SEAVEY, William Sr.
1601 - 1686 (84 years)Set As Default Person
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Name SEAVEY, William [1] Suffix Sr. Birth 25 Oct 1601 Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England Gender Male Occupation Fisherman Residence 1632 Seavey's Creek, Portsmouth, N.H. (now Rye, N.H.) Hog Island, Isles of Shoals - 1632. Death 1686 Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA - * no mention after 1684, son a Jr. in 1686 and not a Jr. in 1687.
Patriarch & Matriarch SEAVEY, Henry Zevie, b. 16 Jul 1566, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England d. 1607, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England (Age 40 years) (Father)
BARON, Helen, b. Abt 1570, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England (Mother)Person ID I19050 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father SEAVEY, Henry Zevie, b. 16 Jul 1566, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England d. 1607, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England (Age 40 years) Relationship natural Mother BARON, Helen, b. Abt 1570, Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England Relationship natural Family ID F13324 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Elizabeth or Mary d. Bef 1679 Children 1. SEAVEY, William, b. 1648, Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 31 Jan 1733, Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 85 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. SEAVEY, Elizabeth, b. 1652 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. SEAVEY, John, b. 1654 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 4. Living Family ID F13321 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Family ID F13310 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Event Map Birth - 25 Oct 1601 - Stokeinteignhead, Devon, England Death - 1686 - Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Documents At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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Notes - Partner in fishing business with Stephen Crawford.
Related to Thomas Seavey (c1627-1707).
According to Stackpole:
WILLIAM SEAVEY, aged about 75 years, deposed, 3 Sept. 1676, that he came as a fisherman to the Isles of Shoals "about a year before Capt. Neale went from this country for England." He came, then, in 1632. He was constable at the Isles of Shoals in 1656 and a Selectman in Portsmouth in 1657, where he was living in 1682. He had a grant of 50 acres in what is now Rye, N. H., in 1652 and bought land there, in 1669, of Jane Drake, widow of William Berry. This land is still owned by Seavey's descendants. His wife's name is thought to have been Mary."[2]
The following is from Parsons:
William Seavey, sent from England in 1631 to the Piscataquqa[sic] settlement by Captain John Mason. He was a selectman and otherwise of some consequence in the settlement. In 1660, he was William the elder. He died about 1688.[3] - William Seavey, immigrant SEAVEY ancestor, was born about 1600 in England, and was sent over by Captain John Mason to New Hampshire in 1631 or 1632 and settled in Portsmouth and Rye, where he died in 1688. In 1660 he was called "the elder," and in 1657 was selectman of the town of Rye. He was constable at the Isle 'of Shoals in 1655. The name of his wife is unknown. He was engaged much of the time in fishing, and acquired a large property, the inventory of which amounted to 631 pounds seven shillings eight pence. He left a widow Elizabeth. Children: 1. William Jr., born 1640; mentioned below. 2. John, born 1650; married, July 29, 1686, Hannah Walker, widow of Joseph, and daughter of John Philbrick. 3. Thomas, died March 15, 1708, at Newcastle, New Hampshire, was of the Isle of Shoals 1663. 4. Stephen. 5. Elizabeth, married Odiorne.
(II) William Seavey, son of William Seavey (1), born in 1640. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, died 1733. He married
Hannah , born 1663. died January 31,
1748. William Seavey was on the grand jury in 1682, and surveyor in 1683. At a proprietors' meeting in 1728 he desired to be excused by reason of age and infirmity from any further service in laying out lands. His will was dated March 25, 1728-29, proved June, 1733. His widow's will, dated September 10, 1741, proved February 28. 1748, bequeathed to sons Stephen, James and Ebenezer, and children of son Thomas. One of his possessions was a negro woman, a slave. Children, born at Rye, New Hampshire: 1. Children: 1. William (3d), married Mary Hicks, who died 1744, and second, September 25, 1748, Hannah Seavey. 2. Hannah, married Samuel Wells. 3. Hepzibah, married Thomas Wright. 4. Mary, born 1704; married Captain Samuel Banfield, who died 1743; she died 1753. 5. Thomas (twin of Ebenezer), removed to Scarborough. 6. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 7. Stephen, married Mary True, widow.
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston ..., Volume 2 (1908), p. 789
edited by William Richard Cutter
- Partner in fishing business with Stephen Crawford.
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Sources - [S3075] Ancestry.com, History of the town of Rye, New Hampshire : from its discovery and settlement to December 31, 1903, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;).
History of the town of Rye, New Hampshire : from its discovery and settlement to December 31, 1903
- [S3075] Ancestry.com, History of the town of Rye, New Hampshire : from its discovery and settlement to December 31, 1903, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;).