Tombstone Tuesday~Phillip Sellers

Phillip Sellers

b. 1774

d. abt 1835

bu. Old Sellers Family Cemetery

Cenotaph at Hopewell Baptist Church ¹

Phillip Sellers was born about 1774, the second child of Hardy Sellers and Mary Cook. Information on Phillip and his family is very sparse. We know he married a young lady with the given name Mary and had a very large family. Census records for 1810 shows 7 sons and 5 daughter under the age of 25; the names of the 5 daughters are unknown.

His father Hardy Sellers died 12 January 1835 and this record from the Court of Equity provided some data on the families. 

SOURCE: {#25} Evans, John Exer. vs. H. H. Sellers & others - Bill for partition & c 1851
See Will of Hardy Sellers. Hardy Sellers died testate on or about 17th January 1835, leaving widow, Levinia Sellers and children: Hardy Huntley Sellers and Zylpha Ann Sellers and the children & grandchildren from a former marriage, John Sellers; Abraham Sellers; Philip Sellers; Richard Sellers; Mary who intermarried with Thomas Gaddy; Elijah Gulledge, James Gulledge, & Pheobe Gulledge the children of Pheobe, a deceased daughter of Hardy Sellers who predeceased her father; and, Iverson L. Briley, the son of Jane, a deceased daughter of Hardy Sellers who predeceased her father. ²

Phillip Sellers is my 4th Great Grandfather.





 
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[1] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 January 2011); Memorial page for Phillip Sellers; (1774–1835); Find a Grave memorial # 57564492, Citing Sellers Family Cemetery; Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA.
[2] James C. Pigg, Cheraw/Chesterfield District Wills, 1750-1865: Abstracts from the Court of Common Pleas 1823-1869 (Tega Cay, South Carolina: Self-published, 1995), page 118.

Amanuensis Monday~1814 Land Deed–Gilbert Purvis to Gilbert Johnston Purvis

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.
His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Today’s subject is a 1814 Land Deed between Gilbert Purvis and Gilbert Johnston Purvis; from Father to Son. ¹
 
South Carolina}
Chesterfield District}
Know all men by these presents that I Gilbert Purvis of the State and District aforesaid in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to me in hand paid by Gilbert Johnston Purvis of the state and district aforesaid, HAVE granted bargained sold and released and by these presents do grant bargain sell and release unto the said Gilbert Johnston Purvis All that Tract or Tracts of Land situate lying and being in Chesterfield district and State aforesaid on the southwest side of Thompson Creek and in part on Indian Creek containing Two hundred Acres more or Lefs [less], as per Plats to the original Grant annexed reference thereunto being had will appear Together with all and singular the rights members hereditaments to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining. To have and to hold all and singular the premises before mentioned unto the said Gilbert Johnston Purvis and afsigns [assigns] forever, and I do hereby bind myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the said premises unto the said Gilbert Johnston Purvis his heirs and Afsigns [assigns] against myself & my Heirs and against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof.---------
Witnefs my hand and seal this sixth day of September In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fourteen.---
Signed sealed and delivered}
In the presence of}
John Lowry
Wm. McKerall

South Carolina}
Chesterfield District} Personally appeared before me the subscribing Justice William McKerall who being duly sworn, deposeth and sayeth that he was present and did see the above named Gilbert Purvis, signed, seal & deliver the above implement of writing a s his act & deed for the use & purpose therein contained and that he did also see the above named John Lowry sign the same as a subscribing witnefs with himself.---
Sworn & Subscribed}                              Wm. McKerall
To before me the}
6^th day of Sept. 1814}
Peter L. Roberson, J. P.
Chesterfield District} Received Dec., 16, 1814 &
B. M. C. Office} recorded Jany 27^th, 1815 in
Book No C Pages 94 & 95
Certified & Examined by
John Craig, R. M. C.

This Land Deed is extraordinary in that it’s available for our peruse today. Very few pre Civil War deeds exist for Chesterfield County. This particular deed is part of the Spencer Family Papers held by the Matheson Library of Cheraw, South Carolina. The actual deed can also be viewed on line at:  http://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/8799
 





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[1] 1814 Land Deed, Spencer Family Papers, 1700-1900; held by Matheson Library, Cheraw, South Carolina, 2014. Gilbert Purvis to Gilbert Johnston Purvis.