Obadiah Seeley

Not the son of Capt. Robert Seeley

NOTE: Anderson in his "The Great Migration Begins" says that the notion that Obadiah Seeley of Stamford was the son of Robert Seeley should be rejected. "Robert Seeley married for the 1st time in 1626, and had son Nathaniel in 1627, so Obadiah if he was a son of Robert, must have been born in 1629 or later. But the eldest son of Obadiah was born in the late 1640s, when Obadiah, under this hypothesis, could have been no more than twenty, and perhaps even less." Anderson goes on to say, "This chronological impediment is not fatal, but it makes the connection highly unlikely... Beyond this we see that Robert Seeley and Obadiah Seeley lived in different towns, that they do not appear in the records together in any action, and that the name Obadiah does not appear among the immediate descendants of Robert, nor does the name Robert appear among the immediate descendants of Obadiah." "All these clues indicate that Obadiah was not son of Robert."

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Mar 19 2017, 5:03:50 UTC