Thomas Seaman1
M, b. circa 1656, d. before 29 December 1724
Thomas was born circa 1656 in Town of Hempstead, Long Island, New Netherlands. He was the son of Captain John Seaman and Martha Moore. Thomas married Mary (?) circa 1674 in Hempstead Town, Queens County, Long Island, New York. He & his family resided in Jerusalem, Hempstead Township, Queens Co., L.I., New York. Thomas and Mary had children: Thomas [1675] [m. Mary], Richard [m. Hannah Jackson], Samuel, Isaac, Mary, John, Abigail [m. Samuel Jackson], Nathaniel. 31 August 1698, Thomas and Mary and his wife, [ROF:Hempstead Town] were listed on the Hempstead Town Census. Enumerated in this household were Thomas Seaman, Mary, Thomas, Richard, Samuel, Isaac, Mary, John, Abigail, Nathaniel, Mary Wood. Thomas made his will on 14 November 1722 at Jerusalem, Hempstead Town, Queens County, Long Island, New York.
I Thomas Seaman of Hempstead in Queens County on Nassau Island Yeaman Do makde and ordain this my Last Will and Testament That is to say principally and First of all I do give and recommend my Soul into the hand of God that Gave it and my body I do commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named and as touching my Wordily Estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me Withal in this Life I do give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form – Imprimus I Will that all such Just debts as I do owe to and person or persons shall be well and truly paid and contented by my Executors hereafter Named – Item Iv do give and bequeath unto my Loving Wife four cows twelve sheep two horses and two mares. Item I do give and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Seaman and unto his heirs and assigns for Ever th Lot of Land where his house now stands that I have given him a deed for – Item I do give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever the Lot of Land that runs Across the East run where his house now Stand – Item I give unto my son John Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever the Lot of Land that runs across the East Run where his house now Stands – Item I give and bequeath unto my son John Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever my household and Dwelling house and barn and all the land over in the neck So called and Swamp pasture so called – Item I do give unto my son Samuel Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever a piece of Land and fresh meadow that was Solomon Seamans that lyeth on the West Sie of the neck between the Indian path an my own Lott of Land – Item I do give unto my Son John Seaman and to his heirs and assigns for Ever my Lot of Land with the piece of Fresh meadow thereunto belonging that lyeth on the Wet side of Seaman’s Neck so called above the Cross New fence – Item I do give unto my three Sons and unto their heirs and assign forever all my meadow both salt and fresh upon the neck and Island Viz; my sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman to be equally divided amongst them all – Item I give unto my son Nathaniel Seaman the full sum of fifty pounds of Current money of New York t br pai unto him by my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman in form and manner following of hereafter mentioned – Item I do give unto my son Silvanus Seaman the full and Just sum of fifty pounds to Currant money of New York to be paid unto him by my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman as it shall hereinafter be mentioned – Item my will is that my Loving Wife Mary Seaman shall have the Southern room of my old house and the new East room that is built on the East side of my old house during her widowhood and the use of the equal third part of all my homestead the Swamp pasture and the Land over in the neck and the use of one half of the barn During her widowhood and the use of the equal third part of all my meadow both on the neck and Island and use of the equal third part of the Land within the neck that I have given my son John during her Widdowhood with a privilege to cut Timber on any of my Land – Item I do give unto my three Sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman and their heirs and assigns forever all the remaining part of my Land both in the pattern of my father John seaman Deceased and in the undeeded Land in the Township of Hempstead to be equally divided amongst all – Item I do give unto my daughter Hannah Seaman one feather bed and furniture and one Iron pot Six plates Three platters two Basons one drinking pot one Cupboard worth three pounds and Six chairs three Cows Six Ewes and one Table – Item I do give and bequeath unto my grandson Isaac Seaman one two year old heifer and one two year old mare – Item I give unto my son John Seaman two oxen – Item I give and bequeath unto my Loving Wife Mary Seaman and unto my Son Samuel Seaman and unto my son John Seaman all my tools and Tackling to be equally divided amongst them all – Item I give unto my son John Seaman ten sheep and to my son Samuel five sheep – Item I give unto my Loving Wife Mary Seaman one feather bed and furniture – Item my will is that my son John Seaman shall pay unto my son Nathaniel Seaman forty pounds of Currant Money of New York within a twelve