Thursday, October 2, 2014

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 234: List of Children of Norman Seaver in Shrewsbury, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the list of children of Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver in the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts town record book:


The portion of the page with the Seaver children:


The transcription of the records for the Seaver children is:

Joseph Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his Wife was Born May 13. 1761
Isaac Sever } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his wife was Born February 18th 1763
Ethon Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his Wife was Born September ye 24th day 1765
Daniel Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his Wife was Born June ye 28. 1767
Hemon Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his Wife was Born May ye 6th 1769
Luther Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his Wife was Born April ye 13. 1771

The source citation for the birth of one of the children is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images,  Ancestry.com  (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 April 2013), "Shrewsbury Births, Marriages and Deaths,"  page 86 (penned, image 89 of 1764), Ethon Seaver birth entry, 1765.

Several other children of Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver were recorded in Sudbury (before the family moved to Shrewsbury) and in Westminster (after the family left Shrewsbury).

It appears that these entries were made at one time in the Shrewsbury record book, so they should be considered as Derivative Source records, with Primary Information, and as Direct Evidence of the names, parents names, birth dates and birth place.

Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver are my 5th great-grandparents.  I descend from their son, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) who married Martha Whitney (1764-1832) in 1783.


Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver


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