Person:Robert Seeley (2)

Robert was with a group that came down from Great Meadow to fight the Pequots^[9]. Great Meadow means that he arrived in America with the Winthrop immigration from Dorest 1633-35. They stopped first in Dorchester, MA and made the 92 mile trek to near Springfield in 1637.

1. ↑ Winthrop Society.
2. ↑ Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and family history of the State of Connecticut: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1911)
   vol IV.
3. ↑ Robert Seeley, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   1647ff.

   'BIRTH: Baptized St. Johns, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, 4 July 1602, son of William and Grace (Prett) Seeley [Seeley Anc 6]. (Alan Phipps demonstrated that an earlier claim for the baptism of the immigrant, in another parish in the same county, was a misreading of an entry for a person of another surname [NEHGR 116:160, 164; Seeley Anc 1-2].)'

4. ↑ Robert Seeley, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   1647ff.

   'DEATH: By 17 October 1668 (when his widow applied for administration on his estate). (Fanjoy and Ward state that "Robert Seeley died intestate Oct[ober] 1667, and in Oct[ober] 1667, the General Court of Connecticutt abated the widow's vote [sic] `for last yeare and this yeare'" [Seeley Anc 24]; this error derives from a misreading and misapplication of a record of 18 October 1677 in which the Court granted "the widow of Captain Seely about thirty-three shillings due from her for her country rate last year, and her rate this year," an entry pertaining to the widow of Nathaniel Seeley, who had been killed during King Philip's War [CCCR 2:327].)'

5. ↑ Robert Seeley, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   3:1647.

   'OCCUPATION: Cordwainer. On 25 May 1646 and 31 January 1647/8 "Lieutenant Seely" was chosen leather sealer at New Haven [NHCR 1:242, 356]. ...'

   A cordwainer is a shoemaker.

6. ↑ Seeley Genealogical Society
   Robert Seeley - 1602 - 1667.

   'Robert Seeley, left London, Monday, 29 Mar 1630, and sailed, 8 Apr 1630 from the Isle of Wight, along with his wife and child as a part of the John Winthrop Fleet, on the ship Arbella/Arabella. They arrived in Salem MA, 12 Jun 1630.'

7.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
   1:524.

   'Seeley, Robert. Lt. (second in command under Mason), Pequot War, May 1637; ... in command of New Haven Col. Troops against Ninigret, Oct. 1654; ...'

8.   Seeley, Ralph M. The English Life of Robert Seely. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1962)
   116:164.

   'In every case, known this writer, where it is obvious that Robert Seely signed his name himself, he spelled it thus.'

9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Thistlethwaite, Frank. Dorset Pilgrims: the story of West Country Pilgrims who went to New England in the 17th century. (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989)
   page 119.
10. ↑ A baptism in Earith, Huntingdonshire, England on 22 Aug 1602 had been attributed to him, but has been shown to be incorrect (GMB 3:1649).
11. ↑ It had been believed that he died 19 Oct 1667 in New York, but this has been shown to be an error (GMB 3:1649).