Richard Seymour

Bef 1605 - 1655  (> 50 years)

• Name	Richard Seymour
  Birth	Bef 27 Jan 1605  [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	27 Jan 1605	Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Jul 1655 and 10 Oct 1655	Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I19385	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Seymour,   b. Bef 30 Nov 1573   d. Bef 23 Aug 1637 (Age < 63 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Waller,   b. Bef 12 Dec 1578
  Marriage	14 Nov 1603	Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England   [5]
  Family ID	F11687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mercy Ruscoe,   b. Abt 1610
  Marriage	18 Apr 1631	Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Richard Seymour,   b. Abt 1645, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 29 Nov 1710, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F11686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Very likely a follower of the Rev. Thomas Hooker. First appears in 1639 as a proprietor and inhabitant of Hartford. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. Removed to Norwalk in late 1650.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2526] A History of the Seymour Family: Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, for Six Generations by Donald Lines Jacobus, with George Dudley Seymour, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, and Seymour Morris. New Haven, Connecticut, 1939. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32., year and place only. [S2527] George D. Seymour, "The English Home and Ancestry of Richard Seamer or Semer of Hartford, Conn." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 71:105, 1917.