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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Birth: abt 1725 / Elizabeth City / VA Death: aft 25 Feb 1783 liv / / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Captain Joseph Scott Jr.'s Company, Major General William Alexander's “Lord Stirling” Division, First Virginia Regiment, Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg's Brigade
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Edna Mae Selden: Selden and Kindred of Virginia, pg 125, 127
Virginia State Library Pension Records
List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, Virginia State Library
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Author: Christopher Willard Moberg
Samuel Selden was born about 1725 at Elizabeth City County, Virginia. He married Mary Thompson Mason, a sister of George Mason IV of Gunston Hall, a Founding Father of the United States. Samuel and Mary were married 11 April 1751 at Stafford County, Virginia. Samuel Selden signed the “Resolutions of the Association of Westmoreland,” 27 February 1766, to oppose the Stamp Act. He received an appointment as an officer in January or February of 1777. He was listed as first lieutenant of the First Virginia Regiment at Valley Forge in January of 1778. He served as Brigade Major to General Huger, who commanded the Virginia Brigade from 15 March to 18 June 1781. Samuel continued to serve until the end of the Revolutionary War. He died 2 May 1791 at Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
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