Individual Details

Marriage

Notes for MARY HERBERT:
After the death of Richard, her first husband, she married Thomas Seabrook/Saybrook, who lived near the Brays. One deed for Thomas, identifies the property, "lying in the Little Bay in ye South west side of yt brook wch runneth betweene ye Lott of Rich. Bray.." They were married a few months after Richard's death and later migrated to Westchester County, NY on Long Island. ( Note: Today (2003), there is a Saybrook, LI-was this where they settled-need research. ). Thomas does appear on the Hempstead (Long Island) tax rolls in 1675. He was killed that year.
Thomas, Mary's second husband did not have a will. In a depositon to the Court, in 1676, a John Clark, stated, "when there was an alarm of Indians, Being at Castle Hill, loaded with ammunition, he was a sojourner in the house of Thomas Seabrook, and was commanded among others to go to Capt. Osbourn's house, and at his going away, he, the said Thomas Seabrooke, took his wife, (now preesnt widow Seabrooke) by the hand, as was going out, and said Wife I am going out, I know not but I may be knocked on the head. If I never come again, I give all that I have to thee.." (source: Pelletreau, William, "Early Wills of Westchester County, New York 1664-1784", 2 01 Oct 2005

She had three children by her second marriage. After Thomas's death, she then married Thomas Whitlock and lived in Shoal Harbor, Middletown, Monmouth Co. NJ. There were no children from that marriage. Thomas, along with the Bournes, are considered to be part of the original settlers of New Jersey and Middletown.