Person:William Seaver (37)

No marriage record for the wedding of William Seaver to Maria Bray Whitman on 1 January 1835 was found in the Vital Records or the IGI. Jesse Montgomery Seaver in his typescr0pt "The Seaver Genealogy" provided the date, source unknown.

In the 1850 US census, the William Seaver household in Boston 11th Ward included Wm. J. (age 39, coppersmith, born MA), Maria (age 37, born MA), Wm (age 14, born MA), Benjamin (age 13, born MA), Maria (age 11, born MA), Lucy (age 8, born MA) and Elizabeth (age 75, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,443,557, page 162, house 35, family 84].

In the 1860 census, the William J. Seaver household in Boston 10th ward included Wim J. (age 50, coppersmith, personal property $500, born MA), Maria B. (age 47, born MA), W.J. (age 24, accountant, born MA), Benj. W. (age 23, accountant, born MA), and Lucy A. (age 18, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,853,523, page 242, family 409].

This household appears again in the 1860 census in Boston 10th Ward, with Wm J. (age 50, coppersmith, personal property $300, born MA), Maria B. (age 46, born MA), Wm. J. (age 24, bookkeeper, born MA), Benj. W. (age 23, bookkeeper, born MA), Maria B. Chase (age 21, born MA), Harvey E. Chase (age 1/12 born MA) and Lucy A.B. Seaver (age 18, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,853,523, page 508, house 1236, family 2649].

In the 1870 US census, the William J. Seaver family resided in Charlestown, Middlesex County, MA. The household included William J. (age 60, copper smith, $800 in personal property, born MA), Maria B. (age 56, keeping house, born MA), William J. Jr. (age 34, salesman in store, born MA), Lucy A. (age 28, at home, born MA), Benjamin W. (age 33, salesman in store, born MA) and Harry E. (age 10, at school, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,552,124, page 126 of Charlestown 2nd ward, family #1138].