Joseph Seaver (1672-1754) is number 512 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #513 Mary Read (1680-????) in 1700, in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son, #256 Robert Seaver (1702-1752) who married #257 Eunice Rayment (1707-1772) in 1726.
* their son #128 Norman Seaver (1734-1787) who married #129 Sarah Read (1736-1809) in 1755.
* their son #64 Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) who married #65 Martha Whitney (1764-1832) in 1783.
* their son #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) who married #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) in 1817.
* their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith in 1851.
* their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Joseph Seaver[1–5]
* Alternate Name: Joseph Sever[6-17]
* Sex: Male
* Father: Shubael Seaver (1639-1729)
* Mother: Hannah Wilson (1647-1721)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 1 June 1672, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[1]
* Deed: 20 March 1696/7 (age 14), indentured to rent land from Thomas Read; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]
* Tax List: 1710 (about age 38), rated 1:09; Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]
* Sued: 1715-1718 (about age 44–about 50), sued for debts; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]
* Deed: 3 May 1716 (age 43), quitclaimed with others 600 acres in Framingham to Thomas Danforth; Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[8]
* Deed: 13 May 1717 (age 44), bought land in Sudbury from Samuel, Elisha and Nehemiah How ; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[9]
* Deed: 31 July 1717 (age 45), bought land in Sudbury from Commissioners; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]
* Deed: 10 May 1722 (age 49), sold land in Sudbury to John Maynard; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]
* Deed: 5 April 1727 (age 54), bought land in Sudbury from Samuel Streeter; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[10]
* Deed: 4 July 1732 (age 60), Commissioners quitclaimed land; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[11]
* Deed: 13 November 1733 (age 61), sold land to Isaac Read in Sudbury; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[12]
* Deed: 20 October 1740 (age 68), gave land to son Robert Sever; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[13]
* Deed: 1 April 1742 (age 69), sold land in Sudbury to Josiah Richardson; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[14]
* Deed: 21 March 1749 (age 76), sold land in Sudbury to Benjamin Eaton; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[15]
* Deed: 19 April 1750 (age 77), bought land in Framingham from Robert Montgomery; Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[16]
* Death: before 26 August 1754 (before age 82), Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[17]
* Probate: 26 August 1754 (age 82), will proved; Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[17]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Mary Read (1679- )
* Marriage 1: 13 October 1700 (age 28), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]
* Child 1: Robert Seaver (1702-1752)
* Child 2: Mary Seaver (1706-1748)
* Child 3: Nathaniel Seaver (1709-1777)
* Child 4: Hannah Seaver (1712-1771)
* Child 5: Elizabeth Seaver (1714-1758)
* Child 6: Abigail Seaver (1720-1815)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Joseph Seaver was born 1 Jun 1672 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Shubael and Hannah (Wilson) Seaver[1].
Joseph Seaver moved from his family home in Roxbury to Framingham in early 1697. Surely he met his future wife, Mary Read, in Framingham, after agreeing to rent land in Framingham from Thomas Read Senior, Mary's father.
On 20 March 1696/7, Joseph Sever, yeoman of Framingham, indentured himself to pay ten shillings per year on 20 October to Thomas Read Senior, yeoman of Sudbury. In return, Joseph Sever rented 75 acres of land in Framingham on the northern side of the farm which was one half of the land which Thomas Read had bought from Samuel Winch of Framingham. The land was marked by trees and stones, and was bounded by Sudbury line, land of Thomas Read, Thomas Frost Senior, and George Walker's land in possession of Jonas Eaton. He further agreed to pay six shillings if the rent was not paid within 20 days. Thomas Read was granted access to the stream and orchard through the land. The covenant was signed, sealed and delivered on 18 April 1727 by Thomas Read Senior, in the presence of Isaac Heath, John Gibbs and Joseph Gibbs.[6]
On 13 October 1700, Joseph Seaver married Mary Read, the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Goodrich) Read of Sudbury.[2] They had six children born between 1702 and about 1720, all born in Sudbury or Framingham:
* Robert Seaver (1702-1752), married Eunice Rayment (1707-1772) in 1726 in Boston.
* Mary Seaver (1706-1748) married Christopher Nickson (1703-1748) in 1726.
* Nathaniel Seaver (1709-1777) married (1) Rebecca Willis (1718-1753) in 1737, and (2) Judith Treadway (1728-1818) in 1754.
* Hannah Seaver (1712-1771) married Jonathan Belcher (1707-1787) in 1732.
* Elizabeth Seaver (1714-1758) married Samuel How (1719-1747) in 1738.
