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Richard Sr. HIETT
Hi Larry. Going back from John Hiett, I read it as: John Hiett born circa 1676, Christened 27 Apr 1676 in the village of Street, Somerset, died circa 1727 Married: circa 1695 Mary Smith born circa 1677 John Hiett's father being: Richard Hiett who died around 1686? and his mother was possibly: Joane Hiett, documented as alive in 1680 in same village as Richard. Before Richard there is, as you say, a gap in the records, then a possible Grandfather for Richard Hiett being: Thomas Hyett, documented as living in the village in 1566, and who's father was: Robert Hyett died circa 1558. However, a little further down we have mention in Butleigh of the 'late John Hiett deceased' and he was noted as deceased as early as 1688 and so is very likely to fill the gap, possibly being the missing father of Richard Hiett who died around 1686, The first John Hiett's grandfather... Don't forget, I didn't do this research as it's not in my line, I just had it in my database and it seems to fit your line nicely... Make of it what you want, I copied it word for word from the link here a few years ago: http://butleigh.org/butleighpeople/ButleighPeopleH.htm I do know that the Butleigh records are incomplete, the records for 1578-1713 have some serious gaps, mainly due to the English Civil War period and the fact that John Radford, vicar from 1677 – 1714, didn't keep a single record. The first Parish Register (1578-1653) also has water damage to the bottom of the pages making up to six entries per page illegible. Further info might be obtained from the original author: rcsenior@yahoo.com Jon
Richard Hiett [Chr. 10 Jan 1640 Street s.o. John and Alice Hiet?], d. Butleigh 1686?
Married: ? [probably died. Before 1688 for children to be taken in by other people – or re-married]
Children:
1) Richard (1a2A) [a Richard Huett Chr. 1 Dec1667 Street s.o. Richard Huett seems likely]
2) John [Chr. 27 Apr 1676 Street] (1a2B)
3) George [probably Chr.Butleigh post 1677]
Richard was churchwarden in 1684-5 and paid rates from 1681-6. The Richard and George who received relief (+ stockings and shoes) in 1687 may have been his children (or John's). They received this relief again in 1688 and '89 in which latter year George was taken in by Robert Barnard and Richard by Edward Jacklett. In 1687 the rates were paid by John Hiett and his neighbour (looking after George) was Robert Barnard. From 1688 the rate was paid jointly by Robert Burnard and John Hiett until 1695 when it was just John Heiat again – up to 1700 when he emigrated to America. All this time the adjoining property was was 'late John Hiett deceased' [see (3)]. In 1703 Richard Heiatt becomes a rate payer – but on a different property and was there until 1707. Probably the Richard Hiatt who was in Kingweston in 1715.
In 1687 the Overseers 'charged for the relief of Richard Hieatte & George Hieatte £1 8s, paid for a peare of shoose for Richard Hieatte 1s 10d for a peare of stockens for George Hieatte 7d and a peare of drawers for Richard Hieatte 1s 4d. In 1689 They paid Robert Barnard for George Heiates relife 1s 6d a weake for 50 weakes and Edward Jacklett for Richard Hieates relief 1s 6d a weake for 5 weakes.They also paid Thomas Jacklett £1 10s for clothes for Richard Hieatte when he was bound out to him.
DD?S?BT?6/8/5 1] Richard Hiatt of Kingweston and wife Amy daughter of John Gregory decd 2] John Gregory of Butleigh, yeoman and son of John decd 3] John Reynolds the elder of Kingweston, yeoman Assignment of 1a at Nurslinge gate in the West field and 1a at north end Date: 1715.
Hiatt
Date: 7/16/2012 6:34:56 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time
From: optimum10@gmail.com to LarryAndy@aol.com
Greenagh is Greenoge, a 217 acre area in the Civil Parish of Rathcoole, in North County Dublin. There are 3 Hiat Deeds on Google Nick Reddan Registry of Deeds.
Nick Reddan Registry of Deeds
544 77239 1742 9 17 Annuity F HIATT Love gent City Dublin P2 109 18 Aug 1743 Baronies Coshin & Connello, co Cork. Including a charge of interest on 1000pds from Estate of Wm Eccles Disney [ Churchtown House, Dysert, co Waterford ? ] SW
245 257876 1787 7 19 Assignment HIATT Love Wise Apothecary Dublin City WD WM 388 24 Jul 1787 Roz McC
358 350613 1801 1 HIATT Samuel Merchant Cork City P2D 534
In a message dated 7/16/2012 6:34:56 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, optimum10@gmail.com writes:
Greenagh is Greenoge, a 217 acre area in the Civil Parish of Rathcoole, in North County Dublin. There are 3 Hiat Deeds on Google Nick Reddan Registry of Deeds.
Subject: Re: my books, records, preparing, available Date: 1/8/2013 4:24:55 A.M. Mountain Standard Time From: rcsenior@yahoo.com
Dear Larry and all Hiett interested parties, Regarding Larry's last e-mail - I would like to add that my website www.butleigh.org is free to all to use as they wish [apart from the Butleigh Revel pages which are not for re-publication] and I don't claim any copyright on my own research nor do I demand anyone actually quotes me as source [it is up to them] - I believe that all such genealogical information should be free to all and I support all sites that make such information available - such as www.freetreg.org.uk
It has been a lot of work transcribing Parish documents but that in itself is part of the fun and why I do it - I have copies of everything bound and donated to the Somerset Heritage Centre, and eventually will do the same for my whole website. In return I can photograph gratis Wills at the SHC and other documents. It is even greater fun when I get responses from other researchers or descendants thanking me for the information I have put out, and which has helped them in their searches, and this often encourages me to spend some more time on their family than I may have done previously. Genealogy is fun - a voyage of discovery and better than reading the best novel where you cannot wait to turn over the next page and see what happens next - it is full of surprises. Since we are all related in the long run, I get just as much pleasure from researching other people's families as I did from doing my own.
I had hoped to get back to looking at the Hietts by October but my eldest son chose to get married in Germany then and subsequently other family matters have taken up all the time I had wanted to dedicate to research - and now we have a year ahead with lost of travel as long-awaited grandchildren now seem to be coming along in a rush in different parts of the world!
Incidentally, I have never had a problem putting transcriptions of material out on my site - the important stipulation being that it is all for free. Best wishes to you all for 2013, Bob Senior
Dear Larry, 8 Jan 2013
Many thanks for your comments and appreciation - it makes everything worthwhile. At the moment I have come to a bit of a standstill because there are so many family demands, which to be honest I have been neglecting the last year or so. As my wife has said - 'the living take precedence over the dead!'. However, as soon as I can I shall take up the search again. I opened your files and I also have masses of files of German Parish records on my wife's family but I simply cannot give them the time needed at the moment - our lives are the wrong way round, we should have had the time to do this valuable stuff when we were young and do the normal 'work' when we were past it. Some day all the Smiths will get sorted - it just needs a dedicated team of them to put together - every record for every county [but probably won't happen in our life times!].
I am amazed what turns up here out of the blue - on the title page of my website bottom left you'll see a marble bust of George Neville-Grenville [the man who built my house in 1850 - 60, the Dean of Windsor] - no-one even knew it existed until it came up for auction a few months back - and I bought it. Almost every week new indentures and parchments come up for sale which have relevance to Butleigh, mostly from sources 100's of miles away - who knows what will turn up next? best wishes, Bob
William SMITH
Sent by K. Lyon of Dunkirk, Ind and Patricia Crespi of Anaheim, Calif., of the John Smith, brother of Mary Smith line.
Will dated 20 Sept 1708/20 May, 1710 Cecil Co., Maryland.
Exrs. of will: wife Grace and son John.
Test: David Evans, William Smith.
William Smith Quaker, GCT to Phila. MM for himself and family 1699 from Glastonbury MM., Somersetshire, Eng.
In (now) Jefferson Co., W. Vir. village of Wizards Clip, located on grant by Sir William Gooche to Mr. William Smith, 1729.
By Patricia Crespi: "I was told that my third great grandmother Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Alexander Smith, was of Indian descent but I could never figure out how that could be and could never prove or disprove the story. My great grandmother, Anna Marie Frazier Davis, related this story to my mother upon several occations."
According to family tradition of several of the descendents of Mary Smith and John Hiatt, there is a story of a relationship to Capt. John Smith and an Indian Maiden. This is an obscure and faded story of lost orgin, however, it
is widely held by so many families that it indicates that it has some possible bearing. As we also come across families that are of other branches of these Smith families who also have a similiar tradition, could it be so?
According to Joseph Copeland, in his letter of 1986, he stated that his family for about 100 years had researched this story and he had information which he was interested in publishing that connected our William Smith to Capt. John Smith and Pocahontis.
According to Joseph Copeland, the father of William was Periquine Smith, who was the son of Capt. John Smith and Pocahontis. Capt. John Smith was raised with Periquine Bertie, son of Lord Bertie, these youths were life long freinds, for whom John named his son.
There is currently no proof of this connection, and probably never will be. There were no records kept, nor any importance connected to it until well after 100 years after Capt Smith's death when there were efforts to prove a relationship. Capt. John Smith was saved by Pocahontas who was fascinated by this bearded white man. Cpt. Smith was also taken by the intrique and presence of Pocahontas. Cpt. Smith, writing much later, in England, states that Pocahontas was about 10. According to other writers, they ascribed her to being 12 or 13 years old. There are also circumstantial events which indicate Pocahontas to having to be at least slightly develped and mature enough to reason for herself and for the welfare and life of Cpt. Smith and his party. In those times the age of 12 or 13 would make her of marriageable age. There are many additional items of record which correlate to the possiblity of a relationship between Cpt. John Smith and Pocahontas.
