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--- book:i461.mary_ledyard [2014/10/04 11:57] – created jims
+++ book:i461.mary_ledyard [2018/02/18 12:36] (current) – jims
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+====== Mary (Ledyard) Seymour (1735-1807), Wife of The First Mayor ======
 {{mary_ledyard.jpg|Mary (Ledyard) Seymour (1735-1807), Wife of the First Mayor}}
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 **MARY (LEDYARD) SEYMOUR (1735-1807), WIFE OF THE FIRST MAYOR**
-//This is a placeholder page added on 4 Oct 2014.
+Daughter of John Ledyard, Esq., of New London and Hartford; wife of Thomas
-It will be filled in later when the relevant page(s) are scanned.
+Seymour, First Mayor of Hartford; sister of the gallant Col. William Ledyard,
-If you would like to see it sooner, please [[contact me]].  --jds//
+the "Hero of Fort Griswold" in 1781; aunt of John Ledyard, the traveller;
+mother of Capt. Thomas Youngs Seymour, the "Beau Sabreur of Saratoga"; mother of
+Major Henry Seymour of Hartford; mother of Mary Juliana Seymour, the famous
+beauty of Hartford of her time; grandmother of Thomas Hart Seymour, the "Hero of
+Chapultepec," U.S. Minister to Russia, and Governor of Connecticut. The canvas
+deposited in the Connecticut Historical Society, 1885, by her granddaughter,
+Mary Ellery Seymour, of New Orleans. The companion picture of her husband, the
+First Mayor, has long since disappeared.
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