY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
16 JUN 1810 FIFTH CHILD SABRAH WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
30 JUN 1811 SARAH SEELEY WILLCOX LISTED AS "WIFE OF HAZARD WILLCOX OF LOUGHBOROUGH" IN HER PETITION.
26 JAN 1813 SIXTH CHILD JONATHAN HAZARD WILLCOX BORN IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI.
01 DEC 1815 SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CHILDREN JAMES M. AND JOSEPH S. WILLCOX BIRTHS IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI
16 OCT 1816 HAZARD JR. GRANTED 200 ACRES IN CARTWRIGHT TOWNSHIP, DURHAM COUNTY, CON. 9, LOT 24.
20 APR 1817 NINTH CHILD STEVEN ENOS WILLCOX BORN IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI.
01 OCT 1821 TENTH AND ELEVENTH CHILDREN CLARISSA JANE AND LEMUEL NIXON WILLCOX BIRTHS IN CARMI, WHITE, ILLINOIS.
14 JAN 1824 TWELFTH CHILD JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX BORN IN BENTON, SALINE, ARKANSAS.
ABT 1828 THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CHILD JAMES AND HAZARD WILLCOX BIRTHS.
16 FEB 1831 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S DIED IN MARION, WILLIAMSON, MISSOURI.


TIMELINE OF JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX

14 JAN 1824 JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX BORN IN BENTON, SALINE, ARKANSAS.
ABT 1828 JAMES AND HAZARD WILLCOX BIRTHS.
16 FEB 1831 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S DIED IN MARION, WILLIAMSON, MISSOURI. (JHO 7 YEARS OLD).
1833 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE IN JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI.
NOV 1833 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT TO CLAY COUNTY, MISSOURI.
SUMMER 1836 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY WERE ASKED TO LEAVE CLAY COUNTY AND THEY MOVED TO RAY COUNTY, MISSOURI AND STAYED ABOUT A YEAR.
1837 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY THEN MOVED TO FAR WEST, MISSOURI.
? CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY MOVED TO QUINCY, ILLINOIS AND THEY STAYED THERE UNTIL SPRING OF 1839.
1838 JHO BAPTIZED BY JOSEPH SMITH, JR. (JHO 14 YEARS OLD)
SPRING 1839 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES THEY MOVED TO CHARLESTON, LEE COUNTY, IOWA.
1841 CLARISSA JANE'S HISTORY STATES SEELYE FAMILY FIRST MOVED TO NASHVILLE, MISSOURI.
03 FEB 1846 JHO ENDOWMENT AT THE NAUVOO TEMPLE.
29 SEP 1847 ARRIVED IN SALT LAKE VALLEY.
18 MAR 1848 JHO MARRIAGE TO MARY YOUNG IN SALT LAKE CITY, SALT LAKE, UTAH.
1848-1849 DREW A LOT IN THE SUGARHOUSE AREA. CLEARED, PLOWED, AND PLANTED. LIVED IN A BRUSH "SHANTY". CRICKETS DEVOURED THE NEW WHEAT. MOVED BACK TO OLD FORT TO LIVE WITH HIS MOTHER.
15 FEB 1849 FIRST CHILD HAZARD WILCOX WAS BORN IN SALT LAKE CITY.
1849 CALLED TO GO TO MANTI, SANPETE, UTAH.
13 JUL 1851 SECOND CHILD ELIZABETH WILCOX BORN IN MANTI.

1851 ONE OF 6 FAMILIES SENT TO ESTABLISH FORT HAMBLETON (MT. PLEASANT). WORK IN A SAWMILL ON PLEASANT CREEK.
SPRING 1853 DRIVEN OUT OF FORT HAMBLETON BY INDIANS. MOVED BACK TO MANTI.
1 AUG 1853 THIRD CHILD SARAH WILCOX BORN IN MANTI.
1854 MOVED TO PLEASANT GROVE
1855 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM TO NORTH OGDEN. STAYED ONLY ONE WINTER (TOO COLD).
10 NOV 1855 FOURTH CHILD JAMES HENRY WILCOX BORN IN NORTH ODGEN.
1856 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM BACK TO PLEASANT GROVE. STAYED FOR 4 YEARS.
17 JUN 1856 JHO SEALED TO WIFE MARY YOUNG IN THE ENDOWMENT HOUSE.
13 MAR 1858 FIFTH CHILD JOHN CARLOS WILCOX BORN IN PLEASANT GROVE.
1859/1860 BRIGHAM YOUNG SENT THEM TO MT. PLEASANT.
08 NOV 1860 SIXTH CHILD MARY MEHITTABIL WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
20 MAR 1863 SEVENTH CHILD CLARISSA JANE WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
06 OCT 1865 EIGHTH CHILD SABRA ELLEN WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
13 APR 1868 NINTH CHILD HANNAH EMELINE WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
23 JUL 1871 TENTH CHILD MARTHA ANN WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
01 AUG 1874 ELEVENTH CHILD JUSTIN AZEL WILCOX BORN IN MT. PLEASANT.
06 JUL 1909 JHO NAME LISTED ON PIONEER MONUMENT IN MT. PLEASANT.
21 NOV 1909 JHO DIES IN MT. PLEASANT.

HAZARD married SARAH SEELEY on 14 Oct 1801. SARAH (daughter of AUGUSTUS SEELEY and MARY (SARAH) BRISBIN (BRISBANE)) was born on 16 Nov 1780 in ALBANY, ALBANY, NY; was christened on 17 Dec 1780 in ALBANY, ALBANY, NEW YORK; died on 9 Nov 1856 in MANTI, SANPETE, UT; was buried in Nov 1856 in MANTI, SANPETE, UTAH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!CENSUS 1851AUGUSTUS SEELEY TIME LINE

BORN IN NEW ENGLAND

9 APR 1760 JOINED THE NEW YORK PROVINCIAL TROOPS IN QUEEN?S COUNTY NEW YORK DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN SEVEN YEARS WAR. LISTED HIS OCCUPATION AS A HATTER. HIS SON JOSEPH LATER STATED THAT HIS FATHER HAD SERVED UNDER JEFFERY AMHERST DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR AND IN THE CORPS OF CAPT. JAMES CAMPBELL DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ?AUGUSTUS WAS ON THE UNITED LOYALIST LIST FOR LANCASTER TWSP IN UPPER CANADA AND WAS CALLED GUSTUS.? ROBERT SEELEY, OTTAWA, CANADA.

1760/1 MET AND MARRIED MARY BRISBIN WHO WAS BORN IN IRELAND.

2 JUNE 1761 MUSTERED IN NEW YORK PROVINCIAL TROOPS IN ALBANY COUNTY NEW YORK.

FIRST CHILD, MARGARET BORN IN ALBANY CO. IN 1801 LISTED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS AS MARGARET WICKWIRE WITH LABRORIS AND FOUR CHILDREN: PHILIP, MARY, LABRORIS JR AND JANE. IN 1804 CENSUS LABRORIS WAS MISSING.

LISTED IN LOYALISTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS LIVING IN SARATOGA

CARRIE BORN IN ALBANY CO. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE CARRIE CAME TO CANADA. NOTHING MORE IS KNOWN ABOUT HER.


JAMES BORN IN ALBANY CO. LISTED IN 1801 CENSUS AS SPOUSE OF ELIZABETH (MANHARD) WITH 4 CHILDREN: DAVID, MARY, JANE & ROBERT. JAMES SERVED WITH AUGUSTUS DURING REVOLUTIONARY WAR. AT AGE 16 HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN ROGERS CORP, IN HIS FATHERS OLD UNIT. (AUGUSTUS WOULD HAVE BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH COL. ROGERS DURING THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR). RECEIVED LAND IN LANCASTER ALONG WITH SIR JOHNSON AND HIS SCOTS. HOWEVER HE SETTLED IN ELIZABETHTOWN. MRD 1ST ELIZABETH MANHARD - CHILDREN: DAVID, MARY, ELIZABETH, JAMES JR, JANE, LEWIS, MRD 2ND MARY POLLY - CHILDREN: MARGRETT, JOSEPH, PHILIP, AUGUSTUS, ANNA & PEET. SERVED IN WAR OF 1812 IN THE MILITIA, WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT THE BATTLE OF LUNDY?S LANE, DECLARED HE WAS A CRIPPLE BECAUSE OF SEVERE COLD CAUGHT WHILE ON HIS ESCAPE FROM THE U.S.

RUTH BORN IN ALBANY CO. IN 1801 CENSUS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF SAM JUDSON WITH THREE CHILDREN: LEWIS, SAMUEL & ABIGAIL. BY 1807 THERE WERE OTHER CHILDREN SILUS, LABEUS, ANNA & REBECCA.

JANE BORN IN ALBANY CO. 1801 CENSUS LISTED JOHN & JANE ELLIOTT WITH JOHN JR. BY 1807 THERE WERE THREE MORE CHILDREN: JANE, SARAH AND CLARINDA.

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20 OCT 1774 MARY BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. IN 1801 CENSUS SHE IS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF JOSEPH FAULKNER FOUR CHILDREN. INTERESTINGLY, THE CHILDREN'S NAMES WERE ELEANOR, WILLIAM, AUGUSTUS AND MARY - HIS PARENTS/HER PARENTS.


5 FEB 1776 ELIZABETH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. MARRIED SAMUEL NICHOL.

14 SEP 1777 WHILE LIVING AT OLD SARATOGA AUGUSTUS AND SON JAMES WERE HIRED ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER LOYALISTS TO HERD GENERAL BURGOYNE?S CATTLE AT THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA.

16 OCT 1777 GEN. BURGOYNE, REALIZING THE LOYALIST TROOPS WERE SURROUNDED AND ADVISED THEM TO ESCAPE AS HE WAS GOING TO SURRENDER THE NEXT DAY. MANY DID ESCAPE BUT AUGUSTUS & JAMES DECIDED TO STAY AS MARY AND THE GIRLS WERE TOO YOUNG OR WEAK FOR THE HAZARDOUS TRIP NORTH. AUGUSTUS & JAMES WERE CONFINED TO A CAMP BUT ESCAPED AFTER TWO WEEKS.

