Treasure Chest Thursday - Children of Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver Born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance 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 birth records of the children of Norman and Sarah (Read) Sever in the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts town record book:

The children of Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver are listed in the family near the bottom of the image:

The transcription of the Norman Sever 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 18'th 1763

Ethan Seaver  } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his wife was Born Septemb'r y'e 24'th day 1765

Daniel Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his wife was Born June y'e 28 1767

Heman Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his wife was Born May y'e 6'th 1769

Luther Seaver } Son of Norman Seaver & Sarah his wife was Born April y'e 13 1771

The source citation for this record is:

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Town Records, imaged,  "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988,"Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2495/images/40143_267992__0003-00089), Shrewsbury > Births, Marriages and Death > page 86 (penned, Image 89 of 1,764), Family of Norman and Sarah Seaver.

This is a Derivative Source record for the births of four of Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver's children in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Three other children were born in Sudbury before the family moved to Shrewsbury, and four were born in Westminster after the family moved to Shrewsbury. This record is a transcription of an earlier Shrewsbury town record that was more or less in chronological order, and this record placed children into families. The original record is not currently available.  It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the parents, the names of the children, the birth dates and place. 

Norman and Sarah (Read) Seaver are my 5th great-grandparents, who married in 1755 and had 13 children.  I am descended from their oldest son, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) who married Martha Whitney in 1783.

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