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Excerpt from Cilley Family
But when we read that the 2 Barbarra, for her libertine conduct, was called the German Messalina, and is described by an Austrian historian as "one who believed neither God, angels or devil - neither hell or heaven," and consider the trouble the family might make in Europe by claiming their rights of succession, we turn with infinite relief to the fisherman magistrate of the Isles of Shoals and make peace in the family by saying that the undoubted origin of the name was from the amphibious occupations of its early members as fishermen and mariners, called Sea-ly (sea-like). It thus appears on the early records of the Isles of Shoals, written in a bold and very legible manner. When the owners of the name left the sea for the land, the spelling of the name for two or three generations floundered about like a fish out of water, until Gen. Cilley, by his revolutionary fame, anchored it as Cilley. I have been unable to connect the Isles of Shoals Sealy's with Capt. Robert Seely, though it is evident they came from the same part of England. My only authority for making the three brothers of the Isles of Shoals sons of Capt. Robert, is that they might have been drawn East from Watertown, Mass., to the rocky Isles then bustling with enterprise and profit, but only inviting to young unmarried men who could "rough it," while their father was drawn to the more domestic surroundings of Connecticut. The names Seelye and Seele are found in Massachusetts, while Seeley occurs frequently in Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