AUGUSTUS, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHERS PETITIONED THE CROWN FOR LAND IN LANCASTER, GLANGARRY, UPPER CANADA. IT IS LIKELY THE GROUP HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. BESIDES AUGUSTUS AND JAMES THE LIST INCLUDED JAMES YOUNG, THOMAS BAIN ROSS, JACOB SNYDER AND JOHN SNYDER.

14 APR 1779 ANNIE BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. PROBABLY BORN IN SARATOGA. LISTED IN 1802 CENSUS WITH SPOUSE DAVID LAKEN.

16 NOV 1780 SARAH BORN IN ALBANY CO. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT AUGUSTUS LIVED IN SCHAGHTICOKE SO IT MAY BE ASSUMED ALL OF THE CHILDREN WERE BORN IN SARATOGA. IN 1801 CENSUS SHE AND JOSEPH WERE LIVING WITH AUGUSTUS AND MARY. SHE WAS MISSING FROM 1802 CENSUS WHICH ESTABLISHES MARRIAGE DATE TO HAZARD WILCOX JR WAS 1801 OR 1802.

21 MAY 1783 JOSEPH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. GRANTED LAND NEAR LAKE GANANOQUI. HE LIVED AT HOME WITH AUGUSTUS AND MARY UNTIL 1807 WHEN HE WAS LISTED IN CENSUS LIVING WITH SISTER ANNY, HER HUSBAND DAVID LAKINS AND THEIR 2 CHILDREN.
DURING THE WAR OF 1812 HE WOULD BE TRIED FOR DESERTION & TREASON. HE TALKED HIS WAY OUT OF THE CHARGE BY TELLING OF HIS FATHER?S HIGH VALUES ON LOYALTY. HE SAID THAT NO MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WOULD EVEN THINK OF ANYTHING BUT LOYALTY TO THE CROWN. HE STATED THAT HIS LOYALTY WAS INSTINCTIVE, INSPIRED BY THE ATTACHMENT OF FAMILY. HE RECEIVED A CONDITIONAL PARDON MILITARY C SERIES: C166 P 53 APR 1814, LETTER LT. GEN DRUMMOND TO N. FLEET. SEE ALSO " MCMILLAN DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHIES BY S. STEWART WALLACE.


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14 JUN 1784 SARAH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH.


AUGUSTIN LISTED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS. OTHER SELEE (SIC) HEADS OF FAMILIES WERE JUSTUS AND PEET. ALSO LISTED WAS WICKWIRE (MARGARET) & FALKNER (MARY).

1 SEP 1797 AUGUSTUS RECEIVED HIS 3 LOTS IN LANCASTER.

AUGUSTUS, MARY, JOSEPH AND SARAH LISTED IN ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS. OTHER SELEE HEADS OF FAMILIES INCLUDED JOSEPH, JUSTUS AND JARED.

16 JULY 1804 AUGUSTUS SOLD LOT 20 IN LANCASTER TO JACOB SNYDER AND LOT 21 TO JOSEF SNYDER.

16 APR 1807 AUGUSTUS SON JAMES SOLD LOT 25 IN LANCASTER TO JOHN MCLENNAN.

1804 CENSUS LISTED ?FAM NO? 272, MARY SELEE AND JOSEPH SELEE.

1808 ELIZABETHTOWN HEAD OF HOUSE CENSUS LISTED MRS SEELY LIVING ALONE NEAR JOSEPH SEELY, JOSEPH FALKNER, AND DAVID LAKEN,

AUGUSTUS DIED IN ELIZABETHTOWN, UPPER CANADA.

OCT 1873 PROXY BAPTISM BY JOHN HENRY WILCOX. ENDOWMENT HOUSE, (GS SER. NO. 183385), BOOK D, PG. 377, #17314.




















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APRIL 2001
STATE OF UTAH

!HISTORY

SARAH ?SEELEY? WILCOX
BORN 16 NOVEMBER 1780
DIED 9 OCTOBER 1856

?RELIC OF HASSARD WILCOX?

BY
ALBERT ANTRELL

CORRECTIONS BY KARL L. WEILER AS NOTED
A THIRD GREAT GRANDSON



NOTES FOR SARAH SEALEY

1 JAN 1980 PAGE1

BIRTH-BUR-DEATH: AFN:1CTF-X0; MANTI CEMETERY RECORDS; FAMILY HISTORY OF SARAH? THE LIFE OF A PIONEER WOMAN FROM HER 21ST TO 76 TH YEARS, BY
ALBERT ANTREL.

HISTORY: THE FOLLOWING IS THE HISTORY OF SARAH BY ALBERT ANTREL.


IT IS NOTHING IN NEW ENGLAND OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES TO FIND CHURCHYARD HEADSTONES DATING BACK TO THE 18TH CENTURY. BUT THEY ARE CONSIDERABLE LESS ABUNDANT IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN AND GREAT BASIN WEST, NEITHER OF WHICH WAS VERY SETTLED BEFORE THE 1840?S AND 1850?S (THE 19TH CENTURY).

THIS WAS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I FOUND THE MARKER OF SARAH WILCOX SO REMARKABLE IN THE CEMETERY AT MANTI, SANPETE, UTAH. SARAH?S GRAVE LOOKS COMMON ENOUGH AMONG ALL THE REST OF THE PIONEERS. NOTHING TO BE EXCITED ABOUT; A SIMPLE COLITE STONE, PEELING BADLY IN LAYERS AFTER 124 YEARS. (NOTE KW1: IN 2001 THE STONE IS GONE AND A SMALL FLAT MARKED STONE HAS REPLACED IT.) SARAH DIED ON OCTOBER 9, 1856. THE STONE READ; SARAH WILCOX, RELIC OF HASSARD WILCOX, BORN NOVEMBER 16, 1780, DIED OCTOBER 9, 1856.

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SHE WAS 76 YEARS OF AGE AT HER DEATH. NOTHING SO UNUSUAL THERE EITHER, EXCEPT THAT IN HER DAY, AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY WAS PROBABLY 40 YEARS LESS. BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT SARAH THAT REACHED BEYOND THE COMMON, THE ORDINARY. GEOGRAPHY AND A PARADE OF MEN AND EVENTS OF 1780 BEGAN CROWDING AROUND HER GRAVESTONE.

INEVITABLY, SARAH WILL BE 200 YEARS OLD ON NOVEMBER 16, 1980, AND POSSIBLY THIS MAKES HER THE OLDEST WHITE RESIDENT OF UTAH, ALIVE OR DEAD! BUT THERE WAS MORE TO IT THAN A LOCAL RECORD.

IN THE YEAR OF HER BIRTH, 1780 THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION WERE MUDDLING ALONG, TRYING TO GOVERN 13 UNRULY, JEALOUS ATURE 34 YEARS OF AGE WHEN THE TREATY OF GHENT ENDED THE WAR OF 1812 ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1814.

THERE IS A LITTLE CONFUSION IN THE RECORDS WHERE SHE WAS BORN, WHETHER IN EXTER, RHODE ISLAND OR IN ALBANY, NEW YORK. WHICHEVER IS TRUE, SARAH?S FEET FIRST PLODDED WESTWARD THROUGH THE MOHAWK VALLEY IN 1801, HAVING MARRIED HAZARD WILCOX JR. IN ALBANY. IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY IN 1801, THERE WERE STILL SOME ECHOES OUT OF THE REVOLUTION AND EVEN A FEW OUT OF THE EARLIER FRENCH AND INDIAN FRACAS OF HER FATHER?S DAY.

LYING BESIDE SARAH IN FAR-OFF UTAH IS HER OLDEST DAUGHTER AND FIRST-BORN, MARY WILCOX LOWRY. MARY WAS BORN IN ?OSSEWAGOTCHA?, (SAYS THE INSCRIPTION ON HER STONE) COUNTY IN ?UPPER CANADA? IN 1802. OBVIOUSLY, SARAH AND HAZARD HAD EMIGRATED TO CANADA THROUGH THE MOHAWK VALLEY TO THE NIGRA RIVER AND INTO WHAT IS NOW SOUTH-EASTERN ONTARIO.

ALBANY IS SOUNDLY LOCATED GEOGRAPHICALLY AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE MOHAWK AND HUDSON VALLEYS, AND IN 1801 IT?S 3000 PERMANENT RESIDENTS PROBLY STILL SAW OCCASIONAL CHARACTERS IN? LEATHERSTOCKINGS?. UP THE MOHAWK LAY THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERATION AND ENGLISH CANADA. MUST THERE BE ANY QUESTION THAT IN 1801 SARAH AND THE MOHAWK AND THE SENECA, THE ONADAGA THE HURONS ON HER MIND? ONE MAY WELL WONDER WHETHER EVEN THE NAME TECUMSEH WAS NOT KNOWN TO HER.

IN THE CASE OF SARAH AND HAZARD, THEY WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO A GRANT OF LAND IN CANADA, GIVEN TO THEM BY THE BRITISH FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO THE CROWN BY HAZARD?S FATHER, HAZARD WILCOX SR. (NOTEKW2: COPIES OF THIS LAND GRANT IS ENCLOSED). THE SENIOR WILCOX WAS A CAPTAIN IN BRITISH-AMERICAN LOYALIST MILITIA, AND HE WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE AT WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK IN 1776, WHILE IN PURSUIT OF THE REBEL GENERALS, WASHINGTON AND MCDOUGAL. HAZARD SR. IN OTHER WORDS WAS A ?TORY?, AND NOT ONLY A ?REDCOAT?, BUT A CAPTAIN OF ?LOBSTERNECKS?. (NOTEKW3: THIS IS
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DOCUMENTED IN THE BOOK NT WHEN HIS FATHER DIED IN BATTLE FOR THE CROWN, AND HE NEVER KNEW HIM. HAZARD, JR., WAS A FARMER, AND LIKE MANY FARMERS IN THE 13 STATES, HE WANTED GOOD , NEW LAND TO START HIS MARRIED LIFE ON, A DESIRE TO BE REALIZED IN UPPER CANADA, THANKS TO GREAT BRITAIN.

