Matthew Seymour

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Matthew Seymour

|office=Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Matthew+Seymour%22&pg=PA78 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut]

|term_start=October 1712

|term_end=May 1713

|predecessor=

|alongside=Joseph Platt

|successor=

|term_start2=October 1713

|term_end2=May 1714

|predecessor2=

|alongside2=Joseph Platt

|successor2=Samuel Hanford,
Samuel Kellogg

|birth_date=May 1669[http://www.s560.com/dokuwiki/book:006.matthew American Seymour Genealogy][https://books.google.com/books?id=FulEAAAAYAAJ&dq=Matthew%20Seymour&pg=PA155 Norwalk vol. 1][https://books.google.com/books?id=Q44eAQAAMAAJ&dq=Matthew%20Seymour&pg=PA214 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes 72-73]

|birth_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|death_date=1735

|death_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|restingplace=

|residence=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony,
Ridgefield, Connecticut Colony

|religion=

|spouse=Sarah Hayes (daughter of Samuel Hayes), Catherine Fairchild

|children=Matthew Seymour, Samuel Seymour, Thomas Seymour, Jehiel Seymour, Hannah Seymour St. John, Elizabeth Seymour Bouton, Ruth Seymour Smith, Sarah Seymour Bouton; Catherine Seymour, Susanna Seymour Rusco, Daniel Seymour

|rank=Captain (May 26, 1729)

|unit=North Company at Norwalk

}}

Matthew Seymour (also Matthew Seamer, and Matthew Seamore) (May 1669 – 1735) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1712, and October 1713. He was one of the founding settlers of Ridgefield, Connecticut.

He was the son of Thomas Seamer, the Norwalk settler and Hannah Marvin."Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/33GD-C48 : accessed 2014-05-16), entry for Matthew /Seymour/.

He served as a selectman of Norwalk.

On September 30, 1708, he, along with John Belding, Matthias St. John, and Samuel Keeler entered into an agreement with the native leader Catoonah to purchase the land today known as Ridgefield.[https://books.google.com/books?id=vwYCAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Matthew+Seymour%22&pg=PA101 The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut][https://books.google.com/books?id=Lj4OAAAAIAAJ&dq=Matthew%20Seamore&pg=PA120 The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut]

At a Norwalk town meeting in 1718, Matthew, is picked as part of a 6-man committee to represent the town in a major political dispute.

He was named as a lieutenant in 1710, and was named a captain of the North Company of Norwalk on May 26, 1729.