Orange County Indexed
The Sellers surname
The Sellers name in Orange County Indexed: 35 historical records.
- In the records
- 1755 to 1910
most named in the 1760s
- Tax lists 1755–1790
- Wills 1759
- Deeds 1761–1866
- Marriages 1796–1910
- Court minutes 1812
- Records of enslaved people 1817
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Haw River (7), Travis Creek (1), Mill Creek (1)
- Married into
- Atwater 1, Bason 1, Harder 1, Moore 1, Woods 1, Wilson 1, Strayhorn 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Loy 5, Harder 2, Rainey 2, McCulloch 2, Stratton 2, Parker 2, Melton 2
- Spellings to try
- Sellars, Seller
- Search beyond these records
- Sellers in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Sellers there)
- Sellers in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the historical records 35 records
20 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 7 marriages, 4 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 1 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Sellers marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1750s
- 1755Tax listsThe 1755 list of tithables: Thomas Sellers
- 1759WillsWill of Robert Melton
1760s
- 1761DeedsJohn Landrum to John Sellers, August 1761
- 1763DeedsPhillip Sellers to Henry Eustice McCulloch, November 1763
- 1765DeedsEarl Granville to James Sellers, August 1765
- 1765DeedsJames Sellers to Robert Sellers, August 1765
- 1765DeedsJames Sellers to James Caller [Collier?], August 1765
- 1765DeedsJames Sellers to John Alexander, August 1765
- 1765DeedsHenry McCulloch to Phillip Sellers, August 1765
- 1767DeedsGideon Kirksey to James Sellers, May 1767
- 1768DeedsJames Sellers to John Hogan, January 1768
1790s
- 1790Tax listsThe 1790 tax list: Thos. Sellers (Chatham District)
- 1796MarriagesMarriage bond: Joseph Harder and Eliza Sellers
1800s
1810s
- 1811DeedsWilliam Kirk to Thomas Sellers Sr, 15 February 1811
- 1812Court minutesDeed, Willis Sellers to Martin Loy, proved by Joseph Harder.
- 1816DeedsThomas Sellers Sr to Thomas Sellers Jr, 20 May 1816
- 1817DeedsWilliam Rainey to Willis Sellers, 3 November 1817
- 1817Records of enslaved peopleDeed (sale or gift not stated): William Rainey to Willis Sellers, 3 November 1817
1820s
1830s
1860s
1870s
- 1873MarriagesMarriage license: Paisley Sellers and Rebecca Woods
- 1877MarriagesMarriage license: Jordan Sellers and Julia Wilson
- 1878MarriagesMarriage license: Green Sellers and Hannah Bason
1880s
- 1881MarriagesMarriage license: Thomas Sellers and Julia Strayhorn
1900s
- 1902MarriagesMarriage license: B F Moore and Emma Sellers
1910s
- 1910MarriagesMarriage license: Ennis T Sellers and Golden Atwater
