Re: General Joseph Bruff Seth
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General Joseph Bruff Seth
sheila turner 9/03/08
Gen Joseph Bruff Seth I thought the following would be helpful; he is my 5C3R and I'd love to correspond re finding and sharing more Seth infoLouis Sudler
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or 1845“Seth Plot” w Amanda Lurana(B Dickinson) Barnett
Owned “Rich Neck Hotel” managed by William Edmondson Bartlett in 1890, a “lonely winter in Hell”
“I was born on a farm situated on Harris Creek, in Talbot County, Maryland, which is a salt, tidewater stream about three-quarters of a mile in width, running parallel with the Chesapeake Bay and two miles from it. This is a beautiful stream with banks free from marsh. In summer it is a good fishing ground and in winter has excellent gunning. I was one of five boys and stood in the middle.”
Joseph Bruff Seth was born on November 25, 1845) in Bay Hundred district of Talbot county, Md. His father was Alexander Hamilton Seth, a farmer, also a member of the House of Delegates of Maryland in 1844, and his mother was Martha A. Haddaway, daughter of William Haddaway and Ann Kersey. Mr. Seth’s parental ancestor was Nicholas Harvey, who came into the Province in 1634 with Leonard Calvert.…Nicholas Harvey died in 1641, leaving a wife and one daughter, Frances, who married Captain George Beckwith. Augustine Herman, in his map made in 1670, shows the position of a town called Harveytown, named for this Nicholas Harvey, which was probably the second town laid out in the Province.
Barbara Beckwith, the youngest daughter of George and Frances, married Jacobus Seth in 1676. In 1684 Jacobus Seth moved to Talbot county and purchased the property known as “Mount’s Mill.” Jacobus Seth died in 1694 and by his will bequeathed 5,000 pounds of tobacco to the five fathers to say masses for the repose of his soul, which proves that he was a Catholic in faith.
Maryland Manual, 1907-08; Volume 119, Page 298
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Talbot County—JOSEPH B. SETH, Democrat—Easton.
Mr. Seth’s first maternal ancestor was Thomas Impey, who was the first Clerk of the Court of Talbot County, serving from
the organization of the county, in 1660, until his death, in 1684, when he was accidentally killed. Thomas Impey resided on his estate in Bay Hundred District, called “Cromwell,” which he purchased from one Richard Cromwell, who had first taken patent for the said land.
There were three Seths in the Revolutionary War, Jacob and Charles, who served in the Fifth Maryland Regiment, and William, who went through the war in the “Armand Legion,” having enlisted in August, 1777, and being discharged March 23, 1783. At the time of his discharge the Legion was [had been] reduced to a handful of men, he, as sergeant, being the ranking officer. This was the only cavalry force that went into the Southern campaign, and they fought regularly from Camden to Yorktown.
Maryland Manual, 1906-07, Volume 118, Page 290
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One of eight or nine Swedish or Danish settlers in Delaware [Scharp's History of Delaware]. Patent of land can be found in page 245 of "Records 1656-1779," Office of Recorder of Deeds, Dover, DE. He was a fervent Roman Catholic, and in his will desired to be buried by "Roman Priest" if one were to be found in Maryland.
In 1685 Peter Sayer brought another Catholic into the Wye area in the person of Jacobus Seth. The Seths made their home on the Back Wye at Mount Mill, a tract owned by Seth's descendants for the next 200 years. Mount Mill was a Mass station. Charles Seth, the eldest son, operated mills at Mount Mill, at Island Creek in Queen Anne County, and at Tuckahoe in Caroline County.
"CATHOLICS ON THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND"
An Article by Reverend Thomas J. Peterman
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