Smith presented a "son" to Powahaton, a boy of 12 or 13 named John Savage. The purpose of John Savage was to learn the Indian ways, language and manners so that he could assist the English in understanding and dealing with the Indians. This, in the manner of the European nations, was a means to unify and make treaties with another nation. It was common to marry or promise in marriage, a son or daughter at an early age, and many royal matches were made before the child reached adolescence. So there was pleanty of presedence to establish a credible standard wherein a giving of a young man or woman between nations as possible or even probable. Since we know that John Savage, a young man, was given to Powahaton as a son, it is reasonable to ponder that he, in turn, presented his daughter, Pocahantas, to the bearded white God, Cpt. John Smith.
There is also recorded language wherein Pawahaton refers to Cpt. Smith as his son, this has been surmised to mean perhaps that Powahaton, in a sense, adopted Cpt. Smith as a son. However, it is as likely, if not more so, that he in fact was refering to Cpt. Smith as his son in law. There was also a major obstacle in the manner of a language barrier between the representatives of these two nations. It was, in fact, a major feat that there was as much exchange of information as there seems to have been. It is also quite understable as to the developement of difficulties because of this barrier.
It was the assignment of John Savage to learn the ways and language of the Indians he was with in order to assist the two nations in communicating with each other. It also appears that Pocahontas had the same expectations upon her. It is thru Pocahontas that there existed a state of peace, trade and commerce at all. It did not take long for the Indians to become weary and wary of the white visitors, nor did it take long for the white vistors to assert their power and intent upon the old inhabitants.
It was not long before Cpt. Smith took advantage of his statute with the Indians in trading and gaining permission for exploring and passage in within the nation of Powahaton. Cpt. Smith spent a good deal of his time with the Indians and frequented their villages. He was successful in trading for food which sustained the young colony. It is a matter of history and novels which provide an interest for reading, and conjecture for the first romance between the newly arrived white man and the Indian. This was also the setting for the way in which all future dealings with the Red Man was to be undertaken by the White Man. It is quite an oversite of our historians and writers of today that these particuliar persons have so badly been neglected in our history.
Before long there were wars and sufferings upon both these peoples instigated by the other. As the Indians had allowed the white man to become intrenched and established forts and secured it by cannon and musket, they had to wait for the unprotected to venture out far enough or to ambush small parties. The escaltion of difficulties were controlled as long as Cpt. Smith was in charge of the Indian affairs, his relationship with Powahatan and his daughter, Pocahantas were of great value in keeping the colony of Jamestown from disappearing from starvation, or by early attacks, when the colony was too weak or divided against each other to defend against the much larger odds of Powahatans forces. As Cpt. Smith was replaced and sent back to England conditions rapidly deteriorated between the colony and the Indians.
Pocahantas, however, was always free to enter the fort and trade with the settlers. Why was she so readily accepted within the white mans fortress?
According to records of Jamestown, VA also, John SMITH upon returning to Jamestown, and after the Indians had left, he was questioned about the loss of his companions who had been killed by the Indians when Smith was captured. Apparently it was thougth that he was up to something because he was charged and found guilty of "Planning to marry Pocahontas and make himself King over them." Was sentanced to be hung, was actually put on a barrel and ready to be executed when at the very moment Cpt. Newport arrived with men and supplies and talked them out of killing SMITH. However, after Cpt. Smith had determined he got along better with his Indian friends then his fellowmen in Jamestown, he was going to build his home with the Indians but was injured when gun powder he was transporting blew up, he was taken back to Jamestown where he recovered but was sent back to England under chain and charges redrawn of the same charges of planning to marry Pocahontas and make himself king. This was further complicated since the law stated that anyone of less rank who mixed with first line Royalty, as Pocahantas was officially a princess of the first order, it was punishable up to death. Somehow Smith talked his way out of that and was a free man at the time Pocahontas came to England with her husband Thomas Rolfe. When he visited her, she was a sitting princes, Lady Rebecca, but she was shocked to see him alive, scolded him and had to leave a few hours to gain her composure before seeing him. At that meeting he claims that she had simply asked him to call her daughter and she to fall him father, but he paniced over that and ran out, probably because she really said she was still his wife and he was her first and only true love, but his neck was already nearly stretched, so he ran out never to see her again. Lots more to this story, as well as proof that she was indeed at least 13 or 14 at the time she would have been with Cpt. SMITH, not the 10 year old he said she was. And that would have been an acceptable age for marriage in those times.
As new leaders appear in place of Cpt. Smith, a plot to kidnap Pocahontas and to hold her for ransom was created. Through treachery and betrayal, Pocahantas was coaxed to visit a ship in the harbor, only to find herself a prisoner and hostage. It is also recorded that there were two of Powahatans children who were intended to be held, but with the help of other Indians, were able to escape capture. These children have always been a mystery to researchers, it is not reasonable to think they were actually the children of Powahaton, but I would submit again that these two children were the children of Cpt. Smith and Pocahantas, Peregrine and Mary. If this cannot be proven, it non-the-less provides for a solid basis to look into the claim seriously. So it well could have meant that these were the grandchildren of Powahaton. These children would have been at least partially raised by the Indians, but as Pocahantas gained stature, her children would have gained a place in the community of the colony. Could it even be that she took these children with her when she went to England? Where could any record be found for them?
Because of the legends, the lack of records and the improbability to prove such a relationship, the story of Capt. Smith and the Indian maiden shall probably always remain only a story, and legend, as interesting as it may be.
Sent by Clifford Hardin. From the Ancestors and Family of J. Alvin Hardin
by Dorothy Hardin Massey and Clifford Hardin in 1986.
William Smith Family of Cecil County, Maryland
William Smith was in Cecil County, Maryland as early as 1703. His acestry is not known with certainty. His wife was Grace.
On 4 May 1703 William Smith purchased from Phillip Lynes one thousand acres of land lying on the East side of Elk River in Cecil County -- the site of the present day Elkton. William Smith built a saw mill and a grist mill along the Elk River as early as 1706 according to the history of Cecil County.
Apparently William Smith did not pay for his land completely when he purchased it. The deed between him and Phillip Lynes provided that Lynes would pay William 514 pounds if their agreement was not completed and William
sustained a loss. Presumably this was to protect William's investment in the mills.
William Smith died in 1710 after partially paying for his land. In his will he left the above one thousand acres to his second son, John Smith who completed payment for it. (Cecil County Deeds, Vol 2, page 102.) A seach of the land records indicated that this was the only land acquired by William Smith.
William Smith's will was dated 20 September 1708 and proved 20 May 1710.
As stated above he left to his second son, John Smith, "all the plantation that I now live upon containing 1000 acres and also one grinding mill and one saw mill" and other effects. He left his son-in-law, John Hayett, one English shilling. He bequeathed " unto my daughter, Mary, wife of John Hayett, one English shilling." Hanna Smith, daughter of my son William, one English Shilling." He named wife, Grave Smith and son, John Smith to be joint executors. Witnesses were David Evans and William Smith. Both witnesses appeared and made oath regarding the will on 20 May 1710 (Liber AA, filio 135).
John Smith, Nicholas Hyland, and Sampson George of Cecil County posted bond to administer the estate of the same date (Cecil County Administrations, page 253).
It was generally been assumed that William Smith who witnessed the above will was the son of the testator. This is now in doubt. There is on file in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, the following citation (Liber 21,
folio 61, Cecil County, Maryland.)
"John Hiett administrator of William Smith, administrator in common form with James Robinson and Sampson George," dated 27 Jul 1708.
This action took place nearly two months before William Smith, Sr. executed his will and suggests that the son, William Smith was deceased at the time of William Smith, Sr. bequeathed nothing to his son, William, but only to his daughter, Hannah, suggests that the son, William, was already deceased. Clearly, there were three William Smiths -- father, son and one other.
Grace Smith could have been a second wife although there is no indication that she was not the mother of the children of William Smith of Cecil County, Maryland.
Their children were:
1. William, died prior to 27 Jul 1708 when administrators of his estate were appointed. He had a daughter, Hannah.
2. John, Married by 1711, Jane Hinton, daughter of Rees Hinton. They removed to Frederick County, Virginia in the early 1730's.
3. Mary married John Hiett of Cecil County, Maryland.
Quaker Yeoman, Vol 14, #3, Oct. 1987 page 2 - 3
Several notes pertaining to early records of William Smith family and John Hiett family: Lived along the Elk River, Conestoga Twnshp, Lancaster Co. Until the Mason Dixon line was completed in 1767 the northern part of Cecil Co., Maryland, was often considered to be part of Lancaster or Chester Co., Penn. William Smith was supposed to have been the person who errected the first mill at Head of Elk In Cecil County, Maryland and Willaim Smith's son, John, sold the mill after 1711. John Smith took up land in 1713 on the south side of a path leading from the head of Elk River to the town of New Castle.
