John Seales (Seals, Sales or Sayles in New England and Jan Celes to the Dutch of New Amsterdam) arrived in Manhattan from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, having escaped likely continued punishment for his conviction as the first felon in the colony.
John Seales (Seals, Sales or Sayles in New England and Jan Celes to the Dutch of New Amsterdam) was an early settler and farmer of the island of Manhattan in New York. He arrived in Manhattan from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, having escaped likely continued punishment for his conviction as the first felon in the colony.