* Abigail Seaver (1720-1815) married Azariah Walker (1722-1798) in 1748.
Joseph Seaver was rated in Framingham in 1710 (tax of 01:09), and served as constable in 1716.[3]
Joseph Sever was one of many inhabitants of Framingham who quitclaimed land totaling 600 acres on Nobscot and Doeskin Hills to the heirs of Thomas Danforth so that the land could be common land in Framingham. Joseph Sever acknowledged the deed on 3 May 1716.[8]
Joseph, husbandman of Framingham, and Mary Seaver bought land on 31 July 1717 from the Commissioners of the Province of Massachusetts Bay for 70 pounds.[4] The parcels included two thirds of the orchard lately in the possession of Lt. Samuel How in "Lanham" (a part of Sudbury), six acres of plowland and meadow in Sudbury, three and a half acres of another meadow in Sudbury, six acres of upland in Lanham, and two parcels totaling six acres in Sudbury.
Joseph Sever, husbandman of Framingham, bought land in Sudbury from Nehemiah How, weaver of Framingham and late of Sudbury, for 160 pounds of currant money of New England on 13 May 1717.[9] The land comprised several parcels. One parcel was the two-thirds of the homestead in Lanham left by Lt. Samuel How to his son, Nehemiah, and two thirds of the orchard bounded southerly by a little Brook opposite Thomas Read's land, northerly by his mother's land, westerly by a line between two apple trees, and easterly by by the highway. A second parcel of six acres of meadow land and plow land was located in the same homestead bounded northerly by Elisha How, easterly by Peter Bent, and otherwise by stakes and stones. Another parcel of meadow land was located in Sudbury along Hop Brook, known as Pendleton's meadow, comprised three and a half acres, and was bounded southerly by the brook, westerly by meadow in possession of John or Daniel How, northerly by John Goodenow and Thomas Brintnall, and easterly by his mother's meadow land. Another parcel of land in Sudbury in West Meadow comprised four acres, and was bounded easterly by meadow of Jonathan Grout, southerly by the brook and the meadow of Benjamin More, northerly by land of Samuel Wright. Another parcel of six acres of upland in Lanham was bounded southerly and westerly by Joseph Gibbs, and northerly and easterly by Isaac Hunt. Another parcel of six acres in Sudbury granted to Nehemiah How by the proprietors, being in two pieces lying along Mill Path leading from Captain Hogue's to the mill; one piece on the north side of Mill Path was bounded easterly and northerly by land laid out to Briant Pendleton and westerly and southerly by common land; the other piece on the south side of Mill Path was bounded northerly by the path, westerly by the highway, southerly by land laid out to widow Hunt, and easterly by land of Benjamin Moor.
The General Court Records of Massachusetts indicates that Joseph Seaver was sued by John White in 1715 and 1718 for debts.[3] In 1722, Joseph Seaver was brought before the court for not attending public worship. Joseph Seaver of Cambridge sued Jonathan Belcher and Samuel Belcher for debt in 1735. Joseph Seaver of Framingham sued Hezekiah Fletcher for debts in 1737.
Joseph Seaver, mason of Framingham, sold land in Sudbury for 35 pounds to John Maynard of Sudbury on 10 May 1722.[10] The land contained five acres of meadow on the west side of the Sudbury River in West meadow, bounded northeasterly by land of Jonathan Grout, southeasterly by Lannum Brook, southwesterly by the meadow of Benjamin Moore, and northwesterly by the upland.
On 4 July 1732, the Massachusetts Commissioners quitclaimed a deed to Joseph Sever, husbandman of Sudbury, upon payment of the principal, interest and charges of 126 pounds, 3 shillings and 9 pence for many parcels of land bought in Sudbury on 13 February 1716.[11] The first parcel was meadow and upland in Lanham, bounded southerly by Thomas Read's orchard, westerly by a little brook, northerly by widow How's land, and easterly by the highway. The second parcel was six acres in the same homestead, bounded southerly by the widow How's land, westerly by the brook, northerly by Elisha How's land, and easterly by Peter Bent's land. Another parcel was three and a half acres in Pendleton meadow on Hop Brook, bounded southerly by the brook, westerly by land of Daniel How, northerly by land of John Goodenough and Capt. Thomas Brintnall, and easterly by widow How's meadow,. A fourth parcel in West meadow of four acres was bounded easterly by Jonathan Grout's meadow, southerly by the brook, westerly by Benjamin Moore's meadow, and northerly by land of Samuel Wright. Another parcel of six acres of upland in Lanham was bounded southerly and westerly by Joseph Gibb's land, northerly and easterly by Isaac Hunt's land. Another parcel of six acres in two pieces was bounded easterly by a path called Mill Path leading to Capt. Haynes new mill, northerly by land of Bryant Pendleton, westerly and southerly by Common land. Another piece of land on the south side of the Mill path was bounded northerly by the path, westerly by the highway, southerly by land of widow Hunt, and easterly by Benjamin Moore's land. The land was granted to , sold and mortgaged by Joseph Sever on 13 February 1716 for 70 pounds.
