Seeley Genealogy

Spouse:    Grace PRETT
Burial:       5 Nov 1635, Bluntisham Cum Earith, Huntingdon, England
Marr:        30 Sep 1584, Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, England

Children:  Robert (ca 1601-<1667)

(2) Robert SEELEY
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Birth:       ca 1601/1602, St John Huntingdon, England
Bapt:        4 Jul 1602, St. John Parish, Huntingdon, England
Death:      bef 11 Oct 1667, New York, NY
Burial:      Elizabeth, Union, NJ
Occ:         Surveyor, Leather Sealer, Shoemaker, Investor

Spouse:    Mary Heath MASON
Birth:        London, England
Death:       ca 1651, New Haven Colony, CT
Marr:        15 Dec 1626, St Stephens Church, Coleman St., London, England

Children:  Nathaniel (1627-1675)

Other spouses Mary (Manning) WALKER

Notes:  Born in England,  Robert Seely was apprenticed in the Cordwainers (shoemaker) Company, London 10 March 1623 to serve seven years but was freed between 1Aug 1626 and 17 July 1627.  He lived in Watertown, NY in 1631; lived in Wethersfield, CT in 1635; was a citizen of New Haven in 1639; and died in Huntington, L.I. NY in 1668. Deputy from Huntington, LI to the CT Legislature in May 1664.
 

(3) Nathaniel SEELEY
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Birth:       16 Sep 1627, England
Bapt:        1 May 1627, St. Stephen's Church, London, England
Death:      19 Dec 1675, Naragansett, Newport, Rhode Island
Burial:      Fairfield, Fairfield, CT

Spouse:    Mary TURNEY
Birth:        ca 1631, Hollingdon, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Death:       bef 1674
Bapt:         16 Sep 1631, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Father:      Benjamin TURNEY (ca1599-1648)
Mother:     Mary ODELL (1605-1659)
Marr:        16 Oct 1649, Fairfield, Fairfield, CT

Children:  Lieut. Nathaniel (ca1650-1687)
                 Robert (ca 1653-1690)
                 Benjamin (ca 1658-ca 1696)
                 Joseph (ca 1660-1732)
                 John (ca 1661-1710)
                 Mary (1663-)
                 Sarah (1665-1711)
                 Phebe (ca 1668-)
                 Rebecca (1674-)

Other spouses Elizabeth ( BURR) GILBERT
 

(4) Lieut. Nathaniel SEELEY
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Birth:         ca 1650, New Haven, New Haven, CT
Death:        28 Mar 1687/1688, Fairfield, Fairfield, CT

Spouse:     Hannah BENNETT   (Probably)
Birth:         ca 1654, Fairfield, Fairfield, CT
Father:       James BENNITT (Or BENNETT) (1618-1659)
Mother:     Hannah WHEELER (1617-)
Marr:         ca 1677, Fairfield, Fairfield, CT

Children:  Nathaniel (1678-1703)
                 James (1681-ca 1729)
                 Hannah (1683-)
                 Ebenezer (1686-1717)

Notes:  He settled in Fairfield as early as 1657, and was killed in King Philip's War in Naragensett, Newport Co. RI in 1675.
 

(5) Hannah SEELEY
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Birth:        10 Jul 1683, Fairfield, Fairfield, CT
Bapt:         5 Jul 1696, Fairfield, Fairfield, CT

Spouse:    Jacob GRAY (Or GREY)
Birth:        10 Dec 1681, Fairfield, Fairfield, CT
Bapt:         5 Jun 1726, Greenfield, Fairfield, CT
Death:       26 Dec 1742, Greenfield, Fairfield, CT
Father:      Jacob GRAY (Or GREY) Sr. (-1712)
Mother:     Sarah (BARTRAM) ---
Marr:         ca 1702

Children:  Hannah (ca 1703-)
                 Nathaniel (ca 1704-1742)
                 Sarah (ca 1706-1784)
                 John (ca 1708-1755)
                 James (1710-1778)
                 Jacob (ca 1712-1776)
                 Rebecca (ca 1714-1778)
                 Eunice (ca 1716-)
                 Mary (1718-) 

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