Seymour was on one of the first settlers on the Ridge in Ridgeway.  He and his family moved from Greene County to Ridgeway in 1810, and settled on the Ridge Road, about five miles east of Johnson's Creek.  His son Seymour B., born 1796, wrote a biography of this journey.  At that time there was no settler between Mr. Murdock's settlement and Lake Ontario on the north; none south to the swamp but Coon and Walsworth in Shelby, and east and west on the Ridge it was several miles to any neighbors. The nearest postoffice, store, or church, was at Batavia, thirty miles distant.  Seymour had eight sons and four daughters. Besides Seymour B., his other sons' names were Israel, John, Henry, Zimri, Jasper, Hiram, and William.  Isreal kept a public house some fifteen years on the Ridge Road.