Joseph SEELYE

                   WAS OF NEW MILFORD, CT.  HE AND JOEL HERVEY BUILT A SAWMILL AND POSSIBLY A
GRIST MILL AT THE MOUTH OF ROCKY RIVER.  THEY SOLD THIS TO PARTRIDGE THATCHER,
JOEL'S BROTHER IN LAW.  JOEL HERVEY HAD COM FROM LEBANON WHERE HE MARRIED SARAH
THATCHER.  THEY REMOVED TO SHARON, CT.
ON 26 MAR 1765 JOSEPH SEELYE OF NEW MILFORD, GAVE TO HIS SON JOSEPH SEELYE JR.,
FOR CONSIDERATION OF LOVE AND PARENTAL AFFECTION 13 ACRES SOUTHWARD FROM
EPHRIAM RICHMOND'S PLACE.
15 FEB 1773, JOSEPH SEELYE OF NEW MILFORD SOLD TO HIS SON JUSTUS SEELYE
39 ACRES WITH HIS DWELLING HOUSE AND BARN.  16 FEB 1773, JUSTUS SEELYE OF NEW
MILFORD GAVE HIS FATHER JOSEPH SEELYE A LIFE INTEREST IN THE FARM LOT, HOUSE
AND BARN WHICH JOSEPH HAD DEEDED TO HIM 15 FEB, TO USE DURING HIS NATURAL LIFE
OR THAT OF THANKFUL, HIS WIFE OR THE LONGEST LIVES OF EITHER OF THEM.
20 JULO 1786, EPHRIAM RICHMOND DEEDED TO JOSEPH SEELYE OF NEW MILFORD, 1 ACRE
PURCHASED OF MY HONORED FATHER JOSEPH SEELYE.  12 MAR 1794, JOSEPH SEELYE OF
NEW MILFORD DEEDED LAND IN NEW MILFORD TO HIS GRANDSON, JONATHAN RICHMOND