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 ====== 215. Lot Norton Seymour ======
-. LOT NORTON<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR
+. LOT NORTON<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR (//[[116.noah|Noah]]//<sup>6</sup>,
-(//[[116.noah|Noah]]//<sup>6</sup>,
+//[[060.william|William]]//<sup>5</sup>, //[[020.john|John]]//<sup>4</sup>,
-//[[060.william|William]]//<sup>5</sup>,
+//[[008.john|John]]//<sup>3</sup>, //[[003.john|John]]//<sup>2</sup>,
-//[[020.john|John]]//<sup>4</sup>,
+//[[001.richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>), born at New Hartford, Conn., 3 Mar.
-//[[008.john|John]]//<sup>3</sup>,
+, died there 27 Oct. 1844; married at New Hartford, 26 Feb. 1812, BELINDA
-//[[003.john|John]]//<sup>2</sup>,
+SPENCER, born at Bristol, 4 June 1792, died at Springfield, Mass., 19 Nov. 1873,
-//[[001.richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>),
+daughter of Henry and Eunice (Alling).
-(put the rest here)
-^ Children: ^^^^
+In personal appearance Lot Norton Seymour was tall, spare, with very black hair
-| 295 | i. | [[295.ralph_cowles|RALPH COWLES]]<sup>8</sup>, b. 26 Dec. 1812. ||
+and eyes, and had a dark complexion. He was a farmer and millwright, but seems
-| | ii. | HARRIET ADELINE, ... ||
+to have devoted more time to his books than to either his farm or mill, and more
-| 296 | iii. | [[296.henry_albert|HENRY ALBERT]], b. 22 Jan. 1818. ||
+time to religion than to his books. He was a man of a sensitive, emotional and
+religious nature, and left behind him the record of a singularly pure and
+blameless life. He had a remarkable memory, and committed the entire poem of
+"Paradise Lost" to memory; his memorization of the poem was so perfect that he
+could recite all or any part of it. Even Lord Macauley, distinguished as he was
+for feats of memorization, was proud of having memorized "Paradise Lost."
+Whether our New England student of Milton would have been better occupied
+tilling his stony farm than with his volume of Milton, is an open question which
+no one need decide.
-\\
+Belinda (Spencer) Seymour, his wife, was also tall, of dark complexion, and had
-[[214.ebenezer|(<-- 214. (Rev.) Ebenezer(7) Seymour)]] [[start|(Back to Start)]] [[216.lauren|(216. Lauren(7) Seymour -->)]]
+piercing black eyes. Her father, Henry Spencer, had marched as a boy with a
+company of Wallingford men to repel the British troops at New London. She was a
+woman of keen mind, great energy, had a trenchant and sarcastic way of speaking,
+and in her later years was a constant reader and greatly interested in public
+affairs. It was natural to a man of his temperament and idealism to break away
+from the political faith of his family just as he broke away from its religious
+faith, at least to the extent of abjuring CalVID1Sm. He became imbued with the
+principles of Jefferson, and transferred his allegiance to the Democrats, and in
+that small community and in a strong Federalist family, may be said to have
+"suffered accordingly." The author has his copy of Jefferson's works in four
+volumes. Ultimately he became affiliated with the Whig party.
+His granddaughter Mrs. Vadakin recalled him as "a very kindhearted man, always
+good to the children, taking us to long rambles over the fields with him,-that
+is, myself and Aunt Harriet, we taking turns in being carried on his back when
+we were too tired. He was tall and spare and very erect. I was never allowed to
+visit him on the Sabbath until almost dark, and then I would go out and look in
+at his bedroom window, and he would smile and I would run around the house and
+go in and be greeted very lovingly." At one time, earlier in life, he built
+carding machines, traveling about the state to erect them; and mechanics were
+more congenial to him than farming. "He had no music in him; he said the babies
+would rather go to sleep than hear him try to sing." He prayed very loud,
+doubtless because of his deafness. "When Uncle Alborn was buried, he rose in the
+church and exhorted sinners to believe." -- much to the embarrassment of his
+wife and family, but there was no doubt of his sincerity and zeal. "He delighted
+to entertain the circuit ministers. I think his last years were mostly concerned
+with the life to come."
+Mrs. Maria (Watson) Pinney, granddaughter of "Squire" Chauncey Seymour of New
+Hartford, lived there as a little girl, and remembered Lot Norton Seymour very
+well. She recalled him as dark and thin and very deaf. He was very pious and led
+the neighborhood meetings in prayer. On account of his deafness, he did not
+always know when to stop, and sometimes kept on after the next man had begun.
+His wife, Mrs. Pinney thought, was not at all pious, and unappreciative of his
+genius for godliness, but a woman of unusual executive capacity.
+^ Children: ^^^
+| 295. | i. | [[295.ralph_cowles|RALPH COWLES]]<sup>8</sup>, b. 26 Dec. 1812. |
+| | ii. | HARRIET ADELINE, b. 20 Dec. 1814; d. 22 Apr. 1817 ae, 2. |
+| 296. | iii. | [[296.henry_albert|HENRY ALBERT]], b. 22 Jan. 1818. |
+| | iv. | ALBORN A., b. 6 Oct. 1820; d. 23 Nov. 1842 ae. 22, drowned in the Farmington River; buried at Nepaug in the old yard by the Nepash. |
+| | v. | HARRIET JANE, b. 11 July 1831; d. 27 May 1871; m. 11 June 1854[?], ELISHA E.<sup>7</sup> HAWLEY, b. 11 June 1830, d. at Fair Haven, Conn., 7 Dec. 1878, s. of Eleazer<sup>6</sup> //(Elisha<sup>5</sup>, Samuel<sup>4</sup> Joseph<sup>3</sup>, Samuel<sup>2</sup>, Joseph<sup>1</sup>)// and Lavinia (Fox). On 21 Sept. 1872 he m. (2) Frances D. Harrington, b. 10 Feb. 1835, dau. of Stewart and Rosanna (Robinson). A resident of Winsted, Conn. |
+The author cannot forbear to insert here a tribute to his Aunt Harriet, a tall,
+angular, plain, old-fashioned woman, pleasant spoken and with singularly
+ingratiating manners. My father, her brother, was very fond of her, and was much
+opposed to her marriage to Mr. Hawley, who, he felt, was not good enough for his
+sister.
+\\ [[214.ebenezer|(<-- 214. (Rev.) Ebenezer(7) Seymour)]] [[start|(Back to Start)]] [[216.lauren|(216. Lauren(7) Seymour -->)]]