Joseph Seeley UEL (1743 - abt. 1804)

Born 1743 in New Milford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Tupper) Seeley — married 24 Jan 1764 in Bennington, Vermont

Descendants

Died about 1804 at about age 61 in Marlborough, Grenville, Upper Canada

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Joseph Seeley UEL was a Connecticuter.

Joseph Seeley was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

Biography

According to his children's Upper Canada Land Petitions, Joseph is of Augusta, District of Lunenburg

Joseph is on the 1804 census of Marlborough, Grenville, Upper Canada with daughter Keziah, but he is not there in 1805. So ASSUME he possibly died.

Sources

Marriage and Birth of Children

Joseph Seeley, Jr of New Milford married Mercy Tupper of Sailsbury, January 24, 1764

Children of: Joseph Seeley Jr and Mercy

Justus Seeley born Feb 4, 1766

Charlotte Seeley born May 7, 1767

New Milford, Connecticut Vital Records

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1789 Upper Canada Land Petition

Memorial of Joseph Seelye, late soldier in the Loyal Rangers

most humbly sheweth that in the year 1776 he was employed to bring men on their way to New York and there deliver to other aids appointed for that purpose that they might get past the Rebel lines to his Majesty's troops. In this service your Memorialist remained from September 1776 until January 1777, during which time he engaged and sent a number of men to the Kings troops. The 9th January 1777 your memorialist was taken prisoner and committed to Litchfield Goal where he remained four weeks and was brought to trial and sentenced to be in Simsbury Mine for the term of two years, when he and another Loyalist set fire to the upper works in the night and escaped the 23rd of May.

Your Memorialist then made his way to Crown lines and joined Col. Peters with a number of men whom he brought in and with them served faithfully during the war which the officers of the Regiments can certify.

Your Memorialist is an old man with a family and has drawn but one hundred acres of land; although he brought 25 men to the King and service who served faithfully. Your Memorialist therefore humbly prays your Honour will be please to represent his case to his Excellency the Right Hon, the commander in Chief.

Your Memorialist as in duty bound shall ever pray. Joseph Seelye

Upon examining into the merits and pretentions of the above Memorialist, it is our opinion that he is an object worthy of His Excellency Lord Dorcheshiers notice, and do therefore beg leave to recommend him for four hundred acres of additional land, exclusive of one hundred, which he has already received. Signed: Richard Duncan, John Mumo, Timothy Sherwood

Dated at Edwardsburgh, 25th June 1789

Library and Archives Canada Film C-2832, Volume 493A, Bundle SMisc 1788-1794, Petition 54 (starts on page 154/1231)

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UK American Loyalist Claims for a Joseph Seily

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Descendants of Robert Seeley (1602-1667) and Obadiah Seeley (1614-1657) Generations One Through Five by The Seeley Genealogical Society - Compiled by Madeline M. Mills & Katherine M. Olsen, page 46

281. Joseph SEELYE (b 1743, New Milford, CT)m 24 Jan 1764, Bennington, VT, Mary Tupper (b 4 Dec 1745) of Salisbury, CT. Daughter of Thomas and Ruth Owen Tupper.

The Loyalists in Ontario (OC = Order in Council - when applicants received their land from Upper Canada Land Petitions)

Sealey, Joseph of Augusta. His children:

Mary married Joseph Faulkiner of Elizabethtown, October 1792. OC 5 Nov 1799 ERROR: Mary Seeley who marries Joseph Falkner is dtr of Augustus Seeley.

Kezia married Shubel Seelye of Elizabethtown. OC 9 July 1802

Charlotte married Oliver Sweet of Augusta. OC 17 March 1836.

Loyalists in Ontario

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1803 Return of Inhabitants of the River Rideau, County of Grenville (Upper Canada)

no Seeleys

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1804 Return of Inhabitants for Marlborough, County of Grenville (Upper Canada)

Joseph Seelye age 60

Cosiah Seelye age 28

Olive Seelye age 14

Metilda Seelye age 10

Viana Seelye age 4

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1805 Return of Inhabitants for Marlborough, County of Grenville (Upper Canada)

John Bullis age 23

Coziah Bullis age 30

Matilda Sealy age 11

Lists of Inhabitants in the Townships of Wolford, Oxford, Marlborough & Montague, in the County of Grenville (Upper Canada), was done in 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 & 1807.

Book accessed at the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Shepard, James. The Tories of Connecticut, The Connecticut Magazine (Connecticut Magazine Co., 1898) Vol. 4, Page 146.