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Richard Seymor RICHARD SEYMOR HARTFORD, r640 A PAPER READ BEFORE The Connecticut Chapter Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America At Norwalk, Conn., February IJth, I903 BY MRS. MARIA W ATSQj~ PINNEY De}~by, Conn. THE TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR PRESS, NEW HAVEN BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND. RICHARD SEYMOUR. -MADAM PRESIDENT :-When I pledged to write what I had gathered from ~radition, from investiga­ tion and from the research of others, relative to Richard Seymour, I did not understand that a very competent party had nearly completed the geneal­ ogy _of his five succeeding generations, although I knew it had been discussed for twenty-five years, but I supposed its publication as far in the futntl"~ as ever. It stands without question that a genealogy can not be published without funds, and while the ~ime has passed since the work has been in preparation, several parties who' were i~terested, and would probably have subscribed for more than one copy, have passed "the dark river, which has never been shadowed by a homeward sail," and t4ey who have spent time and money collecting and arranging material for the book, have waited for funds to publish. If my articl~ can induce any person who inherits the blood of Richard Seymour to assist in this publication, by subscribing for the same, I shall have helped forward a meritorious work. There being in the near future a probability that two or three volumes of genealogical statistics will ~e published, it is useless for me in a paper of thirty minutes to refer to his descendants. Who was Richard Seymour? who came to Hart­ ford in 1639/40, and was one of the signers of the agree~ent for planting Norwalk June 19th, 1650, and among the first settlers soon after. He died between the dates July· 29, 1655, when his will was made, and qctober 25, 1655, when the court approved the inventory. He mentions in his will his wife Mercy, son Thomas, and three other sons, namely: John, Zachary and Richard, who being under age, he left to their mother's guardianship. Mr. Henry W. Seymour, of Washington, D. C., writes, " It is singular that the wills of two Richard Seymours should be so similar." One, the nuncupative will of Richard Seymour of A11gust 16th, 1637, and buried at Berry-Pomeroy, County of Devon, -England, which says : " That lyttell that I have, I will leave ytt to the mother's disposinge, the Children shall be under the mother, not the mother them." Col. Vivian, in his History or " Visitation of Devon," states_: I thi_nk it reasonably cl~ar that Mr. Richard Seymour, son of Willi~m, third son of Sir Edward Seymour, ~nd who married Mary S_tretch­ ley at Plimpton St. M8;ry, May 26th 16~6, License granted May 5th 1626, was buried Aug. 1637, as Elizabeth (Seymour) Cary wife of Sir George Cary of Co_ckington declares January 19th 1638, that Mr. Richard Seymour's inventory was taken by Henry Champernoune of Dartington Esq. Nicholas Ball of Tormohan, merchant, and -anothe_r,. Mr. Richard -5--- Seymour leaving one son Richard who ,vas never married, and was buried at Cockington August 26th 1684, also there were three daughters, Amy, Bridget and Anne. Hart. So. " Visitation of Devon," 1620, vol. 6, page 53, says: Elizabeth daughter of Gawain Champemoune, Aunt of Henry Champeriioune of Dartington Esq., married for her first husl;>and a Stretchley­ which may indicate a reason for Henry Champer­ noune looking after the interests of Mary Stretchley the widow of Richard Seymour, son of William Seymour, and grandson of Elizab~th ·daughter of Sir Arthur Campemoune of Darrington Esq. And again the Elizabeth (Seymour) Cary, whose declaration is here quoted, was sister to William Seymour, father of this Richard Seymour, and her second son Robert Cary, married for his :first wife Christin daughter and heir of William Stretchly esq.-Westcote's·" Devonshire" page 511 .. The other will was made July 29, 1655, eighteen years after. Richard Seymour of Norwalk, Con­ necticut saying : "I doe will and bequeath 11nto my loving wife, Mercy Seymour, my whole estate, viz. House and lands, cattle and movables, except small personal value of property to Thomas &c.'' He. gives, on reaching .twenty-one, the sum of forty pounds to John, to Zachary and Richard, but the control was in the mother. From my earliest childhood tales of ancestral -6- greatness were inculcated, which in the unques­ tioning credulity of youth, were accepted without asking for proof of such traditions. We were taught to . believe. that the wife of Richard Seymour was Mary or Mercy Rashleigh, and that the marriage was recorded at Barnstaple in the north of County Devon, but the