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- Partner in fishing business with Stephen Crawford.
Related to Thomas Seavey (c1627-1707).
According to Stackpole:
WILLIAM SEAVEY, aged about 75 years, deposed, 3 Sept. 1676, that he came as a fisherman to the Isles of Shoals "about a year before Capt. Neale went from this country for England." He came, then, in 1632. He was constable at the Isles of Shoals in 1656 and a Selectman in Portsmouth in 1657, where he was living in 1682. He had a grant of 50 acres in what is now Rye, N. H., in 1652 and bought land there, in 1669, of Jane Drake, widow of William Berry. This land is still owned by Seavey's descendants. His wife's name is thought to have been Mary."[2]
The following is from Parsons:
William Seavey, sent from England in 1631 to the Piscataquqa[sic] settlement by Captain John Mason. He was a selectman and otherwise of some consequence in the settlement. In 1660, he was William the elder. He died about 1688.[3]
- William Seavey, immigrant SEAVEY ancestor, was born about 1600 in England, and was sent over by Captain John Mason to New Hampshire in 1631 or 1632 and settled in Portsmouth and Rye, where he died in 1688. In 1660 he was called "the elder," and in 1657 was selectman of the town of Rye. He was constable at the Isle 'of Shoals in 1655. The name of his wife is unknown. He was engaged much of the time in fishing, and acquired a large property, the inventory of which amounted to 631 pounds seven shillings eight pence. He left a widow Elizabeth. Children: 1. William Jr., born 1640; mentioned below. 2. John, born 1650; married, July 29, 1686, Hannah Walker, widow of Joseph, and daughter of John Philbrick. 3. Thomas, died March 15, 1708, at Newcastle, New Hampshire, was of the Isle of Shoals 1663. 4. Stephen. 5. Elizabeth, married Odiorne.
(II) William Seavey, son of William Seavey (1), born in 1640. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, died 1733. He married
Hannah , born 1663. died January 31,
1748. William Seavey was on the grand jury in 1682, and surveyor in 1683. At a proprietors' meeting in 1728 he desired to be excused by reason of age and infirmity from any further service in laying out lands. His will was dated March 25, 1728-29, proved June, 1733. His widow's will, dated September 10, 1741, proved February 28. 1748, bequeathed to sons Stephen, James and Ebenezer, and children of son Thomas. One of his possessions was a negro woman, a slave. Children, born at Rye, New Hampshire: 1. Children: 1. William (3d), married Mary Hicks, who died 1744, and second, September 25, 1748, Hannah Seavey. 2. Hannah, married Samuel Wells. 3. Hepzibah, married Thomas Wright. 4. Mary, born 1704; married Captain Samuel Banfield, who died 1743; she died 1753. 5. Thomas (twin of Ebenezer), removed to Scarborough. 6. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 7. Stephen, married Mary True, widow.
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston ..., Volume 2 (1908), p. 789
edited by William Richard Cutter
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