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The main Quaker Sellers family was started by Samuel Sellers of Derbyshire when he immigrated to Darby, Pennsylvania in 1682 to join the other Quakers there. Samuel created an estate known as Sellers Hall, which still exists today. He opened a wire-weaving business that was carried on by his later descendants.
Many of the Sellers family were entrepreneurs, with Samuel's grandson John being a successful surveyor and miller and member of the American Philosophical Society. John's grandson Coleman was the son-in-law of painter Charles Wilson Peale and father of inventor Coleman.
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