THE FAMILY OF GEORGE ESCOL* SELLERS 



A PARTIAL GENEALOGY 



Sources: Charles Coleman Sellers, Charles Willson Peal,\ 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1947), and the following items in the Peale- 

 Sellers papers in the American Philosophical Society Library: Charles Sellers genealogy of the Sellers family (no date, about 1826) ; 

 George E. Sellers memorandum concerning his family (no date); and George E. Sellers memoirs, 2 vols., typescript. 



John Sellers (1728-?)- 

 m. 1749 

 Ann Gibson 



-Nathan (1 751 — 1830)- 

 m. 1779 

 Elizabeth Coleman 



— Samuel (1753-?) 



— Coleman (1 781-1834)- 

 m. 1805 



Sophonisba Peale 

 (1 786-1859) 



— Nathan (?-?) 



-David (1 757—1 813) 



-John (1762-?) 



-George (1768-?) 



-Samuel (?-?) 



-James (?-?) 



-David (?-?) 



-Charles (1806- 1898) 

 m. 1829 



— GEORGE ESCOL - 



(Nov. 26, 1808- 

 Jan. 1, 1899) 

 m. Mar. 6, 1833 

 Rachel B. Parrish 

 (?-Sept. 14, i860) 



— Elizabeth Coleman 



(1810-?) 

 m. Nov. 27, 1832 

 Alfred Harrold 



— Harvey Lewis (1813- 



1892) 

 [dentist] 



— Anna (1 824-1 908?) 



' Coleman (182 7-1 907) 

 [prominent engi- 

 neer] 



Frederick Harrold 

 (Feb. 26, 1 834— 

 after 1900) 



Eleanor Parrish 



(Nov. 23, 1835- 

 '855) 



■ Lucy (Apr. 3, 1837- 

 Sept. 21, i860) 



Charles Henry 



(Aug. 26. 1838- 

 1858) 



Anna Frances (May 

 12, 1852-July 26, 

 1852) 



— [adopted] 



Louisa Stockton 

 Peale, daughter 

 of Edmond Peale, 

 about 1849 



*Eshcol is a Biblical name. In Genesis (14: 13) appears an Amorite of that name; in Numbers ( 13:23) Eshcol is the name of 

 a valley, whence came the grapes of Eshcol. 



Mark Twain, in his Life on the Mississippi ( 1883: chapt. 47), tells of his having used Eschol [sic] Sellers in one of his book- 

 name that he could not imagine ("without stimulants") as belonging to a real person. Shortly thereafter he met Escol. who sued 

 him for libel; whereupon Mark Twain suppressed "an edition of ten million" copies of the book. 



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