I sent this in earlier, but somehow my introduction was cut off. I think I goofed. Anyway, I am looking for information on the following family. William Seaman, born in Liverpool, Eng and married to Carolyn Low (Elliot?). They are my great grandparents and have been researching them for about 20 years and this is about it. Thanks ahead of time. Narda J. McNally nardaj@3-cities.com Descendants of William Seaman 1 [1] SEAMAN, William b: July 12, 1835 in Liverpool, England d: November 3, 1893 in Hutchinson, Reno Co., Kansas .. +UNKNOWN b: Unknown m: Abt. 1855 in prob. England d: Unknown .............. 2 SEAMAN, Alice b: April 1856 in England d: May 9, 1948 in Decatur, IL *2nd Wife of [1] William Seaman: .. +ELLIOT, Caroline Low b: November 9, 1836 in England m: August 27, 1865 in West Hackney, County of Middlesex, England d: January 4, 1894 in Hutchinson, Reno Co., Kansas .............. 2 SEAMAN, Sarah Ann b: March 22, 1865 in Bow District, Poplar, Middlesex, England d: April 8, 1916 in Brewster, WA .................. +ALEXANDER, George Watterman b: August 18, 1852 in Kane Co., IL m: January 30, 1879 in Bonner Springs, KA d: March 27, 1935 in Spokane, WA .............. 2 SEAMAN, Henry Edward b: February 17, 1869 in England d: May 8, 1952 .................. +ATKINSON, Effie b: February 9, 1875 m: Unknown d: July 29, 1954 in buried at Waynoka, Oklahoma .............. 2 SEAMAN, Emma b: November 12, 1873 d: January 12, 1894 in Hutchinson, KS .............. 2 SEAMAN, William S. b: January 21, 1875 in Boner Springs, KS d: November 3, 1893 in Boner Springs, KS .............. 2 SEAMAN, John F. b: September 17, 1879 in Arlington, Kansas d: May 9, 1948 .................. +CRISWELL, H Grace b: July 2, 1880 in Illinois m: Unknown d: July 17, 1966 .............. 2 SEAMAN, Grace Criswell b: July 2, 1880 d: Unknown .............. 2 SEAMAN, Albert J. b: November 15, 1882 d: Unknown in Nickerson, KS .................. +COULTER, Edith M b: Unknown m: Unknown d: Unknown .............. 2 SEAMAN, Arthur b: Abt. 1887 d: March 26, 1889 in Nickerson, KS .............. 2 SEAMAN, Bertha Mae b: January 16, 1890 in Nickerson, Kansas d: March 6, 1954 .................. +PARKER, Albert Veron b: Unknown m: January 16, 1906 in Kansas d: April 12, 1959

I'm forwarding this from Joan who I hope will join us in our search for our Seaman ancestors: I am so glad I found this list! I have exhausted every resource I could = > think of. My great grandmother was Sarah A. Seaman, born April 10, 1846 = > in Peru,Madison County, Iowa; she died October 10, 1926. She married = > Joseph Sylvester Milburn on December 22, 1874 in Cedar Mines, Iowa. I = > think her parents were William Seaman and Jucilla Ross. Might anyone = > on this list know about this line of Seamans? > Thank you so very much, > Joan Hanlon > Denver, CO Carolyn Mussina Seaman Kinderhook, NY <gregseaman@berk.com>

