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Hi Edwin,
I'm a Sewright and I'm doing original research on the Sewrights in Northern Ireland. The information you cite here is listed by a researcher in the LDS IGI and is completely unsubstantiated. I've checked the "sources" listed for everything you posted and none of it checks out. Wish I "could" find sources showing the Sewright's going that far back into Northern Ireland and Scotland, but alas, so far, the evidence is lacking.
The researcher who has posted this at the LDS web sites (Ancestry and Rootsweb, too) has linked up all the Sewright family lines in America from 1740 through 1850--but, again, it's completely unsubstantiated. I have done original land records research in Northern Ireland and there are no Seawrights listed in Donegal, for instance, in the 1600s or 1700s. According to the Searight book by James A. Searight, his progenitor came from Co. Donegal. The LDS researcher says that family came from a "Lord" James Seawright in Donegal--but none of the records still available show any Seawrights in that area, let alone someone with a title. If you do find something, that would be fantastic--but I'm afraid it's all speculation (and someone's imagination) at this point. I believe that the family had oral history linking them to Donegal, but so far, no records.
(Ditto with records for Seawrights in the Siege of Derry--I'd love to find the info, but so far have not seen them listed in those participating in that Siege).
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