Edwards, Progenitors, Siblings, Descendants of Andrew Edwards by Lela Lillian Lones, published 1985, Tx 1-625-343. This family line is directly tied into the Hiatt families and recommended for all those of these lineages for further information. Page 3, "William Smith, "The Elder", wife and family obtained a certificate from Glastonbury Monthly Meeting, at Somerset, England, dated 6 mo. 14, 1699. They may have accompanied William Penn on his second voyage. Mary Hiatt married Thomas Edwards, the dau. of John Hiatt Jr. See the Edwards book for a write up of further specifics, stories and lineages.
The Quaker Yeoman Volume 13, Number 1 April 1986 page five
A Quaker Smith Family
by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman, 4425 132nd Ave. Bellevue, Wash 98006
William Smith, A Quaker brought a certificate to Philadelphia for himself and his wife and family, dated 1699, from Glastonbury Monthly Meeting in Somersetshire, England. Some fifty miles southwest of Philadelphia, in the northeast corner of the state of Maryland, lies the County of Cecil. It was here, in Cecil County, Maryland that William Smith wrote his will 1708-Sep-20.
It was proved 1710-May-20. He leaves to his second son and heirs 1000 acres and a dwelling plantation; to his daughter Mary, wife of John Hayet and to his granddaughter of his son William, personality, which meant personal property. The executors were his wife Grace and his son John. The witnesses were his son William Smith and David Evans.
It is significant that the John "Hayet" named in the will becomes John "Hiett" in further court proceding regarding the will. John and Mary Hiatt were married in England and their first deed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania was in 1699, the same year that William and Grace Smith brought their certificate to Philadelphia. It seems quite possible that they may have come together to Pennsylvania.
The second son of William Smith was John Smith and it was to him that his father gave 1000 acres and plantation which William Smith had owned. In the History of Cecil County, Maryland by George Johnston, 1881, (pp. 224-227) we find the following about the Smith Family:
"The land upon which Elkton was built is part of the tract of fourteen hundred acres which was patented to Nicholas Painter in 1681, under the name of Friendship. The tract came into the possession Philip Lynes, as did the large tract of Belleconnell which was patented to George Talbot two years later. Philip Lynes devised these tracts to his wife Anne Lynes his cousin Mary Contee, and his friend William Bladen, by his last will dated 1709, and they by a deed executed in 1711 conveyed it to John Smith, the son and heir of William Smith, in his lifetime. The deed is for three parcels of land, comprising about one thousand acres, part of Friendship and Belleconnell."
" Friendship and Belleconnell are described in the deed from Lynes and others to Smithas 'lying at ye Swedestown.' John Smith was the son of William Smith, who is supposed to have been the person who erected the first mill at
the Head of Elk. The mill is known to have been there as early as 1706. Three months after John Smith recieved the deed for the one thousand acres, he and his wife and father-in-law sold the mill and eight acres to Thomas Jacobs, bolter, who is described as being of Middletown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. John Smith did business in a curious manner in that his deed to Jacobs shows that he had previously bargained to sell the mill to Allen Robinet and Jacobs covenants to indenify him for any breach of the said agreement."
In 1711 Smith Sold seventy acres adjoining the land of Jacobs to Reese Hinton and the next year he sold ten acres of marsh to Henry Hollingsworth. In 1713 Smith, who had been absent from the county for some years, returned and took up one hundred and seventy-one acres of land, called Elk Plains, near the head of the Elk River, on the south side of a path leading from the head of the Elk River to the town of New Castle."
The Quaker Yeomen Volume 13 Number 4, November 1986 page 9
A Quaker Will
Contributed by Dorothy Hardin Massey
Cecil County, Maryland Wills - Liber AA folio 135:
In the name of God amen the tenth day of September in the year of our Lord God 1708, I William Smith of Cecil Co in the Province of Maryland being sick of body but good and perfect...memory so make constitute and ordain and declare this my last will and testament in... and I am following revoking and annulling by these presents all and every testament wills heretofore made by me and declare by word or writing and this to be taken only for my last will and testament and none other and now for the settling of my temporal estate and such good scattle and debts as it hath pleased God above my desserts to bestow upon me. I do order and give and dispose in the same manner and form following that is to say first I will that all those debts and duties as I owe... shall be paid within convenient time after my decease by my executors hereafter named.
Item First I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Grace Smith the one half of all my household stuff also give and bequeath to my wife one half of all my stock of cattle of all sorts.
Item Secondly I give and bequeath to my second son John Smith all the Plantation that I now live upon containing 1000 acres and also one grinding mill and one saw mill together with all other effects moveable and immoveable whatsoever to me belonging and give unto him my said son and his assigns forever except the one half of my household stuff and one half of my stock before specified unto my wife.
Item Thirdly I give and bequeath unto John Hayett by son in law one English shilling to be paid by executors hereafter named.
Item Fourthly I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary wife of said John Hayett one Engish shilling to be paid her by my executors hereafter named.
Item Fifthly I give and bequeath unto my grandchild Hannah Smith daughter of my son William one English shillling to be paid by my executor hereafter named.
Item Sixthly and lastly I do nominate and appoint my well beloved wife Grace Smith and son John Smith to be joint Exers of this my last will and testament written upon one sheet of paper revoking and annulling all other wills and this to be taken only for my will and testament. In witness thereof I have here unto set my hand and seal.
William X Smith
In the sight and presence of David Evans
William X Smith
1710-May-20 Then came David Evans and William Smith two witnesses to the above will and testament of William Smith and make oath on the holy evanglist that they saw the Testor seal and deliver the foresaid will and that he was at the time of perfect memory before me. W.W. Hayden Dept commissioner of Cecil County.
Subject: John Smith Date: 5/17/2009 3:33:46 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time
From: billleeh@gmail.com
Larry,
My name is Bill Horney and I’ve been living in Denmark the last 35 years. I’m descended from William Smith and Grace Jermin’s son, John (Jane Hinton). The Horneys came to Maryland in the early or mid 1600’s. They became Quakers by at least 1680, if not before. Our families have intermarried with the same families (Coffin, Anderson, etc. etc.) and followed the same route – Maryland, North Carolina (Virginia) and points west and at the same times and for probably the same reasons.
About 15 years ago, I saw for the first time the story that William Smith was related to John Smith and Pocahontas (or an Indian maiden, I can’t remember how it was worded). At first I dismissed it because everybody knows she married John Rolfe. But through the years I kept running into almost the same story from so many different sources. The farthest back I can trace it, is to some of the daughters of Alexander Smith, who were born in the mid 1700’s.
Larry, I know you’re constantly getting mails, asking for help, so I’ll understand if you don’t have the time to answer, but I was wondering if it was possible that you could send me a copy of your brief on John Smith and Pocahontas. I would greatly appreciate it.
Bill
P.S. I’m amazed at how much you’ve accomplished through the years.
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3) Thomas Smith died 1672
Children?
1) John [or s.o. John above?]
2) Abel (3a)
3) William (3b) ?
4) George (3c) ?
Thomas appears in the 1672 list of commoners. In 1673 he was 'the late Thomas Smith'. [He was last mentioned as such 1681]. William (next) was probably his son. In 1673 the property next to that of Thomas paid rates under John Smith but then no more – possibly another son? Thomas' property passed to Abel Smith. A Thomas Smith paid rates on a different property jointly with Andrew Ham in 1676 then jointly with George Smith in 1677.
3a) Abel Smith died 1687/8
Married: Elizabeth died 1700
Abel paid rates from 1682 – 1687, '88 is missing but by 1689 the rate was paid by his widow Elizabeth and she paid until 1700. In 1701 she was the late Elizabeth Smith. The property remained late Smith tenement until 1705 when Henry Talbot occupied it.
3b) William Smith [b. 'Glastonbury' 1651?] died 1710 Cecil County, Maryland, America Will proven 20 May 1710 married: [Grace b.c.1650?, d. 1710 Cecil County Maryland.]
Children:
1) Mary Chr. 22 Apr 1673 Butleigh
2) William (probably born and baptised in Butleigh as are his brothers)
3) John
4) George
Some Hiett sites give the latter three children; William (b. 1673 Glastonbury), John (b. 1675 Glastonbury) and George (b. 1679 Glastonbury) but there is no factual evidence for them in Glastonbury, Butleigh nor Street etc. However, if the latter children were the offspring of this Butleigh William Smith and born after 1676 then there would be NO record of their baptisms because they fall into the period when John Radford was vicar and not a single baptism was recorded by him [until 1714].
William paid rates in Butleigh from 1673-1699.and was churchwarden in 1679 – 80. 1673 is when the Overseers records began but William probably paid rates earlier too. The latest date, 1699, is that which saw him and his family's removal from Butleigh and coincides with the story below of his emigration in that year to America. In 1693 William had paid over to the Overseers the interest from the Dyer Symcockes legacy (2 guineas). The William mentioned in the churchwardens accounts in 1696 for killing two polecats and a hedgehog is most probably his son [mostly seem to be children or young men getting these payments]. In 1698/9 William took James Pirkes as an apprentice. William's daughter Mary is probably the one who married John Hiett # c. 1695 and in which case her mother was called Grace. William Smith accompanied William Penn in the ship Canterbury which sailed to Pennsylvania in 1699. John Hiett and wife Mary and their two children probably went on the same ship. *
William made a will on 20 Sep 1708, proven 20 May in 1710 in America 'He leaves to 2nd son John and heirs 1000 acres, dwelling plantation, to daughter Mary, wife of John Hayet, and granddaughter Hannah, daughter of son William personalty. Executors wife Grace, and son John. Teste: David Evans, William Smith ' – see under Hiett. Both, Hietts and Smiths families were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Somersetshire, England. William Smith, the Quaker, bought a certificate to Philadelphia for himself and wife and family, dated 1699, from the Glastonbury Monthly Meeting in Somersetshire, England. William and John Smith, brothers of Mary Hiett, are probably the ancestors of the Smiths shown settled in Virginia in the same community and at about the same time as did John Hiatt Jr. and his brother William Hiatt, sons of John and Mary Hiett.
