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--- book:001.richard [2007/06/30 14:48] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ book:001.richard [2013/05/19 12:30] (current) – jims
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 Richard Seymour,
-though not an original proprietor, was one of the early settlers of
+though not an original proprietor, was one of the [[hartford|early settlers of
-Hartford. Just when he joined the little settlement near "Dutch
+Hartford]]. Just when he joined the little settlement near "Dutch
 Point" on the Connecticut river we do not know, but probably in
 , when we find his name in the list of those "inhabitants
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 the marriage took place in Farmington, rather than in Norwalk, where
 Mercy lived. It was very common then for the man to record his
-marriage where //he //lived, for
+marriage where //he// lived, for
 obvious reasons connected with inheritance. The apparent precipitancy
 of the marriage of Richard's widow to John Steele may be remarked
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 dearth of available women, to marry her and bring her back from
 Norwalk and her Ruscoe relatives there, with her three younger sons?
-Can she be blamed if it be considered who he was -"his place in
+Can she be blamed if it be considered who he was -- "his place in
-the sun" - to have made a "marriage of convenience,"
+the sun" -- to have made a "marriage of convenience,"
 if such it was, though we can only speculate on that matter.
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 standard spelling of the name seems to have been generally accepted.
-<file>
+<blockquote>
-         [The will of Richar]d Semer (1655)
+[The will of Richar]d Semer (1655)\\
-         [             ] being very week & sike [           ] gods pon[?]
+[             ] being very week & sike [           ] gods pon[?]\\
-      mercy in [           ] doe leve this as my [             ] doe first
+mercy in [           ] doe leve this as my [             ] doe first\\
-      will and [  ] dust of w<sup>eh</sup> it was [//made //and my soul into the]
+will and [  ] dust of w<sup>eh</sup> it was [//made //and my soul into the]\\
-      hands of God that gave it [and I doe will and] bequeath unto my Loving wife
+hands of God that gave it [and I doe will and] bequeath unto my Loving wife\\
-      Mercy [Seamor] my whole Estate: viz: my house & Lands Cattle and [all]
+Mercy [Seamor] my whole Estate: viz: my house & Lands Cattle and [all]\\
-      my moveables: Except that it is my Will that [my] Eldest sonn Thomas should
+my moveables: Except that it is my Will that [my] Eldest sonn Thomas should\\
-      have two steeres [  ] year old and upward and my best cartt:
+have two steeres [  ] year old and upward and my best cartt:\\
-      thease [to] receive soen after my decease:
+thease [to] receive soen after my decease:
-         It is alsoe my will that my other three sons John & Zachary [and] Richard
-      receive out of this Totall estate the sum of forty pounds each of them viz:
-      fourty pounds to John and fourty pounds to Zachary and forty pounds to
-      Richard: duly and faythiully to be payd to them severally at the age of twenty-
-      one years: Unles the Executo<sup>rs</sup> of this my Will shall see cause to doe it soener:
-      It is alsoe my Will that my loving wife should have the dispose of my three
-      sons John Zachary & Richard untill such time as they shall be fit to receive and
-      dispose of ther Estate: It is alsoe my will and apoyntment that my loving Wife
-      Mercy: togather with my faythfull freind Richard Olmsted be the sole Executo<sup>rs</sup>
-      and Administrato<sup>rs</sup> of this my Last Will and Testament the aforesaid Legasies
-      and all Lawfull debts and demands duly discharged by my loving wife Mercy:
-      It is my will that shee posses and enioy all the rest of my Estate. to this my
-      will and Testament I have set to my hand this 29th July 1655:
-         In the presence of us
-      Thomas Handford                              the marke of Richard //f// Seamer
-      Jno Rescoe
-octobar 1655
+It is alsoe my will that my other three sons John & Zachary [and] Richard\\
-         The Court haveing examined the will of Richard Seamor they doe approve
+receive out of this Totall estate the sum of forty pounds each of them viz:\\
-      therof
+fourty pounds to John and fourty pounds to Zachary and forty pounds to\\
-                                                   William Hill: Secretary
+Richard: duly and faythiully to be payd to them severally at the age of twenty-\\
-</file>
+one years: Unles the Executo<sup>rs</sup> of this my Will shall see cause to doe it soener:\\
+It is alsoe my Will that my loving wife should have the dispose of my three\\
+sons John Zachary & Richard untill such time as they shall be fit to receive and\\
+dispose of ther Estate: It is alsoe my will and apoyntment that my loving Wife\\
+Mercy: togather with my faythfull freind Richard Olmsted be the sole Executo<sup>rs</sup>\\
+and Administrato<sup>rs</sup> of this my Last Will and Testament the aforesaid Legasies\\
+and all Lawfull debts and demands duly discharged by my loving wife Mercy:\\
+It is my will that shee posses and enioy all the rest of my Estate. to this my\\
+will and Testament I have set to my hand this 29th July 1655:
+In the presence of us\\
+Thomas Handford                              the marke of Richard //f// Seamer\\
+Jno Rescoe
+octobar 1655\\
+The Court haveing examined the will of Richard Seamor they doe approve\\
+therof
+William Hill: Secretary
+</blockquote>
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 | In bookes | [01-00-00] |
 | In armes and ammunition | [03-02-00] |
-| |  ----  |
+| |  ---- |
 | Totall | [255-09-00] |
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 | 5. | vi. | [[005.Richard|RICHARD]], b. at Hartford, Conn. |
-\\
+\\ [[english_origin|(<-- The English Origin)]] [[start|(Back to Start)]] [[002.thomas|(2. Thomas(2) Seymour -->)]]
-[[english_origin|(<-- The English Origin)]] [[start|(Back to Start)]] [[002.thomas|(2. Thomas(2) Seymour -->)]]