Descendants of William Seaman 1 [1] SEAMAN, William b: July 12, 1835 in Liverpool, England d: November 3, 1893 in Hutchinson, Reno Co., Kansas .. +UNKNOWN b: Unknown m: Abt. 1855 in prob. England d: Unknown .............. 2 SEAMAN, Alice b: April 1856 in England d: May 9, 1948 in Decatur, IL *2nd Wife of [1] William Seaman: .. +ELLIOT, Caroline Low b: November 9, 1836 in England m: August 27, 1865 in West Hackney, County of Middlesex, England d: January 4, 1894 in Hutchinson, Reno Co., Kansas .............. 2 SEAMAN, Sarah Ann b: March 22, 1865 in Bow District, Poplar, Middlesex, England d: April 8, 1916 in Brewster, WA .................. +ALEXANDER, George Watterman b: August 18, 1852 in Kane Co., IL m: January 30, 1879 in Bonner Springs, KA d: March 27, 1935 in Spokane, WA .............. 2 SEAMAN, Henry Edward b: February 17, 1869 in England d: May 8, 1952 .................. +ATKINSON, Effie b: February 9, 1875 m: Unknown d: July 29, 1954 in buried at Waynoka, Oklahoma .............. 2 SEAMAN, Emma b: November 12, 1873 d: January 12, 1894 in Hutchinson, KS .............. 2 SEAMAN, William S. b: January 21, 1875 in Boner Springs, KS d: November 3, 1893 in Boner Springs, KS .............. 2 SEAMAN, John F. b: September 17, 1879 in Arlington, Kansas d: May 9, 1948 .................. +CRISWELL, H Grace b: July 2, 1880 in Illinois m: Unknown d: July 17, 1966 .............. 2 SEAMAN, Grace Criswell b: July 2, 1880 d: Unknown .............. 2 SEAMAN, Albert J. b: November 15, 1882 d: Unknown in Nickerson, KS .................. +COULTER, Edith M b: Unknown m: Unknown d: Unknown .............. 2 SEAMAN, Arthur b: Abt. 1887 d: March 26, 1889 in Nickerson, KS .............. 2 SEAMAN, Bertha Mae b: January 16, 1890 in Nickerson, Kansas d: March 6, 1954 .................. +PARKER, Albert Veron b: Unknown m: January 16, 1906 in Kansas d: April 12, 1959

New info on my (by this time) illustrious James G. SEAMAN. I knew he was m in Westchester Co NY in the Yorktown area in 1822 to Mary CRONK/KRUNK. Both were b abt 1801. His parents are unknown, hers were Corneil/Cornelius and Fanny CRONK/KRUNK. Now I have a more exact location. The marriage took place in the Presbyterian Church, Crompond Rd. in Yorktown Heights NY. Hopefully this will shed a bit more light on my mystery person and set off an alarm in someone's head. Does ANYONE have any ideas on this man ?????????? Terry === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

> Subject: [SEAMAN-L] Family Search > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:39:57 -0600 > From: cherylewaterman <cherylewaterman@chicago.avenew.com> > To: SEAMAN-L@rootsweb.com > > How does one access the Family Search site? It needs a user name and > password. Cheryl I received the following from a correspondent: >>I just now called the LDS folks about the password. >>This particular web site is restricted to those people who are developing >>the software only. They tell me that when the actual site is open it will >>be open to all for about 3 weeks initially. Then closed again for a while >>as they work out the bugs. Mike in Oregon

How does one access the Family Search site? It needs a user name and password. Cheryl

Try this one. http://www.public.usit.net/mruddy Terry === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

After further reading of other e-messages and trying it more myself, I discover that the only part currently accessible is the Library Catalogue. Found 55 entries under Seaman, most of which I have not hear of before! Carolyn Mussina Seaman Kinderhook, NY <gregseaman@berk.com>

The FHL is online: http://eval.familysearch.com/default.asp No problems accessing the site but have had some difficulties using it. Nevertheless, it is there until Mar 28, according to the onsite information. Good hunting!! Carolyn Mussina Seaman Kinderhook, NY <gregseaman@berk.com>