NOTE: A Morrish (Maurice) Smith (Chr. 27 Sep 1607 Street, s.o. Rachel, bur. 17 Jun 1653) and 'Basil' his wife were having children in Street 1638 – 1649 including a William Chr. 29 May 1642 (bur. 1 Nov 1642) and a son John Chr. 29 Jun 1649 but probably not linked to this family. A William Smith in Glastonbury had a son William (bur. 7 Aug 1667) daughters Ann (Chr. 25 Aug 1669) Ann (Chr. 20 Sep 1671) and Margaret (Chr. 12 Nov 1673) all at St. Johns and is possibly the William bur. 1 Jan 1674 St. Johns Glastonbury. No obvious connection to the Butleigh Smiths, nor to John Hiett.
There is so far no trace of a marriage between a William Smith and a Grace in Somerset that fits – just three Graces were born in Butleigh within the age range; Grace Masters (b. 1642) and Grace Clapp (b. 1657) both had illegitimate children leaving just Grace Adams Chr. 24 Apr 1656, d.o. James and Margery Adams as a potential candidate for William Smith's wife – but no evidence at all that there was any connection to William Smith. There were no Graces of any surname born in Street that fit.
There are several Somerset Smith Wills worth looking at, from Wells, Ivelchester etc or closer to Butleigh e.g. – PROB 11/199 Stephen Smith, Street 1647
NOTE: William Penn [1644 – 1718] founded Pennsylvania in 1682 but one apocryphal story tells that when he thanked Charles II for naming Pennsylvania after him, the King replied 'I named it after the jolly felow, your father'. Admiral Sir William Penn [1621-1670], who was Samuel Pepys senior in the Navy, was described by the latter as 'a jovial companion.. and.. a hypocritical rogue'. Penn had captured Jamaica in 1655. A purse belonging to him showed him with his dog Port and it remained in the Penn family for several generations.
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William Smith, Quaker, GCT to Philadelphia MM for himself and family 1699 from Glastonbury MM, Somersetshire, England.
Patricia Crespi stated: "I was told that my third great grandmother Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Alexander Smith, was of Indian descent but I could never figure out how that could be and could never prove or disprove the story. My great grandmother, Anna Marie Frazier Davis, related this story to my mother upon several occasions." According to family tradition of several of the descendants of Mary Smith and John Hiatt, there is a story of a relationship to Capt. John Smith and an Indian Maiden. This is an obscure and faded story of lost origin, however, it is widely held by so many families that it indicates that it has some possible bearing. As we also come across families that are of other branches of these Smith families, they also seem to have a similar tradition, could it be so? According to Joseph Copeland in a letter written in 1986, he stated "his family for about 100 years had researched this story and he had information which he was interested in publishing that connected our William Smith to Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas. There is currently no proof of this connection, and probably never will be. There were no records kept, nor any importance connected to it until well after 100 years after Capt. Smith's death where there were efforts to prove a relationship.
On May 4, 1703, William Smith purchased from Philip Lynes one thousand acres of land lying on the East side of Elk River in Cecil Co., MD - the site of present day Elkton. He built a saw mill and a grist mill along the Elk River as early as 1706 according to the history of Cecil County. Apparently William Smith did not pay for his land completely when he purchased it. The deed between him and Philip Lynes provided that Lynes would pay William 514 pounds if their agreement was not completed and William sustained a loss. Presumably this was to protect William's investment in the mills. William died in 1710 after partially paying for his land. In his will he left the one thousand acres to his second son, John Smith, who completed payment for it. (Cecil Co. Deeds, Vol. 2, page 102) William Smith's will was dated 20 Sep 1708 and proved on 20 May 1710. As stated above he left to his second son, John Smith, all the plantation that I now live upon containing 1000 acres and also one grinding mill and one saw mill and other effects. He left his son-in-law, John Hayett, one English shilling. He bequeathed "unto my daughter, Mary, wife of John Hayett, one English Shilling. Hanna Smith daughter of my son William, one English shilling." He named wife, Grace Smith and son, John Smith to be joint executors. Witnesses were David Evans and Willliam Smith. It was earlier assumed that the William Smith who witnessed the above will was the son of the testator. This is now in doubt.. There is on file in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD, the following citation (Liber 21, folio 61, Cecil Co., MD) "John Hiett, administrator of William Smith, administrator in common form with James Robinson and Sampson George", dated 27 Jul 1708. This action took place nearly two months before William Smith, Sr. executed his will and suggests that the son, William Smith was deceased at the time of William Smith, Sr.'s death. He left nothing to his son, William, but only to his daughter, Hanna, suggesting the son, William was already deceased. Clearly, there were three William Smiths, father, son and one other. (Source: "The Hiatt/Hiett/Hyatt Genealogy & Family History" compiled by Larry Anderson)
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William Smith, Sr.'s Timeline
1635 1635 Birth of William Smith, Jr. Norwich, Norfolk, England
1651 1651 Birth of William Glastonbury, Somerset, England, (Present UK)
1670 1670 Age 19 Marriage of William to Grace Smith England, (Present UK)
1673 April 22, 1673 Age 22 Birth of Mary Hiett (Smith) Butleigh, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
1676 1676 Age 25 Birth of Hannah Smith
1679 1679 Age 28 Birth of William Smith Glastonbury, Somerset, , England
1679 Age 28 Birth of George Smith UK
1680 1680 Age 29 Birth of John Smith Glastonbury, Somerset, , England
1710 May 20, 1710 Age 59 Death of William Cecil County, Province of Maryland, (Present USA)
Burial of William
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Grace JERMIN
Was listed in Will of William Smith, with her son John.
Sent by Patricia Crespi Some records have given the maiden name as Jermin but I have seen no documentation, since the many of the other records are not correct, I hesitate to accept this without any documentaion other then what someone has added but present it here for information and research. I think perhaps since so many have mixed the records of the German line of HITE with ours that also this name of Jarmin got mixed in with it. PROOF IS LACKING so really cannot be counted.
George SMITH
Sent by Patricia Crespi.
John HIATT Jr.
ORIGINAL NOTES from Hiatt Hiett Family History
By William Perry Johnson and Utah Hiatt Family Association
1951
CHAPTER VI
SECOND GENERATION: JOHN HIATT, JR.
JOHN Hiatt, Jr. first appears on the records of Lancaster Co., Pa. The Land Office at Harrisburg, the state capitol of Pennsylvania, has record of John Hiett (sic)., showing that he received warrant number 5 for 200 acres on 25 April 1733, of lands to be situated on Beaver Creek. He apparently did not comply with the conditions of the warrant, for the land was declared vacant and granted to Jacob Light on 18 September 1744, and patented to him. This also appears in Penna. Archives, (3rd. Series, XXIV, 423)., Lancaster County Surveys, 1733-1896.
In 1730 Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan, Quakers, (the latter was grandfather of Daniel Boone's wife, obtained title to one hundred thousand acres of land in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Around 1732 seventy families are known to have settled thereupon, and they founded Hopewell Friend's Meeting in 1734. These families came, for the most part, from Quaker settlements in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and a few from New Jersey. Only thirty-six patents have been found, however for but thirty-four of the seventy families. All patents are dated 12 November 1735, and among those preserved is one for 300 acres granted to "John Hiatt, Jr." Early data on these seventy families were further destroyed then the home of William Jolliffe burned in 1759, at which time the Quaker records of twenty-five years were lost. (R34).
From early land records it appears that the Hiatts originally settled near what is now the village of Middleway, in the southwest corner of Jefferson Co., West Virginia. Middleway lies about fifteen miles northeast of Winchester, the county seat of Frederick Co., Va. It is only about a mile east of Berkeley-Jefferson county lien, and about four miles north of the point where the four counties of Berkeley, Jefferson, Frederick and Clarke meet. About seven miles southwest of Middleway, seven miles Northeast of Winslope of Apple Pie Ridge.
In 1941 Mary Lois Smith and her cousin visited Middleway, and he wrote of her trip as follows: "…This is only a village of twelve or fifteen houses sitting by the roadside as they have for a hundred years, in some cases. Some are old log houses yet in use--some are brick or stone. It is very ancient, and is near the Opeckon Creek. We talked with Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs. C. J. Shaull, his sister, who are descendants of Capt. John Smith, who laid out the town in 1794 - and then it was named Smithfield. Because of its location midway between so very many towns on all sides, it came to have the name of Middleway. Then it was also called 'Clip', from 'Wizard's Clip', a name which clung to it after some ghostly proceeding which occurred there about 1792-3 (?)." The early Hiatt deeds mention Elk Spring and Turkey Spring was a large one and said to be bottomless, and had several names, such as Big Spring, Elk Spring, Turkey Spring, etc. It was not far from Middleway but we did not have time to see it, and also, they said it was surrounded by brush and brambles and we could not get near enough to see much anyway. …Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs. Shaull have a nephew, Col. Robert L. bates, …who is at the Virginia Military Institute. He has worked extensively on the history of the families of the Middleway community…" (Miss Smith descends from William Hiatt, son of John the immigrant. Col. Bates descends from a daughter of John Hiatt, Jr. See subsequent chapters, and the Index ---editor.) (R35,37).
