Samuel Sellers

• Updated from Ancestry Records via son John Sellers by SmartCopy: Feb 24 2015, 3:35:07 UTC

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 Samuel Sellars, a Revolutionary soldier of Duplin County, N.C., was  born in that state about 1740-45, a son of *Samuel Sellars. Duplin County  deed records show the latter acquired 300 acres in Duplin from Richard James  Oct. 5, 1751.

Samuel Sellars, the subjject, married his cousin, Zilpa Sellars, in  Duplin County, May 11, 1767.

Samuel Sellars served in the North Carolina militia in the Revolutionary War, and a few years after the was moved to Effingham County, Georgia. A deed appears of record in Sampson County, N.C. from Samuel Sellars "of Georgia" to Nathaniel Merritt, dated Nov. 9, 1790, for three hundred acres in formerly Duplin, now Sampson County (Deed Book 9, paage 226, Sampson County). The Sellars home-place was cut out of Duplin into Sampson County when the latter county was formed in 1786.

    Samuel Sellars died in Effingham County, in 1794, age about 50 years.  His will dated August 29, 1794, was probated in that county a few weeks  after it was executed.

    About 1806, the widow and children (who by that time had married) moved  to Tattnall County, where she died. When Appling County was opened to  settlers in 1819, The sons moved across the Altamaha into the new county and  lived there until they died.