Sellers Hall

[3][4][5] Samuel Sellers brought with him from Derbyshire in England the technology for making and weaving wire.

With David Rittenhouse (1732-1796), he served on the Scientific Committee that observed the transit of Venus on the third of June, 1769.

[7] Sellers Hall's large farm and outbuildings became a significant step on the Underground Railroad, clandestinely coordinated through the Concord Quarterly Meeting, and the monthly meetings in Concord, Darby, and Wilmington, Delaware.

The historians Cope and Ashmead describe as many as thirty persons secreted in the spacious Sellers barns, where they were cared for by George Sellers (1768-1853) and his family, before moving on in small squads and detachments to their next place of refuge.

[2][8] The painter Charles Willson Peale, (1741-1827) who voted for the abolition of slavery as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1780,[9] was a frequent visitor of Sellers Hall.