SARAH BORE FIVE CHILDREN IN UPPER CANADA, HER FIRST-BORN BEING MARY, AND ALL FIVE WERE BORN IN ERNESTTOWN, OSSEWEGATCHIE COUNTY. THE WILCOX?S REMAINED FRONTIER CANADIANS FOR 10 YEARS, BUT ON THE BRINK OF THE WAR OF 1812, HAZARD WILCOX MADE A DECISION. HE REMOVED HIS FAMILY BACK INTO AMERICAN TERRITORY AND EMIGRATED FARTHER WEST TO MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI. FOUR MORE CHILDREN WERE BORN THERE. IN 1820, FOR VAGUER REASONS, HAZARD AND HIS FAMILY MOVED AGAIN THIS TIME TO CARMI, WHITE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. A SET OF TWINS HAD BEEN BORN AND DIED IN MISSOURI, AND A SECOND SET WAS BORN IN CARMI, OF WHICH ONE DIED AT BIRTH. SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE WILCOX?S MOVED ONCE MORE. THIS TIME TO BENTON, SALINE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. HERE IN 1824, HAZARD DIED AT THE AGE OF 49, LEAVING SARAH WITH FIVE CHILDREN SHE HAD BORNE HIM IN ALL (KW4: PROBATE WILL SHOWS HAZARD DIED IN 1831) SARAH GAVE BIRTH TO HER LAST CHILD, JOHN HENRY OWEN WILCOX, AND SHE SAW HER FIRST-BORN, MARY, MARRIED TO A KENTUCKIAN, JOHN LOWRY, SR. ONE OTHER DAUGHTER, HER NAMESAKE, SARAH, HAD ALSO MARRIED, LEAVING HER WITH SABRA, AGE 14, AND TWO SMALLER CHILDREN, THE ONE A CHILD OF THREE NAMED CLARISSA JANE, AND THE OTHER THE RECENTLY-BORN BABY, JOHN HENRY OWEN.

SARAH WAS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO HER DAUGHTER, MARY WILCOX LOWRY, AND WHEN MARY AND JOHN LOWRY JOINED THE MORMON CHURCH IN 1833, THERE IS NO CLEAR RECORD OF ANY OBJECTION ON SARAH?S PART. IN FACT, IN TIME THE TWO YOUNGEST OF SARAH?S CHILDREN WERE ALSO BAPTIZED INTO THAT DENOMINATION. AS FOR SARAH IN 1833 SHE WAS 53 YEARS OLD, BOTH BAPTIZABLE AND MARRIAGEABLE AS A WIDOW, BUT SHE SHOWED NO INCLINATION FOR EITHER. (KW5: NAUVOO TEMPLE RECORDS SHOW SARAH COMPLETED HER ENDOWMENTS. I BELIEVE SARAH JOINED THE CHURCH WITH HER CHILDREN.)

WHETHER BEFORE 1847 SHE HAD JOINED THAT CHURCH OR NOT, HOWEVER, SARAH WENT ALONG WITH THE LOWRYS ON THEIR LONG TREK TO UTAH. SHE WOULD BEEN 67 YEARS OLD ON HER LAST WESTWARD MOVE.
SOMETIME AROUND 1850 WHEN SARAH WAS ABOUT 70 SHE ARRIVED IN THE SANPETE VALLEY OF CENTRAL UTAH TO BE WITH MARY W. LOWRY. HER SON WAS MARRIED IN 1848 IN SALT LAKE CITY. IT IS LIKELY THAT HE AND HIS WIFE ACCOMPANIED SARAH TO THE? SANPETE FORT? (MANTI), BUT DID NOT REMAIN THERE. THOSE ARE THE ?BARE FACTS?. THEY ARE RECORDED OR SURMISED FROM GENERAL HISTORIC BACKGROUND.

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NOT MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT SARAH PERSONALLY; ABOUT HER APPEARANCE, HER PERSONALITY OR HER TEMPERAMENT WE KNOW NOTHING. THERE ARE GROUNDS, HOWEVER, TO ASSUME HONESTLY THAT SHE WAS AT LEAST STRONG, HEALTHY AND PATIENT. A FEW VITAL FACTS ALSO KNOWN FROM RECORDS, CAN BE ADDED.

HER FATHER?S NAME WAS AUGUSTUS SEELEY, OR ZIEGLY, AND ALTHOUGH FROM EXETER, RHODE ISLAND HIMSELF, HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN OF GERMAN EXTRACTION. HER MOTHER WAS MARY BRISKIN, OF BRITISH DESCENT. ACCORDING TO THE CRUMBLING INSCRIPTION ON HER GRAVESTONE, SARAH WAS THE DIED OF ?PARALYSIS?, AND THAT IN HER LAST MOMENTS SHE WAS ATTENDED BY HER DAUGHTER, MARY WILCOX LOWRY. THE NAME OF ?JOSEPH WILCOX? HAS SOMEHOW, MYSTERIOUSLY, MADE IT INTO THE MANTI CEMETERY RECORD WITH NO OTHER INFORMATION OTHER THAN A BURIAL PILOT NUMBER(UNIDENTIFIED BY ANY MARKER) THERE IS NO OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ?JOSEPH WILCOX?. ONE OF SARAH?S TWINS, BORN IN MISSOURI IN 1814 WAS NAMED JOSEPH, BUT FAMILY RECORDS SHOW HE DIED THE YEAR HE WAS BORN.

SARAHE INTERTWINED WITH ALL THREE IN SOMEWAY, BUT AFTER 1854 SHE PROBABLY LIVING IN JOHN LOWRY?S HOUSE UNDER THE NORTH WALL OF THE BIG FORT. THE TREELESS VICINITY WAS AS DIFFERENT FROM CANADA, MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS (AND CERTAINLY IN CONTRAST WITH RHODE ISLAND AND NEW YORK) AS A PLACE COULD BE. IT WAS AN ARID LANDSCAPE OF SAGEBRUSH AND BUNCHGRASS. WAGON RUTS WIGGLED AND WOVE THEIR WAY BETWEEN THE SAGE FROM DESTINATION TO DESTINATION WITHOUT DELINEATED STREETS. FOR SARAH THE SANPETE FORT WAS ONLY ONE AND THE LAST OF SEVERAL FAR FLUNG OUTPOSTS IN WHICH SHE SPENT HER LIFE?S BLOOD AFTER LEAVING THE CIVILIZATION OF ALBANY IN 1801.

HER LIFE WAS CHARACTERISTICALLY AMERICAN IN ITS RESTLESSNESS AND IN ITS NEAR-ROOTLESS NESS. THE FARMER?S WIFE, LIKE THE FARMER, MOVED WITH THE TIDE OF WESTWARD AGRICULTURAL EMIGRATION. TO CONTACTS WITH THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS OF HER PARENT?S TIME, THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OF 1812 AND WESTWARD EMIGRATION, IN THE 1830?S, SARAH EVIDENTLY ADDED CONTACTS WITH THE MORMON PERSECUTION AND EVENTUALLY WITH THE MORMON EMIGRATION INTO THE DESERTS OF THE FAR WEST. SHE WAS NOT BAPTIZED, EVIDENTLY, UNTIL 1857, ONE YEAR AFTER HER DEATH, WHEN, OF COURSE, IT HAD TO BE DONE AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL WHERE THE MORMON CHURCH IN 1877, WAS TO ERECT A TEMPLE. IT

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WAS NOT ALTOGETHER UNFITTING OR UNSYMBOLIC THAT SARAH?S COMPANY IN THE GRAVEYARD WAS MORE RED THAN WHITE.

IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT SARAH WAS PERSONAL SECURITY EVEN BEFORE 1801, CONSIDERING THE PROXIMITY OF A PRISTINE WILDERNESS. IF IN HER LIFE SHE WAS NEVER CONCERNED WITH INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT, DRUGS AND LUNG CANCER, SHE FACED PROBLEMS OF RAW SURVIVAL DAILY INSTEAD. THERE IS NOW WAY TO CONCLUDE SHE EVER KNEW MUCH COLONIAL GRACE.


HERS WAS NOT COMFORT IN A LEISURELY MOUNT VERNON OR AN INTELLECTUAL MONTICELLO, NEITHER WERE HARVARD AND YALE, VITAL IN HER NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY. HERS WAS A LIFE THAT FEATURED RIGOROUS PHYSICAL DEMANDS ON MUSCLES AND NERVES IN THE PRIMEVAL.

SHARH HEWED WOOD AND HAULED WATER PROBABLY NOT MUCH LESS THAN THE STONE-AGE SQUAWS IN THE FOREST OR THE MOUNTAINS THAT SURROUNDED HER. SHE MET THE INDIAN FROM THE WYANDOT OF THE GREAT LAKES TO THE UTE OF THE GREAT BASIN. SHE WAS PRESENT IN JOHN LOWRY?S HOUSE, ALONE, WITH HER GRANDDAUGHTER, MARY LOWRY, WHEN
THE ?HAWK-OF THE MOUNTAINS,? WAH-KA-RA, STRODE UNANNOUNCED INTO THE ROOM AND RAPTUROUSLY ASKED THE TEENAGE MARY TO BE HIS WIFE. WHEN MARY REFUSED, AND LIED ABOUT HER REASONS, SARAH WAS STILL THERE AND TENSE, AND POSSIBLY LOOKING AROUND FOR A FIRE POKER OR AN IRON FRYING PAN, (AS SO MANY FRONTIER WOMEN WERE KNOWN TO DO WHEN INDIANS APPEARED SUDDENLY IN THEIR HOUSES), WHEN HE DROVE HIS STEEL TRADING-POST KNIFE ANGRILY INTO JOHN LOWRY?S HOMEMADE TABLETOP.

THE ONLY THINGS THAT CHANGED FOR SARAH WHEN SHE CROSSED THE PLAINS ON HER BIGGEST TREK OF ALL, ONE OF A THOUSAND MILES FROM COUNCIL BLUFF TO THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY, WERE THE NAMES OF THE INDIAN TRIBES AND THE CLIMATE.

IT APPEALS TO HUMAN COMPASSION, EVEN AFTER 124 YEARS, TO KNOW THAT MARY WILCOX LOWRY, HER FIRST ?BORN AND ONE OF HER ?UPPER CANADIANS,? IS STILL BY HER SIDE, 200-YEAR-OLD MOTHER?S SIDE IN ARID UTAH. MARY SURVIVED HER MOTHER BY ONLY THREE YEARS AND DIED HERSELF IN 1859, AT THE AGE OF 57.

