John Selman (privateer)

Selman House, 19 Franklin St, Marblehead, Massachusetts[1]

Captain John Selman (1744–1817) was a privateer who served in the Marblehead Regiment and commanded the USS Franklin for George Washington's first expedition of the American Navy, which was ordered to interrupt the shipping of British armaments off Nova Scotia.[2] Selman also participated in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775).

  1. ^ Roads, Samuel, the younger. A Guide to Marblehead. 6. ed. Marblehead, Mass, p. 26
  2. ^ (Gardner, p. 12; Askew, p. 48)