Records show that Felix Seymour came to America in 1735 from Eniskellen, Northern Ireland.

Per the West Virginians in the American Revolution, compiled by Ross B. Johnson, Page 255:

SEYMOUR, FELIX

• Born in England in 1725 and died in Hampshire County, Virginia [now West Virginia] February 1798. During the Revolution his residence was Moorefield, Virginia. He was married to Margaret Renick in 1752. Soldier enlisted May 26 1776, under Capt. Casewell in the Fifth Company of North Carolina troops, and was discharged 8 Feb 1780.

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Per the Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book:

• "Felix Seymour (1725-98) was a patriot who furnished beef to prisoners at Winchester barracks, 1782. He was born in Ireland; died in Moorefield, Va."

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According to the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1660-1900, Felix married Margaret Renick in 1853 in Hardy County, (W)Virginia. They are known to have 11 children.

• John Seymour (1754-1754)

• Richard Seymour (1755-1811)

• Thomas Seymour (1756-1831)

• Abel Renick Seymour (1760-1823)

• George Seymour (1762-1839)

• William Seymour (1764-1828)

• Catherine Seymour See Welton (1764-1826)

• James Seymour (1766-1842)

• Elizabeth Seymour Burns (1769-1822)

• Aaron Seymour (1773-1839)

• Mary "Polly" Seymour Welton Dasher (1776-1827)

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Per the 1790 U.S. Census, Felix Seymour resided in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia)

-Head of Household: Felix Seymour

-Number living in Household: 9

-Dwelling: 1

-Other buildings: 4

In addition, Richard, Abel, George and Thomas are listed residing as Head of Households in the same county. All 5 Seymour households were enumerated by Job Welton, indicating they all lived in close proximity of each other.

-Head of Household: Richard Seymour

-Number living in Household: 3

-Dwelling: 1

-Other buildings: 2

-Head of Household: Abel Seymour

-Number living in Household: 1

-Dwelling: 0

-Other buildings: 2

-Head of Household: George Seymour

-Number living in Household: 1

-Dwelling: 0

-Other buildings: 2

-Head of Household: Thomas Seymour

-Number living in Household: 4

-Dwelling: 1

-Other buildings: 1

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The History of Hardy County, 1786-1986, by Richard Kerwin MacMaster, 1986, page 26

Family tradition related that Felix Seymour, who had known Thomas Renick in Ireland, came to America with his nine-year-old son in 1736. When the father returned for the rest of the family, they were lost at sea. The Renicks raised Felix Seymour, Jr. In 1753, he married Margaret Renick, George Renick's sister [daughter of Thomas]. The Seymours evidently lived on the manor...

Mary Welton, who obtained title of 406 acres on the drains of Lunice Creek in her own name in 1754, later married George Renick. In 1766 and 1771 George and Mary Renick sold this property to Felix Seymour [Hampshire Co. Deed Book 1, p.30 and p.35]. George Ranick was the eldest son of Thomas Renick, to whom Fairfax granted 270 acres on the bend of the South Branch just above Millson's Mill in present Hampshire County in 1748. This connection to Thomas Renick and Felix Seymour refutes the claim in Vircus that Felix was the son-in-law of William Renick. That is, the Mr. Renick with whom Felix moved to VA was Thomas Renick, not William Renick.

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Portrait and Biographical Record of the Scioto Valley, Ohio, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1894, Page 258

Solomon Cunningham married Catherine Seymour who was born May 22, 1786; she was eldest daughter of Abel Seymour who born in May 1760 and died in 1823.

Able Seymour married Ann Van Meter. Able Seymour was the son of Colonel Felix Seymour, the progenitor of the race America, who was born in the north of Ireland in 1727, and came to Virginia with his father when he was twelve years old. His father's mission in America was to look up the advantages to be attained in the New World with a view of bringing other settlers to this country. Satisfied with his investigations, he left his boy Felix in the care of a hospitable gentleman named Renick and set sail for Ireland but he was never heard from afterward, and it is supposed that he was lost at sea. He was a branch of the English Seymour family.

Left to himself young Felix Seymour grew up with the Renick family and finally married a daughter of Mr. Renick, who was the grandmother of Catherine Seymour.

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Virginia Heraldry

The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday, 5 Feb 1905, Page 9

Messrs. Editors:

Col. Felix Seymour, progenitor of the numerous family of Seymours, settled in Hardy county, Virginia, and was born in the north of Ireland in 1725. At the age of 12 years he accompanied his father to this country on an expedition to "spy out land." Pleased with his observations and prospects, the elder Seymour left his boy with a Virginia gentleman named Renick, (ancestor of the late Scioto Valley house of that name), an acquaintance of his in the old country, and started back for his family. He was never heard from again and is supposed to have been lost at sea.

