Sarah Seeley

• Daughter of Augustus Seeley, UEL and Mary Brisbin
• Birth: November 16, 1780 in Saratoga, Albany, New York, United States
• Baptism Record: June 14 1783 in Albany, Albany County, New York, United States
• Dutch Reformed Church Baptism record For Sarah Seely June 14 1783 There were no christenings in the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church. They were baptisms. Sarah was born in Saratoga. Sarah's mother, Mary Brisbin and her family attended the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church where Sarah was baptised at age 3 or 4.. dianlittle@hotmail.com
• Sarah Seeley Petition Petition to the Canadian Government in 1811
• 1850 United States Federal Census for Sarah Wilcox Utah Territory Sanpete, Utah, United States
• Seeley Geneology
• The Loyalists in Ontario. Source: The Sons and Daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada. Lambertville, NJ, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973.
• Original Head Stone for Sarah Seeley
• BillionGraves: Birth: Nov 16 1780, Death: Oct 9 1856, Burial: Manti Cemetery, Manti, Utah, United States
• Sarah Seeley Find A Grave Memorial
• Nauvoo Community for Project for Sarah Seeley
• Sarah Seely Wilcox: The Petition of Sarah Willcox, wife of Hasard Willcox, of Loughborough in the Midland District, Yoeman, Humbly Shewith…That you Petitioner is the daughter of Augustus Seeley deceased, a U. E. Loyalist, that she is if the age of twenty one years, and that she has never received any land, or order for land from the Crown. Your Petitioner, therefore, prays your Excellency will be pleased to grant her 200 acres of the Wasteland of the Township of Earnest Town [now Bath] and permit William Willcox of the Twp of Earnest Town, Yeoman, to…take on this…when completed… Ernest Town, Jany 30th 1811…Sworn before me at Etnest Town …William Faifield JP [William's wife was Sabra Fairfield daughter of William Fairfield, whose house is still standing in Bath.] William Willcox maketh oath and saith that she is the person she describes herself to be…signed by Wm. Willcox.
• Sarah’s Story Deseret Newspaper, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 23,1983

Married

• Married: Hazard Wilcox Jr. on February 16, 1811 in Elizabethtown Twp, Leeds, Ontario, Canada

Immigration To Utah

Sarah Zieler Wilcox in the Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory - Departure Place: Winter Qtrs., Neb. Elkhorn River Departure Date: 21 Jun 1847 in the Pioneer Company: Edward Hunter (Capt. 2nd Hundred); Jacob Foutz (Capt. 2nd Fifty); John Lowry (Capt. of Ten), Trail: Mormon Trail, Arrival Place: Salt Lake Valley, UT territory, Arrival date: 29 Sep 1847, Place Settled: Salt Lake City, UT Pleasant Grove, UT, UT Manti, Sanpete, UT

• Sarah Zieler/Seeley Wilcox in the Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory
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History

History of Sarah Seely Wilcox

• Relic of Hassard Wilcox (Relic Meaning Widow)
• Born: November 16, 1780 in Saratoga, Albany, New York, United States
• Died: October 9,1856 in Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, United States.

She was 76 years of age at her death. Nothing so unusual there either, except that in her day average life expectancy was probably 40 years less. But there was something about Sarah that reached beyond the common, the ordinary. Geography and a parade of men and events of 1780 began crowding around her gravestone.

Inevitably, Sarah will be 200 years old on November 16,1980, and possibly this makes her the oldest white resident of Utah, alive or dead! But there was more to it than a local record. In the year of her birth, 1780, the Articles of Confederation were muddling along, trying to govern 13 unruly, jealous "Sovereign" states. The Constitution was still nine years in the future, George Washington would not become President until Sarah was 11 years old, Lewis and Clark were unheard of until she was in her twenties and married, and she was a mature 34 years of age when the Treaty of Ghent ended the war of 1812 on Christmas Eve 1814. * {Sarah was bom in Schaghticoke, Albany (Now Rensselaer), New York}. Her feet first plodded westward through the Mohawk Valley in 1801, having married Hazard Wilcox, Jr., in Albany. In the Mohawk Valley in 1801 there were still some echoes out of the revolution and even a few out of the earUer French and Indian frecas of her father's day.

