found: NUCMC data from Washington State Historical Society for His Diaries, 1854-1889(James A. Seavey, born in Thomaston, Maine on 11 January 1825. In 1854, Seavey and his family left Maine by sea around Cape Horn on the bark W.T. Sayward for California, arriving in San Francisco in September. Three months later the Seaveys came up the Pacific coast to Port Ludlow, Washington. While at Port Ludlow, Seavey worked as the bookkeeper for the local lumber mill. He also served as a Jefferson County commissioner and as a representative to the territorial legislature. The Seavey family relocated to Port Townsend in 1860 where he taught in School District #1 for a short period of time before engaging in the mercantile business with L.B. Hastings. He died in 1920)
