Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:18:44 EDT
From: WayneLII@aol.com

Richard was the son of Richard Seaman and Jane Mott. I think his wife was 
Sarah Searing, but not completely sure as the Long Island Genealogy has his 
son Richard married to Sarah Searing.

Abstracts of Wills Vol IV 1744-1753, pages 387-389:
Page 115.--I, RICHARD SEAMAN, of Herricks, in the bounds of the town of 
Hempstead, in Queens County, yeoman, "being this 15th day of the 5th month, 
1751, but weak and infirm in body." My executors are to pay all debts and 
funeral expenses. I leave to my wife Sarah £100 in lieu of dower, and one of 
the choicest of my horses, and a feather bed and furniture, "and my best 
riding Sheas" (Chaise) and her side saddle, and my negro woman named "Post." 
"All my flax, wool, yarn, and cloth is to be for the use of my wife and 
family for their clothing, in the same manner as if I had been living." I 
leave to my wife Sarah, and my two brothers in law, Isaac Doughty and 
Benjamin Dusenbury, £100, for the use of my daughter Mary, wife of Richbell 
Mott. I also leave to my daughter, Mary Mott, the use of the house I bought 
of Sering (Searing) and £5 to repair the house, and the use of 1/2 an acre of 
land enclosed before the south door, and fire wood for her use, and the use 
of two cows, and a horse, and my negro woman "Dinah." "All these she is to 
have during the time she doth or shall live separate from her husband, 
Richard Mott, or if he should die, then to her use during her widowhood." I 
leave to my daughter Sarah, late wife of Joseph Lake, 50; and to her two 
daughters, Sarah and Mary Lake, £50. I leave to my grand daughter, Elizabeth 
Mott, 20. I leave to my wife Sarah the rents and profits of all my dwelling 
houses where I now dwell, and the use of 2/3 of my barns, and the use of 1/2 
of the lands "that I bought of the Lees," and the use of 2/3 of all other 
lands and meadows, during her widowhood, and the use of two negro men, and 
all household goods, and the interest of all my money that I have at 
interest, except as hereafter stated. I order my executors to build for my 
son Richard a dwelling house, and he is to take the time and trouble of 
building the same, and the executors are to pay the cost out of the money I 
have at interest. "The bigness of the house to be at the discretion of my 
executors." I also leave to my son Richard 3 cows, 2 horses, 1/2 of my oxen, 
and 1/4 of my sheep; I also leave him 1/2 of the lands and improvements I 
bought of the Lees, and 1/3 of all other lands at my decease, and the rest 
after the death of my wife (except the house left to my daughter, Mary Mott); 
Also a negro boy and 1/4 of the present crop, and 2/3 to my wife." "As to the 
grain in stack and Indian corn, my son is to have sufficient for his use, and 
the rest to my wife." I leave to my son Richard 1/3 of all book debts. Of all 
the rest of my estate, I leave 1/2 to my wife, to go to my son Richard after 
her decease, and 1/2 to my daughter Sarah Lake. I leave £5, to be paid to 
Nathaniel Parsell or William Mott for the use of the Monthly Meeting at 
Westbury. My executors are to be reasonably paid for their trouble. I make my 
wife Sarah, and my brothers in law, Isaac Doughty and Benjamin Dusenbury, 
executors. 

Witnesses, Samuel Pearsall, John Rowland, John Golden 

Codicil, April 17, 1752. The item in my will relating to the house and 1/2 
acre of land bought of Serion (Searing) and left to my daughter, Mary Mott, 
is revoked; and my daughter, Mary Mott, is to have the use of the new house I 
am now building and 1/2 of an acre of land joining to it so long as she lives 
separate from her husband. I leave to my wife Sarah my part of a house, 
orchard, and lot in the bounds of Hempsted, where Samuel Rowland now lives, 
and which belongs part to me and part to Robert Marvin, to her and her heirs 
and assigns forever. 

Witnesses, Henry Pearsall, John Golden, Jacob Smith. Proved, May 16, 1752. 

[NOTE.--The place called Herricks is about 3 miles northwest of Mineola, and 
derives its name from William Herricks, who was a brother of James Herricks, 
the ancestor of the Herricks family in Southampton, L. I.--W. S. P.]