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THE SEELYS OF NEW BRUNSWICK by Harold N. Fanjoy and C. G. Ward, First Edition, Saint John, N.B.,1992. 414 pages, on heavy paper, 8½ x 11, with several b&w photos. Surnames other than Seely occurring more than ten times in the index are: Anderson, Appleby, Bailey, Baldwin, Barton, Baxter, Brittainy, Brown, Campbell, Carter, Christensen, Clark(e), Cook(e), Cooper, Crawford, DeWhirst, DeWitt, Dingee, Draper, Elliot(t), Ellis, Erickson, Fanjoy, Fisher, Frandsen, Guymon, Hanson, Harris, Haskell, Henderson, Hicks, Hillier, Hoyt, Hunter, Jackson, Jamieson, Jensen, Johnson, Jones, Jorgenson, Karr, Keith, Knowles, Larsen, Lindsay, Lynch, Madsen, Marks, Martin, Miller, Moore, Murray, McDonald, McKechnie, McLeod, McNaughton, Neilson, Nelson, Nichols, Olsen, Patterson, Peel, Peterson, Rogers, Scott, Scow, Sellars, Sibert, Smith, Stevens, Stewart, Taylor, Thayn, Thomas, Thompson, Tidwell, Titus, Tuttle, Tyerman, Ward, Westgate, White, Wilcox, Williams, Wilson, Wortman, and Young. .
A little bit of information about one Seely who left New Brunswick, Canada . Ebenezer Seely was born in New Windsor, N.Y., and landed in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada with the Loyalists in 1783. His wife, Bethia, was the daughter of Josiah Gilbert of Cornwall Precinct, Orange County, N.Y. They had five children. One of their sons, Caleb Seely, was born in 1787 and died in 1847 at Liverpool, Nova Scotia His wife was Phoebe Collins. Caleb Seely was considered the most successful privateer on the Atlantic Coast. He was the Captain of the Liverpool Packet. The original home in Liverpool has been turned into a historic site. Caleb and Phoebe Seely had three sons and two daughters. One of their daughters, Ellen Matilda Seely, married Moore Fred Agnew. It is interesting to note that Captain David Seely of New Brunswick took a load of gold seekers to Australia. He was accompanied by his family. The family stayed in Australia and their descendants drifted to New Zealand.
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