Person:Otis Seaver (4)

In the 1840 United States census, Otis Seaver was a head of household in Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The household included one free white male aged 15 to 20, one free white male aged 50 to 60, one free white female aged 50 to 60 and one free white female aged 60 to 70 (1840 United States Census, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Population Schedule, Townsend, Page 205, FHL Microfilm 0,014,678).

In the 1850 US census, the Otis Seaver household resided in Townsend, Middlesex County, MA. The household included Otis (age 61, farmer, $350 in real property, born MA) and his sister Hannah (age 68, $400 in real property, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,443,542, page 081, family #325].

Otis Seaver of Townsend, yeoman, died testate, having written a will dated 6 June 1857. His probate records in Middlesex County (MA) Probate Docket #41,277 (on FHL Microfilm 0,510,637), included:

On 8 December 1857: A petition for Samuel Seaver of Northboro to prove the will of Otis Seaver late of Townsend, yeoman, was filed.

The Will reads:

"Know all men by their presents that I Otis Seaver of Townsend in the county of Middlesex and commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, being of sound disposing mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament.

"1st, I give and bequeath to my niece Lucy Tyler wife Putnam Tyler and daughter of Abraham Seaver of Townsend to her and her children a certain tract of land together with the buildings thereon bounded as follows viz beginning at the southeast corner adjoining the common at a stake and stones thence west about three rods, thence north east three rods on land of said Otis Seaver thence southerly on the common four rods to the bound first named.

"Second I give and bequeath Everett W Seaver son of A W Seaver the sum of four hundred dollars to be paid in one year after my decease.

"Third I give and bequeath to my nephew Dea Samuel Seaver of Northborough all the remainder and residue of my real estate and personal property after pay in the foregoing legacies and just debts funeral charges and erecting decent grave stones at my grave.

"Fourth I ordain and appoint my nephew Dea Samuel Seaver as executor of this my last will and testament.

"In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal and publish and declare this to be my last will and testament in the presence of the witnesses named below this sixth day June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven."

                                             Signed "Otis Seaver"

"Signed sealed published and declared by

        the said Otis Seaver as his last will
        and testament in presence of us who
        in his presence and in the presence of
        each other and at his request have here-
        unto subscribed our names as witnesses
              Ezra Blood
              Zacheus Richardson
              Levi Richardson."

1. ↑ Townsend (Massachusetts) Vital Records to 1892
   page 360.

   "age 68"