month after my decease and my Son Samuel Seaman shall pay unto my son Nathaniel Seaman ten pounds of Like Currant as aforesaid within a twelve moth after my decease as aforesaid – Item My will is that my son Thomas Seaman shall pay unto my son Silvanus Seaman Thirty pounds of Currant money of New York with a Twelve month after my decease as aforesaid – Item my will is that my son Samuel Seaman Shall pay unto my son Silvanus Seaman twenty pounds of like money as aforesaid within a twelve month after my decease – Item my will is that if in Case that my Three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman will not the money as aforesaid Then my will is that my two sons Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman and their heirs and assigns forever shall have and enjoy two equal fifth parts of all my below the Cross Fence upon Seamans Neck and the Island to be equally divided between them and the other three fifth parts of the meadow to be Equally divided between my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seamanand their heirs and assigns for ever also my will is that if my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman Will not pay the money unto my two sons Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman as aforesaid then my two sons Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman hall also have and enjoy the equal two fifth part of al my Land upon Seaman’s Neck above the Indian path and the equal two fifth part of all my right of the undivided land in the Township of Hempstead to be equally divided between them and their heirs and assigns forever and the other three fifths to be equally divided between my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman their heirs and assigns forever – Item I give unto my Daughter Abigail Jakson Wife of Samuel Jackson one cupboard – Item my will is one third part of all the remaining part of my moveable shall be equally divided between my Six sons Thomas Seaman Richard Seaman Samuel Seaman John Seaman Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman and the other two third parts be equally divided amongst my four daughters Masry Smith Abigail Jackson Elizabeth Alling and Hannah Seaman – Item I do hereby make ordain constitute an appoint my Loving son Richar Seaman and my two friends Thomas Parsall and Benjamin Seaman Jun. Executors of this my Last Will and Testament. Lastly I do hereby disallow disannul and void all other Wills Legacies and Testaments and Executors by me at any time Willie and bequeathed ratifying allowing this and not other to be my Last Will and Testament IN Witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this fourteenth day of November and in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and twenty two - - -Thomas Seaman - - - Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Thomas Seaman to be his Last will and Testament in the presence of Jacob Seaman James Seaman Solomon Seaman.2
Thomas departed this life in Jerusalem, Hempstead Town. His will was probated on 29 December 1724.
I Thomas Seaman of Hempstead in Queens County on Nassau Island Yeaman Do makde and ordain this my Last Will and Testament That is to say principally and First of all I do give and recommend my Soul into the hand of God that Gave it and my body I do commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named and as touching my Wordily Estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me Withal in this Life I do give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form – Imprimus I Will that all such Just debts as I do owe to and person or persons shall be well and truly paid and contented by my Executors hereafter Named – Item Iv do give and bequeath unto my Loving Wife four cows twelve sheep two horses and two mares. Item I do give and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Seaman and unto his heirs and assigns for Ever th Lot of Land where his house now stands that I have given him a deed for – Item I do give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever the Lot of Land that runs Across the East run where his house now Stand – Item I give unto my son John Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever the Lot of Land that runs across the East Run where his house now Stands – Item I give and bequeath unto my son John Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever my household and Dwelling house and barn and all the land over in the neck So called and Swamp pasture so called – Item I do give unto my son Samuel Seaman and to his heirs and assigns forever a piece of Land and fresh meadow that was Solomon Seamans that lyeth on the West Sie of the neck between the Indian path an my own Lott of Land – Item I do give unto my Son John Seaman and to his heirs and assigns for Ever my Lot of Land with the piece of Fresh meadow thereunto belonging that lyeth on the Wet side of Seaman’s Neck so called above the Cross New fence – Item I do give unto my three Sons and unto their heirs and assign forever all my meadow both salt and fresh upon the neck and Island Viz; my sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman to be equally divided amongst them all – Item I give unto my son