More About Abraham5 Selleck

ABRAHAM5 SELLECK (NATHANIEL4, NATHANIEL3, JOHN2, DAVID1)1,2 was born 03 December 1735 in Stamford, CT3,4. He married (1) DEBORAH WHITING5 08 May 1756 in Congregational Church in Darien, CT, by Rev. Moses Mather.6,7,8, daughter of JOSEPH WHITING and HANNAH BEACHGOOD. She was born 24 October 1734 in CT9, and died 11 April 1761 in Stamford, CT10. He married (2) ANNA ROGERS10,11 06 June 1762 in Norwalk, CT, by Rev. Mr. Leaming (Reamlly)12,13.

    Children of ABRAHAM SELLECK and DEBORAH WHITING are:
  1. ABRAHAM6 SELLECK14, b. 13 December 175615.
  2. NATHANIEL6 SELLECK16,17, b. 26 May 1758, CT18,19; d. 1840, NY20,21; m. (1) FIRST WIFE; m. (2) SARAH ESTHER KEELER22; m. (3) AMY HOLMES23, Bedford, NY.
  3. CHARLES6 SELLECK24, b. 09 December 176025; m. ELIZABETH GIBBONS.

    Children of ABRAHAM SELLECK and ANNA ROGERS are:
  1. NANTZY6 SELLECK26, b. 10 April 1763, Stamford, CT27,28,29; bapt. 26 June 1763; d. 19 September 1766, Stamford, CT30,31.
  2. EDWARD6 SELLECK32, b. 19 November 1764, Stamford, CT33,34,35; bapt. 5 May 1765.
  3. ANTHONY6 SELLECK36, b. 09 May 176637,38,39; bapt. 20 July 1766.
  4. ISAAC6 SELLECK40, b. 22 January 1768, Stamford, CT41,42,43; bapt. 24 January 1768; d. 01 February 1831, or near Pound Ridge, NY44; m. (1) FIRST WIFE; m. (2) SARAH WATERBURY45,46, 01 July 1793, Congregational Church in Darien, CT47; b. 20 August 176348,49,50; d. 26 May 1847, or near Pound Ridge, NY51,52.
  5. WILLIAM6 SELLECK53, b. 06 October 176954,55,56; bapt. 26 November 1769.
  6. NANCY6 SELLECK57, b. 19 December 177158,59,60; bapt. 26 January 1772.
  7. SARAH6 SELLECK61, b. 03 July 177362,63,64; bapt. 22 Aug. 1773.
  8. POLLY6 SELLECK65, bapt. 04 June 177565.
  9. DEBORAH ANN6 SELLECK66, bapt. 24 October 177666.
  10. GERSHOM6 SELLECK67, bapt. 27 June 178168.
  11. PRUELLA6 SELLECK69, bapt. 27 June 178170.

1750
On April 30, 1750, Abraham Selleck chose his uncle, Anthony DeMill, as his guardian.

1776
In July, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. At the next session of the General Assembly of Connecticut meeting on October 10, 1776, ratified the Declaration and enacted a new statute against treason making it a crime to levy open war against the state or USA, to enlist in the enemy's army or persuade others to enlist, to correspond with or carry intelligence to the enemy of the state, etc., which carried the punishment of death. In the case of resolute loyalists who fled the state, their wives and children were usually accorded considerate treatment and were frequently aided in joining the fugitives.

1778
In May 1778, an act was passed by which all estates, real and personal, lying and being within the state of Connecticut which belong to any person or persons who have voluntarily gone over to and joined with the enemy shall be forfeited to and for the use of the state.

Bond
Ebenezer Ferris & John Davenport both of Stamford in Fairfield Co., state of Conn. paid $200 to Abraham Davenport, Judge 7 Oct. 1778 to administer the estate of Abraham Selleck of or late of said Stamford gone over to be joined [with] the enemies of the United American States. (Abraham Selleck special packets in G & H Archives, Hartford, CT.)

An inventory of the estate of Abm Selleck late of Stamford (now absconded and gone over to the enemy) taken in Law of Money by us the subscribing appointed & room a wording to Law
A barn & one acre of land lying near Hardy Hole scatted £ 25.0.0
11 Acres of land in the Ox pasture bought of Moses Knap99.0.0
one half of a certain tract or parcel of upland Salt medow & sedges including a sedge island called brushy island the whole containing 38 acres to be entered upon at Anthony Smiths42.0.0
Due from the estate of Gortn Piver Fitch late of Stamford-6.4.3
172.4.3
Stamford Nov. 6, 1778Charles Webb
Saml Nutten
Apprasers
(Probate Records of Stamford p. 192 on FHC film #5563
Also in the Abraham Selleck special packets in G & H Archives, Hartford, CT.)

1779
In June 1779, Abraham Selleck fled to Canada. The records state, "1 July 1779, Whereas Abraham Selleck, late of Stamford, hath gone over to, joined with and screened his estate thereupon by the County Court in said county adjudged forfeited to and for the use of this State, and by report of Commissioners appointed according to law to examine and adjust the claims of the creditors of said estate, appears to be insolvent, and thereupon the whole of said estate ordered by the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford to be sold, I, Ebenezer Ferris, Administrator of said estate, for payment in Continental bills, gave deed to James Cogvell of Stamford for 11 1/2 acres of estate of said Selleck."

Another Abraham Selleck special packet in G & H Archives, Hartford, CT.

