The Family of Jonathan and Mary Elizabeth (DENTON) SEAMAN
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416__Jonathan SEAMAN
     b.  c.1705?     Baptized 17 Jun 1718, Reformed Church of Tappan
     child of:  Jonathan & Jane (?) SEAMAN 
     d.  2 Apr 1745, Frederick County, VA 
     Buried: 

     m. 

417__Mary Elizabeth DENTON
     b. c1666
     child of:  Samuel & Mary (SMITH) DENTON 
     d. 
     Buried: 

Other Marriages:
Elizabeth m2. William Mitchell after Jonathan's death.

Children:
416.1  Nehemiah SEAMAN    b.  <1718, Hempstead, Queens Co, NY
416.2  Hannah SEAMAN    b.  <1718, Hempstead, Queens Co, NY
           m.  William COE
416.3  John SEAMAN (died without issue)    b.  <1718, Hempstead, Queens Co, NY
416.4  Martha SEAMAN    b.  <1718, Hempstead, Queens Co, NY
           m.  Michael VANDERVORT
416.5  Phoebe SEAMAN    b.  <1718, Hempstead, Queens Co, NY
           m.  Samuel COE
           Children:  10
416.6  Jacomiah SEAMAN     bap.  17 Jun 1718
416.7  Jane SEAMAN    bap.  17 Jun 1718
416.8  Eamie SEAMAN    bap.  17 Jun 1718
416.9  Jonah SEAMAN     b.  3 Aug 1720     bap.  17 Jun 1718     d.  Oct 1783   (See #208/209)
416.10  Elizabeth SEAMAN    bap.  3 Aug 1720
             m.  John PALMER
416.11  Jonathan SEAMAN     bap.  3 Aug 1722
             (went to VA - left one son and one daughter)

Synopsis: 

• There is a will for a Jonathan SEAMAN dated 3 Oct 1748; however, this doesn't fit with other information.  For example, there are letters of administration to Elizabeth on the estate of her husband, Jonathan, deceased 1743.  Also, there is a record on 2 Apr 1745 indicating John, Jonathan, Phebe and Elizabeth SEAMAN, orphans of Jonathan SEAMAN.  Bunker's Long Island has this Jonathan with a will proved in 1755, dated in Orange County, NY.  'Tis a puzzlement.

• Jonathan baptized 31 Jul 1722

• Jonathan resided New Hempstead, Long Island, Orange County, NY

• Jonathan bought land on Kakiak(Kakiat)-on-Hudson NY

• Samuel DENTON died in 1713/14.  His father may have been Rev. Richard DENTON who d. 1663.

• Children listed along with baptism dates are from the records of the Reformed church of Tappan, Orange Co (now Rockland Co) NY.

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JONATHAN AND MARY ELIZABETH (DENTON) SEAMAN RESEARCH RECORD

BIRTH/BAPTISM/PARENTS/CHILDREN RECORDS

DEATH/OBITUARY/CEMETERY RECORDS

MARRIAGE/DIVORCE RECORDS

FAMILY BIBLE/RELIGION AFFILIATIONS RECORDS

EMPLOYMENT/MILITARY/ORGANIZATIONS RECORDS

WILL/ESTATE/DEEDS/COURT RECORDS

The Deed Book of Berkley County, VA (now WV) includes the following notes - with the issues around the several Jonathans, Jonahs, Jonases, etc., these are recorded here for reference and this researcher has no indication of which ones belong to which of the group.  More creativity in naming children would have made this much easier!

• Jonathan SIMMONS/SEAMONS (b. c1705) purchased a 317-acre tract of land from Joseph MOUNTS and his wife Katherine on 9 Jan 1736.  This tract was part of PAULSON, JONES and MOUNTS' 834-acre patent land.  (Tract 29A, Map1)  On 6 October 1762, it was sold by Jonathan's son and heir, Jonathan, to VAN SEARINGEN.  Jonathan Sr. was living on Thomas ANDERSON's north half of the 542-acre patent land (Tract 144B, Map4) by December 1737.

• Jonathan Sr. was deceased by 11 November 1743 when his wife Elizabeth was appointed Administratrix of his estate, leaving two sons as orphans; John/Jonas/Jonah and Jonathan, and two daughters; Phebe and Elizabeth.  On 6 May 1745, Jonathan (b. c1730) purchased the northern half (271 1/2 acres where his father had lived, 8 May 1738) of Thomas ANDERSON's 1735 patent land containing 542 acres for 20 pounds.  His mother Elizabeth MITCHELL, the wife of William MITCHELL, released her right of dower as widow of Jonathan SEAMON, deceased.

• Jonathan received a Fairfax grant for 720 acres on the Opequon Creek, located three miles east of present-day Inwood, Berkeley County, West Virginia, on 10 July 1762.  (between Tract 10 and 13, Map4)  His will, written 6 September 1777 and proved on 15 March 1785, left his entire estate to sister Phebe. (See #104/105)

• At the request by Jonas SEAMON, a warrant was issued by the Clerk of the Proprietors Office on 2 August 1750 for a survey of 205-plus acres "where he lives within a survey made for Noah HAMPTON (Tract 176, Map4) (60 acres) and bought of Colbert ANDERSON" adjacent to Peter McCAIN (formerly William MITCHELL's); the survey was completed on 9 April 1754.  He received two Fairfax grants out of the "HAMPTON Survey": one for the above 206 acres on 6 June 1760 (Tract 176A, Map4), and the other for 389 acres on 9 June 1760.  (Tract 176B)  This land is adjacent east of present-day U.S. Highway 11 and north of West Virginia Highway 51 at Inwood.

