Joseph Henry Selby

b. August 15, 1807 [FB]
d. January 31, 1864 [FB] at age 56

Rebecca Howse

b. July 25, 1807 [FB]
d. January 23, 1864 [FB] at age 56

 

Children

Mary Elizabeth Selby, b. 1833
Richard Brown Selby, b. 1835
Ann Priscilla Selby, b. 1838
William Selby, b. 1840
Joseph Henry Selby, b. 1841
Edwin Jeremiah Selby, b.1844
Catherine Rebecca Selby, b. 1847

 

Nottingham1861


Martenet's map of 1861 shows the "Jos. H. Selby" residence in what was then Nottingham District No. 4. The residence and property are on the north side of a smaller branch of the Mattaponi Branch off the Patuxent River in what is now called Cheltenham, Maryland.

  • "Jos. H. Selby, son of Jesse Selby & Ann, his wife was born in the year of our Lord 1807, Aug 15th." [FB]
  • "Rebecca Selby, daughter to Henry Howse and Sarah his wife was born in the year A.D. 1807, July 25th." [FB]
  • Married April 7, 1832 in PG. [Maryland Marriages]
  • In the 1840 census Jos H Selby is listed on the same page of District 4 (Nottingham) as his father Jesse. Joseph and his wife are both 30-40 years old. They have one son under 5 (Richard), one daughter under 5 (Ann), and one daughter between 5-10 (Mary). They have no free blacks.
  • In 1845 Joseph inherited $500 from his father. [PG WB PC.282; MSA CR34.682]
  • The 1850 Federal Census for the Nottingham District showed Henry (42) was a planter and Rebecca (42) was keeping house with Mary (17), Richard (13), Ann (11), William (9), Joseph (8) , Edwin (6), and Catherine (3) at home.
  • In December 1854 William H. Turton, Trustee, sold to Joseph H. Selby "223 acres and 26 perches less one now for Boones Church at and for the sum of nine dollars and fifty cents per acre." The P.G. County Court sitting in Equity substituted Joseph H. Selby for the previous purchaser, John L. Waring, with Joseph having paid the above sum plus $500 in hand. [PG LR EWB1.23]
  • In November 1857 Joseph H. Selby received title from John B. Brooke, Trustee, for land "now called Selby's Purchase being a part of Boone's Chance beginning for the outlines of said parcel of land at a large white oak stump, it being the remains of a bonded oak tree said to stand in the West South West line of a tract of land called Brooke-Wood and the beginning of a parcel of land called Boone's Folly and running from thence south 57° 45' east 13 4/5 perches to a Cedar Stake standing on the Main road leading from the Roman Chapel towards Upper Marlboro... 41 7/8 acres". The P.G. County Court sitting in Equity approved the purchase in November 1854. [PG LR CSM2.81]
  • The 1860 Federal Census for Nottingham in the 4th Election District showed that J. H. Selby (53) was a planter and wife Rebecca (53) was keeping house with five children at home: Mary (27), Ann (22), Joseph (19), Edwin (16), and CRL (13, Catharine). Joseph and Edwin were occupied as farmhands, but Richard (25) and William (20) were not listed in the family household. Richard, along with his young wife and three children, appear to be living on adjacent property. William Selby does appear in D.C. at a boarding house, working as a laborer.
  • Joseph Selby served in Company B, 21 Regiment Virginia Infantry (Confederate) as a Second Lieutenant. He enlisted May 23, 1861 at Richmond, the same day as his brother James. In February 1862 he was at Winchester, in March 1862 he was at the Army (?) of Valley, then he "mustered out of service 23 May 1862 at Front Royal Va." [Fold3.com]
  • Joseph died eight days after wife Rebecca during the winter of 1864 near the end of the Civil War. Were they sick with pneumonia or measles? Joseph Henry Selby died intestate (without a will).
  • March 15, 1864: "Ordered by the Court that Richard B. Selby and J. Henry Selby be and they are hereby appointed administrators of Joseph H. Selby, late of Prince George's County deceased, and directed to file their bond in the penalty of four thousand dollars, with such security as shall be approved by the Register of this Court."[PG WB WAJ2.212]
  • May 17, 1864: "Ordered by the Court that Richard B. Selby and J. H. Selby, administrators of Joseph H. Selby be and are hereby authorized to pack, ship, and sell the tobacco now on hand, belonging to intestate's estate at private sale. Ordered by the Court that Richard B. Selby and J. H. Selby, administrators of Joseph H. Selby late of Prince Georges County deceased, be and they are hereby authorized to sell all the personal property, except what is excluded by former order, at public sale, after giving at least three weeks notice of the time, terms, and place of sale in some newspaper printed in said County for all sums of and under twenty dollars cash, for all sums above that amount a credit of four months, the purchaser or purchasers to give notes with such security as shall be approved by the administrators. Ordered by the Court that Richard B. Selby and Joseph H. Selby, Administrators of Joseph H. Selby late of Prince George's County deceased, give the notice required by Law to the said deceased creditors to exhibit their claims legally authenticated, and that the same be published once a week for six consecutive weeks in some newspaper printed in said County." [PG WB WAJ2.227]
  • November 15, 1864: "Ordered by the Court that the Register issue a commission to Charles T. Eversfield and Richard T. Robinson to estimate the annual value of the real estate of Joseph H. Selby late of Prince George's County, deceased, and report the same when made to this Court." [PG WB WAJ2.264]