ORANGE CO, NORTH CAROLINA (1752 from Bladen,Granville,Johnston Co's)
lays next to=

Chatham Co made in 1770 from Orange Co

CASWELL CO made in 1777 from ORANGE CO

Alamance Co made in 1849 from Orange Co

PARKER FAMILY
Richard PARKER will of 1749/1752 Chowan Co., NC had dau Patience Parker, son Richard, son Daniel .and also a son Jonas Parker 1733/ 1775 Orange Co., Nc, who had a son David Parker .

LAND DEEDS = available?

=======
ORANGE CO, NC

From:
"Joyce Taylor" <joyce4@amaonline.com>

Of the Minutes of the Ct of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Sep 1752-aug 1766
p.Will of Robert Milton,dec'd duly proved by oath of Richard Parker
and other witnesses, one being James Sellers, to appear at next
Superior Court.

p.116-Phillip Cellar granted letters of admin. in estate of George
#305 Cellars, dec'd. Feb. ct.l765

p.117--Marks recorded by James Cellars and others, Feb.Ct l765.

p.150--Ordered a group of fifteen men to lay off a road from Redfiield's
#306-- ford on Haw River to New Hope Chapel, Including Robert Cellars

AND in 1770 CHATHAM CO, NC was made from this land.

1755 ORANGE CO, NC TAX
JOHN MILLS
Robert MILTON
John SCLATER
Thomas SELLERS (Where did we come from? msh)
Wm STRATTE
Joseph STRATON
Joseph STRETTEN
NO SPURGIN/SPURGENS
BILBREYS? = NO

PETER, RICHARD, MILES PARKER

YOUNG’S? = NO

JAMES YOUNGER

LUKE BINUM

WHERE WERE THESE PEOPLE BEFORE 1752 when ORANGE CO, NC was made
Bladen,Granville,Johnston Co's)

4-14-1759 Robert MELTON will
sons, James, Nathaniel, Nathan, Isesum, Ancel
Exec, son, Nathan MELTON
Wit, James SELLARS, Mary STRATTON
Clerk, James WATSON

This JAMES SELLARS probably 21 - born before 1738, msh)

"Joyce Taylor" <joyce4@amaonline.com>

Bk.1{365} Jun l759 Last will & testament of Robert Melton,dec'd.
183 James Sellers & Mary Stratten be summoned to appear at the next
Superior ct and the aforesaid Executor was qualified agreeable to law.

From:
"Joyce Taylor" <joyce4@amaonline.com>

p.116-Phillip Cellar granted letters of admin. in estate of George
#305 Cellars, dec'd. Feb. ct.l765

p.117--Marks recorded by James Cellars and others, Feb.Ct l765.

p.150--Ordered a group of fifteen men to lay off a road from Redfiield's
#306-- ford on Haw River to New Hope Chapel, Including Robert Cellars

Johnston Co. --Sellers 1748-1763 land grants

From: CHARLENE
"Nix" <pbsam@n-jcenter.com>

Look in this book or resource:
The Granville Dist. of N. Carolina,
> 1748-1763 Land Grant Abstracts Vol. 2
=================
> Other helpful information: Land bought in the Smithfield, Selma, Four
> Oaks, Benson, Boon Hill area by the Sellers family
> I am looking for the Father of Alsey Sellers. I can not find his parents
> but I heard that they lived in this area for many years.
> Any help you can give would be much appreciated
=====================
Charlene,
The Book, Land Grant Abstracts Vol. 2 has:
SELLERS: James, Samson and Robert,
all were "chain carriers"
in 1761 Orange county, working for/helping the
surveyor Mr. W. Church with land surveys. The land was on
Mill/Mile creek and Hawtree. They may be listed in another
Volume as to where they had land.
Kathy.......
email =

Source: BRASWELL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [BRASWELL] Braswell's Ordinary,Orange Cy

Dear Tina,

"Braswell's Ordinary" was mentioned in Orange County Court of Common
Please and Quarter Sessions minutes dated February, 1764. In that entry
William Braswell was given license "to keep a Tavern at his now Dwelling
house..." In a subsequent entry from the May Court, the road "from
Braswell's Ordinary to James Sellers' " was mentioned. As you may know,
an "ordinary" was a combination hotel and tavern for colonial
travelers.

The family of Valentine Braswell (c.1688-c.1763) ran their ordinary in
combination with a ferryboat operation just downstream from the Deep-Haw
confluence at the head of navigation on Cape Fear. Orange quarter sessions
records indicate that Richard Braswell was licensed to keep a public ferry
"at his plantation on the North West side of Cape Fear" in June, 1758. The
Price-Strother 1808 Map proves that the "Brazel" Ferry stayed in operation
well into the nineteenth century.

