Citation · C1139 · compiled
Early Connecticut Marriages
Weight of this evidence
- Tier
- compiled
- Confidence
- ●●○○ normal
- Review
- AI-checked
- Held at
- Ancestry.com
Record image
family login
Images downloaded from Ancestry or FamilySearch stay on the family side of the site under their terms of use. The transcription and the reasoning below are ours and public.
Transcription and reasoning
Validator (claude-sonnet-5-5, 2026-10-28): consistent, confidence 2/4, tier compiled.
The printed page, headed West Hartford, lists "John Seymour & Hannah, daughter of David Ensign" with the date May 7, 1733. The date, the spouse's first name and the place all fit the claim. The record does not identify which John Seymour this is. A groom born in 1666 would be about 67, so this may be a younger man of the same name, and identity needs other evidence.
Matches: Entry reads "John Seymour & Hannah, daughter of David Ensign, May 7, 1733" on a page headed West Hartford; Date 7 May 1733 matches the claim; Spouse's given name Hannah matches; Place West Hartford matches the page heading
Limits: The entry gives no age, birth year or parentage for John Seymour, so it cannot show he is the John Seymour born 1666.; A John Seymour marrying in 1733 would be about 67 if born 1666, which is unusual. This may be a younger John Seymour, and the page does not settle which.; The claim gives no surname for Hannah, and the record names her father as David Ensign. This is not a contradiction.; This is a published compilation (Early Connecticut Marriages), not an original church record.; The page is a list of West Hartford church marriages, with no separate statement of the place of marriage.
What it supports
- Married · 7 May 1733 · West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States — family F0068