Bill Lorenz's maternal 6th great-grandfather (strongly inferred, not fully primary-sourced). Born approximately 1710 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, one of the original Virginia colonial settlements. James Thomas Sellers's father per FamilySearch, WikiTree, and Geni community trees plus a 1761 will probated in Edgecombe County, NC (will text not yet read this session). Died January 3, 1761 in Edgecombe County, NC. The Sellers/Sellars surname is English (Lancashire / Yorkshire variant) and arrived in colonial Virginia.
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Out of colonial Virginia
1710-1761
William Benjamin Sellers Sr was born around 1710 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, one of the original English colonial settlements. The Sellers / Sellars surname is English, Lancashire-Yorkshire in origin, and arrived in Virginia in the seventeenth century. From William Benjamin in colonial Virginia, the line moved south into North Carolina (Duplin, Edgecombe, Chatham, Caswell), then west into Tennessee (Maury County), then southeast into Georgia. By the time the line reached Bill Lorenz it had been on American soil for nearly two and a half centuries.
Source: Parallel agent research session 2026-06-06