An English traveler has left us a colorful description of what it was
like to stay in a "Carolina ordinary":

"They were mostly log-huts, or a frame weatherboarded; the better sort
consisting of one story and two rooms; the more numerous having no internal
divisions....One corner of the room would be occupied by a 'bunk' containing
the family bed; another by a pine-wood chest, the family clothes press and
larder; a third would be railed off for a bar, containing a rum-keg and a
tumbler. The rest of the furniture consisted of two chairs and a table, all
in the last stage of palsy....If hunger and fatigue compelled you to remain,
a little Indian corn for your horse, and a blanket on the hearth, with your
saddle for a pillow, to represent a bed, were the most you could
obtain....As to edibles, whether you called for breakfast, dinner, or
supper, the reply was one--eggs and bacon....Ten to one you had to cook the
meal yourself....No sooner were you seated than the house-dog (of the large
wolf breed) would arrange himself beside you and lift his lank, hungry jaws
expressively to your face. The young children, never less that a dozen (the
women seeming to bear them in a litter in those regions), at the smell and
sight of the victuals would let up a yell enough to frighten the wolves."

Carey
Carey Bracewell [cbrasul@airmail.net]

Chatham Co made in 1770 from Orange Co

MARRIAGES=
Sellers, Griffin    Pheby Stanford       3 June 1848         John Stanford
Sellers, Lemuel     Sarah Huffman        24 Nov. 1840        Willis Sellers
Sellers, Willis     Mary Ellen Day       1 Mar. 1839         Wm. Wheebe
Sellers, Const.     Mariah Bason         9 Dec. 1847         A. Murray, Jr.
Walker, Bedford     Mary C. Sellers      2 Oct. 1843         Samuel Crawfor
Walker, George      Mary Sellers        13 Dec. 1848        Robert Tinnin
Walker, John A.     Eliza A. Sellers     18 Aug. 1848        Wm. Murray
Harden, John         Rebecca Holt           26 Oct. 1812    Thomas Sellers
Loy, Martin         Polley Sellers       18 Dec. 1799       Cressley Brinkley

THOMAS SELLERS/NANCY MITCHEN RAINEY/ DEC 29,1812 listed on Orange Co,NC (Ck Alamance Co,NC)
does anyone show bondsman or security? msh (where in 1820? )

Orange County NC - MARRIAGES - Marriage Bonds
Harden, John Rebecca Holt 26 Oct. 1812 Thomas Sellers

             Re: Melton research
        From:
             Ken Poole <kbpoole@atomic.net>

Hi, It has been a while since I mentioned our lineage. We are also working this Robert Melton
lineage. Some of his children came into Moore County, NC, and we still live with in a very few miles
of where they settled. Ancel/Anseel, James......
Also Surnames: Sheffield, Cagle, Williamson, Wright, Dunlap, Deaton, Bolling, Byrd, Hair/Hare,
Owen, Cole.......others. Ken

Orange Co,NC land deeds
5-12-1761-John LANDRUM grantor to John SELLERS, 100A,wit Peter SULLINGER (born bef 1740,msh)
2-8-1763 Robert SELLERS/Wm BALLARD , 200A, wit Wm CHURTON
11-8-1763 Philip SELLERS/Henry EUSTICE MCCULLOCK?,223A,wit James BOYD
2-14-1764 James SELLERS,wit - Joseph COPELAND/Joseph Picketts 243A
2-14-1764 Edward EDWARDS/Robert SELLERS 200 A- wit James SELLERS
11-13-1764 Wm BALLARD/Robert PATTERSON 200A - wit JAMES SELLER
5-14-1765 James SELLERS/Robert SELLERS 200A - wit John ALEXANDER
8-13-1765 James SELLERS/John ALEXANDER 150A - wit James CARTER
5-14-1765 Henry McCULLOCH/Philip SELLERS 223 A wit Robert RAINEY
2-10-1767 Gedion KIRKSEY/James SELLERS 177A wit Robert SELLERS
1-26-1768 James SELLERS/John HOGAN 177 A wit James MONROE
SPURGIN/SPURGEN?
BILBREYS?

