Lineage of Patience Kemp, wife of Samuel Seabury is often presented in error.

Note the lineage on Samuel Seabury's wife presented on many web pages is wrong. See the correct lineage for Patience Kemp at the Kemp Research Notes and Questions Page. She was the daughter of William Kemp and Elizabeth Partridge. She was only a step-daughter of Thomas Thacher. Many genealogies out there are showing a Patience, daughter of Thomas Thacher and Elizabeth Partridge, having another daughter, named Patience Thacher, who married a William Kemp. This second couple is fictitious and never existed. You can do the math and easily see that scenario could not have happened. Thomas Thacher and Elizabeth Partridge married in 1643. Patience Kemp and Samuel Seabury married in 1660, just seventeen year later.
 
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EXCERPT: History of New London, Connecticut, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, 1895:

Pg 419, (** Could this be a descendant of our Samuel Seabury? **) "Groton being a large town.... the northern part, by permission of the legislature, withdrew and organized a second ecclasiastical society. The first recorded meeting of this society was held at the house of Capt. John Morgan, Jan 3rd, 1726/6. The first preacher to this society was Mr. Samuel SEABURY, then a young man just assuming the sacred office. He was not ordained or settled, and remained with them only ten weeks; having preached four Sabbaths at Capt. John Morgan's, four at William Morgan's, and two at Ralph Stoddard's. At the expiration of his term or soon afteward, he declared himself a convert to the doctrines of the Church of England and crossed the ocean to obtain Episcopal ordination. He returned to this country commissioned as a resident missionary to the Episcopal church in New London. Mr. SEABURY was a native of Groton, born July 8th, 1706.   ...... Several preachers succeeded Mr. SEABURY; each engaged but for a limited time. No minister was settled until 1729."

(Note: He was of vintage to be a grandson, or great grandson, of our ancestor, Samuel Seabury, born 1640.)

"Of what family was Rev. Samuel of Groton and New London? Was he father of Samuel, D. D., born 1728, Yale College 176=51, first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US? - See American Loyalists, and Alden's Epitaphs."

English Origins of New England Families, Selected by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1984, Pg 716:

"The will of Sarah Horbin, widow, of St. Michael's parish, Barbados, 28 Jun 1697. To son Joseph Harbin. To daughter Elizabeth Waite. To son Robert Waite. To her husband. To cousin Grace Lane, daughter of my brother Ralph Lane, gent. To son John Harbin property in St. Michael's. A bequest to "Samuel, Elizabeth, Hannah, John, Joseph, and Mark Seabury by six cousins in Duxbury in New England." Proved 26 November 1697.

[The Horibins of Barbados were connected with the Oistins of Christ Church parish and the Emperours of Christ Church parish and of Lower Norfolk, Va. For Seabury, see Savage, Gen. Dict., vol 4, pp 43-4, and Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, p 405.]

Note the list includes a Mark. The only way that fits with the kids we know is to the Martha. If either one is wrong and meant the other. Might be easy to misread a Mark for a Martha.

This also means that the others would probably not been alive in 1697: Sarah, Grace, Patience, and the posthumous child referred to in Duxbury history. Grace and Patience are referred to in the Duxbury history as died at birth.

So, the question lingers, how is the person who made this will a cousin to the Seabury kids??
 
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I have run across a reference to this book. Wonder who he is?
 
Man Who Rode The Tiger; The Life And Times Of Judge Samuel Seabury, By: Mitgang, Herbert

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