Nathaniel Seaman the full sum of fifty pounds of Current money of New York t br pai unto him by my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman in form and manner following of hereafter mentioned – Item I do give unto my son Silvanus Seaman the full and Just sum of fifty pounds to Currant money of New York to be paid unto him by my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman as it shall hereinafter be mentioned – Item my will is that my Loving Wife Mary Seaman shall have the Southern room of my old house and the new East room that is built on the East side of my old house during her widowhood and the use of the equal third part of all my homestead the Swamp pasture and the Land over in the neck and the use of one half of the barn During her widowhood and the use of the equal third part of all my meadow both on the neck and Island and use of the equal third part of the Land within the neck that I have given my son John during her Widdowhood with a privilege to cut Timber on any of my Land – Item I do give unto my three Sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman and their heirs and assigns forever all the remaining part of my Land both in the pattern of my father John seaman Deceased and in the undeeded Land in the Township of Hempstead to be equally divided amongst all – Item I do give unto my daughter Hannah Seaman one feather bed and furniture and one Iron pot Six plates Three platters two Basons one drinking pot one Cupboard worth three pounds and Six chairs three Cows Six Ewes and one Table – Item I do give and bequeath unto my grandson Isaac Seaman one two year old heifer and one two year old mare – Item I give unto my son John Seaman two oxen – Item I give and bequeath unto my Loving Wife Mary Seaman and unto my Son Samuel Seaman and unto my son John Seaman all my tools and Tackling to be equally divided amongst them all – Item I give unto my son John Seaman ten sheep and to my son Samuel five sheep – Item I give unto my Loving Wife Mary Seaman one feather bed and furniture – Item my will is that my son John Seaman shall pay unto my son Nathaniel Seaman forty pounds of Currant Money of New York within a twelve month after my decease and my Son Samuel Seaman shall pay unto my son Nathaniel Seaman ten pounds of Like Currant as aforesaid within a twelve moth after my decease as aforesaid – Item My will is that my son Thomas Seaman shall pay unto my son Silvanus Seaman Thirty pounds of Currant money of New York with a Twelve month after my decease as aforesaid – Item my will is that my son Samuel Seaman Shall pay unto my son Silvanus Seaman twenty pounds of like money as aforesaid within a twelve month after my decease – Item my will is that if in Case that my Three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman will not the money as aforesaid Then my will is that my two sons Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman and their heirs and assigns forever shall have and enjoy two equal fifth parts of all my below the Cross Fence upon Seamans Neck and the Island to be equally divided between them and the other three fifth parts of the meadow to be Equally divided between my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seamanand their heirs and assigns for ever also my will is that if my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman Will not pay the money unto my two sons Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman as aforesaid then my two sons Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman hall also have and enjoy the equal two fifth part of al my Land upon Seaman’s Neck above the Indian path and the equal two fifth part of all my right of the undivided land in the Township of Hempstead to be equally divided between them and their heirs and assigns forever and the other three fifths to be equally divided between my three sons Thomas Seaman Samuel Seaman and John Seaman their heirs and assigns forever – Item I give unto my Daughter Abigail Jakson Wife of Samuel Jackson one cupboard – Item my will is one third part of all the remaining part of my moveable shall be equally divided between my Six sons Thomas Seaman Richard Seaman Samuel Seaman John Seaman Nathaniel Seaman and Silvanus Seaman and the other two third parts be equally divided amongst my four daughters Masry Smith Abigail Jackson Elizabeth Alling and Hannah Seaman – Item I do hereby make ordain constitute an appoint my Loving son Richar Seaman and my two friends Thomas Parsall and Benjamin Seaman Jun. Executors of this my Last Will and Testament. Lastly I do hereby disallow disannul and void all other Wills Legacies and Testaments and Executors by me at any time Willie and bequeathed ratifying allowing this and not other to be my Last Will and Testament IN Witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this fourteenth day of November and in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and twenty two - - -Thomas Seaman - - - Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Thomas Seaman to be his Last will and Testament in the presence of Jacob Seaman James Seaman Solomon Seaman.2
Thomas departed this life in Jerusalem, Hempstead Town. His will was probated on 29 December 1724.