Enslaved by the brother of Colonel Aaron Burr, who was also named Seymour, he was known only as Seymour (sometimes spelled Seymore) until he escaped and used the surname Burr to enlist in the British Army in the early days of the American Revolution.
[2] It is alleged that he fought at Bunker Hill and Fort Catskill and suffered through the long winter at Valley Forge.
Then in 1805, he married a widow, Mary (Will) Wilbore,[5] daughter of Nuff Will and Sarah Moho (Mohho), a Native American woman of the Ponkapoag tribe, and settled in what is now Canton, Massachusetts.
[3] In marrying her, he inherited the 6 acres (24,000 m2) of land owned by her previous husband, Jacob Wilbor.
His obituary was printed in the Liberator (Boston, MA), February 25, 1837, p. 35: DIED—In Canton, 17th inst.