SARAH?S GRAVESTONE CRUMBLED TO THE GROUND LAST SPRING (1980), AND AS THOUGH IN SYMPATHY, SO DID MARY?S. AS SARAH?S IDENTITY PEELS FROM HER STONE COMPLETELY, PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE MAY BOTHER TO WONDER, ?A REAL OLD ONE. WONDER WHY SHE CAME.? UNANSWERED THEY WILL GO BY THE BIRTH DATE ON HER STONE?. THE IROQUOIS? THE REDCOAT BETWEEN UPPER CANADA, MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS, BUT IN 1856, SHE LAY DOWN IN ETERNITY IN AN OLD UTE BURIAL GROUND WITH ONLY ONE OUT OF THE TWELVE TO HOLD HER CALLOUSED, WRINKLED HANDS.

WHEN SARAH WAS BORN THERE WERE STILL ELEVEN YEARS BEFORE THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TOOK OFFICE, AND THERE WERE ONLY 13 STATES, ALL IF THEM EAST OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. WHEN SHE DIED IT WAS DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE 14TH PRESIDENT, FRANKLIN PIERCE, AND MR PIERCE WAS PRESIDENT OF 31 STATES, SIX OF THEM INCLUDING CALIFORNIA, BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI.

THE FRENCH USUALLY HAVE SOMETHING POIGNANT TO SAY ABOUT ALL EARTHLY GAMUTS: TOUT CASSE, TOUT LASSE, TOUT PASSE. ? EVERYTHING BREAKS, EVERYTHING WEARS OUT, EVERYTHING PASSES AWAY.? SOMETIMES THAT IS A CONSOLATION. IT IS ALWAYS TRUE, AND AND IT IS ALWAYS FINAL.

JOHN married MARY TABB in 1765 in ELIZABETH CITY, NEW HAMPTON, VA. MARY (daughter of THOMAS TABB and MARY ARMESTEAD) was born about 1742 in ELIZABETH CITY, NEW HAMPTON, VA; died about 1801 in , CHRISTIAN CO., VA. [Group Sheet]

THOMAS married JANE OR JENNIE. JANE was born about 1750 in <, , TENNESSEE>. [Group Sheet]

HAZARD married SABRA WATSON. SABRA was born about 1750 in WALLUMSCOCK, ALBANY, NY; died in in NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

AUGUSTUS SEELEY TIMELINE
SEELEY/CELEY/SEELYE/SELEE

1739 AUGUSTUS SEELEY BORN IN NEW ENGLAND, PROBABLY BOSTON.
9 APR 1760 JOINED THE NEW YORK PROVINCIAL TROOPS IN QUEEN'S COUNTY NEW YORK DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN SEVEN YEARS WAR. HE LISTED HIS OCCUPATION AS A HATTER. HIS SON JOSEPH LATER STATED THAT HIS FATHER HAD SERVED UNDER JEFFERY AMHERST DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR. AND IN THE CORPS OF CAPT. JAMES CAMPBELL DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. "AUGUSTUS WAS ON THE UNITED LOYALIST LIST FOR LANCASTER TWSP IN UPPER CANADA (U C) AND WAS CALLED GUSTUS." ROBERT SEELEY OTTAWA, CANADA
1760/1 MET AND MARRIED MARY BRISBIN WHILE SERVING WITH HER BROTHERS. SHE WAS BORN IN IRELAND.
1761 FIRST CHILD MARGARET BORN IN ALBANY CO. IN 1801 SHE WAS LISTED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS AS MARGARET WICKWIRE WITH LABRORIS AND FOUR CHILDREN: PHILIP, MARY, LABRORIS JR AND JANE. IN 1804 CENSUS LABRORIS WAS MISSING.
1762 CARRIE BORN IN ALBANY CO. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE SHE CAME TO CANADA. NOTHING MORE IS KNOWN ABOUT HER. THERE IS DOCUMENTATION SHE DIED YOUNG.
1765 JAMES BORN IN ALBANY CO. LISTED IN 1801 ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS AS SPOUSE OF ELIZABETH (MANHARD) WITH 4 CHILDREN. HE MARRIED 1ST ELIZABETH MANHARD - CHILDREN: DAVID, MARY ELIZABETH, JAMES JR. JANE, LEWIS. MRD 2ND MARY POLLY - CHILDREN: MARGRETT, JOSEPH, PHILIP, AUGUSTUS, ANNA & PEET. JAMES SERVED WITH AUGUSTUS DURING REVOLUTIONARY WAR. EARLIEST MENTION OF HIM WAS AT AGE 12 DRIVING CATTLE WITH HIS FATHER TO GEN. BURGOYNE'S ARMY. AT 16 HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN ROGERS CORP., HIS FATHERS OLD UNIT. (AUGUSTUS WOULD HAVE BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH COL. ROGERS DURING THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR.) HE RECEIVED LAND IN LANCASTER ALONG WITH HIS FATHER, SIR JOHNSTON AND SIR JOHNSTON'S SCOTS*. HE LATER SETTLED IN ELIZABETHTOWN. HE SERVED IN WAR OF 1812 IN THE MILITIA, WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT THE BATTLE LUNDY'S LANE, DECLARED HE WAS A CRIPPLE BECAUSE OF SEVERE COLD CAUGHT WHILE ON HIS ESCAPE FROM THE U.S.
1766 RUTH BORN IN ALBANY CO. IN 1801 CENSUS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF SAM JUDSON WITH THREE CHILDREN: LEWIS, SAMUEL & ABIGAIL. BY 1807 THERE WERE OTHER CHILDREN SILUS, LABEUS, ANNA & REBECCA.
1771 JANE BORN IN ALBANY CO. IN 1801 CENSUS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF JOHN ELLIOTT WITH JOHN JR. BY 1807 THERE WERE THREE MORE CHILDREN: JANE, SARAH AND CLARINDA.
1772 AUGUSTUS WAS LISTED IN LOYALISTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS LIVING IN SARATOGA.
20 OCT 1774 MARY BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. IN 1801 CENSUS SHE IS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF JOSEPH FAULKNER WITH FOUR CHILDREN. INTERESTINGLY, THE CHILDREN'S NAMES WERE ELEANOR, WILLIAM, AUGUSTUS AND MARY - HER PARENTS, HIS PARENTS RESPECTFULLY. NOTE: THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH WAS THE ONLY CHURCH IN THE AREA. THE ORIGINAL RECORDS ARE WRITTEN IN DUTCH. HOWEVER, AUGUSTUS' NAME IS CLEARLY ENTERED AS SEALY.
1775 "AMONG THE FIRST TO JOIN SIR JOHN JOHNSON, BARONET, THE YEAR 1775 AND FOLLOWED HIM TO CANADA?AND FOLLOWED HIM TO CANADA THE YEAR 1776 AND SERVED IN HIS REGIMENT ALL THE TIME OF LATE REBELLION." THE PETITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF LANCASTER TOWNSHIP, DATED JUNE 23, 1792
2 FEB 1776 ELIZABETH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. IN ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS LISTED AS SPOUSE OF SAMUEL NICHOL.
16 AUG 1777 BATTLE OF BENNINGTON AT WALOOMSCOICK.
14 SEP 1777 WHILE LIVING AT OLD SARATOGA AUGUSTUS AND SON JAMES WERE HIRED ALONG WITH SEVERAL LOYALISTS TO HERD GENERAL BURGOYNE'S CATTLE DURING THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA.
16 OCT 1777 GEN. BURGOYNE, REALIZING THE LOYALIST TROOPS WERE SURROUNDED, ADVISED THEM TO ESCAPE TO UPPER CANADA, AS HE WAS GOING TO SURRENDER THE NEXT DAY. MANY DID ESCAPE BUT AUGUSTUS & JAMES DECIDED TO STAY AS MARY AND THE GIRLS WERE TOO YOUNG OR WEAK FOR THE HAZARDOUS TRIP NORTH. AUGUSTUS & JAMES WERE CONFINED TO A CAMP BUT ESCAPED AFTER TWO WEEKS.
14 APR 1779 ANNIE BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. BORN IN ALBANY CO. LISTED IN 1802 ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS WITH SPOUSE DAVID LAKEN AND THREE CHILDREN: HEMAN/HIRAM, EUNIS AND JOHN.
16 NOV 1780 SARAH BORN IN ALBANY CO. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT AUGUSTUS LIVED IN SCHAGHTICOKE SO IT MAY BE ASSUMED THE CHILDREN BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE CHURCH WERE BORN IN SARATOGA. IN 1801 CENSUS SARAH AND JOSEPH WERE LIVING WITH AUGUSTUS AND MARY. SHE WAS GONE FROM 1802 CENSUS WHICH ESTABLISHES APPROXIMATE MARRIAGE DATE TO HAZARD WILCOX JR. SARAH AND HAZARD'S CHILDREN WERE MARY, SARAH, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, EUNICE, SABRAH, JONATHAN, JAMES & JOSEPH (TWINS), STEVENS, CLARISSA JANE & LEMUEL (TWINS), JOHN HENRY OWEN & JAMES & HAZARD TWINS.
21 MAY 1783 JOSEPH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. IN CANADA HE WAS GRANTED LAND NEAR LAKE GANANOQUI. HE LIVED AT HOME WITH AUGUSTUS & MARY UNTIL 1807 WHEN CENSUS LISTED HIM LIVING WITH SISTER ANNY, HER HUSBAND DAVID LAKINS AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN. DURING THE WAR OF 1812 HE WOULD BE TRIED FOR DESERTION & TREASON. HE TALKED HIS WAY OUT OF THE CHARGE BY TELLING OF HIS FATHER'S HIGH VALUES ON LOYALTY. HE SAID THAT NO MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WOULD EVEN THINK OF ANYTHING BUT LOYALTY TO THE CROWN. HE STATED THAT HIS LOYALTY WAS INSTINCTIVE, INSPIRED BY THE ATTACHMENT OF FAMILY. HE RECEIVED A CONDITIONAL PARDON. MILITARY C SERIES: C166 P 53 APR 1814, LETTER LT GEN DRUMMOND TO N. FLEET. SEE ALSO MCMILLAN DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHIES BY S. STEWART WALLACE.
14 JUNE 1783 SARAH BAPTIZED IN SCHAGHTICOKE PROTESTANT DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH
1784 SIGNED THE LAND PETITION ALONG WITH THOMAS BAN ROSS, JOHN SNYDER, JAMES YOUNG AND JAMES SEELEY . "THAT YOUR PETITIONERS WERE AMONGST THE FIRST SETTLED ON HIS MAJESTY'S LANDS, THE YEAR 1784." BOTH AUGUSTUS AND JAMES SIGNATURES ARE WRITTEN WITH AN 'X'. THE PETITIONERS INCLUDE THE NAME OF DAVID SEE. HOWEVER THE PERSON WHO ENTERED BOTH AUGUSTUS AND DAVID'S NAMES SPELLED THEM WITH A "C". JAMES NAME IS SPELLED SEELEY
15 APR 1786 AUGUST SEELEY, AMERICAN LOYALIST CLAIMS OF 2ND MARCH 1786 REJECTED.
9 NOV 1787 IN MARGARET'S PETITION TO THE CROWN SHE STATED SHE WAS MARRIED AND THE DAUGHTER OF AUGUSTUS SEELY WHO JOINED THE ROYAL STANDARD BEFORE THE TREATY OF SEPARATION IN 1783.
1796 AUGUSTIN LISTED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS. OTHER SELEE (SIC) HEADS OF FAMILIES WERE JUSTUS AND PEET. ALSO LISTED WAS WICKWIRE (MARGARET) & FALKNER (MARY).
16 JULY 1804 AUGUSTUS SOLD LOT 20AND 21 IN LANCASTER TO JACOB SNYDER AND JOSEF SNYDER RESPECTFULLY.
16 APR 1807 AUGUSTUS' SON JAMES SOLD LOT 25 IN LANCASTER TO JOHN MCLENNAN.
1804 ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS LISTED 'FAM NO' 272, MARY SELEE & JOSEPH SELEE.
1808 ELIZABETHTOWN HEAD OF HOUSE CENSUS LISTED MRS SEELY LIVING ALONE NEAR JOSEPH SEELY, JOSEPH FALKNER & DAVID LAKEN.
1811 AUGUSTUS DIED IN ELIZABETHTOWN, UPPER CANADA
OCT 1873 PROXY BAPTISM BY JOHN HENRY WILCOX IN THE ENDOWNMENT HOUSE, (GS SER. NO 183385, BOOK D, PG 377, #17314.)

