William Seymour (1775 - 1848)

Born 1775 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Died 1848 at about age 73 in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States

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Biography

William Seymour (1775-1848) was a U.S. Congressman from New York in the 24th Congress (1835-1837).^[1]

Rep. Seymour was born 22 Feb 1775 in Connecticut. He died 28 December 1848 in Binghamton, New York. He was interred in Binghamton Cemetery and reinterred in Glenwood Cemetery.^[2]

Research notes

William was born 22 February 1775, the son of David Seymour and Achsa Welton (daughter of Stephen and Abigail Baldwin Welton). He married 1) Polly Andrews (b. at Oquaga, NY; daughter of Levi and Mary Judd Andrews), 2) Esther Beecher (who died in 1823), and 3) Phebe Warner.^[3]

William was Justice of the Peace for Windsor 1812-1828; Judge of County Court 1833; a Democratic Congressman 1835-1837; he had five children.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000272
2. ↑ https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000272
3. ↑ p. 182, A History of the Seymour Family: Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, for six generations; with extensive amplification of the lines deriving from his son John Seymour of Hartford. by Jacobus, Donald Lines etal. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1939. via https://archive.org/details/historyofseymour00jaco/page/182/mode/2up
4. ↑ p. 182, A History of the Seymour Family: Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, for six generations; with extensive amplification of the lines deriving from his son John Seymour of Hartford. by Jacobus, Donald Lines etal. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1939. via https://archive.org/details/historyofseymour00jaco/page/182/mode/2up

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7257810/william-seymour
• https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000272
• A History of the Seymour Family: Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, for six generations; with extensive amplification of the lines deriving from his son John Seymour of Hartford. by Jacobus, Donald Lines etal. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1939. via https://archive.org/details/historyofseymour00jaco/page/182/mode/2up

Acknowledgments

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