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 Abt 1733 - 1809 (76 years)
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| Name |
Johan Peter Zeller |
| Born |
Abt 1733 |
Möttgers, Hessen, Germany  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Name |
Peter Sellers |
| Died |
Aug 1809 |
Rockingham County, Virginia, United States [2] |
| Person ID |
I10216 |
TangledRoots |
| Last Modified |
22 Oct 2021 |
| Father |
Hans Heinrich Zeller, b. 17 Aug 1704, Weinheim, Mannheim, Baden, Germany , d. Aft 1773, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age > 70 years) |
| Mother |
Anna Maria Fechter, b. 1701, Möttgers, Hessen, Germany , d. Abt 1776, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
23 Feb 1730 |
Germany |
| Family ID |
F3043 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Children |
| | 1. Conrad Sellers, d. Abt 1808, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States |
| | 2. Peter Sellers, b. Abt 1758, Rockingham County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. Bef 20 Jun 1836, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States (Age < 78 years) |
| | 3. Elizabeth Sellers, b. Abt 1761, Rockingham County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. John Sellers, b. Abt 1765, Rockingham County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 24 Nov 1839, Warren County, Ohio, United States (Age 74 years) |
| | 5. Anna Maria Sellers, b. Abt 1767, Rockingham County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 1827, Lincoln County, Georgia, United States (Age 60 years) |
| | 6. Jacob Zellers, b. 6 Mar 1768, Rockingham County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 5 Dec 1821, Lincoln County, Georgia, United States (Age 53 years) |
| | 7. Michael Sellers, d. Abt 1812, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States |
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| Last Modified |
16 Jan 2022 |
| Family ID |
F4000 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
Believed to be a son of Heinrich Zeller. We first find Peter documented by land transaction on the east side of the Massanutten in 1755. On June 13th of that year he patented 90 acres next to 28 acres Heinrich had bought from Lewis on February 28, 1750. The Zellers land was on the west bank of the Shenandoah River and had about a mile of frontage on it. Peter bought 123 acres from Heinrich on August 17, 1765. Twenty-three of this was from Heinrich's home site. He patented another 183 acres July 5, 1774, a total of 334 acres on the east side of the Massanutten.
Next, we find a Peter Sellers buying land in what is now the Mountain Valley community on the west side of the Mountain in 1791. This is a 17 year time span. This land was not so far removed from his other land, at that time, as it appears today. There was a "path" or trail road thru that early settlers traveled to Peaked Mountain Church and the McGaheysville-Elkton area from the Mountain Valley area. This Peter had a wife, Margaret.
Peter's land at Mountain Valley was a part of David Andersson's warrant for 2000 acres granted to him December 1, 1783. Peter's survey for 16 acres cites "S. W. -Stephen's corner". The old Stephen's place was on Smith's Creek between Lacey Spring and road 620 today. Road 806 is in this general area today.
This land seems to have descended to Conrad Sellers, to John Sellers, to Daniel Sellers and was sold out of the Sellers family. Leon Cave owned most of this land in 1985. A section of it along the east line descended to Amanda Layman, daughter of Daniel Sellers. Wayne Phillips owned this in 1985 and it is thus now owned by a Sellers descendant.
Many land records were burned on the wagons hauling them to safety during the Civil War. The effort to save the records resulted in their being partly destroyed. This loss of records makes it difficult to trace land transactions.
Peter furnished supplies to the militia during the American Revolution. He was active in community affairs. He was named as one of four, any three to serve, to appraise George Schulenger estate March 22, 1799; March 22, 1784 for Frederick Haynes, and June 28, 1784 James Madley's estate.
He and Adam Zellers were named executors of Christian Teeters' will August 23, 1784. He was a member of the Grand Jury in 1785. Augustine Price and Frederick Armentrout processioned Peter's land 1767-68.
Like his brothers John and Adam, Peter furnished livestock and food to the American forces from 1780 to 1782. He received payment for all three years provisions in November 1783.
Source:
[1] Mary Marie Koontz Arrington, "Cradled by the Masanutten: The Zellers-Sellers Family", Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1986
[2] Frank M. Sellers, "Sellers - A Preliminary Study of the Descendants of Heinrich Sellers", Denver, Colorado: Lion Press, 1984
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- [S936] Book: Cradled by the Masanutten: The Zellers-Sellers Family, pg. 27.
Johan Peter b. c/a 1738
- [S1170] Book: Michael Sellers - Zeller-Sellers and Allied Families.
Death: AUG 1809 in Rockingham County,Virginia
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