Tha man that sent me all this info is J Richard Florance, a descendant as well...Teri THE IDENTIFICATION OF EBENEZER (SGS # 063) SEELY’S SECOND WIFE Ebenezer Seely’s second wife is identified as Eunice (Schofield) Davenport in both the 5-Generation Seeley book and on Dan Seelye’s web-site. Evidence is presented below in order to further the understanding of Eunice’s surname at the time of her marriage to Ebenezer. Her maiden name was likely SCHOFIELD, but her surname at the time of her marriage to Ebenezer should have read "SOBEY". Confusion over her surname likely arose from her 1769 Will in which she names step-daughter, Hannah Devenport and as one of two executors, step-son-in-law, Oliver Devenport. Knowing that Ebenezer didn’t have a daughter, Hannah, one could easily add the surname of Devenport to the equation. However, in this case the Davenport surname came only from the marriage of Oliver to Eunice’s step-daughter through her own earlier marriage to Trustum Sobey. A major culprit in this case is the variance between the abstract and the original will. When describing Oliver Davenport the abstract reads "stepson" while the original reads " my step son in law". Interpretation of Eunice’s will from the original abstract, published by the New York Historical Society, was made even more difficult when they published "I leave to my grandson Simeon all of my right and title to this place where I now live." In 1902, this was corrected to read "Gideon", not Simeon. Morse, Willard S., RECORD OF FOUR GENERATIONS OF THE DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAIN ROBERT SEELEY, 1916, makes no mention of a surname for Eunice. As a point of interest, the land described above hadn’t belonged to Ebenezer Seely and as it turned out, Eunice had never had title to it, it belonged to Oliver Davenport......... Supporting Facts: The three children of Trustum Sobey (Soby, Sobe, Sobee), my 4-gt-grandmother Deborah (Sobey) Florance and her two younger siblings, Hannah and Lazarus were baptized 18 August 1729 in the New Rochelle, NY French Church, by pastor L. Stouppe. The baptism was after the death of their mother, Hannah, and Trustum’s marriage to their step-mother, Eunice Scofield. From the translation from French, one learns that their step-mother witnessed the baptisms. Source: Florance, Col. Charles W., WE THE FLORANCES/FLORENCES, 1980, CS71.F62651981, LCCN 82-100490 On 10 Oct 1746, Hannah Sobee witnessed the Phillips Precinct, Dutchess Co., NY will of Thomas (the founder) Davenport and in the Dutch Church, Fishkill, Dutchess Co., NY, Hannah Sobee married the son of Thomas, Oliver Davenport. The last public record found for Trustum Sobey was his appointment as Collector and Constable of Mamaroneck, Westchester Co., NY in 1750 and knowing that Ebenezer Seely listed his second wife, Eunice, in his will of 16 May 1763, we can determine that Trustum likely died between 1750 and 1763. In her will written 11 July 1769, Eunis describes herself as being from Woodbury Clove, New Cornwall Precinct, Orange Co., Province of New York. This means that by that date, she had left Oxford where she had lived with Ebenezer, and was living near her step-daughter, Hannah (Sobey) Davenport and her step-son-in-law, Oliver Davenport. It is thought that she went there to care for her orphaned step-grandchildren, called grandchildren by her, Gideon (didn’t marry until 1770), Peter, Deborah and Mary Florance (All listed in Eunice’s will). The location of where she was living at the time her will was written is backed up by: In the 1768 New Cornwall Precinct minutes - a road was authorized to be built from Highland Mills to New Jersey and it included part of the road to the "Widow Seleys and along the line of Oliver Davenports." >From the above, one can ascertain that the Hannah Davenport listed in Eunice’ s 1769 will was called step-daughter because of her being a "Sobey", not a Seely or Davenport. J Richard Florance 02 Aug 1999