The ghost story mentioned by Miss Smith regarding 'Clip; or 'Wizard's Clip', was written up by R. Helen Bates (b.1855; an aunt of Col. Robert L. Bates, and a great-granddaughter of Ruth Hiatt, daughter of John Hiatt, Jr. -editor.), and printed in 1936 by Robert Smith. Following is a full copy of Miss Bate's story:
"The Legend of Wizard Clip"
"In the southern part of historic Jefferson County, West Virginia, nestled the foothills of the Blue Ridge, lies the ancient village of Wizard Clip. The land upon which the village is located was included in the grants made to Mr. William Smith in 1729 by Sir William Gooche who was proprietor of that part of Virginia at that time. In 1732 the pioneer home of Mr. Smith was built. Surrounded by majestic hills, this, the first home of Wizard Clip, was placed in a gloomy hollow, near a bottomless lake.
"Among those who obtained land grants from Mr. Smith was a man named Livingstone. Mr.Livingstone selected land lying along the Opequon Creek, but also adjoining the village.
"One night when the sky was inky black, the rain descended in torrents, and the winds rushed through the desolate pines with a wild bellow, a weary stranger presented himself at Mr. Livingstone's door. With genial hospitality the traveler was welcomed.
"In a few hours after retiring, the Stranger sent for Mr. Livingstone, and told him he was ill unto death. He requested that a Catholic priest might be sent for at once. Now, Mr. Livingstone was a bigoted man who hated the Catholic Church, and he swore no priest should enter his house. The Stranger (to whom no name has been given)., begged again and again that a priest should be brought, but his host was obdurate. At the weird hour of midnight, while the elements fought their terrible battle, the soul of the Stranger, unblest and unshriven, took its flight. The next day his body was buried in consecrated ground. For many years his grave was pointed out to the curious.
"Then a curse seemed to rest upon Mr. Livingstone and his possessions. A murrain seized his cattle, strange and mysterious sounds were heard about the house, and things were as though ruled by a demon. More dreadful than ought else was a clear, distinct, insistent clipping, clipping, clipping which went on day and night. The bed-linen, the clothing of the family and of visitors, the saddles, bridles, and harness, were all clipped, and always in crescent or half-moon shape. Nothing was sacred from the terrible shears. The witches and wizards were now holding high revels. Mr. Livingstone, pursued by the horror of all this, dreamed a vivid dream in which he saw a man who promised to help him. On Sunday his wife, a devoted Catholic, persuaded him to go with her to a Catholic service at Shepherdstown. The instant Mr. Livingstone saw the priest, he cried out with streaming eyes, 'That is the man who can rid me of the witches.' The priest was told the story, and the next day he visited the home of Mr. Livingstone at Smithfield (Middleway)., sprinkled holy water on the threshold of the house, prayed fervently, and consecrated the ground wherein the Stranger lay buried. He declared deliverance had come. Sure enough the clippings ceased, 'the witches were laid,' and Mr. Livingstone was free.
"Moved by gratitude he gave to the Catholic Church forty acres of land lying along the Opequon. The Church still owns this land and receives from it. It is known as the Priest's Place. For four or five generations it was in the care of the Minhini family. Recently, however, the Church assumed control. A chapel has been erected on this site, and outdoor meetings held frequently. It is an ideal spot for camping, and the Church has extended the use as such to all.
"The 'spell' cast upon the old village of Clip still lingers upon it, and the bottomless lake through which the witches are said to have rushed when the priest exorcised them is still here; and the Opequon flows on, now calmly, now wildly, by the lonely grave of the Stranger."
When John Hiatt, Jr., settled in Virginia 1733/34, Orange County had just been formed (17340 from Spotsylvania County. At that time Orange County encompassed what later became thirty or more countries in Virginia and West Virginia. Thus, with the Hiatts remaining on their original land, they would have, due to the continual formation of new countries, lived from 1734 until 1738 in Orange Co., Va.; from 1738 until 1772 in Frederick Co., Va.; from 1772 until 1801 in Berkeley Co., Va., which became a part of West Virginia in 1863 when that state was created. About the middle of the 18th century some of the Hiatts settled in Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va.) which at that time adjoined Frederick and from Augusta Co., which had, in turn been formed from Orange Co. in 1745. Later generations scattered over a large area in that section of Virginia and West Virginia and Maryland, not to mention those who went early to North and South Carolina, and those who settled after 1800 in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and elsewhere.
The deeds on record in Orange Co., Va., show that "John Hiatt, Jr., of Lancaster Co., Pa.," bought 200 acres of land from Stephen Hollingsworth by deeds of lease and release bearing date of 17 and 18 of April 1737. These 200 acres were in "Orange County, Colony of Virginia, West side of Sherrendo (Shenandoah? -- ed.) River on the head of a branch of Opeckan Creek." (This land fell in Frederick Co., Va., when Frederick was formed the following year. There is a family of Hiatts, apparently from Delaware, who settled in later Orange County prior to Revolutionary War, and who later removed to Kentucky and elsewhere. There is no known connection between these Hiatts and the Quaker Hiatts - editor.) (R38).
The Orange Co., Va., Order Book, 1734-39, pages 331, under date of 22 June 1738, mentions a libel suit in the (Shenandoah). Valley which was due to some sort of religious difference between William Williams, an early Presbyterian minister, and a large group of persons named as defendants. Among the defendants were Peter Hyat, Jno. Hiatt, and Geo. Hyett. (Va. Hist. Mag., XXVIII,364). (Peter Hyat probably belongs to the Maryland or Delaware Hyatts, but Jno. Hiatt is possibly our John Hiatt, Jr., and Geo. Hyett may be his son -- editor.)
All is now peaceful until the time of the French and Indian Wars, when many Quakers removed to North Carolina to avoid hostilities. Thus, in 1756, John Hiatt sold the 200 acres he purchased in 1737 from Stephen Hollingsworth, and removed to Rowan Co., North Carolina. Deed Book 4, p. 104, Winchester, Frederick Co.,Va.: -31 May 1756 - John Hiatt to John Jude, tract of 200 acres, houses, buildings, etc., lying on east side of Elk Spring, at head of Opeckon Creek, part of 470 acres patented to Stephen Hollinsworth, 3 October 1734,and conveyed to John Hiett by deed, 17-18 April 1737. Witnesses" R. Worthington, Edward Thomas, and John Smith. Signed: John (his x mark). Hiatt, Margaret (her x mark). Hiatt. (R39).
John Hiatt, Jr., and his wife and family had settled 1756/57 in the fast-growing Quaker settlement at New Garden-which was at that time included in Rowan Co., NC. until the formation of Guilford County in 1770 from parts of Rowan and Orange Countries. In 1757 he purchased 632 acres of land on Deep River near the present town of Jamestown in Guilford Co., North Carolina. Rowan Co., NC., Deed Book 2, p. 192: -20 July 1757 -Zebulon Guantt, wheelwright, and Esther Guantt, to John Hiatt, Planter; 632 acres, consideration 120 pounds of Virginia; "Beginning at a Black Walnut Tree on the North Bank of the South fork of Deep River, from thence North 200 poles to a white oak, then West 88 poles to a White oak, then North 180 poles --- to a white oak, then West 220 poles to a White oak, then South 380 poles to a white oak, then east 308 poles to the first Station." Signed: Zebulon and Esther Guantt. Witnesses:William Buis, and John Harris. (R40). (Esther Guantt (sic). was a sister to the noted Quaker Journalist, John Woolman. William Hunt, Quaker Minister of North Carolina, was their first cousin, being a son of William and Mary (Woolman). Hunt. Nathan Hunt, son of William Hunt, Jr., was the founder of what is now Guilford College, in Guilford Co., NC., in the New Garden Quaker Settlement. There are many intermarriages between the descendants of John Hiett, Quaker, from England 1699, and the descendants of William and Mary (Woolman). Hunt.- editor).
In 1760 John Hiatt deeds these 632 acres to three of his sons, Joseph, George, and John. Deed Book 4, p. 485, Rowan Co., NC.:-19 April 1760 - John Hiett, Sr., Planter, to Joseph Hiett, Planter; 212 acres, consideration 45 pounds; "Beginning at a white oak on the North Side of the South fork of Deep River, 8 Degrees to the West of the Northwest, thence 258 poles to a hickory thence South 204 poles to a white oak, thence East 240 poles to a Red Oak, then North 90 poles to a black oak, then West 20 poles to the first Station." Witnesses: William Buis, John Mills. Signed by John (his x mark). Hyatt, and Margaret Hyatt. (R40).
Rowan Co., NC.: 19 April 1760 - John Hiett, Sr. Planter, to son George Hiett,Planter; 172 acres, consideration 150 pounds; "Beginning at a white oak on the North Side of the South fork of Deep River, thence North 200 poles, to a White Oak, then West 68 poles to a Black Oak, thence South 90 poles to a Red Oak, then West, 240 poles to a White Oak, then South 102 poles to a white oak, the East 380 poles to the first Station." Witnesses: William Buis, John Mills. Signed by John (his X mark). Hyatt, and Margaret Hiett. (R40).