5-1-1763 = PHILLIP SELLERS = 223 ACRES on HAW RIVER

1752/1766 Orange Co Court
ca 1765/6 = GEORGE CELLAR, Dec'd, Phillip CELLAR, Adm
(are some other papers available? msh)

Thomas SELLERS
1768 signed Regulator advertisement

HOWELL SELLERS born 1762 Chatham Co, Nc ( Chatham made in 1770 from Orange Co., NC )
enlisted 1776 from Edgefield,SC =

1780 CHATHAM district of ORANGE CO, = THOMAS SELLERS tax list

1 horse, 1 cow, 880 taxable amt

1790 ORANGE CO, NC CENSUS= (All '0's =? msh)
THOMAS SELLERS, page 93 =0-0-0
JOHN SHEELER, PAGE 95 = 0-0-0
No Meltons

1800 ORANGE CO, NC CENSUS =
Contributed by:

            Don Marsh <McClainExchange@mexia.com>
THOMAS SELLERS, page 0531
Males    0- 9 - 1
Males   16-25 - 2
Males   45&up - 1 (bef 1755)
Females 16-25 - 1
Females 45&up - 1

ORANGE CO, NC -WILLS - Hugh McCaddams Extract
I don't remember WHY we have this will here, msh?

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Louise Overton
DFGM43A@PRODIGY.COM

Will Book D
Page 248
Written 13 April 1809
Proved August Court 1809

Hugh McCADDAMS
wife: Caty
daus: Nancy McCADDAMS, Mary McCADDAMS, Elizabeth BASON (left each $1.)
dau: Frankey McCADDAMS, one negro
sons: Hugh McCADDAMS and Tinnen McCADDAMS...land
son: Joseph received land and slaves.
sons: David McCADDAMS, James McCADDAMS, John McCADDAMS, William
McCADDAMS, and Isaac McCADDAMS each received $1.
Exe: friends Joseph MOORE and Robert FOSSETT
Wit: Edward FOSSETT, Robert TINNIN, and George FAUSETT

Contributed by:
Betty Cooper
msgcooper@aol.com
1810 CENSUS=
CELLURS, THOMAS, Page 138, No twp listed
CELLURS, THOMAS JR, Page 138, No twp listed

RAINEYS=
--------
ALSO =
1810 ORANGE CO, NC
WILLIS SULLERS, PAGE 121

Clipping from Raleigh, North Carolina Register, 14 June 1811

The Rev. Benjamin Rainey

On Haw River,in Orange County, onthe 5th Inst. much regretted by his
friends And neighbors, The Rev. Benjamin Rainey, aged 52 years, after
an illness of nearly six months, leaving a large family of children.
he was the only son of his parents, now living nearly 74 years of age.

1812 #2464 Thomas SELLERS marries Nancy MITCHEM
(marriage cd shows Nancy Mitchem RAINEY?)

North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868

Bride: Nancy Mitchen Rainey
Groom: Thomas Sellers
Bond Date: 29 Dec 1812
County: Orange
Record #: 03 003
Bondsman: B A Rainey
Witness: Michl Holt
Bond #: 000102463

1816 TAX LIST=
THOS SELLERS SR - 109 ACRES ON HAW RIVER
THOS SELLERS JR - 109 ACRES ON HAW RIVER
WILLIS SELLERS - 53 ACRES ON BACK CREEK

1820 CENSUS=

1830 ORANGE CO, NC CENSUS

8-11-1820 WILLIS SELLERS / Jane CRAWFORD -Eli MURRY bond
3-1-1839 WILLIS SELLERS /Mary Ellen RAY- Wm H. Whibbee, Bond
11-24-1840 LEMUEL SELLERS/SARAH HUBMAN-Willis SELLARS,Bond and J.GANT
12-9-1847 CONSTANTINE SELLERS/MARIAH BASON -A.MURRY JR, bond
6-3-1848 GRIFFEN SELLARS/Phebey STANFORD- Joan STANFORD bond

1-21-1827 WILLIS SELLARS and Samuel CRAWFORD
wit will of George FAUCETT=

1840 ORANGE CO, NC CENSUS=
THOMAS SELLERS, PAGE 177
WILLIAM SELLERS, PAGE 177
WILLIS SELLERS, PAGE 177
WILLIS SELLERS SR, PAGE 199
WILLIAM SETTERS, PAGE 177

1850 ORANGE CO, NC CENSUS= (ck Alamance Co,NC)
SELLERS 179A=
9   382 382 Burrwell       Robert         48   M         O.S.P. Clergyman 2,500   Virginia
10 382 382 Burrwell       Anna           40   F                                  Virginia
11 382 382 Burrwell       John           16   M                                  Virginia
12 382 382 Burrwell       Mary           17   F                                  Virginia
13 382 382 Burrwell       Nanny          14   F                                  N Carolina
14 382 382 Burrwell       Fanny          12   F                                  N Carolina
15 382 382 Burrwell       Armstead       10   M                                  N Carolina
16 382 382 Burrwell       Robert         8    M                                  Hillsboro NC            X
17 382 382 Burrwell       William        6    M                                  Hillsboro NC
18 382 382 Burrwell       James          4    M                                  Hillsboro NC
19 382 382 Burrwell       Dandrigde      3    M                                  Hillsboro NC
20 382 382 Burrwell       Edinrnd        1    M                                  Hillsboro NC
21 382 382 Sellers        Frances        14   F                                  N Carolina              X
22 382 382 Cole           Savena         17   F                                  N Carolina              X
23 382 382 Middleton      Jetrima        15   F                                  N Carolina              X
24 382 382 Andrews        Ellen          10   F                                  N Carolina              X
25 382 382 Watters        Carolina       15   F                                  N Carolina              X
26 382 382 McRAy          Flora          16   F                                  N Carolina              X
27 382 382 Chapman        Mary           14   F                                  N Carolina              X
28 382 382 Spottswood     Rosa           14   F                                  N Carolina              X

