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Descendants of Hendrick Henry Sellen

Generation No. 1

1. HENDRICK HENRY² SELLEN (JACOB¹ VON SELLEN) was born October 17, 1666 in Krefeld, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, and died October 17, 1749 in York Co, Frederick, Pennsylvania. He married MARGARET UNKNOWN Bet. 1704 - 1715 in Germantown, PA.. She was born 1663 in Germany, and died Aft. 1749 in Pennsylvania.

Notes for HENDRICK HENRY SELLEN:
Hendrick made Herman OP Den Graeff his attorney in America in 1683, until he made the trip over in 1685.

Hendrick arrived in the New World in December 1685 at the port of Philadephia, Pennsylvania. He was Baptized, Hamrick Von Zellen, he was of the Mennonite Religion. He was christened on Oct. 17, 1666 in Krefeld Evan. Church, Netherlands or Germany. Hendrick (Henry) was a trustee of the Lower Skippack Mennonite Church, he was a resident and owned property on Main St. in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA. in 1689. He donated ground for the Germantown Mennonite Church and was one of the original members. He owned a 200 acre plantation on the Sells Station Road about two to three miles N. E. of Littlestown, Pennsylvania on the Monacacy Road. It was located on the Little Conewago Creek. He operated a mill there. He died on his plantation Oct. 17, 1749 at the age of 83. The Plantation was sold in 1771 by Hendrick's youngest son, Anthony to a Mr. Hergleroadt, a land speculator. It is now Owned by Hanover Shoe Farms.

Margaret was probably Hendrick's second or possibly third wife.

Hendrick and Dirick Sellen was on the Naturalizations List at Germantown Pennsylvania March 7, 1691/92. Source: New World Immigrants, Volume I page 434.

Henry Sellen is listed on the 1693 Tax List for Germantown, Pennsylvania, his assessment was 50. His brother Derick was also listed on this tax list.

A History of the Upper Germantown Burying-Ground (page 557-558) (Pennsylvania Vital Records from the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine & the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography): Germantown Avenue (Main Street) above Washington Avenue by Peter D. Keyser, M. D. "At the time of the settlement of Germantown (1683-1695) there was really but two religious bodies or sects among the people - the Mennonites and the Quakers. Their meetings for worship were for some years held in the houses of their members, and from what we can glean from the history of the place, the two sects are supposed to have at times worshiped together in the same house, until their separate meeting houses were built. During this time it is not known that any special plot of ground was laid out for the burial of the dead; and no doubt the bodies of those who died were deposited in their own grounds. On the erection of the Quaker of Friends meeting house in 1705, and the church of the Mennonites in 1706 each building had its graveyard attached for the burial of its members. After the year 1700 people of other denominations, such as Dunkers, Lutherans, etc., began to settle in the town and vicinity, and as there was no place in the upper part of Germantown as an open ground for any one of different religious views who wished to be buried in a regular graveyard, Paul Wulff, in 1724, granted one-half acre of ground situated at the upper end of Germantown, on the Main Street, above the road to Abington or Keysers Lane, to the corporation for a burying-ground. Having received the lot, it was deemed necessary to put a stone wall along the front of it. To meet the expenses of the same a subscription was taken amou the inhabitants in money,labor, sotne, ets. It was conditioned that all subscribers were to receive the right to bury in the graveyard at any time. It was called the "Upper Germantown Burying Ground". The front wall on the main road was begun in May 1724 by Dirck Johnson and John Frederick Ax and was finished with the assistance in labor, money or stone by Anthony Klincken, HENRY SELLEN."

Children of HENDRICK SELLEN and MARGARET UNKNOWN are:

JACOB³ SELLEN, b. Bet. 1690 - 1695, Germantown, Pennsylvania; d. December 1759, Littlestown, PA.; m. MARGARET.

Notes for JACOB SELLEN:
He inherited 500 acres of land from his father. He operated a saw mill.

2.	ii.	MARY ELIZABETH SELLEN, b. Abt. 1690, Pennsylvania; d. 1764.
3.	iii.	ANNA MARIA SELLEN, b. 1690, Pennsylvania; d. September 07, 1745.
4.	iv.	PETER LUDWICK SELLEN, b. 1691, Pennsylvania; d. 1776, York Co., Pennsylvania.
5.	v.	BARBARA SELLEN, b. 1692, Germantown, Pennsylvania; d. 1769, Pennsylvania.
	vi.	ADAM SELLEN, b. 1700, Pennsylvania; d. 1767.
6.	vii.	JOHN SELLEN, b. 1701, Pennsylvania; d. July 20, 1764, Pennsylvania.
7.	viii.	ANTHONY SELLS, b. September 21, 1712, Pennsylvania; d. March 02, 1792, Mt. Joy Township, Pennsylvania.
8.	ix.	ABRAHAM SELLEN, b. 1715, Germantown, Pennsylvania; d. June 16, 1786, Littlestown, York Co., PA..
	x.	CATHERINE SELLEN, b. 1720, Pennsylvania; m. JOHN GEORGE ULRICH.
	xi.	ESTHER SELLEN, b. 1720, Pennsylvania; m. JOHN JACOB BANKERT, 1742.
	xii.	HENRY JR. SELLS, b. 1720, Pennsylvania; d. 1797; m. ANNA MARGERETTA.

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