The Real Story of Merchant House Museum
At the time of his birth in 1780, Seabury Treadwell was a descendant of Episcopal Bishop Samuel Seabury. He was born into a distinguished Long Island family. Treadwell wed Eliza Parker in the year 1820, and the couple went on to have seven children, five of whom were girls and two of whom were boys. During the following fifteen years, up to the year 1835, when he finally retired. Outside of his town, Treadwell was not widely recognized, despite the fact that he had achieved great success as a businessman. A hat manufacturer and speculative real estate developer named Joseph Brewster purchased two property parcels in the year 1831 for a total price of $6,550. Within one of them, he constructed a townhouse at 29 E. Street, which would be equivalent to $187,000 in the year 2023.