At Romney, the county seat of Hampshire Co.,Va.,there was recorded on 11 November 1760, the following deed: Book I, pp.43-4 - 28 April 1760 - George Hiatt of Rowan co., NC., to John Hiatt, Sr., of the same place; 272 acres in Hampshire Co., Va., on David's Run Branch of the North River; granted to ye said George Hiatt by deed from Lord Fairfax, 5 April 1751, bounded by a Survey made by George Washington; consideration 150 pounds. Witnesses: Thomas Edwards, Mary (her X mark). Edwards, and Jeremiah Ham. Signed by George (his X mark). Hiatt.
John Hiatt appears to have returned to Virginia soon after executing the above deeds, and settled on the plantation which he had just purchased from his son George -- in Hampshire Co., Va. Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., Deed Book 7-3 August 1762 - John Hiatt of Hampshire Co., Va., to John Judy of Frederick County; a tract of 659 acres, including 59 acres extra by recent survey, also some waste land in Frederick County; tract had been granted to John Hiatt by Lord Fairfax, 6 July 1761. Signed by John (his X mark). Hiatt, and Margaret Hiett. (R39).
In 1763 John Hiatt sells the 300 acres he was granted when he first came to Virginia in the Alexander Ross Colony in 1735. Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., Deed Book 7-3 may 1763 - John Hiatt and wife Margaret of Hampshire Co., Va., to William Burns of Frederick Co., Va.,; two small adjoining tracts of land on north side of Opeckon Creek; first, tract of 300 acres patented to John Hiatt 10 November 1735, joins lower end of Col. Adam Steven's land (now Paul William's land).; other tract east of this -- 77 acres granted to John Hiatt by Lord Fairfax, 7 July 1761, lying on west bank of Opeckon; total,377 acres, houses and buildings. Signed: John (his X mark). Hiatt, Margaret Hiat. (R39).
A few months before his death, John Hiatt purchased 200 acres of land in Frederick co., Va., and returned to Frederick from Hampshire County, where he died. Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., Deed Book 10, p.12 - 4 September 1764 - John Hiatt from Thomas and Elizabeth Green; 200 acres of land, lying "on both sides of Opeckon"…"beginning at a Spanish White Oak and two Hickories in the line of Joseph Edwards." (R39).
John Hiatt probably died in the vicinity of Smithfield (now Middleway)., in what was then Frederick Co., Va., but is now Jefferson Co., W. Va. The witnesses to his will were residents of the Smithfield community. From the deeds mentioned above, and from land mentioned in his will, it is ascertained that altogether John Hiatt, Jr., possessed during his lifetime upwards of three thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina.
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WILL OF JOHN HIATT (JR.)
Will of John Hiatt, Will Book 3, p. 242, Winchester, Frederick Co., Va.,
"In the name of God Amen. I John Hiatt of the county of Hamshear and colony of Virginia being sick and weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be to God for the same, and calling to mind the uncertain Estate of this transitory Life, and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please Almighty God to call. Do make and pronounce this my Last Will and Testament in the manner hereafter mentioned (to wit).
Primas, and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God who first gave it to me and my body to be decently buried in the Earth in a Christian like manner, and to what trancenry Estate the Lord has been pleased to bestow upon me in this trancetory Life I do give and bequeath in the manner following.
Item. My will and desire is that all my Just debts and funeral Expenses be first paid out of my personal Estate by my Executors hereafter named.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Eldest son George Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid out of my Personal Estate by my Executors hereafter named.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son John Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son William Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Catherine Harrel the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Edwards the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ann Harris the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Margaret Craven the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Evan Hiatt Two Hundred and twenty two acres of Land lying in the County of Hampshear and on a branch of the North river of Capcapon and being part of a tract of two hundred and seventy acres I bought from my son George Hiatt and being the upper part on which house and plantation is on, And to him and hi heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my said son Evan Hiatt a tract of Land of about twenty five acres, surveyed for me and returned unto the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax's Land Office, adjoining on the upper side or east side of the aforementioned Land and adjoining a place called the Sandy Ridge. And to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son James Hiatt fifty acres of Land part of a tract of Two Hundred and seventy-two acres, which I have before given and bequeathed to my son Evan Hiatt, and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my said son James Hiatt one survey of Land surveyed for me adjoining the foresaid fifty acres, and below it, on the same branch which said Survey is Returned into the aforementioned Land Office's, and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Jonathan Hiatt one certain tract or survey of Land lying in the county aforesaid and on the branch aforesaid which was surveyed for one James Buckhanan, and by me purchased of the James Buckhanan for which I have his request to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax for the deed to issue in my name and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Timothy Hiatt one certain tract of land lying in the county aforesaid and on a branch of Capcapon called the Sandy lick branch which I have obtained a deed for from the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax containing ninety one acres to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. My will and desire is that my son George Hiatt may give some Instrument of Writing directed to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax that a certain survey of land he has returned in the office may issue to and in the name of my said son Timothy Hiatt I having paid my said son George Hiatt for his Right of the said survey.
Item. My will and desire is that my any costs charges and Encumbrances that is on any of the lands aforementioned for which Deeds has not Issued may be discharged out of my personal Estate before any distribution be made then beforementioned.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Margaret Hiatt one part of my Estate according to law.
Item. My will and desire is that my loving wife Margaret Hiatt have the tuition and bringing up of my son Evan Hiatt my son Jonathan Hiatt James Hiatt and my son Timothy Hiatt and my daughters Martha Hiatt Ruth Hiatt and Sarah Hiatt until they and each of them shall respectively arrive to age provided she continues in that station of a widow, and that she expends my personal Estate (?). toward the education and bringing them up at her discretion during the continuance of her widowhood and that after my last named children shall arrive to age the residue of my personal estate be equally divided amongst them and I do hereby appoint my said loving wife Margaret Hiatt whole and sole Executrix of this my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of January one thousand seven hundred and sixty four.
Sig'd sealed and pronounced in Signed: John (his x mark). Hiatt
Presents of
John Grantam
Joseph Grantam
Jno. Smith
Whereas I the above named John Hiatt since my making the above mentioned will have bought and purchased of and from one Thomas Green two hundred acres of land lying and being in the county of Frederick in Virginia and lying on both sides of Opeckan Creek, and my will and desire is as to the two hundred acres of land that my executrix aforementioned do sell and dispose of the said Land at her discretion to the best advantage and that the money arising thereby be by her equally divided between my children Evan Hiatt Jonathan Hiatt James Hiatt Timothy Hiatt Martha Hiatt Ruth Hiatt and Sarah Hiatt hereby empowering my said Executrix to Execute all and every lawful deeds conveyance or conveyances To the said Land as in Law may be Necessary to the purchase thereof, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of October one thousand seven hundred and sixty four. 1764
Sign'd Seal'd and pronounced Signed: John (his x mark). Hiatt
In presents of
John Grantham
Joseph Grantham
Jno. Smith
At a Court held for Frederick County the 4th day of December 1764. This Last Will and Testament of John Hiatt Deceased was produced in Court by Margaret Hiatt the Executrix therein named who made oath thereto and the same being proved by the oaths of John Grantham and John Smith two of the Evidences thereto is Ordered to be Recorded and upon motion of the said Margaret who entered into bond with George Hiatt Simyeon Hiatt William Hiatt Junr and John Smith her securities in the penalty of five hundred pounds conditioned for her due and faithful administration of the said Estate Certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate in due form.
By the Court.
Ja. Keith C.C." (R39).
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INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN HIATT (JR).
Will book 3, p. 266, Winchester, Frederick Co., Va.:
A True and Perfect Inventory of the Appraisement of the Personal Estate of John Hiett late of Frederick County Dec'd, being brought to our view by Margaret Hiett executrix this 15th day of January 1765 We being first sworn as the Law directs..etc.
