Person:William Seaver (88)

Was in city government of Roxbury MA and in the Mass. legislature. (Seaver notes)

Roxbury VRs say he was a grocer (in children's birth records)

In the 1850 US census, the William Seaver family resided in Roxbury, Norfolk county, MA. The household included William (age 33, grocer, born MA), Martha (age 35, born MA), William (age 4, born MA) and Edward (age 1, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,443,550, page 052, family #912].

In the 1860 U.S. census, the William Seaver family resided in Roxbury 2nd Ward, Norfolk County, MA. The household included William Seaver (age 42, grocer, $10,000 in real property, $5,000 in personal property, born MA), William (age 15, born MA), and Edward (age 11, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,803,517, page 757, dwelling 1719, family 2392].

In the 1870 US census, the William Seaver family resided in Boston Ward 14, Suffolk County, MA. The household included William (age 52, grocer, $20,000 in real property, $10,000 in personal property, born MA), Eliza (age 43, keeping house, born MA), Edward (age 21, clerk in grocery, born MA), and Llewellyn (age 3, at home, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,552,147, page 53 of Boston Ward 14, house #259, family #485].

1. ↑ Roxbury (MA) Vital Records to 1850
   312.
2. ↑ Marriages - Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841 to 1905
   267:86.