Person:Esther Seawright (1)

Information on Esther Seawright

From " A Record of the Searight family", by James Allison Searight, pg. 23:

Esther Seawright, the second child of William and Anne (Hamilton) Seawright, was born in Lampiter township, Lancaster county, and died in South Middleton township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1792, her remains resting in the old cemetery at Carlisle, where the inscription on her tombstone states that she was fifty-five years of age. Esther Seawright married Gilbert Seawright, and they are the ancestors of the large family of Seawrights in and around Carlisle, this State. Gilbert Seawright had two sisters, whose names were Mary and Elizabeth, and who married respectively a Mr. Smith and a James Hutchinson. Gilbert Seawright came from the North of Ireland, and settled four miles west of Carlisle, where he died suddenly with an apoplectic stroke, on September 30, 1815, at seventy-five years of age. He was a heavy-set man, with fair skin and blue eyes. His remains rest in the old cemetery at Carlisle. His will, witnessed by John Miller and Samuel Postlethwaite, is recorded on page 205 of deed book H, of Cumberland county. His executors were his son, Francis, and Seawright Ramsey. The outline of the foundation of the old house where Gilbert and Esther Seawright lived when they first came to Cumberland county, is yet dimly visible in South Middleton township. Gilbert and Esther (Seawright) Seawright had seven children.