"Many secondary sources claim chat Obadiah Seeley of Stamford was a son of Robert Seeley, but this should be rejected. Robert Seeley married for the first time in 1626, and had son Nathaniel in 1627, so Obadiah, if he was a son of Robert, must have been born in 1629 or later. But the eldest son of Obadiah was born in the late 1640s, when Obadiah, under this hypothesis, could have been nor more than twenty, and perhaps even less. This chronological impediment is not fatal, but it makes the connection highly unlikely. Beyond this we see that Robert Seeley and Obadiah Seeley lived in different towns, that they do not appear in the records together in any action, and that the name Obadiah does not appear among the immediate descendants of Robert (through his son Nathaniel), nor does the name Robert appear among the immediate descendants of Obadiah. All these clues indicate that Obadiah was not son of Robert."
