Robert Seabrook of Stratford

Summary

Evidence needed to support Robert Seabrook, the immigrant to Connecticut, as child of Thomas Seabrook & Lady Olive M Seabrooke. Name of wife unknown . 3 daughters: Mary (disputed), unknown daughter, (wife of Thomas Fairchild); Sarah, (wife of Thomas Sherwood).

Alice Seabrook Was (probably) the wife of a different Robert Seabrook of Tring.

Disputed Origins

Space:Robert Seabrook has details of his disputed origins.

Biography

Jacobus has the following entry for Robert Seabrook.

An elderly man, one of the early settlers in Stratford, he did not long survive. His will is not found, and our only knowledge of it comes from mention made of it in Stratford Deeds, where land was entered to the following persons which they had by gift from their grandfather Robert Seabrook: —Samuel Fairchild, Thomas Fairchild, Jehiel Preston, John Wheeler's wife, Samuel Stiles's wife, and perhaps others not noted. From this we deduce that he had daus. who m. Thomas Fairchild, William Preston and Thomas Sherwood; the wives of Wheeler and Stiles were daus. of Sherwood.

Preston was from Chesham, co. Buckingham, and the name Seabrook is common in that county, where at Wingrave a Robert Seabrook m. 12 Sept. 1596, Alice Goodspeed, bapt. 19 Aug. 1576, dau. of Nicholas, Jr., and Margaret Goodspeed. She was a cousin of Roger Goodspeed, the Barnstable settler. If this was the emigrant Robert, he may have married more than once; but unless research in England be made, we have only vague surmise on which to build.

Children (perhaps others)

• ?Mary, b. abt. 1601, living in 1680; m. (1) abt. 1635, William Preston, and came with him to New England in 1635 ae. 34; m. (2) Thomas Kimberly, of New Haven and Stratford.
• Daughter, b. by 1620; m. by 1639, Thomas Fairchild, of Stratford.
• Sarah, b. abt. 1623; m. by 1642, Thomas Sherwood, of Stratford.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register has:

Alice, bapt. 19 Aug. 1576; probably d. before her father, as she is not mentioned in his will; m. at Wingrave, 12 Sept. 1596, Robert Seabrooke, a legatee, with his children, in the will of her father.

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• Sources: Jacobus, Donald Lines, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 1930 (reprinted with corrections 1976 by Genealogical Publishing Co.), vol. 1, p. 523 The Frost and Related Families of Bedford County, Tennessee, by Wright W. Frost, 1962, p. 53 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 82, pp. 448–453 (Long entry on the Goodspeed family) Mormon family record sheet which includes the following references: "New Haven Genealogical Magazine" 4–6: 1479, 1090; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 82: 443–453, 105: 81–84, 9: 348–9, 2: 67, 3: 86, 27: 62; History of the Goodspeed Family, by Weston A. Goodspeed; History of Wethersfield, by Stiles, p. 625; History of Stratford, by Orcutt pp. 1291, 1272, 1357; History of Stratford, by Wilcoxson pp. 114–116; and others.