"29. Lieut. Bevil4 Seymour (Thomas3, John2, Richard1), baptized at Hartford, Conn., 11 Jan. 1712/13, died at Newington Parish, Wethersfield, Conn., 17 Nov. 1774, aged 61. He married first Lydia Dodd, baptized at Hartford, 19 Dec. 1708, died at Newington Parish 16 Jan. 1736, in her 28th year, daughter of Edward and Lydia (Flower); and secondly, at West Hartford, Conn., 23 Apr. 1740, Thankful4 Merrill, born at Hartford 25 Mar. 1712, died at Wethersfield 24 Sept. 1801, in her 90th year, daughter of Abel3 (John2, Nathaniel1) and Mabel (Easton) of Hartford.
Bevil Seymour settled in Newington Parish, Wethersfield, where his children were born and where he and most of his family are buried. He was elected Ensign of the Tenth Company, Sixth Regiment of Militia, at Wethersfield, 14 Nov. 1754, and Lieutenant of the same company in May 1757, holding the latter office until 1762, when he asked to be dismissed, 'on Acct of Indisposition of Body by reason of which he has for some time past been and yet remains unable to Serve therein.' In his will, dated 23 Mar. 1770 and proved 21 Dec. 1774, he names his wife Thankful, his four sons, viz., Abel, George, Elias, and Ashbel, his two eldest daughters, viz., Lydia Webster and Mary, wife of Moses Hopkins, his daughter Mabel, wife of Charles Morgan, and his two youngest daughters, Thankful and Lois Seymour."
