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

Born

Abt. 1749 in Swansea, Massachusetts

Died

1838 in Eaton, Madison County, New York

Family

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Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

Children

Ezekiel Seamans
m. Sally Richardson
George Seamans
John Seamans
d. 1821 due to a falling tree
m. Phylina Jackson
Benjamin Seamans
b. February 19, 1785, in Starksboro, Vermont · d. May 22, 1862
m. Diana Whipple, December 31, 1805
Leonard Seamans
m. Lydia Breed
Robia Seamans
m. Samuel Luther
Patience Seamans
m. ____ Phillips
Zilpha Seamans
m. Nathan King
Sarah Seamans
Isaac Seamans
b. November 11, 1794, in Clarendon Springs, Vermont · d. April 10, 1870
m. Sarah Pettingill, August 5, 1821
Jacob Seamans
b. November 11, 1794, in Clarendon, Vermont · d. August 28, 1865, in DeRuyter, New York
m. Hannah Keeler
Trophena Seamans
m. ____ Wade

Siblings

Priscilla Seamans
b. 1753 · d. October 16, 1832
Charles Seamans
b. May 6, 1764, in Scituate, Rhode Island · d. April 21, 1847, in Clarendon, Vermont
m. Mehitable Osborn, September 25, 1786, in Clarendon, Vermont
Oliver Seamans
b. January 6, 1771, in Killingly, Connecticut · d. 1861
m. Mary Harrington in Clarendon, Vermont
Elijah Seamans
Arie Seamans
d. Over 100 years old
Mary Seamans
m. Oliver Howland
Rhoda Seamans
m. Oliver Westcott
Anna Seamans
d. 100 years old
Amy Seamans
m. Reuben Blanchard

In brief

Born Abt in Swansea, Massachusetts. He worked as revolutionary war soldier. He died 1838 in Eaton, Madison County, New York.

Life story

Present at Burgoyne's Surrender

John Seamans was born around 1749 in Swansea, Massachusetts, and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, present at General John Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga on October 17, 1777 — one of the war's turning points — and afterward continuing his service in the 6th Dutchess County Regiment defending the Hudson River. He later moved west, living in Starksboro, Vermont, and Waterford, New York, before settling in Eaton, New York, where he died in 1838.

At a glance

Work

Revolutionary War Soldier

Lived

Starksboro, Vermont · Waterford, New York · Eaton, New York

Sources (2)

Dorinda Partsch and Janet Pack, “John Brown of Reading, Six Generations,” 6 January 2020; received via email from Dorinda Partsch to Ben Weber on January 8, 2020.
John Julian Lawton, The Seamans Family in America (Syracuse, New York: Charles Seamans Brown, 1933).