Lying beside Sarah in far-off Utah is her oldest daughter and firstborn, Mary Wilcox Lowry. Mary was bom in "Ossewagotcha" (says the inscription on her stone ) County in "Upper Canada" in 1802. Obviously Sarah and Hazard had emigrated to Canada through the Mohawk Valley to the Niagara River and into what is now South-eastern Ontario. Albany is soundly located geographically at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys, and in 1801 its 3,000 permanent residents probably still saw occasional characters in "leatherstockings." Up the Hudson to Lake Camplain and the Richelieu River lay French Canada and the Algonquins. Up the Mohawk lay the Iroquois Confederation and English Canada. Must there be any question that 1801 Sarah had the Mohawk, the Seneca, the Onandaga and the Hurons on her mind? One may well wonder whether even the name of Tecumseh was not known to her. In the case of Sarah and Hazard, they were looking forward to a grant of land in Canada, given to them by the British for services rendered to the crown by Hazard's father, Hazard Wilcox, Sr. The senior Wilcox was a captain in British-American loyalist militia, and he was killed in the battle at White Plains, New York in 1776, while in pursuit of the rebel general, Washington and McDougal. Hazard, Sr., in other words was a "Tory," and not only a "redcoat," but a captain of "Lobsterbacks."How much that may have meant to Hazard, Jr., no one can now know. One can guess not much. He was an infant when his father died in battle for the Crown and he never knew him. Hazard Jr., was a farmer, and like many farmers in the 13 states, he wanted good, new land to start his manied life on, a desire to be realized in Upper Canada, thanks to Great Britain. Sarah bore five children in Upper Canada, her first-born being Mary, and all five were born in Emesttown, Ossewegatchie {Lenox-Addington} County. The Wilcoxes remain frontier Canadians for 10 years, but on the brink of the War of 1812 (1811), Hazard Wilcox made a decision. He removed his family back into American territory and emigrated farther *{ Southwest into what was then Gallatin County Ilinois. Later to be divided into other counties which included White County, with Carmi Township part of it and Williamson County, which Marion township becamecreated in 1815). Six children were born in this area, a set of twins that died and another set of twins, of which one died. Shortly, thereafter, the Wilcoxes are found in Benton, Saline County (Pulaski County then), Arkansas. Here in 1824, another son John Henry Owen Wilcox was born. (There is also a Benton, Saline, Illinois by Carmi, White, Illinois?) This same year of 1824, Sarah saw her first born, Mary, married to a Kentuckian, John Lowry Sr.

• {The family then moved in 1826 to Congressional district 60 (Lower Union Township) Marion County, Missouri. (In 1833 Lewis County was created). On 16 Feb 1831, Hazard died, at age 56, leaving Sarah with the two younger children, Clarissa Jane, nearly ten and John Henry Owen, seven years of age. The others look to be married by then. Mary with her family had also moved into Marion County, Missouri, by this time and they assisted Sarah in caring for her family from then on.} [JL1;81]

Sarah was especially close to her daughter, Mary Wilcox Lowry, and when Mary and John Lowry joined the Mormon Church in 1833, she may have joined herself for she was with the family in Clay and Caldwell Missouri, Iowa and in Nauvoo.}. ... Her two youngest children were baptized into that denomination and came to Utah. {A daughter, Sabra Wilcox Slingerland, who was in Iowa with them, may have also joined.}.... Sarah went along with the Lowrys on their long trek to Utah. She would have been 67 years old on her last westward move. Sometime around 1850, when Sarah was about 70, she arrived in the Sanpete Valley of Central Utah to be with Mary W. Lowry. Her son was married in 1848 in Salt Lake City. It is likely that he and his wife accompanied Sarah to the "Sanpete Fort" (Manti), but he did not remain there.

• {Sarah was baptized (Perhaps rebaptized), and Mary rebaptized in Manti on 26 May 1851 by John Lowry.} Those are the "barefacts." They are recorded or surmissed from general historic background.269

Sources

• Photo of Sarah Seely (middle) Sarah Seely-Wilcox and daughter, Clarissa Jane Wilcox-Seely (unknown top and bottom) - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000011998349449?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000094481018842&position=0
• Clarissa Jane Seeley (Wilcox) Death Certificate - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000013137118684?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082904229161&position=0
• John Henry Owen Wilcox Death Certificate - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000000193711569?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082903854506&position=0
• 1850 United States Federal Census for Sarah Wilcox - Name: Sarah Wilcox, Age: 70, Birth Year: abt 1780, Birthplace: New York, Home in 1850: Sanpete, Utah Territory, USA, Gender: Female, Family Number: 60, Household Members: John H Wilcox 26, Mary Wilcox 20, Hussard Wilcox 2, Sarah Wilcox 70 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000011998349449?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082904404243
• Sarah Wilcox in the Utah Cemetery Inventory, 1847-2000 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000011998349449?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082904479348
• Sarah Seeley in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 - Name: Sarah Seeley, Gender: Female, Birth Place: NY, Birth Year: 1780, Spouse Name: Hazard Wilcox, Spouse, Birth Place: Cn, Spouse Birth Year: 1775, Marriage Year: 1811, Number Pages: 1.
• Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( the Greatest Single Source of Material For Gen. Data For the N.e. Area and For the Period 1600-1800. Completely Indexed in the Index.): 5 Dec 1934, 9530
• Company: Fifth Ten of the Second Fifty of the Second Hundred
• Travel Company Travelled w/ Justus Azel Seelye (68) & Mehlttabll Bennett Seelye (68). & family; Daughter of Sarah W. (above), Clarissa Jane Wilcox Seelye. married Justus Wellington Seelye, son of Justus Azel Seelye. Another dau., Mary Wilcox md. John Lowry. of Ten (Drob. this group.) A dau. of James Young & Elizabeth Seelye Young, named Mary Young, md. John Henry Owen Wilcox, son of Sarah (above) (23), who accompanied his mother (72) on this trek. For complete list, see Justus Azel Seelye reg. form.
• Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript & quote;. 1906-1941.( the Greatest Single Source of Material For Gen. Data For the N.e. Area and For the Period 1600-1800. Completely Indexed in the Index.): 5 Dec 1934, 9530
• a descriptive and biographical record of Saratoga County, New York - https://ia601303.us.archive.org/5/items/ourcountyitspeop00ande_0/ou...