CAROL, sending thro SELLERS group for help and ideas. good idea. marie, iowa -----Original Message----- From: Carol Herbert [mailto:carolherbert@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:33 PM To: mari@netins.net Cc: Katherine Kyle; paul kyle Subject: Sampson Sellers, George Sellers in Johnston County, N>C> In my attempt to establish the parentage of Daniel Sellers, born in 1828 in Johnston County, North Carolina, and appearing in the Johnston County 1850 Census with William H. b. 1826, Martha b. 1827, and Faithey, b. 1775, I will examine each of the Sellers who appears in Census, land records, and tax lists in Johnston County, North Carolina before 1850. Sampson Sellers The first mention of a Sampson Sellers in North Carolina is as chain carrier on a survey crew in Orange County (just to the east and North of Johnston County) in 1760. He buys property in Johnston County in 1781. In the 1784-87 Johnston County tax list Sampson appears, age 21-60, with 2 boys under 21 and 1 female. He has 640 acres of land. In the 1790 Johnston County Census he appears, age over 16, with three boys under 16 and 1 female. A Sampson also appears in the 1790 Richmond County Census, age over 16, 3 boys under 16, and 3 females. There are no Sellers in the 1800 Johnston County Census, However, there are two Sampson Sellers in 1800 Richmond County. Sampson (1) age over 45(b. before 1755), with 2 boys under 10, and 1 female over 45. Sampson (2) age over 45(b. before 1755), 1 boy under 10, 2 boys, 10-15, 2 females 26-44, and 1 female over 45. Sampson appears in no more land records, tax lists or census records in Johnston County. I conclude that he went to Richmond County. The only chance that he is related to my Daniel is if his boys stayed in Johnston County (he has only 2 boys under 10 ten years later indicating that the older boys did not go to Richmond County with him, assuming he is Sampson (1) since the females seem to belong to the Richmond County 1790, 1800 Sampson (2). If Sampson's three boys stayed in Johnston County, they would appear as males born between 1774 and 1789. Does anyone know where Sampson may have come from? Is anyone in our group descended from him? George Sellers George Sellers appears in no census records in Johnston County, North Carolina. However, he witnessed a deed in Johnston County in 1798. He would have been at least 21. Therefore, he was born before 1778. He bought property from an estate in 1803 in Johnston County.. He appears in the following Johnston County tax lists, paying only a poll tax (meaning he is over 21 and under 50). 1802,1803, 1804, 1805. He is in Capt. Adin Powells District all four years.If he is under 50 in 1805, he could not have been born before 1755. So his birthdate range is 1755 to 1778. Depending in which part of the range his birth falls, he could be a brother or son of Sampson. He does not appear in any further Johnston County records. A George Sellers is in the Cumberland County 1810 Census: 1 M 26-45 (1765-1784), 1 F 26-45, 1 F under 10. He is in no Cumberland County Census's before or after that. His birth range would fit the Johnston County George and it would be more likely that he was a son rather than a brother of Sampson...assuming they are closely related. A George Sellers is in South Carolina, St Matthews Parish in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1820 and 1840: 1820: 1 M 26-45, 1 F 26-45. 1840: 1 M 30-40, 1 M 40-50, 1 F 10-15, 1 F 30-40, 1 F 50-60. Apparently a younger couple with one daughter is living with George and his wife in 1840. Did the Johnston County George (whoever his father was) move from Johnston County to Cumberland County to Orangeburg,South Carolina? This Orangeberg George may have been too young to be the Johnston County George: 1820: 1775-1794, 1840: 1790-1800. There is another family of Sellers in Orangeberg during this early period, headed by a David Sellers. On the Sellers site (sellers-sellars-zellers-etc) there is posted "Muster Rolls of the War of 1812." There is a George Sellers on the Muster Rolls from Lincoln County. However, I can't find him in any War of 1812 records on ancestry or rootsweb. Lincoln is west of Cumberland and closer to South Carolina. If the George in Cumberland County is the same George as the one in Johnston County, he could not be the parent or grandparent of Daniel. However, if he is not, he may be the absent male in the household of "Cuzzy/Casa" whom I will examine later. Does anyone have any information about this George that I have missed? I will post information about Johnston County James, Benjamin and Cuzzy/Cassa later.