Samuel Streeter of Framingham sold 4 acres of meadow in Sudbury to Joseph Sever of Framingham on 5 April 1727.[12] The land was in the Lanham area, and was bounded southerly by Lanham brook, easterly by a highway, northerly by land of Captain Thomas Brintnall, and westerly by meadowlands in the possession of Thomas Bogle.
On 13 November 1733, Isaac Read, husbandman of Sudbury, bought land in Sudbury from Joseph Sever, yeoman of Framingham, for 173 pounds 13 shillings and 9 pence in currant money.[13] The property included a dwelling house on one acre of land in Sudbury in a place called Lanham, bounded easterly on a highway, southerly and westerly on land of Thomas Read, and northerly on land of the said Isaac Read. A second tract of 7 acres of upland and meadow in Sudbury was bounded northerly and easterly by land of Elisha How, southerly and westerly by land of the said Isaac Read. A third parcel of six acres of upland in Sudbury was bounded by Isaac Hunt and Joseph Gibbs. A fourth parcel of 3 acres of land was bounded by Nathaniel Rice, Joseph Goodenow and David Haynes.
Joseph Sever, yeoman of Framingham, gave 5 acres of land in Sudbury to his beloved son, Robert Sever of Framingham, husbandman, for many good causes and considerations, and especially in fatherly love and affection, on 20 October 1740.[14] The land was meadowland near West Brook, bounded by the brook, land of Joseph Parmenter, Paul Brintnal, and Elisha How, and was valued at 150 pounds in bills of credit.
Joseph Sever, husbandman of Framingham, sold land in Sudbury to Josiah Richardson, gentleman of Sudbury, for 120 pounds in money on 1 April 1742. The land comprised 4 acres of meadow on the west side of the Sudbury River. It was bounded easterly by the highway leading to Lanham Bridge over the River, northerly by Paul Brintnall, westerly by Thomas Bogle, and southerly by West Lanham brook.
On 21 March 1749, Joseph Sever and Mary his wife assigned land in Sudbury to Benjamin Eaton of Sudbury for the sum of 320 pounds.[15] The land apparently was that rented by Thomas Read in 1697 to Joseph Sever. Joseph Sever requested the liberty of taking his dwelling house off the land.
Joseph Sever, husbandman of Framingham, bought 100 acres of land in Framingham from Robert Montgomery, of Townsend in the County of York in Massachusetts Bay Colony, for 160 pounds in lawful money of New England on 19 April 1750.[16] The land included a dwelling house and was bounded northerly by Thomas Frost, Jonathan Belcher and David Stratton, westerly by a pond, and marked on all sides by trees, stakes and stones.
The will of Joseph Seaver was written 2 January 1753, and was proved 26 August 1754.[17] It reads:
"In the name of God, Amen. I, Joseph Sever, of Framingham, yeoman, being of perfect mind & memory, do make this my last will and testament as followeth: I commit my soul into the hand of allmighty God & my body to the earth, decently to be buried by my Executor thereto ... God's pleasuer. And as Touching the Temprel Estate ... which God hath been pleased to bless me withall, I dispose of as followeth:
"Item: First, I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved wife, Mary Sever, one full third part of my Real Estate with house room where it shall be most conveniant for her in my building during her natural life, and also one third of my moveables estate to be at dispose for ever.
"Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved son, Jonathan Belcher & to my beloved daughter Hannah Belcher and unto my grandson John Nickson equily and joyntly that is to say the one half to the sd. Jonathan & Hannah & the other half to sd John, to them, their heirs and Assigns for ever my homested farm which I bought of Capt. Robert Montgomery (including others I gave to wife after she ... of w/ ... estate) which is bounded as followeth: bounded Northeasterly by lands of the heirs of Thomas Frost, Southeasterly by lands of Hezekiah Stone, southerly by lands of Christopher Nickson, Westerly by lands of John Winch, Northwesterly by lands of Major Cutting, Northerly by land of Sd. Jonathan Belcher. Sd. premises containing about 100 acres etc. to Jonathan Belcher. Paying unto my daughter Abigail Walker twenty pounds lawfull money at or before the expiration of three years after my decease and twenty pounds lawfull money unto my daughter Elizabeth How at or before the expiration of six years after my decease. & the Sd. John Nickson paying unto my daughter Elizabeth How twenty pounds lawfull money at or before the expiration of three years after my decease. And to my daughter Abigail Walker twenty pounds lawfull money at or before the expiration of six years after my decease to be at their dispose of ever and that the Sd. John Nickson pay unto his sister Hepzibah Fairbanks eight pounds six shillings and eight pence lawfull money at or before the expiration of six years after my decease to be at her dispose forever if she be living otherwise to be paid to her niece sisters (viz) Mary Gieron, Elizabeth and Abigail Nickson equily.
