Hepzibah Seymour

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82. HEPZIBAH9 MERRILL (DANIEL8, JOHN7 *MERRILL, NATHANIEL6, NATHANIEL5, JOHN4 *MERRELL, THE YOUNGER, JOHN3 *MERYELL, JOHN2, THOMAS1) was born April 14, 1712 in Hartford, Hartford, Conn, and died August 28, 1788 in Hartford, Hartford, Conn. She married THOMAS SEYMOUR March 5, 1729/30 in Hartford, CT, son of THOMAS SEYMOUR and RUTH NORTON. He was born July 29, 1705 in Hartford, Hartford, Conn, and died March 18, 1767 in Hartford, Hartford, Conn.

Notes for THOMAS SEYMOUR: From " A Merrill Memorial" by Samuel Merrill, Cambridge, MA 1917-1928

Thomas Seymour, husband of Hepzibah Merrill, was a lawyer of prominence in Hartford. He graduated at Yale College in 1724. Their son Thomas Seymour graduated at Yale in 1755; was King's Attorney for Hartford County from his father's death until the Revolution; was lieutenant-colonel of militia; represented Hartford in the General Assembly eighteen years, and was a member of the House of Assistants ten years; was elected first Mayor of Hartford in 1784, and served until 1812; chief judge of the Hartford County dourt from 1798 to 1803. For three years the yonger Thomas was the oldest living graduate of Yale College, and three of his sons graduated at the samie institution. His grandson Thomas H. Seymour was Governer of Connecticut 1850-53, and United States Minister to Russia 1853-57. Gen Truman Seymour, U.S.A., (West Point 1846) was another grandson.

Children of HEPZIBAH MERRILL and THOMAS SEYMOUR are: i. JARED10 SEYMOUR, b. June 13, 1731, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. Unknown. ii. EUNICE SEYMOUR, b. May 6, 1732, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. Unknown. iii. DAVID SEYMOUR, b. October 13, 1733, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. 1770. iv. THOMAS SEYMOUR, b. March 17, 1734/35, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. July 30, 1829. v. GEORGE SEYMOUR, b. September 23, 1736, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. Bef. 1750. vi. HEPZIBAH SEYMOUR, b. May 27, 1738, Hartford, Hartford, Conn. vii. RUTH SEYMOUR, b. February 7, 1739/40, Hartford, Hartford, Conn; d. Unknown. viii. HANNAH SEYMOUR, b. March 25, 1741, Hartford, Hartford, Conn. ix. GEORGE SEYMOUR, b. November 9, 1743, Hartford, Hartford, Conn. x. CAROLINE SEYMOUR, b. August 28, 1745, Hartford, Hartford, Conn.