Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 538. P1 (343) 6/22/51 JOHN SEAMAN. The following is from "The Seaman Family in America", by Mary Thomas Seaman, New York, 1928. Captain John Seaman was born in Essex, England, between 1603 and 1610, and died at Hempstead, L.I.: his will was dated August 5/1694, proved March 20/1695. He came to America in 1630 with Winthrop's fleet of ten vessels and 900 emigrants. In 1631-2, John Seaman, Thomas Moore, William Cooper and John Underhill, were cooperating with Captain John Mason, John Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall, to found a settlement in New Hampshire, but were not successful. They were not Pilgrims but were a Puritanic sect still adhereing to the Church of England. They first settled at Salem, Mass., but removed to Watertown to escape a tax which the Massachusetts Bay Colony proposed to levy on all settlers for the purpose of fortifying Newton (now Cambridge). From Watertown they went to Wethersfield, Conn., for a short time, but had some disputes about church matters. In 1636 John Seaman owned two acres of land at Wright's Island, Wethersfield. He then moved to Stamford, Conn., in 1641. In 1646 he was at New Haven at the time of the Pequod War and was in command of a company under Major John Mason: John Strickland was a lieutenant in Captain Seaman's company, who later became Strickland's son in law. John Seaman moved to Hempstead, L.I., in 1647, and was one of the 62 original signers of the Hempstead Land Compact. In 1665 he was a captain in Queen's County Troop of the Province of New York. On October 2/1665 he served on a Grand Jury at Hempstead, in a charge of witchcraft, but let it be recorded to the credit of John Seaman that the accused was not convicted. In 1666 he settled in the village of Jerusalem in the township of Hempstead, and received a patent from Governor Nichols for a considerable tract of land purchased from the Meroke tribe of Indians. His six sons also held land under this patent. He became a Quaker before 1686. He married, 1st, in 1644, Elizabeth Strickland, daughter of John and Jane (---) Strickland of Charlestown, Mass. John Strickland had come to America with the first party of Saltonstalls "Bay Cohorts" to Salem in 1629, which took possession of Charlestown and vicinity in 1630, and was made freeman in 1631. John Strickland and all his family except his son Thwaite, came to Long Island in 1646 and were among the early settlers there. He married, 2nd, in 1655, Martha Moore, born in England but baptized in Salem, Mass., October 21/1639, died 1698, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Youngs) Moore, subject 1078 Issue:- (by his first wife Elizabeth Strickland) 1. John Seaman. Born about 1645, died about 1697. He married Hannah Williams and had eight children. 2. Jonathan Seaman. Born about 1647. He married Jane --- and had nine children. 3. Benjamin Seaman. Born 1649-50, died 1733. He married Martha Titus, born January 1663, daughter of Edmond and Martha (Washburne) Titus. They had ten children, 4. Solomon Seaman, Born 1651, died 1733. He married before 1682, Elizabeth Linnington, daughter of Henry and Katherine (Ellison) Linnington. They had eight children. 5. Elizabeth Seaman. Born 1653. She married Colonel John Jackson, born 1645-50, died 1724-5, son of Robert and Agnes (Washburne) Jackson and had eight children. Subject 538. P2 (344) Issue:- (by his second wife Martha Moore) 6. Samuel Seaman. Born 1668, died 1732. He married in 1695, Phoebe Hicks born 1672, died 1732, daughter of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Doughty) Hicks, see subject 266, page 8 for their 7 children. 7. Thomas Seaman. Died 1724. He married Mary --: 11 children. 8. Nathaniel Seaman. Died October 9/1759. He married on August 9/1615, Rachel Willis, who died August 28/1739, daughter of Henry and Mary (Peace) Willis, and had nine children. 9. Richard Seaman. Born at Hempstead about 1673, died at Westbury, L.I. September 5/1749. He married in 1693-4, Jane Mott, born 1680, died August 21/1759, daughter of Adam and Mary (Stillwell) Mott, see subject 282, page 2. They had fifteen children. 10. Sarah Seaman. She married in 1688, John Mott, born 1658-9, last heard of in 1727, son of Adam and his first wife Jane (Hewlett) Mott, see subject 282, page 2. They had six children. 11. Martha Seaman. Born 1659 (?), died July 6/1712. She married in 1674, Nathaniel Pearsall, who died August 24/1703, son of Henry and Anne (--) Pearsall. They had eleven children. 12. Deborah Seaman. She married before 1694, John Kirk and had two children. 13. Hannah Seaman. The Seaman Genealogy days she married before 1660, John Carman, born July 8/1632, died 1684. This is proved incorrect in Henry Alanson Tredwell's Genealogy of John Carman, Brooklyn, 1946, which states that the Hannah who married John Carman was born in 1636, last name unknown, but of some other Hempstead family: his proof is the fact that John Carman had no daughter Hannah, see subject 536, page 1. This Hannah Seaman was the unnamed 14th child of John and Martha (Moore) Seaman, who the Seaman Genealogy says married Caleb Carman, born about 1658, died 1720-1729, son of John and Hannah (---) Carman, subject 536, page 2, for their issue and further particulars. 14. Daughter, unnamed, which the Seaman Genealogy wrongly says married Caleb Carman, see above child 13. 15. Daughter, unnamed, died before 1695, unmarried. 16. Mary Seaman. She married Thomas Pearsall, son of Henry and Anne (Valentine) Pearsall, and had one son Henry, born 1690, died 1750, who married in 1717, Mary Titus, daughter of John and Sarah Titus.