Person:John Seaver (85)

CENSUS:

In the 1850 US census, the John F. Seaver family resided in Boston 11th Ward, Suffolk County, MA. The household included John F. Seaver (age 35, patent leather, born Canada), Adaline Seaver (age 32, born ME), William Seaver (age 7, born MA), Stephen Seaver (age 5, born MA) and Mary Seaver (age 1, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,443,557, page 194, family #65].

In the 1870 US census, the remnants of the John F. Seaver family resided in Woburn, Middlesex County, MA. The household included Adeline E. Seaver (age 49, keeping house, $4,000 in real property, $1,000 in personal property, born ME), Stephen C. Seaver (age 22, house painter, born MA), Mary E. Seaver (age 19, at home, born MA), and George W. Seaver (age 17, apprentice to currier, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,552,132, page 92 in woburn, family #795].

ESTATE:

The probate records of John F. Seaver of Woburn, who died 13 June 1863, are in Middlesex County Probate Packet # 41,276 [FHL Microfilm 0,510,637]. The packet includes:

• A petition for administration by wife Adaline E. Seaver, which lists three children: Stephen T Seaver, age 18; Mary Elizabeth Seaver, age 13; George W. Seaver, age 10.

• An inventory which includes 10,000 square feet of land worth $800, a Japan shop and steam apparatus at Woburn Center, worth $1,500.

In Probate Packet # 41,278 [FHL Microfilm 0,510,637], guardianship was granted to Adaline Seaver of Woburn, widow to John F. Seaver, for:

Stephen T. Seaver born 1 August 1846

Mary Elizabeth Seaver born 21 November 1849 George W. Seaver born 11 Decemb 1852.

1. ↑ Woburn, Middlesex County, MA (MA VR 166.194).