Col. Felix Seymour settled near Moorefield, Va. He married the eldest Miss Renick, by whom he had 10 children seven sons and three daughters. He survived his wife 20 years and died about 1798, after having served with distinction in the Continental Army and gained as a reward therefore the commission of colonel, which is still in possession of the family.

His seventh son, James, was the father of the late Col. John Seymour, near Reisterstown, Md., and Felix Renick Seymour, near Cumberland, Md. Colonel Seymour was great-grandfather of the late Henry C. (near Reisterstown) and John M. (of Glyndon) and Mrs. W. H. Reed. Mrs. A. B. Cowles, Mrs. Samuel Boggs, Mrs. Nellie Candy (all of Baltimore), Abel, Thomas Renick and William Seymour (near Delight, Baltimore county), as also great-great-grandfather of the Seymours in Washington, Pottstown and Philadelphia.

Descendant.

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Virginia Heraldry

The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday, 10 Dec 1905, Page 12

Messrs. Editors:

"November 17, 1743, letters were granted to Elizabeth Seamon (Seymour) on the estate of her husband, Jonathan Seamon, deceased, at Winchester, Va." (History of Frederick county, Virginia.)

"1776, Thomas Seymour, Esq., be appointed commodore and commander-in-chief of all the naval armament in the service of this State (Pennsylvania) Council of Safety."

Is the Seamon Seymour? Many claim such is true. Jonathan is a name that has followed Col. Felix Seymour's descendants. Who is this Thomas Seymour? Thomas is also another name belonging to Felix's family (in America as well as England and Ireland).

"1820, Felix Seymour and his wife, Caroline A. Seymour, gave deed to his son, James Seymour."

"1821, Hardy county, Virginia, Jessie Welton, administrator of Moses Seymour." On same paper in "1819 James Seymour and Abel Seymour."

James and Abel were sons of Col. Felix Seymour. Who is this Moses Seymour? Who was this second wife, Caroline A.?

M. H. S.

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Virginia Heraldry

The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday, 31 Dec 1905, Page 12

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Messrs. Editors:

Mrs. M. H. S., in The Sun of November 19 and December 10, 1905, asks who Moses Seymour was.

My records show that Moses Seymour was the son of George Seymour (fifth son of Col. Felix Seymour) and of Elizabeth Welton, his wife. He was born March 6, 1806; married Nancy A. Ramsey August 30, 1827, and died September 16, 1879. Had issue Mary E., Margaret A., Phoebe, Maria and perhaps others. This is the only Moses Seymour that I have ever heard of. I cannot place the Moses Seymour whose administrator was Jesse Welton, and if he died as early as 1821 he must have been of another family, as Richard was the only son of Colonel Felix that died before that time.

I cannot place the Jesse Welton above named, though three of the children of Colonel Felix, namely, George, Catharine and Mary, married Weltons.

She also stated that in 1820 Felix Seymour and his wife, Caroline A., gave a deed to his son James Seymour.

This Felix must be a son of Richard Seymour, second son of Colonel Felix, who was born October 17, 1786, married Caroline A. Williams April 10, 1817, and died March 5, 1871; unless the deed referred to was one from Colonel Felix and his second wife, which was not recorded until after the death of Colonel Felix, in 1798.

Although I have a record of 13 children of Felix, the son of Richard, son of Colonel Felix, I do not find the name of James among them, and this Felix was only 34 years of age in 1820, and had been married but three years.

Col. Felix Seymour was married the second time, but when and to whom I have not been able to learn. I have never been able to find any of the descendant of Elizabeth Seymour, who married Andrew Byrns, and died in June, 1822. Colonel Felix had a son Thomas (my grandfather), but he was born in 1758, and, of course was hardly old enough to have had command of the navel forces of Pennsylvania in 1776.

I do not think that the Jonathan Seamon mentioned can have been Jonathan Seymour, unless he was of another family, because Colonel Felix was born in 1727, and among all my records I find but one Jonathan.

I think Mrs. M. H. S. is in error in her belief that all the Renicks settled in Pennsylvania, at I have heard of several families of Renicks in Greenbrier county and other localities in West Virginia, and Mr. E. I. Renick, formerly of the State Department, Washington, belonged to that family.

I wish "Descendant" or someone else who knows would state where the commission of Col. Felix Seymour or other evidence of his Revolutionary service may be found. H.