*IN GLENGARRY SCOTLAND THERE IS A HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR SIR JOHNSTON. IT IS RECORDED THERE
THAT HE CAME FROM AMERICA TO BRING HIGHLANDERS BACK TO NEW YORK. THE WALKED
FROM GLENGARRY TO DUBLIN IRELAND TO BOARD A SHIP TO AMERICA. THERE HISTORY DOESN'T
SAY BUT IT IS ASSUMED THAT THEY USED BOATS TO GET FROM SCOTLAND TO IRELAND.

REVISED AUGUST 24, 2003
REVISED JULY 24, 2003

BY DIANE LITTLE

SCOTT ANDREW BARTLEY
20 MARCH AVENUE
WEST ROXBURY MA 02132-2604
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28 MAY 2004


KARL L. WEILER
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DEAR KARL,

I HAVE REVIEWED YOUR EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON THE SUBJECT OF AUGUSTUS SEELEY. THIS REPORT WILL LIST THE GOAL, SUMMARY OF KNOWN FACTS, AND THE ITEMS RESEARCHED WITH THEIR RESULT. REALIZE THAT I DID CHECK A COUPLE OF THE THINGS YOU DID TO SEE IF I NOTICED ANYTHING ELSE. YOU REQUESTED I STOP AFTER 6 HOURS. I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS AND STOPPED AT 7 HOURS. THE REST OF THE TIME WAS WRITING EVERYTHING UP AND THEN ANALYZING IT. THE CONCLUSIONS ARE ON PAGE 7 AND THE TIME TALLY ON PAGE 8. I DISCOUNTED THIS FOR THE LATENESS OF MY REPORT. I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. THIS IS AN INTERESTING CASE!


REGARDS,

DREW BARTLEY


TO DOCUMENT THE BIRTH OF AUGUSTUS SEELEY AND DETERMINE HIS ANCESTRY.

SUMMARY OF FACTS

SEELEY CAN BEEN RECORDED AS CELY, SEALEY, ZIELEY, AND THEIR VARIANT SPELLINGS.

AUGUSTUS SEELEY, PARENTS UNKNOWN, WAS BORN IN SCHAGHTICOKE, RENSSELAER CO., N.Y., ?NEW ENGLAND, RENSSELAER CO., N.Y., (1-6) AND UPPER CANADA (7-10):
1. MARY SEELEY, B. 20 OCT. 1774.
2. ELIZABETH SEELEY, B. 2 MAY 1776.
3. ANNIE SEELEY, B. 14 APR. 1779.
4. SARAH SEELEY, B. 16 NOV. 1780.
5. JOSEPH SEELEY, B. 21 MAY 1782.
6. JAMES SEELEY, B. CA. 1784.
7. JANE SEELEY, B. CA. 1786.
8. CARY SEELEY, B. CA. 1788.
9. MARGARET SEELEY, B. CA. 1790.
10. RUTH SEELEY, B. CA. 1792.

