John Seward

ID: I51276 Name: John (Col.) SEWARD 1 Sex: M Birth: 22 MAY 1730 in Black (now Lamington) River, Morris County, New Jersey Military Service: Battle of Minisink, Revolutionary War Death: 29 DEC 1797 in "Old Seward Farm," Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Military Service: Captain in the Revolutionary War (War for American Independence) 2 Military Service: Promoted to Colonel 1776 Military Service: Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 28 FEB 1776 3

Father: Obadiah SEWARD b: ABT 1702 in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York Mother: Isabella LUCE b: ABT 1704 in Luce's Landing, Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York

Marriage 1 Mary SWAYZE b: 03 APR 1733 in Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York Married: 22 MAR 1751 in By Rev. Byram at Roxbury (now Chester), Morris County, New Jersey 1

Children Has No Children Polly SEWARD b: 1752 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has No Children Obadiah (Capt.) SEWARD b: 02 AUG 1754 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has No Children Nancy SEWARD b: 1756 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has Children Elizabeth Swezy SEWARD b: 15 APR 1760 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has No Children Hester SEWARD b: 1762 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has Children John (Col.) SEWARD b: 10 JUN 1765 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has Children Samuel Swazey SEWARD b: 05 DEC 1768 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has Children Heliah SEWARD b: ABT 1770 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey Has No Children Israel SEWARD b: 1773 in Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey

Sources: Author: Frederick Whittlesey Seward, Jr. Title: Obadiah Seward of Long Island, New York, and his Descendants Publication: Name: 1981; Note: Source Medium: Book

Page: p. 61 Author: James P. Snell Title: History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers Publication: Name: Everts & Peck, Philadelphia: 1881; Note: Source Medium: Book

Page: p. 275 Author: Frederick Whittlesey Seward, Jr. Title: Obadiah Seward of Long Island, New York, and his Descendants Publication: Name: 1981; Note: Source Medium: Book

Source: Ancestry

son of Job Seward

Children: - Polly Seward (1752-1772) m Richard Edsall - Obadiah Seward (1754-1799) m Heila Edsall - Nancy Seward (1756-62) - Helia Seward (1758-62) - Elizabeth Swazey (1760-1795) m Jonathan Swazey - Hester Seward(1762-62) - John Seward (1765-1845) m Mary Butler - Samuel Swezey Seward (1768-1849) m Mary Jennings - Israel Seward (1773-) m Elizabeth

From Old Sussex County Families of the Minisink Region by Charles Edgar Stickney:

John Seward was a freeholder in Hardyston township records in 1767. Eight years later when the hostilities broke out between England and the colonies, he enlisted as a private in Captain McMire's company of the First Battalian, New Jersey line. He was soon promoted to the Captaincy of the Second Regiment; then Feb. 28, 1777, promoted to be Lieut. Colonel; and soon after upon Col. Ephraim Martin's resignation, to the Colonelship of the Regiment. He did much service during the war in driving off the gangs of tory marauders that infested the Snufftown mountains, and the enemy once posted a reward of $50 for his head. He kept his house barricaded for defense. One afternoon while he was walking through the woods he heard the click of a flint gunlock. He looked around and saw an Indian who had attempted to shoot him but whose gun missed fire. He drew his own rifle so quickly that the redskin could not get away,and ordered him to surrender, which he could not help doing, and so was taken prisoner. The Colonel once shot a man supposed to be a British spy, who was lurking around the house apparently for a sinister motive. He reared a family of ten children, and died upon his farm Dec. 17, 1797,in the 68th year of his age. Inscription: 67 years 7 months 7 days

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