Rash's Surname Index
Notes for George SELLERS
The Sellers Family, Curtin.
George Sellers (son of Joseph and Hannah)
Revolutionary War Record: PA Archives vol 1, 6th series, page 356. Fifth Battalion, Captain Isaac Cooper, city of Philadelphia. George Sellers served his tour of duty, 1775 under Col. Timothy Matlack. Vol. 3, 6th series page 230, Chester Co. 1784, served under Captain Joseph Mendenhall.
George Sellers born 1754 died 1828. married Catherine ? who may have been the widow of an Agnew. One of her sons was given Agnew as a middle name, but we have found no proven connection with the name. (Was she the widow listed in lower Delaware Ward in Philadelphia in 1779, several doors away from Joseph Sellers, while George his son was listed as an apprentice tailor in neighboring Kingsessing?). (Proof of Catherine's family name still unsolved.
The census of 1790 lists George Sellers in Honeybook Township in Northern Chester County - himself, his wife, four boys under sixteen and two girls. In 1769, he was listed as a taxpayer in Blockley, an apprentice tailor, unmarried. Neighbors were Jared Irwin, George Irwin, John Irwin, Moses Moore, Richard Hunter and Benjamin Marple. In 1779, he is a taxpayer in Blockley, three or four doors away from his father Joseph and married. As the British moved into that area he is recorded to have departed leaving is property to the state to help finance the war. The record adds "no animals" so he evidently was not a farmer. In 1785 he was taxed in West Nantmeal, indicating his move toward the area of French Creek. (If Catherine was a Benner, they may have been moving to their Area.) (More research necessary on Catherine - Was she Catherine Benner Agnew?)
While living in Honeybrook, he and his sons may have been engaged in some way with the developing forges in Northern Chester Co., perhaps gathering wood for the charcoal furnaces, keeping up his weaving, and tailoring in addition to a farm.
In 1804 he bought a farm of 86 acres in South Western Chester County, lying partly in West Fallowfield and partly in Upper Oxford. While living here his daughters presumably were intermarried with Passmore, Watson, and Schagel families. (The Passmores were intermarried with the Pusey and Ellis families. The Watsons lived near Lebanon. A Christopher Schagel had settled along Conestoga Creek in 1713, was naturalized in Philadelphia in 1734. Nicholas Schagel whom Catherine Sellers married was, no doubt, his son or grandson.)
In 1827 George Sellers and his wife, Catherine, executed a deed of transfer giving their farm to their son, William (who was living with them on the farm) for a money settlement. From letters in the possession of Myrtle Sellers, there was also an agreement for lifetime care of the parents, but the deed does not so stipulate. The deed is registered in Vol. G. 4, page 336 Deed Books in Westchester Courthouse. The amount stated was $1700, $700 of which was paid down. From Myrtle Sellers letters dated 1828, the brothers in Centre County felt their parents had not received the full amount and blamed William, and Samuel who lived near in Gap. Samuel witnessed the transfer deed and may have guaranteed payment on William's behalf and failed to pay.
George and Catherine Sellers were married about 1774. Nine children. We have found contradictions as to the prior order of birth of their children. One would assume that Joseph and Samuel were twins born 1784, while Samuel's headstone, while indistinct, looks like 1775 and is so listed in the cemetery record. Also his parents' marriage in 1774 makes this likel
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