SOURCES CHECKED

1. BOSTON RECORD COMMISSIONER?S REPORT, V. 24.
BOSTON BIRTHS, 1700-1800. NO CEL-, SEL-.
2. AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX (AGBI) IN 200+ VOLS.
NO AUGUSTUS.
3. WILLIAM PLUMB BACON, ANCESTRY OF DANIEL JAMES SEELY ? (NEW YORK, 1914).
LINE OF ROBERT OF WATERTOWN, 1630, WETHERSFIELD, 1635, AND N.Y., 1666.
4. MARY HENRIETTA CHASE, THE SAGA OF THE SEELEYS FROM SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY TO ILLINOIS AND TEXAS (TYP., 1963).
NO INDEXED, STARTS WITH ROBERT, SCANNED - NOTHING FOUND.
5. SEELEY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, DESCENDANTS OF ROBERT SEELEY, VOLUME I (TYP., 1983).
NOTHING.
6. MADELINE M. MILLS AND KATHERINE M. OLSEN, ROBERT SEELEY (1602-1666) DESCENDANTS: THE SIXTH GENERATION FAMILIES (SALT LAKE CITY, 1995). NOTE: MADELINE IS LISTED AS THE SEELEY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY GENEALOGIST AT 707 FIRST AVE., SALT LAKE CITY UT 84103, 801-359-1677.
NOTHING.
7. MADELINE M. MILLS AND KATHERINE M. OLSEN, ROBERT SEELEY (1602-1666) DESCENDANTS: THE SEVENTH GENERATION FAMILIES (SALT LAKE CITY, 2000). NOTE: JIM SEELEY IS LISTED AS THE SEELEY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY GENEALOGIST AT HERNDON VA, 703-860-4897, JRSEELEY@AOL.COM.
P. 5. AUGUSTUS SEELY, B. 25 JULY 1798, BALLSTON, SARATOGA CO., N.Y., S/O NEHEMIAH AND MABEL (HORTON).
8. THE SEELYE CENTENNIAL [? 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEELYE FAMILIES IN THIS COUNTRY] (1915).
STARTS WITH JOSEPH OF KINGSBURY, WASHINGTON CO., N.Y.
9. NATHAN SEELEY, GENEALOGY OF THE SEELEY FAMILY (NEW YORK, 1914).
NOTHING FOUND.
10. FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS INDEX:
OBADIAH, STAMFORD, 1642. D. 25 AUG. 1657. IN FAIRFIELD, V.1; REGISTER, 116: 163 (IDENTITY).
RICHARD, ISLE OF SHOALS [ME.], 1652; SACO, 1666; SALEM, 1675; LIVING IN BOSTON, 1679, MARINER. MAGISTRATE. ONE OF FOUR BROTHERS IN MAINE. ?LOGICAL FATHER? OF JOHN OF MAINE; REGISTER, 85: 78N.
ROBERT, SALEM, 1630; WATERTOWN, 1631; WETHERSFIELD, 1635; NEW HAVEN, 1638; HUNTINGTON ?; SALISBURY & AMESBURY, 569, 892-3, 1058; ME. GEN., 2: 76-79, 123-4
11. THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER [I.E. REGISTER].
V. 25 [1871]: 162-164. THE ISLES OF SHOALS IN THE YEAR 1653; COMMISSIONER RICHARD SEALY, PETITION: WILLIAM SEALY, RICHARD SEALY, GEORGE SEALY.
V. 39 [1885]: 139. WILLIAM SEELEY, EARLY INHABITANT OF BARBADOS HAVING 10+ ACRES IN 1638.
V. 85 [1931]: 74-79. THE SEALEY BROTHERS OF THE ISLES OF SHOALS BY WALTER GOODWIN DAVIS: JOHN (B. CA. 1618), RICHARD (BP. 1620/1), GEORGE (BP. 1622), WILLIAM (BP. 1632), THOMAS (BP. 1638).
V. 85: 78N. ISLE AND SACO MEN MAY BE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
12. LIBBY, NOYES, AND DAVIS, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE (1928-1939).
UNDER SEALY. RICHARD?S SON JOHN WAS IN BOSTON. WHOLE FAMILY WERE MARINERS.
13. DAVID W. HOYT, THE OLD FAMILIES OF SALISBURY AND AMESBURY (PROVIDENCE, 1897-1905).
P. 567-568. NOTHING NEW.
14. MAINE GENEALOGIST AND BIOGRAPHER, 2: 76-79:
CILLEY FAMILY BY J. P. CILLEY. ROBERT OF WATERTOWN, ETC., PLUS 3 BROTHERS: JOHN, RICHARD, AND WILLIAM OF ISLES OF SHOALS.
2: 121-128, ?GENEALOGY? - MIXES UP ROBERT WITH BROTHERS. RICHARD?S SON JOHN NOT MENTIONED.
15. CLARENCE ALMON TORREY, NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700.
SUGGESTS SOURCE FULTON-HAYDEN-WARNER ANCESTRY IN AMERICA.
16. CLARENCE ETTIENNE LEONARD, THE FULTON-HAYDEN-WARNER ANCESTRY IN AMERICA (NEW YORK, 1923).
P. 233. ABIGAIL SELEY, DAU. OF JOHN2 (JOHN1) AND MARGARET SELLY, B. BOSTON, 23 AUG. 1703.
17. SUFFOLK COUNTY PROBATE INDEX.
NOTHING BEFORE 1825.
18. SUFFOLK COUNTY DEED INDEX, 1639-1799. NOTE: SEAL, SEALE, AND SELE ALL IN ONE GROUP.
GRANTORS:
GEORGE, 1759, ROXBURY.
GEORGE, 1774, DORCHESTER.
JOHN, 1715, HINGHAM.
MARGARET, 1759, ROXBURY.
MARGARET, 1774, DORCHESTER.
PETER, 1695, POWER OF ATTORNEY.
PHILIP, 1764, ROXBURY.
SARAH, 1715, HINGHAM.
GRANTEES:
GEORGE, 1770, DORCHESTER.
MARGARET, 1770, DORCHESTER.
PETER, 1695, PERSONAL PROPERTY.
[NO CILLEY, THIS UNDER SELLY]
JOHN, 1671, POWER OF ATTORNEY.
19. ALBANY COUNTY DEED INDEX, 1630-1894. [ONLY PRE-1775 LISTINGS]
GRANTORS:
EARLIEST CELLY, THOMAS, 1839.
GRANTEES:
SEELY, PETER U., 1738, FROM MYNDERT SCHUYLER.
20. MUSTER ROLLS OF NEW YORK PROVINCIAL TROOPS, 1755-1764 (NEW YORK, 1891, V. 24 OF THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY). [DONE BY CLIENT.]
P. 242. CAPT. GEORGE DUNBAR, QUEENS CO., 1760.
AUGUSTIN SELEY, ENL. 9 APR., AGE 21, B. NEW ENGLAND, HATTER, CAPT. BIRDSAL?S MILITIA.
P. 418. ALBANY CO., 2 JULY 1761.
AUGUSTUS SEALEY, CAPT. LENT CO., ENL. 2 JUNE, AGE 22, B. BOSTON, HATTER, LT. BARDRICK, 5?9?.
21. NEW YORK COLONIAL MUSTER ROLLS, 1664-1775 (ALBANY, 1897-1898; REP. BALTIMORE, 2000).
2: 663:
AUGUSTUS [SAME AS ABOVE PLUS ?] [COMPLEX?N] FAIR, [EYES] BROWN, [HAIR] FAIR.
SAMUEL, CAPT. LENT?S CO., ENL. 25 MAY, AGE 40, B. [BLANK], CARPENTER, LT. BARDRICK, 5?11?, FAIR, BLUE, SANDY.
22. NAMES OF PERSONS FOR WHOM MARRIAGE LICENSES WERE ISSUED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK PREVIOUS TO 1784 (ALBANY, 1860).
P. 344:
1773 JAN. 23. SEALY, BENJAMIN, AND ELIZABETH SOLDS.
1768 MAR. 21. SEALY, JOSIAH, AND SARAH HOLLEY.
1782 APR. 17. SEALY, RUTH, AND JECHANIAH HOLCOMB.
P. 345:
1763 NOV. 29. SEELIE, JOHN, AND ELIZABETH ECKER.
1777 SEPT. 25. SEELY, JOHN, AND SARAH FORMAN.
1766 NOV. 14. SEELY, LEWIS, AND SARAH HUTCHINS.
1666 DEC. 22. SEELY, ROBERT, AND MARY WALKER.
23. ROBERT H. KELBY, NEW YORK MARRIAGE LICENSES (FROM THE NYGBS, JULY 1915).
ADDITIONS TO THE ABOVE. NOTHING FOUND.
24. FLORENCE CHRISTOPH, UPSTATE NEW YORK IN THE 1760S: TAX LISTS AND SELECTED MILITIA ROLLS OF ALBANY COUNTY, 1760-1768 (CAMDEN, ME., 1992).
P. 123-124, SCHOHARIE, N.Y. - TAX LIST - 1766:
JEAN SIELE
ANNA SIELE
ADAM SIELE
PIETER SIELE
P. 162, RENSSELAERSWYCK, N.D., ?ABOVE POSETEN KILL?:
EPHRAIM SEELY
P. 230, ALBANY CO., STEPHEN SCHUYLER?S CO., 3 MAY 1760:
JOSEPH SEALY, AGE 18, B. CONN., ACKERS? CO.
P. 244, ALBANY CO., 2 JULY 1761:
AUGUSTUS SELEY, SAME AS ABOVE.
SAMUEL SEALY, SAME AS ABOVE.
P. 245, ALBANY CO., CORENELIUS VAN DEBAREGH?S CO., 17 MAY 1762:
MARTIN SEALY, AGE 37, B. GERMANY, VAN DEN BERGH CO.
25. GENEALOGICAL DATA FROM NEW YORK ADMINISTRATION BONDS, 1753-1799 (BY KENNETH SCOTT, V. 10 OF THE COLLECTIONS NYBGS, 1969).
P. 122. SEELY, JONAS, OF ORANGE CO., YEOMAN - ADM. (14 DEC. 1757) SARAH SEELY - BD: SARAH SEELY, WIDOW, AND JOSEPH SACKET, ESQ., BOTH OF ORANGE CO.
26. KENNETH SCOTT AND JAMES A. OWRE, GENEALOGICAL DATA FROM INVENTORIES OF NEW YORK ESTATES, 1666-1825 (NEW YORK, 1970).
P. 102. MILLER, CAPT. GARRET, OF SMITH?S COVE, ORANGE CO. - INV. 11 JULY 1778 NATHANIEL SEELY & MRS. MILLER, EXEC., TAKEN BY ISRAEL SEELY.
P. 133. SELEY, JOHN JR., SOLDIER IN CAPT. HOLLAND?S CO. OF 2ND REGT. OF DRAGOONS, U.S. ARMY - INV. (21 DEC. 1813) TAKEN BY JOHN SELEY, ADM.
P. 174. WHITLOW, JOHN, OF ORANGE CO., INV. (11 NOV. 1755) - EXEC. BEZALEEL SEALY.
[THERE IS A 1972 MUCH LARGER ADDITION THAT WAS NOT CHECKED]
27. S. V. TALCOTT, GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES (ALBANY, 1883).
NOTHING FOUND.
28. DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IN 15 VOLUMES.
NOTHING FOUND.
29. HENRY B. YOSHPE, THE DISPOSITION OF LOYALIST ESTATES IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (NEW YORK, 1939).
NOTHING FOUND.
30. JONATHAN PEARSON, CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE GENEALOGIES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE ANCIENT COUNTY OF ALBANY FROM 1630 TO 1800 (ALBANY, 1872; REP. BALTIMORE, 1984).
NOTHING FOUND.
31. ROBERT A. DUNKLE AND ANN SMITH LAINHART, THE RECORDS OF THE CHURCHES OF BOSTON (CD, 2003).
NOTHING FOUND.
32. BIBLE RECORDS FROM THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (CD, 2001).
NOTHING FOUND.
33. ANCESTRY.COM.
SEARCHED FOR AUGUSTUS SELLEY (SOUNDEX), 1700-1815. NOTHING FOUND.
34. HERITAGEONLINE.COM.
BOOKS AND THE PERIODICAL SOURCE INDEX (OTHER THAN REG.). NOTHING FOUND.
35. FAMILYSEARCH.ORG.
MANY LISTINGS FOR AUGUSTUS SEELEY, B. SCHAGHTICOKE OR ALBANY OR BOSTON, 1739, AND D. ELISABETHTOWN, LEEDS, ONTARIO, BEFORE 1811. NONE WITH SOURCES. ONLY ONE LISTED A PARENT, FATHER PETER, ON A BOSTON BIRTH LISTING.
36. PETER WILSON COLDHAM, AMERICAN LOYALIST CLAIMS, VOLUME I (WASHINGTON, D.C., 1980).
P. 76. CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, SCHOHARRY, ALBANY CO., N.Y., IN 1775 OVER 100 COMMITTEE MEN INCLUDING ? PETER W. ZIELE ? ASSEMBLED IN A MOB.
P. 439. SEELY, AUSTIN, ARLINGTON, BENNINGTON CO., VT. JOINED ARMY IN 1777 AND SERVED THREE MONTHS IN BURGOYNE?S CAMPAIGN. WAS THEN IMPRISIONED SIX MONTHS; MUCH OF HIS PROPERTY WAS CONFISCATED. MEMORIAL 25 JULY 1786 ARLINGTON. CLAIM: CATTLE. EVIDENCES: DEPOSITION 25 FEB. 1786 ARLINGTON BY ZADOCK HARD AND BENJAMIN BUCK THAT CLAIM IS JUST. REJECTED. (A013/25/436-437).
P. 439. SEELYE, JUSTUS, NEW MILFORD, LITCHFIELD CO., CT. HOUSE CARPENTER; IN 1777, WAS OFFERED COMMISSION AS LT. IN REBEL SERVICE; REUSED AND WAS FINED. IN 1779, WENT TO CANADA WHERE HE JOINED ARMY AND CONTINUED IN SERVICE UNTIL THE PEACE. JULY 1783, LEFT N.Y., AND CAME TO ST. JOHN?S MEMORIAL 7 FEB. 1786 BEAVER HARBOUR. CLAIM: 39 ACRES; NEW SAW MILL; CATTLE, ETC. EVIDENCES: CONVEYANCE 15 FEB. 1773 BY JOSEPH SEELYE OF NEW MILFORD TO CLAIMANT, HIS SON, 39 ACRES AND HOUSE. (A013/21/364-367).
P. 462. SQUIER, RICHARD BURGES, BERKSHIRE CO., MASS. ? DEPOSITION ST. JOHN?S BY SETH SEELY THAT DEC. 1783 ?
37. PETER WILSON COLDHAM, AMERICAN MIGRATIONS, 1765-1799 (BALTIMORE, 2000).
P. 336. SEELY, AUGUSTUS (X) OF SARATOGA, ALBANY CO. CLAIM, NOW OF QUEBEC, 1786, FOR LIVESTOCK AND CROPS. REJECTED. (13/81/370-372).
38. TRYING TO SUPPORT THE REST OF THE FAMILY INFORMATION SINCE NOT MUCH HAS BEEN FOUND. SCHAGHTICOKE, RENSSELAER CO., N.Y., DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH RECORDS ARE PUBLISHED IN PART IN THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, V. 59-65. ONLY MARRIAGES AND BAPTISMS.
RECORD, 59 [1928]: 318, MENTIONED OTHER SURVIVING RECORDS INCLUDE: CONSISTORIAL RECORDS (1751-1841), MEMBERSHIP ROLLS (1751-1866), DEATHS (1835-1868), AND MISCELLANEOUS LOOSE PAPERS. THE MEMBERSHIP ROLLS COULD PROVIDE A CLUE TO WHEN THEY ARRIVED AND PERHAPS FROM WHERE.
RECORD, 59 [1928]: 320, ?THERE ARE NO RECORDS OF MARRIAGES 1771-73.?
LOOKING FOR SOURCE FOR WIFE?S NAME:
RECORD, 61 [1930]: 85:
#1215, AUGUSTIN ZIELE AND MARY BRESBEN, MARY B. 20 OCT. 1774.
#1216, AUGUSTIN ZIELE AND MARY BRESBEN, ELIZEBETH B. 5 FEB. 1776.
RECORD, 61 [1930]: 396:
#1557, AUGUSTUS SEELY AND MARY BRISBEN, ANNY B. 14 APR. 1779.
RECORD, 62 [1931]: 301:
#2194, AUGUSTAN SEELY AND MARY BRISBEN, JOSEPH B. 21 MAY 1783.
#2195, DO, SARAH B. 14 JUNE 1784. [NOTE: CLIENT HAS B. 16 NOV. 1780]
39. VOSBURGH COLLECTION OF CHURCH RECORDS. [NOTE: HE COPIED MEMBERSHIP RECORDS.]
NOTHING FOR SCHAGHTICOKE.
40. WORDEN?S SUBJECT INDEX FOR THE NEW YORK DAR COLLECTION.
NO SEELEY, ZIELE, OR CELY UNDER ANY SUBJECT.
41. BETTYE HOBBS PRUITT, THE MASSACHUSETTS TAX VALUATION LIST OF 1771 (BOSTON, 1978).
[NOTE: MOST, BUT NOT ALL OF MASSACHUSETTS LISTS SURVIVE.]
P. 486, WILLIAMSTOWN: REUBEN SEELYE (1 POLL), EPHRAIM SEELYE (0 POLL).



