Johan Adam Zeller b. 1742 Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. Apr 1821 Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States: Tangled Roots

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Name	Johan Adam Zeller
Born	1742	Pennsylvania, British Colonial America [1, 2, 3, 4]
Gender	Male
Name	Adam Sellers
	The original German spelling of the name was "Johan Adam Zeller". Anglicanized by both the English courts as well as English society in general, the English version of the name became "Adam Sellers". The last name is also found in various court records either as "Seller" or as "Sellars". As evidenced by the estate records at his death in Warren County, Ohio, he was known as "Adam Sellers".
Residence	1789	Rockingham County, Virginia, United States [5]
Residence	1817 [6]
	migrated to Warren County, Ohio
Buried	1821	Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States [4]
	Address: Salem Church Cemetery
Died	Apr 1821	Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States [1, 7]
Person ID	I8465	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

Family Barbara Teeter, d. Yes, date unknown

Married 30 Jul 1801 Rockingham County, Virginia, United States

Children

	1. Henry Sellers, b. Abt 1769, Augusta County, Virginia, United States , d. 3 Sep 1841, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States (Age 72 years)
	2. Christian Sellers, b. Abt 1768, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 13 Oct 1841, Parke County, Indiana, United States (Age 73 years)
	3. Peter Sellers, b. Between 1770 and 1771, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 15 Aug 1807, Warren County, Ohio, United States (Age 37 years)
	4. Mary Christina Sellers, b. Abt 1773, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 12 Jan 1824 (Age 51 years)
	5. Elizabeth Sellers, b. 15 Mar 1776, Augusta County, Colony of Virginia , d. 27 Apr 1862, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States (Age 86 years)
	6. Adam Sellers, Jr., b. 1778, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States , d. Abt 1800, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States (Age 22 years)

Last Modified 16 Jan 2022

Family ID F2762 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Johan Adam Zellers was probably the 4th child of Heinrich and Anna Maria Zellers. John was probably born about 1742 in Pennsylvania and died in Ohio in 1821. Tradition is that when he was 75 he moved to Ohio. Based upon dates of his land sales he moved to Ohio in 1817. His two sons Henry and Adam Jr. were dead and the rest had moved to Ohio and this probably influenced his moving.

A list of large landowners compiled from the original manuscripts in the Rockingham County, Virginia Clerk's Office for the year 1789, lists Adam Sellers in District 12 with 1142 acres of land. District 12 was a part of the East District which included the land around the foot of the east and southeast side of the Massanutten and west of the Shenandoah River.

In Strickler's Tenth Legion Tithables, 1791 John Adam Sellers is listed as having 6 horses, his son Peter, 21, and on negro over 16.

Boones Run flows east out of Runkles Gap and enters the Shenandoah River just above the old St. Peter's Church where probably the oldest settlement in Rockingham County, was made. Jacob Stover who pioneered settlement in this area married an aunt of Daniel Boone and thus we have Boones Run.

Runkles Gap is named for the pioneering Runkles family from Germany. There is an old Runkle Castle at Runkle, Germany, just on the outskirts of Limberg. Johan Adam Zellers' son Peter married Elizabeth Runkle, daughter of Peter Runkle, Sr., who was of this Runkle family.

The Zellers family became caught up with hundreds more from the valley with wanderlust. They moved west across the Alleghenies to take advantage of cheap lands and the military bounty land after the American Revolution. Two other historical events contributed to another wave of people moving on, not only from east of the mountains but from Ohio westward. One was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Missouri Compromise in 1820, which settled the matter of slave and free territory.
Reference:
(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

From The Western Star, April 30, 1821
PUBLIC VENUE
Will be sold at public vendue on Friday the 1st day of June next at the late residence of Adam Sellers, on Clearcreek, one Clock and Case, one ten plate stove, a number of Hogs, and Cattle, Beds and Bedding, Corn, wheat, household and kitchen furniture, and a number of other articles too tedious to mention. A credit of nine months will be given, by the purchaser giving his note with good approved security.
Admrs.
William Sellers
Christian Sellers
Charles Null
April 25th 1821 230c4W

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
All persons indebted to the estate of Adam Sellers, late of Warren county, Ohio, dec'd. are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims against said estate are requested to present them legally authenticated, for adjustment within one year from this date.
Admrs.
William Sellers
Christian Sellers
Charles Null
April 25th 1821 230c5W