Our Family Tree (Williamson/Postema/Samples/Evans)

A Scotch Irish immigrant to America. Tradition is source of most of
information about Hezekiah. Said to have been a foremost woodsman and
frontiersman. Thought to have migrated from Scotland to Ireland, probably in
the vincinity of Ulster, Ireland. A Scotch Ireshman, and a victim of political
and religious persecution, Hezekiah left Ireland for the free shores of America
in 1732. Not known by what ship or where he landed. For a time he settled in
Pennsylvania and then moved into the headwaters of the beautiful and charming
Shendandoah Valley of Virginia. Hezekiah left the Shenandoah valley, for
reasons unknown. Maybe the area was becoming too populated or stable for his
pioneer spirit. Many were migrating down the valley and westward. He moved to
the wilderness area of Walkers Creek in southwestern Virginia. Date of
migration is uncertain, though one writer has stated the move was before 1760.

Some believe Hezekiah Sellards father was Peter John Sellards, Jr., the son of
the Irish Political refuge, Peter John Sellards, who came to America around
1700.