(On the back)
Report of Commissioners on ye Estate of Abrm Selleck Absentee-- accepted at a { } of probates held at Stamford of 1st day of April 1779 and ordered to be Recorded { } Davenport Clerk
Entered in Book 6, p. 362
(On the inside)
We the subscribers being appointed by the Honourable Court of probates for the district of Staford Commissioners to examine the Claims and Demands of the Creditors of the Estate of Abrm Selleck Late of Said Stamford who has gone over to and joined the Enemies of the united States ---
We having advertised as the Law dirests and appointed times and place to attend the Creditors and having examined the claims and demands of Said Creditors on Said Estate do find that there is due to the several persons hereafter named the Sums in Lawful money Let to their respective names.
[Amounts were unreadable in most cases as the page was torn & folded in the middle.]
Nathan Dan
Charles Steward
Pettit Weed
Davie Longwill
Daniel gray
Charles Webb
Ebenezer Holly
Sam Knap		S{ }anus Knap
Charles Knap
widow Mary Selleck
An Demill
Anthony Demill
Jonan Schofield
James Brown
 
To Administrator on the Estate of Joseph Sturges dec.
James Stuart
Elipelit Weed
James Lockwood

Endnotes
  1. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  2. Edith M. Wicks, Genealogical References in Stamford, CT, Land Records, Vol A-S, 1666-1800+, 1767 Vol. H, p. 7.
  3. FHC film #0005570, Stamford Town Meeting Records, 1640-1806, Vol. 1, p. 53.
  4. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  5. Edith M. Wicks, Genealogical References in Stamford, CT, Land Records, Vol A-S, 1666-1800+, 1765 Vol. G, p. 430.
  6. FHC film #0005570, Stamford Town Meeting Records, 1640-1806, Vol. 1, p. 119 & 152, married on 3 May 1756 by the Rev. Mr. Moses Mather in the Congregational Church in Darien.
  7. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  8. FHC film #1008338, First Congregational Church Records in Darien, CT, 08 May 1756.
  9. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  10. FHC film #0005570, Stamford Town Meeting Records, 1640-1806, Vol. 1, p. 152.
  11. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 175.
  12. FHC film #0005570, Stamford Town Meeting Records, 1640-1806, Vol. 1, p. 152, married in Norwalk by Rev. Mr. Leaming.
  13. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 175.
  14. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  15. FHC film #0005570, Stamford Town Meeting Records, 1640-1806, Vol. 1, p. 152.
  16. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library), and on FHC film #899934 Barbour Collection following Stamford, CT, Town Meeting Records p. 177, his name is given as Nathan[ie]ll.
  17. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443, also calls him Nathan.
  18. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  19. DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition, Part 3, p. 2610 calls him Nathan and claims his birth was 26 May 1759.
  20. Ibid, p. 2610.
  21. New Canaan Historical Society, Selleck card file, gives death 10 Sep. 1827.
  22. New Canaan Historical Society, Selleck card file.
  23. Alice Bliss (genealogical cards), Ashtabula (Ohio) Genealogical Society, Geneva, OH, reported Selleck, Amy (Holmes) wife of Nathan Selleck.
  24. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library).
  25. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  26. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 177.
  27. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library).
  28. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  29. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 177.
  30. FHC film #0002950, Barbour Collection, and in FHC Film #2950 Connecticut Vital Records.
  31. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 177.
  32. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p 443.
  33. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library).
  34. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  35. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 176.
  36. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p 443.
  37. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library).
  38. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  39. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 175.
  40. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p 443.
  41. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library), and Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records FHC film 2950.
  42. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  43. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 175.
  44. Tombstone Records of Eighteen Cemeteries in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., NY, p. 34, Isaac Selleck, d. Feb. 1, 1831, aged 61.
  45. Henry S. Gorham, Bates, Selleck, and Allied Families of Stamford, Norwalk & Fairfield, CT, (1938), p. 430.
  46. FHC film # 0926467, Barbour Collection Conn. Vital Records 1641-1852, p. 219.
  47. Fredrick W. Bailey, Ed., Early Conn. Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records prior to 1800, Bk. 6, p. 65, Congregational Church Records in Darien, CT.
  48. Henry S. Gorham, Bates, Selleck, and Allied Families of Stamford, Norwalk & Fairfield, CT, (1938), p. 430.
  49. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 445.
  50. FHC film # 0926467, Barbour Collection Conn. Vital Records 1641-1852, p. 219.
  51. "Tombstone Records of Eighteen Cemeteries in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., NY", p. 34, Sarah, wife of Isaac Selleck, d. May 26, 1847, aged 83-9-?. Also see FHC film #4197, Lester Card Deaths from Norwalk Weekly Gazette, 1790-1855.
  52. FHC film # 0003238, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, Fairfield Co., CT, p. 38, reported in the Republican Farmer 15 June 1847, Sarah Selleck (widow) died 25 May 1847 at the age of 83.
  53. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p 443.
  54. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library).
  55. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  56. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 179.
  57. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p 443.
  58. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library).
  59. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  60. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 177.
  61. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p 443.
  62. Fletcher H. Sillick, Selleck Genealogy, (Manuscript copy in Syracuse, NY, Public Library).
  63. Charles M. Selleck, Norwalk, p. 443.
  64. FHC film #899934, Barbour Collection following Stamford Town Meeting Records on p. 178.
  65. FHC film # 1013279, St. John's Episcopal Church, Stamford, CT, p. 237, bapt. 4 June 1775.
  66. Ibid., p. 238, bapt. 24 Oct. 1776.
  67. Ibid., p. 247, Gershom & Pruella children of Abraham & Anna Selleck of Salem bapt. 27 June 1781.
  68. Ibid., p. 247, bapt. 27 June 1781.
  69. Ibid., p. 247, Gershom & Pruella children of Abraham & Anna Selleck of Salem bapt. 27 June 1781.
  70. Ibid., p. 247, bapt. 27 June 1781.
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