2) Lydia Muse (c1730/1735 - 1799) married Charles Seale between about 1748 and 1752 in Prince William County Virginia. They were in Orange County North Carolina with her father in September 1753, lived in Cumberland County between about 1754 and 1769, Craven County South Carolina between 1769 and about 1783, Wilkes County Georgia between about 1783 and 1785, and Fairfield County South Carolina (old Craven County) between 1786 and 1799. Charles Seale died in September or October 1798, but there is no record of Lydia's death. Mr. Robert T. Muse surveyed a cemetery in Fairfield County in the 1980s before a logging company destroyed it. He found what appear to have been the graves of Charles and Lydia Muse Seale.

Found in Cumberland Co., N.C. Deed Book 1, page 241, JAMES MUSE, SR. named “Liddy Ceal” as his daughter in his will dated 30 NOV 1758 and he also named “Charles Ceal” as one of his executors. However, the records of Prince William Co., VIR, Orange Co., N.C., and Cumberland Co., N.C. clearly show that Charles SEALE was connected to James Muse’s family long before 1758. I estimate that their marriage occurred between 1748 and 1752. Found in Fairfield County, S.C. Deed Book K, p. 74-75, on 18 NOV 1792, SOPHIA MORRISON, the widow of James Muse, Sr., deeded two slaves to “Lidda SEALE” of Fairfield Co., S.C. Thomas, Joshua and Daniel SEALE, proven sons of Charles SEALE, witnessed the deeds. These records verify that Lydia Muse was the wife of Charles SEALE in 1758 and that she was still alive in 1792. Mr. Robert Muse, historian of the Muse Family Association, visited a cemetery in Fairfield Co. S.C. in the early 1980’s, before its destruction by a logging company. He found graves marked by “C.S. – 1798” and “L.S. – 1799”. Since we know that Charles SEALE died in 1798, it would appear that these were the graves of Charles and Lydia Muse SEALE. This is the only indication for when Lydia died. 167