"Item: I give & bequeath unto the heirs of my son Robert Sever deceased five shillings, my sd. son Robert having had his full portion in his lifetime.
"Item: I give & bequeath unto my beloved son Nathaniel Sever five shillings, he haveing had his full portion before.
"Item: I give and bequeath unto my grandson Daniel Belcher a certain tract of land containing about twenty acres which I had of my father Reed bounded northerly by Sudbury line, westerly by lands of Benjamin Eaton and partly Southerly and partly easterly by lands of Nathaniel Gibbs to him & his heirs & assigns for ever.
"Item: it is furthermore my will that before any of the above mentioned leagacies are paid that all my Just Debts and funeral charges be paid by the said Jonathan Belcher (out of the whole estate before any ... be made), whom I constitute and apoint my Executor in and unto this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this Second day of January one Thousand Seven Hundred fifty & three & in the 26 year of His Majesties Reign."
Signed & Sealed Joseph Sever
"in Presents of Danl Stone
Ambrose Tower
Josiah Browne"
"In witness of our Satisfaction in this will we have here subscribed our Names:
Mary Sever
Jonathan Belcher
Azariah Walker
John Nixon
Hannah Belcher
Elizabeth How
Abigail Walker"
"Satisfyed Nathl Seaver" (on next page of packet)
Joseph Seaver died before 26 August 1754 when his will was proved in the Middlesex County Probate Court.[17] There is no known burial location for him or or his, although he was probably buried in either Framingham or Sudbury.
5. SOURCES
1. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1925, 2 Volumes), page 311, Joseph Seaver birth entry.
2. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Marriages, page 265, Joseph Seaver and Mary Read entry.
3. Gill-Smith, "Middlesex County Superior Court Records, 1650-1800," accesed on FHL microfilm 1,420,473, Joseph Seaver entries.
4. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950); 1780 rolls of microfilm, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Volume 19, pages 225-7, Joseph and Mary Seaver from Massachusetts Commissioners, executed 1717, recorded 31 July 1717, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,008.
5. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 38, page 145, Joseph Seaver to John Maynard, executed 10 May 1722, recorded 18 March 1736, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,021.
6. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 54, page 213, indenture of Joseph Sever with Thomas Read, executed 20 March 1696/7, recorded 12 December 1755, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,031.
7. Josiah H. Temple, History of Framingham, Massachusetts Early Known as Danforth's Farms, 1640-1880 ( 1887), page 696. Joseph Seaver rated.
8. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 36, page 402, Joseph Seaver and others quitclaimed land to Thomas Danforth, executed 3 May 1716, recorded 30 January 1735, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,020.
9. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 18, page 468, Joseph Sever bought land from Hows, executed 13 May 1717, recorded 17 July 1717, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,008.
10. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 34, page 279, Samuel Streeter to Joseph Sever, executed 5 April 1727, recorded 9 April 1733, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,019.
11. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 38, page 353, Mass. commissioners quitclaimed land to Joseph Sever, executed 13 February 1716, recorded 26 August 1737, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,021.
12. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 35, page 465, Joseph Sever to I saac Read, executed 13 November 1733, recorded 6 February 1733/4, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,532,455.
13. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 42, page 27, Joseph Sever to Robert Seaver, executed 20 October 1740, recorded 20 October 1740, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,023.
14. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 42, page 651, Joseph Sever to Josiah Richardson, executed 1 April 1742, recorded 2 April 1742, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,023.
15. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 54, page 214, Joseph Sever to Benjamin Eaton, executed 21 March 1749, recorded 12 December 1755, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,031.
16. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), Volume 52, page 498, Joseph Sever from Robert Montgomery, executed 19 April 1750, recorded 26 August 1754, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,554,030.
17. "Probate Records 1648-1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts)," 886 FHL US/CAN Microfilms, Joseph Sever estate, Probate Packet 20,066, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,421,515.
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