Selina & Seraphine Seixas

Captured here are sisters Selina and Seraphine Seixas, ages seven and five, the two youngest of Joshua and Henrietta Raphael Seixas’ children. They had eight older siblings, including Gershom. Their grandfather was Gershom Mendes Seixas, the first American-born Jewish clergyman. Although little is known of Seraphine’s fate, Selina married merchant Lionel Moses, son of Joshua and Sarah Rodriguez Brandon Moses, with whom she had seven children, including Blanche, Sarah and Gershom Arnold.

Selina & Seraphine Seixas

c. 1845