The "1875 History & Atlas Licking County, Ohio" by L.H. Everts lists a Thomas Seymour on page 47. In the article it states that he was born in Virginia in 1756 and with his son, Adam, came to Ohio in 1803. With them came three hired men. Has it ever been determined who those hired men were? My reason for asking is my Whitney "stonewall" is Milton Whitney who claimed in his Civil War pension application to have been born in Licking County in 1817 and his mother died a few days after his birth. Her name is unknown but from an old letter it is thought to have been Black. Milton's father left the child in the care of a Spencer family and was never heard from again. Which Spencer family is also unknown as is the father's name. Possibly the family was General John Spencer or his brother William. Milton was given a guardian in 1836 and he was the County Clerk, Franklin Fullerton, and the bondsman was Israel Dille who was to become mayor of Newark. I have seen the original form for the guardianship case and there is no name, only a hand drawn line, where the name of the deceased should have been. Milton married in Madison Twp. in 1843 to the daughter of John H. McKinney, she was Margaret. They named their first child Seymore and he was born in 1844. Two more children were born in Licking County before the family removed to Knox Co. and then to Morrow County about 1854. Milton died in Morrow Co. in 1891 and one of the persons who signed a statement that Milton's wife was left certain items had evidently come from Newark to sign. He was William R. Seymore who was the youngest son of the Thomas Seymore who entered Ohio in 1803. He was born in 1812 and was a few years older than Milton. I have looked for years for any connection to the Seymore and Spencer families and can find nothing solid. It might be possible that one of the three hired men might have been Milton's father. Any one know their names or any other information that might be of help? Thank you, Ben Whitney in California.