date ·we knew not. I have photographs, revers·ed in print­ ing, of two rings, which have been handed down in the family of Richard Seymour's son, John of Hartford. Some years ago another descendant had duplicates made for his own keeping. The silver­ smith who did the making said, that the Naval Officer's ring was not less than two .hundred years old. The Rashleighs were· anciently naval men, two of the family circumnavigating the globe with Sir Francis Drake. There we~e also Naval Officers in the Seymour family. John-the second son of Sir Edward Seymour, and who married Elizabeth Slannynge of Tam­ merton Folliet, Oct. 25, 1629 (possibly as second wife as he must have been about forty years old)-was in 1626 in. the fleet as Captain of the ship "Camelion." Also "in 1627 April 1st-3d 'Plymouth.' Sir Edward Seymour desires that his brother Capt. John Seymour, may have a Good Ship -in the present expedition." And several years later records show his connection with the navy. SEYMOUR ARMS AND RASHLEIGH ARMS COMBINED. RING-ACCORDS WITH RASHLEIGH ARMS. THE NAVAL RING. -7- But these suffice. The other ring accords with " The Rashleigh Arms." I will give from the "Visitation of Corn­ wall," 1620, vol. 9, page 306, " Rashleigh-Quar­ terly sa- a cross or. ~etween a Corni~h chough Ar. beaked and legged gu. r st quarter; in the 2ci quar­ ter a text T. of the third 3d & 4th a crescent of the last, on the cross a rose.'' Lyson's Magna Bretannia, Devonshire, vol. vi,. page clxix, "Rashleigh of Rashleigh Arms." "Ar. a cross. sa. in chief, two text Ts of the second." Can there be question about placing Richard Seymour's wife with the Rashleighs? · Thomas Rashleigh; "a studyent," no doubt meaning in theology, was May 8th, 1640, admitted to the church in Boston, and we learn from Lech­ ford that in r641 he exercised in a prophetical way in Gloucester, and there perhaps married, but his son " John, being six weeks old, ·was baptized at Boston, May 18th, 1645." Savage's Gen. Diet., vol. iii, page 5(?8, says he was at Exeter in 1646 . .Thomas Rashleigh's coming to New England was near or quite the same time that Richard Sey­ mour came, although he remained at or near Bos­ ton, while Richard Seymour located in Hartford. If he was a relative of Mercy (or Marey), wife of Richard Seymour, the influence of the mother of six weeks' old John, who returned with them to England, _might have been a chain to keep him in that locality until_ the confusion of civil war had 8 subsided, when he returned to England, and was the minister at Bishop-stoke, County Rants, where May 4th, 1652, he baptized Samuel Sewell, first of that name Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and who was made immortal by his wife's· dowry of Pine Tree shillings. The relationship of Thomas· ·and Mercy Rash­ leigh is conjecture, but family tradition, and the presence of the "Rashleigh Arms" in family relics and treasures, is unquestioned, and they came not there by ·accident. I have an impression in wax of the "Seymour Arms," i. e. " The Wings," above which is the Comish chough, no longer in flight, but resting with the Rashleigh rose in its beak, showing it had found a home in connection with the "Seym0ur Arms." What was the influence which moved Richard Seymour to emigrate in 1639/40 to New England? The laws of entailment giving to the eldest son from generation to generation the estates. The C~urch, the sea or a military life was the vocation left to younger sons, who had too much spirit to remain a dependant upon that . elder and more fortunate relative. Although a brother might not experience the gall of dependence in sharing what was his father's, the same exemption could hardly. extend to the other.members of his family. Let us look back, that we may understand what the position of two· brothers might be, both inherit- --g- ing the same blood and spirit of their common ancestors ; the ~ccident of a few minutes, months or years earlier birth entailing control to the favored one. Sir Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, Earl of Hertford, and later Baron Seymour, of Hache, and Duke of ·Somerset, in 1537 repudiated his first wife, Lady Catherine Filliol, daughter and heir of Sir William Filliol, of Woodlands, County Dorset, and Filliol-Hall in Essex, that he might take to wife Lady Anne Stanhope, daughter of Thomas Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, seventh and youngest son of King Edwar4 III. Lady Catherine had- then been.1:Welve years his wife, and had two sons, John and Edward, about ten and eleven years old. · In more than one re~pect, this second marriage, and its results, were not unlike that of a certain Emperor of the French.
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