Sellman Family papers

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Sellman Family papers

1769-1938 (majority 1850-1865 and 1886-1892)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1770

The Sellman Family Papers span the years 1828 through 1908 with the bulk of the material dating between 1850 and 1865. The collection contains family and business correspondence; bills and receipts; guardianship documents; handwriting exercises; and household and farm account books and diaries. Subjects covered include daily life; farm management; the cholera epidemic in Grand Gulf, Mississippi; treatment of slaves; sale of crops in Baltimore; and the education of the Sellman children at home and at St. John's College in Annapolis.

2.50 linear feet

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6919701

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Sellman family

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6330m6x (family)

John Henry Sellman was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, on June 27, 1806, and died on July 11, 1851. He was the son of Anne Elizabeth Harwood (1768-1824) and Jonathan Sellman (1753-1810), an officer in the Maryland Militia during the Revolutionary War. John Henry was a physician and farmer who married his first cousin, Lucinda Margaret Harwood (I) (1812-1866) on November 8, 1836. Lucinda was the daughter of Benjamin Harwood (1783-1835) and Henrietta Maria Battee (1787-1819). ...

Sellman, John Henry, 1837-1892.

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Sellman, Lucinda Harwood, 1812-1866

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh3xjr (person)