Thomas Seymour immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Birth
Thomas Seymour was baptized on July 15, 1632, in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Seymour and Mercy Ruscoe.[1][2]
Emigration
Thomas came to New England with his parents about 1638/39, at the age of six.[1][3]
Life in New England
Thomas was also a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut. He served as a deputy of the General Assembly of the Connecticut Colony from Norwalk in the May 1690 session. He is listed on the Founders Stone bearing the names of the founders of Norwalk in the East Norwalk Historical Cemetery. [4]
He lived in Hartford until about 1651, when he moved to Norwalk with his parents. In 1655, his father died, and he was the only one among his siblings who was of age. His mother soon remarried and removed to Farmington with her younger children.[1]
Thomas inherited his father's lands in Norwalk, where he lived until his death. Records show the family in Norwalk in 1673.[5]
Marriages
Thomas married first Hannah Marvin on 5 Jan 1654 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut.[1][6][7]
He married second Sarah (___), the widow of Thomas Wildman, between 1690-1697.[8]
↑ Hall, Edwin, The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut: With a Plan of the Ancient Settlement, and of the Town in 1847. J. Mallory & Company, 1847 - Norwalk (Conn.) p182. NOTE: erroneous citation. The citation this page lists some of the children of Thomas and in no way references his arrival.
↑ Connecticut, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
↑ Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
↑ Hall, Edwin, The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut: With a Plan of the Ancient Settlement, and of the Town in 1847. J. Mallory & Company, 1847 - Norwalk (Conn.) p 181
↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Errata, 1:7:717, (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1939), image 137 of 210, p. 717 at HathiTrust.org.
↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Errata, 1:7:717, (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1939), image 137 of 210, p. 717 at HathiTrust.org.
Page 181: "Thos. Seamer, the Sonne of Rich'd Seamer, of Norwake, tooke to wiffe, Hannaih Marvin, the daughter of Math. Marvin of the same, January, 1653."
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thomas by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Denny Seymour :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-BY3298, FTDNA kit #108347 +
Y-Chromosome Test 419 markers, haplogroup R-Y20344
This person immigrated to New England between 1621-1640 as a Minor Child (under age 21 at time of immigration) of a Puritan Great Migration immigrant who is profiled in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory (or is otherwise accepted by the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project).
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Heather, I just got the book at archive.org (guess I got lucky when I signed up for it this AM, so I will check these things. Anything else to check on this family while I have it?
Does A History of the Seymour Family list and/or provide details on his children? It's on archive.org but there's a waiting list at the moment (I joined it). https://archive.org/details/historyofseymour00jaco
His parents are first documented as established in New England 1639, it is probable the arrival was up to several years earlier. Some sources give arrival as early as 1635.
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