TO: POUNDS - SHILLINGS - PENCE
Wearing apparel 4 6 0
1 Black Horse and Saddle 9 0 0
1 Sorrell Horse 6 0 0
1 Small old Mare and Colt and Bell 1 0 0
1 Old small Mare and Bell 2 5 0
8 Cows 1 Bell 2 Heifers 4 Yearlings 4 Calves 28 0 0
21 Heads of small sheep 5 0 0
A Plow and Iron Traces and Collars 1 3 0
1 Old Wagon and Gears 9 0 0
4 Raw Hides 0 14 0
4 Old Tubbs 0 5 0
3 Old pails and churn 0 4 0
4 Wooden Trays 6 Trenchers and strainer 0 3 0
1 Brass Kittle 0 6 0
4 Old potts Hook and Rack 1 15 0
4 Pewther Dishes 7 Plates2 Basons 1 Quart I Pint
6 Tin Cups 2 Tin Basons six Spoons 1 Tin Kittle 1 11 0
2 Old Riffell Gunns I smooth Do. 3 0 0
Some Earthen Ware 0 3 0
4 Bottles 0 2 0
2 Old spinning wheels 0 15 0
6 Knives 6 forks 0 3 0
Some leather 3 0 0
1Old Feather Bed and Furniture 3 0 0
1 Old Do and 2 old chaff Do 3 10 0
8 Old Baggs and some Flax seed 0 15 0
1 Old Chist 2 old Boxes and 1 Trunk 0 10 0
TO: POUNDS - SHILLINGS - PENCE
Sundry carpenter tools 1 0 0
Some shoemaker tools candlestick 2 boxes 0 8 6
1 Dough Trough 0 1 6
2 Broad Axes 1 ads 3 narrow Axes 1 Han saw 0 19 0
1 Cross Cut saw and square 1 10 0
Sundry old Irons 0 10 0
3 Old Hacketts 0 15 0
1 Looking Glass Box Iron & Heathers 0 7 6
4 Old small Belles 0 4 0
A Drinking Glass and Some Earthen ware 0 2 0
Sundry Old Books 0 15 0
2 Iron Cleveces and Links 0 5 0
1 Frying Pan and Fire Tongs 0 7 0
1 Pair small shears 2 pair small Sicessors 0 2 0
2 Raszor one hone penknife and Inkholder 0 3 0
1 Great Wheel and saddle Baggs 0 10 6
1 Side saddle 2 10 0
Some home spun cloth 3 4 0
2 Old Chairs 1 Howel 2 plains 0 5 0
2 Pitchforks 6 old hooks 0 6 0
1 Small grinstone 0 2 6
A weavers Loom and Geers 1 0 0
A Iron Tooth Harrow 0 10 0
A Barr shear J Colter (?). 0 15 0
4 Old Weeding Hoes 0 2 0
1 Spade two Iron Clevises and Branding Iron 0 8 0
1 Grid Iron 1 Hair seive 1 Raying Seeve 1 Riddle 0 6 6
25 Spools 0 3 6
1 Iron Skillet Cotton Cards and Sheep Sheers 0 3 0
1 Old cagg 1 pigging 1 reel and cheese fatt 0 6 0
1 Old Whip saw 0 11 3
2 Old Grubing Hoes and sprouting Hoe 0 6 0
About 50 lb(?). swingled Flax 1 5 0
Some Cotton Yarn 0 6 0
Spair Trousers and Round shave 0 3 0
Total 112 11 9
Appraised by us the Subscribers
Joseph Edwards Jun'r
Edward Thomas
Alexander Frier
At a Court held for Frederick County the 2 day of April 1765.
This Appraisement of John Hiatt's Estate was Returned and ordered to be Recorded.
By the Court. Ja. Keith. C. C.
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Will Book 3, p. 400, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia:
Hiatt's Estate Account - 1765
DR. The Estate of John Hiatt dec'd. to Margaret Hiatt Executrix.
TO: POUNDS - SHILLINGS - PENCE
Paid Doct'r. Briscoe by obligation & etc. 14 40
Paid John Arnold by obligation & etc. 8 0 0
Paid Edward Dodd for a Coffin 1 5 0
Paid Joseph Humphreys for Digging his Grave 0 5 0
Paid John Grantom per account Proved 0 6 0
Paid Joseph Grantom by account Proved 0 3 6
3 Appraisers 1 Day appraising the Estate 0 9 0
1 (-- ?). Note for Recording Greens
Deeds 150 to Tobacco 8/4 0 12 6
Sundry Sums paid and Expended by Sundry persons
by the Said Executrix for Sundries Towards the
support of the said Decedents children agreeable to
the Decedents Will and etc., as by the account proved
by the Executrix 36 0 2
1766
Quit Rents paid the Collector 1 17 0
Paid William Burnes by obligation 7 5 9
John Scott by account Proved 0 4 0
Paid in his Lordship's office as per account 9 0 0
My Commission for Paying and Receiving @ 5% 11 15 8/4
Copy 1 will 3/4. Recording Appraisement 8/4 0 11 8
Balance Due the Estate 235 14 9
CONTRA………………………………….CR
BY:
The appraisement of the Said Estate 112 11 9
Cash at his Death 12 0 0
Cash received from Bethell Pugh 0 10 0
Cash received from John Stonebridge 0 6 0
Cash received from Doct'r John Briscoe 0 7 0
Cash received from William Burnes 110 0 0
235 14 9
I have Examined the above Account and find it to be Just and True as it now Stands Stated 7th May 1767
James Wood
SECOND GENERATION: JOHN HIATT, JR.
At a court Continued and held for Frederick County May 7th 1767.
This Account Current of the Estate of John Hiatt Deceased was Returned into Court and being Examined and Approved of by the Court is ordered to be Recorded.
By the Court
Ja. Keith, C. C. (R39).
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John Hiatt in his will, 1764, names wife Margaret, and the following children (in this order).: George - "eldest son", John, William, Joseph. Catherine Harrel, Mary Edwards, Ann Harris, Margaret Craven, Evan, Jonathan, James, Timothy, Martha Hiatt, Ruth Hiatt, and Sarah Hiatt -- fifteen children in all. A Deed in record in Winchester, Frederick Co., Va. (Deed Book 12, p.646)., shows that by 4April 1767 Margaret, widow of John Hiatt, had married to James Largent of Hampshire Co., Va.
The will of James Largent was dated 14 May 1810, and proven 19 April 1813, at Romney, the county seat of Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va.) He names wife Margery; son John -- land conveyed by Enoch and Henry Enoch and James Slone or Slane --; daughter Mary Slane (husband, Hugh)., note of James Slane given her, returned to him; daughter Margrate. Exec., son, John, and friend John Hiet. Sec., George Sharp and Francis White. Wit., Francis, Robert N., and Sam P. White. (R41). (This John Hiet is a grandson of John and Margaret Hiatt -- editor.)
Mr. Roger Avery Stubbs, of Long Lake, Minnesota, is a great-great-great-grandson of the above Margaret Largent, daughter of James and Margaret. He is compiling data on the Largents. There are several intermarriages between the Largents and the Hiatts. We are much indebted to Mr. Stubbs for interesting and valuable Hiatt-Largent data.
In 1942 Mr. Stubbs wrote: "….I just received a pack of old genealogical data -- musty and dusty -- which I just returned to W. Va. after spending four hours copying it. Mostly Largent data but much of interest to you." (R42). This new data discloses that John and Margaret Hiatt had posthumous child, a daughter Phebe. Mr. Stubbs continues: "Phebe Hiett was daughter of John and Margaret Hiett but as she is not mentioned in will must have been born after he died or at least after he made the will." In speaking of Margaret, wife of John Hiatt, he writes: "Margaret, supposedly Stephens, married first to - Edwards, and had three children: Thomas; Nancy, married Hugh McIver. (Moved to greenbrier river - had four children - Indians killed Hugh, captured Nancy -- for years -- she escaped but the children remained with Indians always.) ; a daughter, married first --- Dier, second --- Craven, third Lenahan. Margaret (Stephens?). Edwards married secondly to John Hiett of Jefferson (Co., Va., now W. Va. -editor.) - he had three sons and four daughters. Right order of sons: Evan, married Sarah Smith and had five sons and six daughters; James, married -- Pugh, and moved to Marietta (Washington Co., Ohio -- editor.) ; Timothy, died single. Right order of daughters birth: a daughter, married first --Frier, second to -- Shirley; a dau. m. David Caudry; a dau. m. -- Pugh; Phebe m. John Slane. Margaret married thirdly to James Largent, and had: John, married Sarah Critton; Mary, married Hugh Slane; and Margaret, married James Slane. There is an old pioneers story in these papers about old John Hiett (above). - Scouts brot news that there was a body of Indians coming toward the fort on Capon and Hiett gathered up his family and started in the night. He took the quinzy and died that winter…family and started in the night. He took the quinzy and died that winter…etc." (R42). A note following the above record of the marriage of Phebe Hiatt to John Slane states: "and a grandson (I do not know his name). wrote this up." (R42).
In a subsequent letter, Mr. Stubbs writes:"I do not know the author of the statement about John Hietts quinzy. The story was on a yellowed large sheet apparently taken from an account Book as page 217-8 was printed in the upper corner. It was in the papers of the estate of …Lewis Largent (b. 1838; and who is written up in Miller and Maxwell's West Virginia and Its People, II, 376 (pub.1913)." (R42).
The foregoing account of the children of Margaret (Stephens?). by each of her three husbands, since written by a grandson of John and Phebe (Hiatt). Slane -and thus a great-grandson of John and Margaret Hiatt -- is, of extreme interest and value. There is no doubt but what it is authentic and reliable, and there is further assurance from the fact that Lewis Largent, among whose papers these data were found was himself a great-grandson of Margaret through her third husband James Largent. Lewis Largent (b. 1838). was a son of Joseph and Mary (Largent). Largent, and a grandson of Lewis and --- (Parish). Largent, and, through his mother, a grandson of John and Sarah (Critton). Largent. The paternal great-grandfather of Lewis Largent was John Largent, who is said to have come from France to Virginia in 1737. The maternal great-grandfather was the James Largent who married Margaret (Stephens?). (Edwards). Hiatt, widow of John Hiatt, James being a son of John Largent, the immigrant. It is a tradition in another branch of the Largent family that their ancestor, James Largent, married first to Margaret Stephans, and secondly to --- Hiett. (R42). From a careful study of the records, however, it appears that James Largent was married but once, the mother of his three children being Margaret (Stephens?). (Edwards). (Hiatt). Largent.