AUGUSTUS SEELEY CAN BE DOCUMENTS FROM 1774 TO 1784 AS LIKELY LIVING IN OR NEAR TO SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. HE MARRIED MARY BRISBEN (LIKELY BRISBANE) LIKELY IN 1773 WHEN THE CHURCH RECORDS ARE MISSING. THE FAMILY HAD MOVED TO QUEBEC BY 1786 WHEN HE PETITIONED FOR LOSS OF LIVESTOCK AND CROPS IN SARATOGA. THE CLIENT HAS HE IN LANCASTER, GLANGARRY CO., UPPER CANADA, BY 1 SEPT. 1797. HE WAS ENUMERATED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS. THERE IS NO REFERENCE TO HIM AS LIVING AFTER 16 JULY 1804.

AUGUSTUS? MUSTER ROLL SAYS HE WAS BORN IN BOSTON. THERE HAS BEEN NO CONFIRMATION OF THIS FOUND IN BOSTON RECORDS. IT COULD ALSO BE THAT HE WAS FROM A SURROUNDING TOWN AND JUST LISTED THE LARGER KNOWN PLACE. THE OTHER SEELEY FAMILIES IN UPSTATE NEW YORK AROUND HIM SEEM TO BE FROM THE QUEENS CO., N.Y., AREA. THE EARLIEST SEELEY IMMIGRANTS MENTIONED IN ITEM #10 ALL FIT BOTH LOCATIONS. I COLLEAGUE WHO SPECIALIZES IN NEW YORK RESEARCH THAT I CONSULTED SAID HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH A GERMAN ZIELE FAMILY FROM NEW YORK CITY THAT MOVED UP TO POUGHKEEPSIE AND SOMETIMES USED THE NAME SEELEY.

THE FIRST THING TO BE CHECKED IS THE MEMBERSHIP ROLLS OF THE SCHAGHTICOKE CHURCH TO SEE WHEN AUGUSTUS FIRST APPEARS (HOPEFULLY LISTING FROM WHERE) AND WHEN HE LEAVES THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH RECORDS WHICH ARE CONSOLIDATED IN QUEBEC UP TO 1800 (I THINK) SHOULD BE CHECKED FOR THE BIRTH OF THE REST OF AUGUSTUS? CHILDREN. WITHOUT FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION, IT WOULD BE GRASPING AT STRAWS TO RESEARCH OTHER LOCATIONS FOR AUGUSTUS. THAT ONLY LEAVES THE BIGGER TASK OF IDENTIFYING ALL ADULTS IN NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND, AND MASSACHUSETTS LIVING AROUND 1740 AND THEN IDENTIFY THEIR CHILDREN (AND THUS ELIMINATING THEM ONE BY ONE). ANOTHER LONG SHOT IS HOPING AUGUSTUS LEARNED HIS TRADE AS HATTER FROM A MASTER IN BOSTON. I HAVE NOT USED THEM, BUT I KNOW THERE ARE APPRENTICESHIP RECORDS FOR THIS TIME IN THE CITY ARCHIVES. REALIZE THAT IN NEW ENGLAND THIS TYPE OF RECORD WAS NOT NORMALLY A PUBLIC RECORD (LIKE IN THE SOUTH).



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26 JULY 2004


KARL L. WEILER
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DEAR KARL,

I HAVE REVIEWED YOUR EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON THE SUBJECT OF AUGUSTUS SEELEY. THIS REPORT WILL LIST THE GOAL, SUMMARY OF KNOWN FACTS, AND THE ITEMS RESEARCHED WITH THEIR RESULT. REALIZE THAT I DID CHECK A COUPLE OF THE THINGS YOU DID TO SEE IF I NOTICED ANYTHING ELSE. YOU REQUESTED I STOP AFTER 6 HOURS. I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS AND STOPPED AT 7 HOURS. THE REST OF THE TIME WAS WRITING EVERYTHING UP AND THEN ANALYZING IT. THE CONCLUSIONS ARE ON PAGE 7 AND THE TIME TALLY ON PAGE 8. I DISCOUNTED THIS FOR THE LATENESS OF MY REPORT. I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. THIS IS AN INTERESTING CASE!


REGARDS,

DREW BARTLEY


TO DOCUMENT THE BIRTH OF AUGUSTUS SEELEY AND DETERMINE HIS ANCESTRY.

SUMMARY OF FACTS

SEELEY CAN BEEN RECORDED AS CELY, SEALEY, ZIELEY, AND THEIR VARIANT SPELLINGS.

AUGUSTUS SEELEY, PARENTS UNKNOWN, WAS BORN IN SCHAGHTICOKE, RENSSELAER CO., N.Y., ?NEW ENGLAND,? OR BOSTON, MASS., CIRCA 1739 AND DIED LIKELY IN ELIZABETHTOWN, LEEDS CO., ONTARIO, BEFORE 1811. AUGUSTUS MARRIED MARY BRISBIN LIKELY IN OR NEAR ALBANY, ALBANY CO., N.Y., BEFORE 20 OCTOBER 1774.

THEIR CHILDREN LIKELY BORN IN SCHAGHTICOKE, RENSSELAER CO., N.Y., (1-6) AND UPPER CANADA (7-10):
1. MARY SEELEY, B. 20 OCT. 1774.
2. ELIZABETH SEELEY, B. 2 MAY 1776.
3. ANNIE SEELEY, B. 14 APR. 1779.
4. SARAH SEELEY, B. 16 NOV. 1780.
5. JOSEPH SEELEY, B. 21 MAY 1782.
6. JAMES SEELEY, B. CA. 1784.
7. JANE SEELEY, B. CA. 1786.
8. CARY SEELEY, B. CA. 1788.
9. MARGARET SEELEY, B. CA. 1790.
10. RUTH SEELEY, B. CA. 1792.

PREVIOUS CONCLUSIONS

AUGUSTUS SEELEY CAN BE DOCUMENTS FROM 1774 TO 1784 AS LIKELY LIVING IN OR NEAR TO SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. HE MARRIED MARY BRISBEN (LIKELY BRISBANE) LIKELY IN 1773 WHEN THE CHURCH RECORDS ARE MISSING. THE FAMILY HAD MOVED TO QUEBEC BY 1786 WHEN HE PETITIONED FOR LOSS OF LIVESTOCK AND CROPS IN SARATOGA. THE CLIENT HAS HE IN LANCASTER, GLANGARRY CO., UPPER CANADA, BY 1 SEPT. 1797. HE WAS ENUMERATED IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CENSUS. THERE IS NO REFERENCE TO HIM AS LIVING AFTER 16 JULY 1804.

AUGUSTUS? MUSTER ROLL SAYS HE WAS BORN IN BOSTON. THERE HAS BEEN NO CONFIRMATION OF THIS FOUND IN BOSTON RECORDS. IT COULD ALSO BE THAT HE WAS FROM A SURROUNDING TOWN AND JUST LISTED THE LARGER KNOWN PLACE. THE OTHER SEELEY FAMILIES IN UPSTATE NEW YORK AROUND HIM SEEM TO BE FROM THE QUEENS CO., N.Y., AREA. THE EARLIEST SEELEY IMMIGRANTS MENTIONED IN ITEM #10 ALL FIT BOTH LOCATIONS. I COLLEAGUE WHO SPECIALIZES IN NEW YORK RESEARCH THAT I CONSULTED SAID HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH A GERMAN ZIELE FAMILY FROM NEW YORK CITY THAT MOVED UP TO POUGHKEEPSIE AND SOMETIMES USED THE NAME SEELEY.

