Robert Seeley, Seely, Seelye, or Ciely, was an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who helped establish Watertown, Wethersfield, and New Haven.
15 Facts About Robert Seeley
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Robert Seeley served as second-in-command to John Mason in the Pequot War.
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Robert Seeley was born in Bluntisham-cum-Earith, Huntingdonshire, England in 1602.
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In 1623 Robert moved to London, where he became an apprentice cordwainer.
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Robert Seeley married Mary Heath Mason, widow of William Heath, widow of Walter Mason, in 1626 and began attending the church of the Puritan minister John Davenport that same year.
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Robert Seeley employed his training in surveying by laying out many of the plots for the settlers.
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In 1633 or 1634, Robert Seeley joined a ten-man expedition led by John Oldham to the Connecticut River.
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Robert Seeley served as second-in-command to Captain John Mason in the war.
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Robert Seeley was severely wounded by an arrow to the head in an attack on a Pequot fort along the Mystic River.
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When his old friend John Davenport arrived in Massachusetts, Robert Seeley joined his group and helped establish the New Haven Colony in 1638.
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Robert Seeley served as New Haven's first town marshal and lieutenant of the militia.
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Robert Seeley was generally known in the community as Lieutenant Seeley.
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Robert Seeley participated in Theophilus Eaton's exploratory expedition in Long Island Sound.
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In 1659 Robert Seeley briefly returned to England, living there until 1662 when he returned to the New World and settled in New Amsterdam on Long Island.
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In 1695 his heirs received 40 acres of land in Watertown, resolving a suit which Robert Seeley had filed 60 years earlier after settling in Wethersfield.