Following are sites for SOME cemeteries in PA, it is not a complete list. Hope someone can use these. Terry For Allegheny County Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/allegheny/cemet.htm For Armstrong County Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/armstrong/cemet.htm For Bedford Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/bedford/cemet.htm For Berks Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/berksp/cemet.htm For Bradford County Pennsylvania Archives 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/bradfop.html For Bucks Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/bucksp/cemet.htm For Cameron County Pennsylvania Archives 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/cameroz.html For Carbon County Pennsylvania Archives 3 cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/carbonp.html For Centre County Pennsylvania Archives 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/centrez.html For Chester Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/chester/cemet.htm For Columbia County Pennsylvania Archives 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/columbp.html For Cumberland Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/cumberland/cemet.htm For Dauphin County Pennsylvania Archives 4 cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/dauphip.html For Erie County Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/erie/cemet.htm For Fayette County Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/cemet.htm For Forest County Pennsylvania Archives 2 cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/forestz.html For Franklin Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/franklin/cemet.htm For Greene County Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/greene/cemet.htm For Huntingdon Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/cemet.htm For Indiana Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/indiana/cemet.htm For Juniata Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/juniata/cemet.htm For Lancaster Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lancaster/cemet.htm For Lebanon County Pennsylvania Archives 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lebanop.html For Lehigh Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lehigh/cemet.htm For Luzerne Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/luzerne/cemet.htm For Monroe County Pennsylvania Archives 4 cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/monroep.html For Montgomery County Pennsylvania Archives 3 cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/montgop.html For Northampton County Pennsylvania Archives 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/northap.html For Northumberland Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/northumberp/cemet.htm For Perry County Pennsylvania Archives 11 cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/perryp.html For Philadelphia Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/philadelphia/cemet.htm For Schuylkill Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/schuylkill/cemet.htm For Snyder County Pennsylvania Archives 3 cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/snyderp.html For Somerset County Cemetery Records http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/somerset/cemet.htm For Venango County Archives 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/venangz.html For Washington County Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/washington/cemet.htm For Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/westmoreland/cemet.htm For York Archives - Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/york/cemetery.htm For Out of State Cemeteries with Keystone State 1 cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/cemet.htm To search for other info in the State of Pa http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/pafiles.htm#State search sites http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm (about 5000 files) for PA plus every other states http://vitalrec.com/index.html (vital records) http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi/advanced.htm (social security records) === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Try out this site. It searches War of 1812 vets. www.sierra.com/sierrahome/familytree/records/w1812/list/1,2824,,00.html Terry === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

