Person:John Sellsby (1)

Notes

• Where was the "island of Providence"? Is it Providence, RI or Providence Island, the Puritan colony off the coast of Nicaragua established in 1630?

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Abstracts from the Records of the Court of Ordinary of the Province of South Carolina, 1692-1670 (Continued), in South Carolina historical and genealogical magazine. (Charleston, South Carolina: South Carolina Historical Society, 1900-1952)
   10(2, Apr 1909):83-91.

   July 23, 1698, Governor Blake directed George Logan to administer on the estate of John Sellsby, late of the island of Providence, at the same time reciting that Col. Thomas Cary, Capt. George Smith, Alexander Parris, Joseph Crosskeys and Lewis Pasquereau had been directed to appraise and make an inventory of the estate.
   (Pages 256-257.)
   
   On the same day George Logan, George Dearsley and William Smith, merchants, executed their bond to Governor Blake for Logan's faithful performance of his trust as executor of the estate of John Sellsby.
   Witness: Henry Wigington.
   (Pages 257-258.)