She was born in Stamford in 1778, the daughter of Abijah and Lydia (Hoyt) Seely.[1] She was the first wife of Jacob Howe. They were married in 1798. She died about 1816 after giving birth to 8 children.[2][3]
Sarah (b-1799) married Stevens
John (b-1801)
Elizabeth (b-1803) married Wood
Lydia (b-1805) married Berthoff
Edward (b-1809)
Henry (b-1811)
Harriet (b-1814) married Mitchell
Mary (b-1816)
She passed away about 1816.
Sources
↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
↑Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Genealogies of Abraham of Roxbury, James of Ipswich, Abraham of Marlborough and Edward of Lynn, Massachusetts", Vol. 2, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.454-55.
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