THE FIRST THING TO BE CHECKED IS THE MEMBERSHIP ROLLS OF THE SCHAGHTICOKE CHURCH TO SEE WHEN AUGUSTUS FIRST APPEARS (HOPEFULLY LISTING FROM WHERE) AND WHEN HE LEAVES THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH RECORDS WHICH ARE CONSOLIDATED IN QUEBEC UP TO 1800 (I THINK) SHOULD BE CHECKED FOR THE BIRTH OF THE REST OF AUGUSTUS? CHILDREN. WITHOUT FURTHER DETAILED INFORMATION, IT WOULD BE GRASPING AT STRAWS TO RESEARCH OTHER LOCATIONS FOR AUGUSTUS. THAT ONLY LEAVES THE BIGGER TASK OF IDENTIFYING ALL ADULTS IN NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND, AND MASSACHUSETTS LIVING AROUND 1740 AND THEN IDENTIFY THEIR CHILDREN (AND THUS ELIMINATING THEM ONE BY ONE). ANOTHER LONG SHOT IS HOPING AUGUSTUS LEARNED HIS TRADE AS HATTER FROM A MASTER IN BOSTON. I HAVE NOT USED THEM, BUT I KNOW THERE ARE APPRENTICESHIP RECORDS FOR THIS TIME IN THE CITY ARCHIVES. REALIZE THAT IN NEW ENGLAND THIS TYPE OF RECORD WAS NOT NORMALLY A PUBLIC RECORD (LIKE IN THE SOUTH).

IMMEDIATE GOAL FOR THIS REPORT

TO FIND ANY PRIMARY DOCUMENT THAT PROVES THAT AUGUSTUS SEELEY WAS IN BOSTON. THE PROVEN EVENTS FOR AUGUSTUS? FAMILY ARE THE FIRST FIVE CHILDREN LISTED IN THE CHURCH RECORDS FROM 1774 TO 1782. THESE CHILDREN ARE ON A FAMILY GROUP SHEET PROVIDED BY THE CLIENT. THERE IS A TIMELINE WITH UNDOCUMENTED EVENTS BEFOREHAND.

IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES, IT WAS COMMON FOR A MAN TO MARRY BETWEEN THE AGES OF 23 TO 25, PLUS OR MINUS 2 YEARS. THE WOMAN WAS USUALLY 20 TO 23, PLUS OR MINUS 2 YEARS. A WOMAN WHO IS CONSTANTLY HAVING CHILDREN WILL NORMALLY HAVE HER LAST CHILD BETWEEN THE AGES OF 43 TO 45. THERE ARE ALWAYS CASES THAT GO OUTSIDE THE NORM. THE CLIENT?S FAMILY GROUP SHEET HAS CHILDREN BEING BORN FROM 1774 TO ABOUT 1792. THE FIRST FEW ARE DOCUMENTED AND FALL WITHIN THE NORMAL AGE FOR AUGUST TO MARRY AT AGE 34 IN 1773. ASSUMING MARY BRISBIN IS A YOUNG 18 IN 1773, SHE WOULD NORMALLY HAVE HER LAST CHILD IN ABOUT 1789. THIS FAMILY SEEMS ON THE SURFACE TO BE FINE, THOUGH AUGUSTUS IS A LITTLE ON THE OLD SIDE FOR STARTING A FAMILY.

THE TIMELINE PRESENTS A DIFFERENT SCENARIO. IT HAS THE COUPLE MARRYING IN 1760 AND CHILDREN FROM 1761 TO 1783. AUGUSTUS WOULD HAVE BEEN 21 AT HIS MARRIAGE, JUST BARELY LEGAL AGE. AGAIN, IF MARY WERE A YOUNG 18 IN 1760, THEN HER LAST CHILD IN 1783 AT AGE 41 IS REASONABLE.

SO WHICH IS RIGHT? BOTH ARE CHRONOLOGICALLY FINE. SINCE I HAVE FOUND NO PRIMARY EVIDENCE OF THE EARLIEST CHILDREN IN THE TIMELINE (MARGARET B. CA. 1761, CARRIE B. CA. 1762, JAMES B. CA. 1765, RUTH B. CA. 1766, AND JANE B. CA. 1771), I WILL FOCUS ON THE TIME PERIOD FROM 1739 TO 1772 TO FIND AUGUSTUS SEELEY IN BOSTON, OR ANY REFERENCE TO ANY SEELEY FAMILY THERE THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE HIS PARENTS.

SOURCES CHECKED

1. INDENTURES, 1734-1805, AT CITY ARCHIVES. [INDENTURES ARE THE CONTRACTS FOR APPRENTICE?SHIPS.]
SINCE AUGUSTUS WAS BORN CIRCA 1739, I STARTED SEARCHING THESE RECORDS FROM 1748 (HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INDENTURED EARLIER) TO 1771.
THESE RECORDS TURNED OUT TO BE INDENTURES OF THE POOR AS CONTRACTED BY THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR OF BOSTON. THERE WERE NO SEELEYS LISTED.
2. BOSTON ASSESSOR?S RECORDS.
CITY ARCHIVES SEARCH FOUND THAT THEY ONLY HAD FROM 1828 TO THE PRESENT.
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY SEARCH FOUND RECORDS FROM 1780 TO 1827. WE CONTINUED SEARCHING TO FIND ANY EVIDENCE OF THEM. WE FOUND A SURVEY IN 1889 THAT SAID THEN THAT THE PRE-1780 TAX RECORDS WERE BURNED IN A FIRE.
3. BOSTON RECORD COMMISSIONER?S REPORTS FOR TOWN RECORDS FOR ANY MENTION OF A SEELEY / CELLY BETWEEN 1739 AND 1770.
V. 13, TOWN RECORDS, 1737-1741 - VOLUME MISSING.
V. 14, TOWN RECORDS, 1742-1757 - NOTHING.
V. 16, TOWN RECORDS, 1758-1769 - NOTHING.
V. 18, TOWN RECORDS, 1770-1777 - NOTHING.
V. 19, SELECTMEN?S MINUTES, 1754-1763 - NOTHING.
V. 20, SELECTMEN?S MINUTES, 1764-1768 - P. 299: ?MR. BURDICH CONSTABLE OF TOWN HOUSE WATCH PRESENTED JOHN SELEY AS A SUITABLE PERSON FOR A WATCHMAN IN THE ROOM OF ICHABOD WILLISTON WHO NEGLECTS THE WATCH.? [DATED 29 JUNE 1768]
V. 23, SELECTMEN?S MINUTES, 1769-1775 - NOTHING.
V. 29, MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS - P. 133: ROBTE SEELY (FREEMAN LIST, 1630); P. 169: RICHD. SEELY (FREEMEN LIST, 1679); P. 244: LIST OF THE PASSENGERS ON BOARD THE BRIGG ELIZABETH: (UNDER SHIPES COMPANY IN THE STURAGE) JOHN SEALY [DATED 24 AUG. 1762].
4. ANNIE HAVEN THWING, ?INHABITANTS AND ESTATES OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON, 1630-1800?
CEELEY, SARAH, INT. M. 7 MAR. 1721/2, TO JOHN AUGER.
SEALE, GEORGE, M. 24 DEC. 1747, TO MARGARET WILSON.
SEALEY, AGNES, D. 1697.
SEALLY / SELLY / SELLEY, JOHN & MARGARET HAD RICHARD (1667), JOHN (1670), MARGARET (1673).
SEALLY / SELLY, JOHN & LYDIA HAD HANNAH (1693/4), JOHN (1695/6).
SEALY, DORCAS, M. INT. 15 OCT. 1696, TO JAMES SHARP.
SEALY / ZEELY, JOHN, IN 1674 APPEARS ON TAX LIST UNDER GREENWOOD.
SEELE, FEARNOT & BETHIA HAD EBENEZER (1695).
SELEY, ABIGAIL, M. 28 MAY 1735, TO ZECHARIAH THAYER OF BRAINTREE.
SELLEY, EDWARD, M. 15 MAR. 1749 AT KING?S CHAPEL TO ELIZABETH SOUTER.
SELLY, DORCAS, M. 2 JUNE 1698, TO GEORGE COURTNEY.
SELLY, JOHN, M. 23 SEPT. 1700, TO SARAH GORY; THEY HAD ABIGAIL (1703).
[NOTE: NO DEEDS OR PROBATE RECORDS LISTED FOR ANY SPELLING.]

CONCLUSION

OTHER THAN THE MUSTER ROLL GIVING AUGUSTUS SEELEY?S BIRTH PLACE AS BOSTON, THERE IS NOTHING ELSE THAT SUPPORTS A FAMILY LIVING IN BOSTON AT THE TIME NEEDED TO BE HIS PARENTS, I.E. 1739. THE ONLY OTHER LOGICAL CONCLUSION IS THAT HE LIVED IN SOME SMALL BUT NEARBY TOWN TO BOSTON AND JUST LISTED THE LARGEST PLACE NEAR HIM IN THE MUSTER ROLL. THE PRESENCE OF THE SEELEY NAME NORTH OF BOSTON EARLY ON (AS MENTIONED IN THE FIRST REPORT) IS THE OBVIOUS STARTING POINT TO IDENTIFYING AUGUSTUS SEELEY?S PARENTAGE.


3.25 09:30-12:45, 16 JULY 2004 [CITY ARCHIVES]
1.00 15:45-16:45, 26 JULY 2004 [BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY]
0.75 18:00-18:45, 26 JULY 2004 [SELECTMEN AND TOWN RECORDS]
1.25 19:45-21:00, 26 JULY 2004 [COMPILING, ANALYZING]
6.25 HRS.
X$40
$250.00
+ 57.50 PREVIOUSLY DUE
$307.50 TOTAL DUE
-307.50 CH #6763 DEPOSITED ON 16 JULY 2004
$ 00.00 TOTAL DUE

AUGUSTUS married MARY (SARAH) BRISBIN (BRISBANE) in 1775 in ALBANY, ALBANY, NEW YORK. MARY (daughter of JAMES BRISBIN and MARGARET CARRUTH) was born in 1740 in SCHAGHTICOKE, RENSSELAER, NEW YORK. [Group Sheet]