"20. John4 Seymour (John,3 John,2 Richard1), of Hartford, West Hartford, and New Hartford, Conn., born at Hartford 25 Dec. 1694, died at New Hartford 25 July 1758. … John Seymour settled first at Hartford, where eight of his children were baptized at the Second Church. Shortly after 1730 he removed to the West Parish of Hartford, now West Hartford, and about 1750 he became a settler of New Hartford. In his will, made 11 July 1758, shortly before his death, and proved 19 Sept. 1758, he describes himself as being sick and weak, and mentions his sons Elisha and John Seymour, both of Hartford, his wife Hannah, his two grandchildren, Isaac and Lydia Seymour, children of his son Isaac, late of Hartford, deceased, his sons William and Uriah of New Hartford, 'my younger sons,' Elias, Hezekiah, Nathaniel, Elijah, and David, and his daughters Lydia Steele, Abigail Flowers, Lucretia Ensign, Lucina Marsh, Elizabeth Smith, and Hannah, Zerviah, and Sarah Seymour. On 5 Dec. 1758 Hezekiah Seymour, aged 18, Nathaniel, aged 16, Elijah, aged 14 last August, and Zerviah, aged 12 last October, chose their mother, Hannah Seymour, as their guardian, and she was also appointed guardian of her other children under age, viz., David, aged 10, and Sarah, aged 8."