29 383 383 Brewer         Biddy          68   F                        1,500     N Carolina                    X
30 383 383 Brewer         John           31   M         Farmer                   N Carolina
31 383 383 Brewer         Becca          22   F                                  N Carolina
32 383 383 Brewer         Sackfield      45   M         Farmer                   N Carolina
33 383 383 Brewer         Erasmus        37   M         Farmer                   N Carolina

From:
"Robert N. Marion" <rmarion@accessone.com>

Subject: MCDANIEL, Eli b 1770 where unknown

1.) Looking for parents of:
      MCDANIEL, Eli   b 1770   where unknown, m GRIFFIN, Elizabeth
(Betsy)
       son
      MCDANIEL, John b abt 1795,   m (1) unknown m   1840 (2) COUNTS,
Nancy
           John was known to have moved to Cane Creek, Orange Co, NC and
died bef 1845

(2) Seeking proof that the above are father and grandfather to:

      MCDANIEL, Eli b abt 1812 d 1846 m ROACH, Elvira
        son
      MCDANIEL, John Arthur b 1844 m SELLERS, Winnie Minerva

Thanks,
Lynn Marion

From:
"Joyce Taylor" <joyce4@amaonline.com>

p124--Will dated 21 Jan 1827,proved May Ct l827. George Faucett,
E141--wf Martha, son Ray, daus.Nancy, 1 not named. Exc: bro.Edw.
Witt: Willis Sellers, Sam'l Crawfad.

Rowan Co. Tax List l757-1800-Petition before Jospah Martin,Esq;
Governor & Commander in Chief-A petitioner Isaiah Sallyer and Zachariah Sallyer.

Jeremiah Selliers on property listed. Many Halls.

ORANGE COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - George Finley Grant
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George Finley Granville Grant. This grant mentions the "line that divides the counties of    Rowan and Orange."

        THE GRANVILLE GRANTS LATER NORTH CAROLINA STATE LAND GRANTS,
                PRESENT DAY GUILFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
                        ©1999 Sharon Snitily

Granville Grant Genealogy Research Project by, Sharon Snitily, with special
thanks to Dave Simmer and Mary June Foulk. For a color printout and more
information about our project, email your name and address with subject line
of GRANT PROJECT to Shari - sharigs@crcwnet.com.

GEORGE FINLEY
Orange County, North Carolina
Granville Grant 3870
Patent Book 14, Page 399
Earl of Granville's Agent: 1 December 1753
Surveyed: 5 April 1754
Granted: 6 March 1755
Chain Carriers: Othio Boshears, Cornelius McDede
Witness: Hugh Forster, James Carter

Driving Directions: (from 7½' series USGS Map, 1994)
Take State Route 29 North out of Greensboro. Take McLeasnville Road Exit. Go
South on McLeansville Road and turn right at the fifth unimproved road past
the exit. This road winds and interesects two other unimproved roads before
it eventually travels the north part of Finley's grant

ORIGINAL GRANT DESCRIPTION
...all that Piece and Parcel of Land, situate, lying, and being in the Parish
of and County of Orange in the Province of North-Carolina, in America.
On the North Side the Reedy Fork, Beginning at a poplar, on the Bank of said
Reedy Fork, in the Line that divides the Countys of Rowan and Orange, thence
along said line North 320 poles to a post, in said line, thence East 240 poles
to a Maple Standing by a small Branch, thence South 229 poles to a Hicory
Standing by the Reedy fork, thence up the various courses of said fork, to the
Beginning. Containing in Whole Four hundred and four Acres of Land...

>>>> To view a map of the grant, go to: <<<<

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orange/map.gif

Deed Abstracts-Guilford County
Bk 3:140 - George Finley, Sr. to George Finley, Jr.
4 November 1784, 202 acres, 50£, Wit: John Cunningham, John Clintock, Sr.,
Proved Guilford County November Court 1784
Bk 4:15 - George Finley, Sr. to his son James Finley
20 November 1786, 202 acres, 50£ Wit: William Covey, Josiah Finley, Proved
Guilford County November Court 1786