• Jonah's (Jonas) will, written on 10 February 1780 and proved 21 October 1783, left seven daughters; Corey, Elizabeth, Hannah, Catherine, Phebe, Sarah, Martha, Lydia and six sons; John, Jonathan, Jacomigh, Jeremiah, Jonah and Charles.  Jonas' sons John, Jonathan and Jacomick paid Colbert ANDERSON (grandson of Thomas, son of Colbert and his wife Ann) 900 pounds on 9 September 1780 for the land their father had bought from Colbert's father and for which he had received Fairfax grants in 1760.

• Jonathan Seaman's will, Frederick County, VA, listed his death on 2 Apr 1745 and orphans:  John, Jonathan, Phebe, and Elizabeth. (Frederick County Abstracts of Wills...1743-1800 by J. Estelle Stewart King.

• A Jonathan SIMONS/SEAMONS "of Jerusalom in the Township of Hempstead in Queens County on the Island of Nausaw in the Province of New York" sold 1/3 of a 1,000-acre tract to Joseph SEAMONS; this transaction was recorded in Orange County, New York on 12 December 1735.  (probably Jonathan #416/417)

• John SEAMON of Orange County, New York purchased 1,000 acres (part of 2,930-acre patent land from the Colony of 3 October 1734) from Jost HITE and wife Mary on 26 October 1737 for 30 pounds.  He sold the 1,000 acres on 21 November 1744 to Nimrod HOTT of Prince William County, Virginia for 70 pounds.  John had received a bond to guarantee a patent in the amount of 200 pounds from Jost HITE which John transferred to HOTT/HOLT.  (Tract 126A, Map9)

Will proved 1755, dated in Orange County, NY.  See Bunker's Long Island, p. 137.

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END OF RESEARCH RECORD

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416.6__Jacomiah SEAMAN     
     b.  bap. 17 Jun 1718, Reformed Church of Tappan, Orange Co (now Rockland Co), NY
     child of:  Jonathan & Mary Elizabeth (DENTON) SEAMAN
     d.
     Buried:

     m.  

416.6s__Rachel SECOR
     b.
     child of:
     d.
     Buried:

Other Marriages:

Children:  
416.6a  Jonathan SEAMAN
             m.  Mary CONKLIN
             Children:  Hannah SEAMAN
                             Phebe SEAMAN
                             m.  William FURMAN
                             Jecaniah SEAMAN     d.  young
                             Catharine SEAMAN     d. young
                             Amy SEAMAN
                             m.  William FURMAN
                             Rachel SEAMAN
                             m.  John COE (lived in MI)
                             William SEAMAN
                             m.  Elizabeth ODELL
                             Children:  Jonathan SEAMAN
                             Daniel SEAMAN
                             m.  Margaret FRITTS
                             Children:  Thomas SEAMAN
                                             William SEAMAN
416.6b  Jonas SEAMAN
             m.  Martha ANTHONY
             Children:  Rachel SEAMAN
                             m.  Jacob YOUNG
                             Elisabeth SEAMAN
                             m.  Jesse BALDWIN
                             Esther SEAMAN     d.  young
                             Susan SEAMAN     d.  young
                             Martha SEAMAN
                             m.  Josiah CONKLIN
                             Sarah SEAMAN
                             Phebe SEAMAN
                             m.  William WILLIAMS
                             John SEAMAN
                             m.  Elizabeth FRITTS
                             Children:  Charles SEAMAN
                                             Thomas SEAMAN
                                             Anne SEAMAN
                                             Elbert SEAMAN
416.6c  Elizabeth SEAMAN
             m.  Isaac ODELL
             Children:  ? ODELL (daughter)
                            m.  ? ONDERDONCK
                            Children:  John ONDERDONCK
                            Jacomiah ODELL
                            m.  Elizabeth (?)
                            Children:  Hanna ODELL (1792-1865)
                                            m.  John DERR  (1794-1877)
                                            Children:  Charles DERR  (1825-1903)
                                                            m.  Melissa PHILLIPS (1822-1898)
                                                            Children:  Anna DERR  (1858-1939)
                                                                            m.  Benj. WIGHTMAN  (1854-1931)
                                                                            Children:  Ward WIGHTMAN  (1913-?)
                                                                                             Children:  Robert (1933)
                                                                                                             Suzanna (1939)
                                                                                                             David (1950)
                                                                                             Wade C. WIGHTMAN  (1921-?)
                                                                                              Children:  Diane (1948)
                                                                                                              m. Laverne BAILEY
                                                                                                               Children: Nikki(1973)
                                                                                                              Gerald (1949)
                                                                                                              Children:  Selena(1979)
                                                                                                                              Nadine(1982)
                                                                                                              Richard (1953)
                                                                                            Dale WIGHTMAN  (1923-?)
                                                                                            Children:  Randy (1949)
                                                                                                            Gay Ann (1952)
                                                                                                            Scott (1953) 
416.6d  Hannah SEAMAN
             m.  John MONROE
416.6e  Esther SEAMAN
             m.  Justin MONROE
416.6f  Anna SEAMAN
            m.  Richard WILKS
416.6g  Phebe SEAMAN
             m.  Daniel LAWRENCE
416.6h  Martha SEAMAN
416.6i   Polly SEAMAN
416.6j   Catharine SEAMAN
             m.  Robert CAYTON

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