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Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers account books, 1834-1845, 1834-1845

Title: Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers account books, 1834-1845 1834-1845

The first volume is accounts with her sons, Charles and George Escol Sellers, of sums given her by them (1834-1836). The second volume is a receipt book, containing receipts for payment of taxes, ground rents, groceries, and interest, as administratrix of the estate of Coleman Sellers (1834-1845). The third volume is a record of expenses while keeping house for her son-in-law Alfred Harrold, including wages, carriage fares, "childrens board," and groceries (1840-1845).

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Volume(s), 3 volumes, 163 p.

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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

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Sellers, Sophonisba Angusciola Peale, 1786-1859. Account books, 1834-1845.

Title: Account books, 1834-1845.

The first volume is accounts with her sons, Charles and George Escol Sellers, of sums given her by them (1834-1836). The second volume is a receipt book, containing receipts for payment of taxes, ground rents, groceries, and interest, as administratrix of the estate of Coleman Sellers (1834-1845). The third volume is a record of expenses while keeping house for her son-in-law Alfred Harrold, including wages, carriage fares, "childrens board," and groceries (1840-1845).

ArchivalResource: 3 v. (ca. 163 p.).

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