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.
1764
Jan 11
1764 • Stanisław August Poniatowski is elected as the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
1833
Apr 14
Age: 69y
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deathOrleans County, New York, USA ⇓ Aged 69 years, 4 months, and 3 days. He was buried at the West Ridgeway Cemetery in Medina. 2 Sources ⇓ |
1833 • The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England. |