-----Original Message----- From: Ron Yielding <norgni@gte.net> To: SEAMAN-L@rootsweb.com <SEAMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 3:14 PM Subject: [SEAMAN-L] Hallock & Roberts >Interested in contacts with persons who have a Roberts connection to >Whitson, Willis, Powell, Pearsall, and Seaman; and a Hallock >connection to Powell etc., and to Willets, Cole and Hawkhurst. My >source is "Long Island Genealogies", and I would like to learn of >other published genealogies of some of these surnames, to confirm the >links. I can help with Roberts and Hallock, but not much else, except >Winslow, which does connect to Roberts, and ascends through many >generations of Quakers from Indiana to North Carolina. > >Thanks, > >Ron Yielding >Palm Springs, CA Descendants of James Pratt Roberts Generation No. 1 1. James Pratt1 Roberts. He married Hannah Bell. Child of James Roberts and Hannah Bell is: + 2 i. Samuel Price2 Roberts. Generation No. 2 2. Samuel Price2 Roberts (James Pratt1). He married Jemima Seaman January 1828, daughter of Daniel Seaman and Susannah Knight. Marriage Notes for Samuel Roberts and Jemima Seaman: Jemina Seaman married Samuel Price Roberts, lived in Newton, NJ, and had three children: Children of Samuel Roberts and Jemima Seaman are: 3 i. James3 Roberts, born September 19, 1829. He married Rhoda Cass. 4 ii. Susannah Roberts, born January 2, 1833; died 1908. She married Whitmart D. Steele. + 5 iii. Sarah Catherine Roberts, born June 1, 1835; died September 23, 1905. Generation No. 3 5. Sarah Catherine3 Roberts (Samuel Price2, James Pratt1) was born June 1, 1835, and died September 23, 1905. She married Radolphus Robbins, son of Nathan Robbins and Laura Nash. Marriage Notes for Sarah Roberts and Radolphus Robbins: Sarah Catherine Roberts married Radolphus Robbins. They lived in Upper Sandusky, OH and had three children. Child of Sarah Roberts and Radolphus Robbins is: 6 i. Carrie E.4 Robbins, born in Upper Sandusky, OH (Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 53, page 420, Mrs. Carrie E. Vrooman. DAR ID Number: 52904 Born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Wife of George W. Vrooman. Descendant of Micah Seaman, Peter Knight, Samuel Nash, and Elisha Nash. [p.420] Daughter of Rudolphus Robbins and Sarah Catharine Roberts, his wife. Granddaughter of Nathan P. Robbins and Laura Nash, his wife; Samuel P. Roberts and Jemimah Seaman, his wife. Gr-granddaughter of Samuel Nash and Vashti Pierre, his wife; Daniel Seaman and Susannah Knight, his wife. Gr-gr-granddaughter of Elisha Nash and Lois Frost, his wife; Micah Seaman and Jemimah Ball, his wife; Peter Knight and Catharine Raub, his wife. Micah Seaman served as a private, 1775, in the Orange County, New York, militia. He was born on Long Island, 1748; died in Bucks County, Pa. Peter Knight served as a private, 1781, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania. He lived in Bucks County. Also No. 31820. Samuel Nash (1760-1823) served in Capt. Reuben Dickinson's company, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's Massachusetts regiment. He was born in Granby, Mass.; died in Dover, Athens County, Ohio. Elisha Nash (1729-1814) served in the Hampshire County, Massachusetts militia. He was born in Granby, Mass.). She married George W. Vrooman (Source: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 52, page 420.).

In the Order of the Founders and Patriots lineage book, it states that Christopher Hawkhurst "perhaps came on the Winthrop Fleet 1630. Salem (Mass) 1630, Ipswich 1630, Warwick 1655, Pawtuxet, Oyster Bay 1665. Deputy". Source Record 32:172 (desc). Can anyone elaborate on the above? Thanks, Ron Yielding Palm Springs, CA

In the Order of the Founders and Patriots lineage book, it states that John Seaman was born ca 1606. One of this name came on Winthrop Fleet 1630. Wethersfield (Conn). 1640 perhaps earlier, Stamford 1641. Hemstead 1643.d. by 20 Mar 1695. Captain of the Queens Co. troops. Proprietor. Magistrate. Source Seaman Family in America 1628. Can anyone elaborate on the above

Interested in contacts with persons who have a Roberts connection to Whitson, Willis, Powell, Pearsall, and Seaman; and a Hallock connection to Powell etc., and to Willets, Cole and Hawkhurst. My source is "Long Island Genealogies", and I would like to learn of other published genealogies of some of these surnames, to confirm the links. I can help with Roberts and Hallock, but not much else, except Winslow, which does connect to Roberts, and ascends through many generations of Quakers from Indiana to North Carolina. Thanks, Ron Yielding Palm Springs, CA

Has anyone researched the church records at St. Georges Church in Hempstead? This was the only place of worship in the early years of Hempstead and they may have the information needed to clear up the controversy surrounding Captain John's wives. Sue TITUS-MICKLEY

FYI - > ----Original Message----- > From: Virginia Ewing [mailto:vewing@ctesc.net] > Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 5:00 PM > Subject: LDS FAMILY SEARCH COMING SOON > > As the director of a LDS Family History Center, I have received a notice > from Salt Lake LDS FHL, announcing the Beta testing of Family Search on > line. It is not yet up, a problem with a piece of equipment, but will > be starting sometime this month and will be up only a few weeks as a > test run. > > If there is not a lot of interest it will be taken off and not put back > on. So spread the word and keep trying to get through. When it comes on > line the URL will be: http://www.familysearch.org > > I have not been told exactly what will be available but know at least > the Ancestral File and Family History Library Catalog will be included. > > Family Search is the name of the program we have on CDs in all LDS FHCs. > Some public libraries also have this program. FS includes the IGI, > Ancestral File, Family History Library Catalog, Social Security Death > Records, Koran and Vietnam war death records, and Scottish Church > Records. > > For those of you not familiar with the various searches, the IGI is the > International Genealogical Index. It includes, in alphabetical order, > all of the names that have been sent to the Temples to have ordinances > performed in their name. > > Names in the IGI are usually submitted by members, but not always. > Non-members also submit their family names to get them into the IGI. > Some of the marriages may have been part of extraction programs. The > names were taken from courthouse records and checked and rechecked by > several volunteers before being accepted as correct. > > Most people do try to send in accurate information but there are many > mistakes. My advice is, always check the original source. Use the IGI > to find where people with your surname would have lived and order the > census and court records from that area. > > Ancestral File is Gedcoms of group and pedigree sheets sent in by > members and non-members. The name and address of the submitter is > included and hopefully will allow you to contact others working on your > line. If the address is out of date sometimes a letter to the Membership > dept. in Salt Lake will get you a correct address if the person was a > member of the LDS church. > > Once again, the material is only as good as the research that went into > it and some of it is pretty bad. Check it out before you 'adopt' it. > > If you find a mistake on Ancestral File, you can send in your corrections, > along with your sources of proof, and it will be noted in the next update. > The first submitter does not have to provide proof, but you do, if you are > making a correction. You can add additions to a file, or submit a new > file. You do not have to be a member to submit material. > > The Family History Library Catalog is a listing of every book, film and > fiche available at the Salt Lake City LDS Family History Library. This > allows us to find what is available for each locality, world-wide. It > includes the FHL call numbers and a description of what is included in the > film/fiche or book. > > The material from the books and film/fiche will not be on line. That is > not something they can do, at this time. Hopefully it will be a > possibility some time in the distant future. > > The film and fiche will still have to be ordered through FHC. Microfilm > and microfiche are the property of the FHL and are sent into the care of > the LDS FHC director and must remain under her/his care until returned. > For this reason they are never allowed to be taken from the LDS FHC. > > Almost all of the microfilm and microfiche at the LDS Family History > Library in Salt Lake City can be ordered into any LDS FHL, anywhere in > the world, but there are a few exceptions. Copyright laws prevent them > from using material without the written consent of the owner. Some of the > film and fiche where filmed by companies other than the LDS Church and > permission to circulate these film to LDS FHCs has been denied. There > will be a notice included in the description, saying it can not be > circulated. Many of the SC microfilm where made by a company who has > refused permission to allow the film to be circulated, but there are many > microfilm available for SC, some covering the same material that is on > the restricted film. > > The LDS FHL is a non-profit organization, and that is why it still cost > only 15 cents a sheet for a microfiche, $3.25 plus tax to rent a > microfilm for a month [may be more in other countries] and the > SourceGuide and other home use programs are sold at such a reasonable > price. We aren't allowed to make a profit, even in the FHCs. > > The books that are listed are not loaned out but can sometimes be > obtained through an Inter-library loan through your public library. > You can request copies of pages and if a book is indexed, by ordering the > index you can see if your people would have been listed. In cases where > the copyright has expired the book may have been filmed or can be filmed > upon request. Never hurts to ask. > > Virginia Ewing vewing@ctesc.net > listowner: Gober, Perry, Ashley & MSWilkin[son] co, MS > search the mailing list archives at > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl< From: "TIAKI" <TIAKI@prodigy.net> Carolyn Mussina Seaman Kinderhook, NY <gregseaman@berk.com>

If you haven't looked here yet, try this website for more than a couple of ship lists. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html Terry === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

-----Original Message----- From: Ron Yielding <norgni@gte.net> To: seaman-l@rootsweb.com <seaman-l@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 4:35 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Capt. John Seaman >Seeking descending line of immigrant Captain John Seaman and Martha >Moore, with connection of daughter Mary to Thomas Pearsall. These were >Long Island Families. Rank of Captain is of interest. > >Ron Yielding >Palm Springs, CA > >

The following is an article from the Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, Pa. Sunday February 13, 1994 Lincoln Recruited Stroudsburg Man for Civil War duty. On the final afternoon of September, 1864, young John Summerfield Staples of Stroudsburg was strolling leisurely along Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, D.C., with his father, the Rev. John L. Staples. Father and son were temporarily away from home in wartime, working at the nearby Washington Navy Yard. The younger Staples, who had just turned 20, did not know any one was looking for him that Friday afternoon. He had no idea his life would be altered forever before his walk ended. A man approached and introduced himself as a military draft official, and asked young Staples whether he would volunteer for service in the Union Army. That was not an unusual request at the time, nor was his answer " yes". It was also not unusual for the stranger to ask the father's permission to draft his son, who was not yet 21. The chance meeting, however, was extraordinary in several respects. The stranger, for one, was Noble D. Larner, president of the Third Ward Draft Club in the District of Columbia. And Larner was on a special mission: He had himself been approached a few days earlier by Provost General James B. Frey, and instructed to scour the White House neighborhood in search of a " suitable recruit." Frey's instructions came from the top: President Abraham Lincoln. Larner, accompanied by several other draft officials, had found the President this man. And Staples, who would meet Lincoln the very next day, would enjoy a peculiar kind of celebrity. Staples, is often believed to have served as a Civil War substitute for Lincoln. But that is not so, because Lincoln was not technically eligible to serve in the Union Army. Staples' selection on Lincoln's behalf instead was in keeping with a policy that the President himself had instituted. In a directive, Lincoln had called upon officeholders in his administration who, like himself, were not eligible for military service, to recruit volunteers in their stead. Staples was, in official terms, a recruit. This one event in his life call it " The Lincoln Event" was eventually to make J. Summerfield Staples a civil War celebrity. That event occurred on Oct. 1, 1864, the day after the young man was spotted by Larner. After shaking hands with Summerfield, Lincoln remarked that he was a good looking, stout and healthy-appearing young man, and believed he would do his duty. Staples, had in fact already done his duty, having enlisted in the Army in 1862, at age 18, as a paid substitute for Robert A. Barry of Monroe County. Staples had even seen combat, with the 176th Pennsylvania Drafted Military Infantry. He was discharged in May, 1863, after contracting an illness. But Staples did his duty a second time - even if, by Civil War story standards, it was unremarkable and relatively brief. As a member of the Second District of Columbia Regiment, Staples' Union Army tour was spent in the Washington, D.C. area ( among other things, he was a guard at the Prince Street Prison in nearby Alexandria, Va.) He became ill again the following spring and was allowed to go home to recuperate. The war ended while he was home, and his military career came to an end less than a year after it had begun, on Sept. 12, 1865. Staples lived to be only 43 years old, and his celebrity is peculiar because it was not until after he died that he was widely recognized. Within days after his meeting with Lincoln, a story in the New York Herald ensured his immediate celebrity status, while less prominent news items about Lincoln's "representative recruit," appeared in the Washington Star and the New York Tribune. But Staples was curiously ignored by his home town media, even after he returned home and with his father resumed a pre-war wheelwright business. Not until 21 years after his death ( in 1888) did the public, locally and nationally, become genuinely interested in his unique career in the Union Army. And that was only because there was a revival of interest in Lincoln on the 100th anniversary of his birth, in 1909. A year later, the war department spent up to 20,000 dollars to erect a suitable monument to Staples on Court House Square in Stroudsburg, Pa. He has since also been memorialized in print by the famous Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg. === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com