Nathaniel Seeley (1629-1675)

Biography
In 1695 the heirs of Robert Seeley (1602-1668) received 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land in Watertown, resolving a suit which Seeley had filed 60 years earlier after settling in Wethersfield. In the suit he had claimed that he had not been given the area promised to the original settlers of Watertown Founders Monument. Seeley's son Nathaniel was killed in the build-up to the Great Swamp Fight during King Philip's War.

1630 Winthrop Fleet
He was a passenger on the in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, part of  The Great Migration. It was the largest fleet ever assembled to carry Englishmen overseas to a new homeland. It was a well planned and financed expedition comprising eleven ships that carried 700 immigrants from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The group, led by Governor John Winthrop, sailed from April to July of 1630. The fleet landed at Salem. Of the 700 on board, 200 died during the voyage, and 100 returned to England soon after arrival. Some of the 400 remaining settlers stayed in Salem, but many moved on to Boston, Watertown, or other settlements.