John Seamans

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← Apema Seamans ← John Seamans ← John Seamans ← John Seamans

Born

January 17, 1695[1696], in Swansea, Massachusetts

Died

February 9, 1791

Married

August 22, 1718, in Swansea, Massachusetts

Family

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Mother

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Spouse

Children

William Seamans
b. January 2, 1720/1721, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. September 5, 1792, in Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Elizabeth Reed
Susannah Seamans
b. August 16, 1723, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. James Round, July 16, 1741
Penelope Seamans
b. March 2, 1725/1726, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Priscilla Seamans
b. July 15, 1731, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Tabitha Seamans
b. December 4, 1733, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Anna Seamans
b. January 19, 1735, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Zebedee Hopkins, December 11, 1757, in Scituate, Rhode Island
Lydia Seamans
b. January 19, 1737, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Benjamin Seamans
b. June 26, 1740, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. May 8, 1829, in Ashford, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Hammond, April 19, 1759, in Scituate, Rhode Island
Daniel Seamans
b. December 8, 1742, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. May 19, 1802, in Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Zilpha Hines, June 18, 1762, in Scituate, Rhode Island

Siblings

Susannah Seamans
b. April 23, 1692, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Elisha Bowen, September 16, 1714, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Thomas Seamans
b. November 25, 1693, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Mary Pierce, January 12, 1716
Mary Seamans
b. January 7, 1697/1698, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. October 24, 1752, in Scituate, Massachusetts
m. John Round, July 14, 1721, in Swansea, Massachusetts
James Seamans
b. January 28, 1699, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. June 7, 1757, in Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Tabitha Wood sister of Priscilla Wood (2024), January 16, 1723/1724, in Swansea, Massachusetts
Charles Seamans
b. September 1700, in Swansea, Massachusetts · d. June 4, 1771, in Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada
m. Hannah Mason Bowen, February 14, 1730
Gilbert Seamans
b. November 29, 1706, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Mary Bowen, July 13, 1730, in Swansea Massachusetts
Rosamond Seamans
b. December 18, 1709, in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Ephraim Salisbury in 1731
Nathan Seamans
b. Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Judith ____
Hannah Seamans
b. January 16, 1711/1712
Josiah Seamans

In brief

Born January 17, 1695[1696], in Swansea, Massachusetts. He married August 22, 1718, in Swansea, Massachusetts. He died February 9, 1791.

Life story

Providing for His Sons

John Seamans was born January 17, 1696, in Swansea, Massachusetts, and married there in 1718 before moving his family to Scituate, Rhode Island, around 1743 and later to Foster, Rhode Island. Over two decades, from 1748 to 1768, John methodically deeded property in Scituate to each of his sons — William, John, Benjamin, and Daniel — as they came of age. He died February 9, 1791, at around ninety-five years old.

At a glance

Lived

Swansea, Massachusetts · Foster, Rhode Island

Sources (2)

John Julian Lawton, The Seamans Family in America (Syracuse, New York: Charles Seamans Brown, 1933).
Bertha W. Clark, John Wood of Rhode Island (Crete, Illinois: Bertha W. Clark, 1966); image copy, Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/28334/images/dvm_GenMono007787-00001-0 : accessed 24 August 2026).