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Author: Seaman, James N.

Biography:

SEAMAN, James N. (c.1788-1831: ancestry.com)

His birthdate is guesswork, counting back 20 years from his graduation from Middlebury College, Vermont, in the class of 1808. His father may have been James Seaman, a lawyer in Hubbardton VT; the name of his mother is not known. Seaman was active among the Baptists in the northeast and made the ministry his profession. In 1818 he was one of the signatories on a request to found a Baptist Conference in Auburn NY, where his one volume of verse had been published. His first church was in Greenfield NY (1821); he moved to Providence RI in 1825 as pastor of the Second Baptist Church there and served until his death, in Hampton ME, in 1831. He was the editor of the Rhode Island Religious Messenger for a year, 1826-7. He must have married and had at least one child, since there is a record of the marriage of his daughter, but no record has been found of his own marriage nor of the name of his wife. (ancestry.com 6 Sept. 2020; findmypast.com 6 Sept. 2020; Richard Mather Bayles, History of Providence County, Rhode Island [1891] 1: 542)

 

Books written (1):

Auburn NY: printed for the author by Skinner and Crosby, 1816