Not the slightest clue has been found to date regarding the first wife of John Hiatt, Jr. -- not even her given name is known. John Hiatt and his first wife were married around 1720, presumably in Bucks Co., Pa.; she died about 1746 in Frederick Co., Va. It was about the year 1747 that John Hiatt, Jr., married to Margaret (Stephens?). Edwards. There were eight children by each wife. Nearly thrity years elapsed between the two marriages, and it will be noticed that each of his eight children by his first wife received but five shillings each in his will of 1764. Margaret's eight Hiatt children were minors in 1764, the youngest, Phebe, probably posthumous, being born late in 1764 or early in 1765. John Hiatt, Jr., was nearly seventy years of age at this time, practically a great-grandfather, the age of his wife, Margaret, was near forty.
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JOHN HIATT, JR. (1.):
b. c1696(?)., England(?).; d. between 26 October and 4 December 1764, in Frederick co., Va. (now Jefferson Co., W. Va.) ; came with his parents c1699 to Bucks Co., Pa., was in Lancaster Co., Pa., 1733; removed in 1733/4 to vicinity of Hopewell Friends' Meeting in what later became Frederick Co., Virginia; was one of Alexander Ross' seventy families which settled on a large tract of land in the Shenandoah Valley; removed in 1756/7 to vicinity of New Garden Friends' Meeting in what was then Rowan (now Guilford). Co., North Carolina; returned to Virginia c1760 and settled in Hampshire Co., returned to Frederick Co. in 1764, a few months before his death; m.(1st). c1720, prob. In Bucks Co., Pa.; name and parentage of wife unknown; she was b. c1701 (?)., place unknown; d. c1746, Frederick Co., Va., John Hiatt, Jr. m. (2nd). c1747, in Frederick Co., Va., to MARGARET (STEPHENS?). EDWARDS, a widow with children; her parentage unknown; she was b. c1725, place unknown; d. post1810, in Hampshire co., Virginia, where she had resided since the death of John Hiatt. (She m. (3rd). c1765 to James Largent of Hampshire Co., Virginia.)
CH: (By first wife.) (In approximate order of birth.): (5.) George; (6.) John; (7.) Catherine; (8.) Mary; (9.) Ann; (10.) Joseph; (11.) William; (12.) Margaret.
(By second wife, Margaret).: (13.) Evan; (14.) James; (15.) Sarah; (16.) Ruth; (17.) Jonathan;
(18.) Martha; (19.) Timothy; (20.) Phebe.
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John Hiatt, Jr., like his father, was not an active member of the Quaker Meeting, but many of his children were members of Hopewell Meeting in Virginia and various meetings in North Carolina. His son Evan became a minister at Hopewell. The sixteen children of John Hiatt, Jr., will each be discussed in detail in a subsequent chapter.
Found in HH book, by William Perry Johnson, for following story see Edwards book, by Lela Lillian Lones, page 36.
John Hiatt Jr. died between 6 Oct. and 4 Dec 1764, the dates his will was written and probated. An old pioneer story in a paper stated, "Scouts brot news that there was a body of Indians coming toward the fort on Capon and Hiatt gathered his family and started in the night. He took Quinsy and died that winter."
John Hiatt, Jr.'s Will left five shillings to each of his first wife's eight children. Teh balance of the estate provided for his second wife and her seven children, who were minors. An eighth child is believed to have been born after the Will was written. For names of Children, see pg. 60 of Hiatt-Hiett Genealogy and Family History 1699-1949 by William Perry Johnson.
An invoice and appraisment were made 11 May 1772 for David Edwards (son of Joseph Edwards?) Etc., see under Joseph Edwards.
Sent by Clifford Hardin from the Ancestors and Family of J. Alvin Hardin by Dorothy Hardin Massey and Clifford Hardin 1986.
John Hiatt, Jr. first appears on the records of Lancaster County, Penn on 25 April 1733 when he received warrant number 5 to 200 acres of land situated on Beaver Creek. He apparently did not comply with the conditions of the
warrant, for the land declared vacant and regranted in 1744. George Hiatt also held land in Lancaster County which he sold before moving to Frederick County, Maryland where he was associated with Pipes Creek Meeting. All three Hiatt brothers eventually were living near Hopewell in Frederick County, Vir. Even thought John Jr. and George owned land in Lancaster County in Penn. It appears that their real base of operations was in the Elk County area prior to the move southward.
About 1733 seventy families settled in what became Frederick County, Vir and they founded Hopewell Meeting. Thirty-six patents have been found for thirty-four of these families. All patents were dated 12 Nov 1735. John Hiatt Jr. was granted 300 acres. He purchased 200 acres more in 1738. The Hiatt's settled at the head of a branch of Opeckon Creek near the present day village of Middleway, north east of Winchester. This location was in Orange County, Vir. in 1734, Frederick County in 1738, Berkeley County in 1772, Jefferson County in 1801. Today Berkeley and Jefferson Counties still exist but they are part of West Viriginia. The Hiatt's remained there about twenty years.
John Hiatt's Jr. first wife died about 1746. She was the mother of eight of John Jr.'s sixteen children. About 1747 John Jr. married young widow Margaret Edwards. She had three children by her first marriage. One of these daughter, and her family were captured by Indians in Greenbrier County, Vir. The husband was killed and the mother escaped but the children remained with the Indians.
In 1757 the Hiatt's moved to Rowan (now Guilford) County, North Carolina, although John Jr. did not sell the land in Vir. He bought 640 acres on the south fork of Deep River and built a mill. This land fell in Guilford County
when it was formed in 1772. Some maps show Hiatt Creek flowing into Deep River.
In 1760 John Jr. deeded this land to three sons by his first wife, Joseph, George and John and retured to Vir. This time he settled in Hampshire County on a plantation of 659 acres purchased from his son, George.
Shortly before his death, John Hiatt Jr. returned to Frederick County, Vir. His sixteenth child was born posthumously. His oldest child would have been forty-two years of age when John died.
A story found by R. A. Stubbs which has been recorded by one of John Jr.'s grandsons said that scouts brought news that Indians were approaching the fort on Capon (Cacapon River) John Jr. took his family to the fort in the night. John took quinsey and died that winter 1764.
John Hiatt left a will naming all of his children except Phebe who was born after his death. It was dated 3 Jan 1764 and probated 4 Dec 1764.
Margaret Hiatt later married James Largent and had three more children a total of fourteen by three husbands.
Also found in Iowa Gen. Historical Society Surname Index, Vol. I, pg. 132: Hiatt/Hiett, John Jr. b. 1696 EN. D. 1764 VA. M. 1747 2 Margaret Stevens Edwards. Code M50
Hopewell Friends History (1734-1934) page 20 Sent by Darlene Peterson
Note by Tanya, I'm not sure which of the John Hiatt's this belongs to.
John Hiatt Jr., 300 Acres. No further information of certain character concerning this man appear, though various persons by the name of Hiatt (Hiett) were in the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent sections at later periods. At Hopwell, February 4, 1748, Ja. MaGrew and Jno. Hiatt were appointed to enquire into Richd. Merchant's claims to a certificate of removal to North Carolina or elsewhere. This John Hiatt was probably the John Hiatt Jr. of 1735. On February 28, 1782, Samuel Brockman Jr., Richard C. Webb and William Thomas returned to the Orange County court an appraisement of the personal estate of John Hiatt, deceased. In 1795 Jonathan Hiatt and wife, Mary, with others, of Fayette County, Ky. sold land on Terry's Run in Orange County, Va. It is not known rather these Hiatt's of later Orange were connected with the Hiatt's of the Valley.
West Virginia Advocate by Dr. Wilmer Kerns 15 Feb 1990, page 18
John Hiett Jr. purchased land at North River Mills and lived there for a brief period during the early 1750's. Hiett's Run, a tributary of North River, still bears his name.
One of his sons, George Hiett, settled on adjoining property. George helped develop the Great Wagon Road, which led from his North River farm to Jospeh Edward's property along the Cacapon River. George fled to North
Carolina during the Indian war and did not return to Hampshire County.
From a paper found in the book that was given me by Annis Bales: (Larry Anderson)
Submitten by: Dulcia Grm, Coolidge, Kansas
To: Mayme L. Bales, Linneus, Missouri
--- HISTORY OF THE QUAKER CHURCHES OF PENNSYLVANIA ---
Middleton Mo. Mtg., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Entry 166, page 196. 1880:
"For three years, meetings were held in the homes of WIlliam BILES, Nicholas WELN, John OTTER and Robert HALL."
See page 30 [of HH book, Vol. I WPJ, 1950]
Falls Mo. Mtg., Bucks, Co., Pennsylvania, 1680. Entry 162, page 193:
--- "Still an other burial place of this Meeting is the Watson Graveyard. This was laid out prior to 1700 by John ROWLAND, on 5 square perches of teh 300 acres of land patent to him by William Penn in 1683. Although the small burial ground was on Rowland's land, it was near the land and home of Thomas WATSON. It is supposed that this was the reason the burial ground was called Watson Graveyard. In 1700, John ROWLAND disposed of his grant of 300 acres to John HIETT, with the exception of the Graveyard which had been fenced in prior to 1700. In 1703-4, the Graveyard was deeded by John ROWLAND to Edmond LOVETT, William ATKINSON and Nehemiah BLACKSHAW (or Black Shaw), trustees of Falls Mo. Mtg. Willaim ATKINSON, the surviving trustee in 1745-46, transferred this declaration of trust to Joseph WHARTON, Joseph ATKINSON, