----- Original Message ----- From: Maynard Seaman To: Jim Rubins Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 7:54 AM Subject: Capt. John Seaman descendents Dear Jim, Greetings from the Black Hills of South Dakota. We recently visited Swarthmore College Library near Philedelphia at the suggestion of the National Archives Lirbrary in Washington DC, and perused your book on "Decendents of Captain John Seaman of Hempstead, Long Island, New York" We were searching for reference to John M. Seaman, who was born about 1807 in New York and moved to Randolph Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania and homesteaded beside George Cutshall and married George's daughter, Nancy Ann on March 3, 1842. John died November 3, 1877 in Meadville, PA but we have not been able to locate his burial site. His wife Nancy Ann moved with the children (9 of them) to Spink County, South Dakota, settled there and homesteaded in Harrison Township. We would like to know if John was a descendent of Captain John, but have not been able to make a definite connection. On the other side of George Cutshall in 1870 Census and 1865 homestead map, lived Sylvester H. Seaman, who married another daughter of George and Jane Sterling Cutshall, Mary Jane. The Cutshalls and Sylvester and his wife along with a Thomas Seaman and wife Delight are all buried in the Radle Cemetery a few miles north of Guys Mill, PA in Randolph Twp. We have not been! able to make a definite family relationship between Sylvester H. and John Seaman. The LDS files indicate that Thomas Seaman who married Delight is the father of Sylvester, and he is the son of Samuel Seaman and Mary Birdsall. We didn't, however, find this mirrored in your book. If you could shed any further light on any of these relationships we would indeed be grateful, Sincerely, Maynard Seaman great grandson of John M. Seaman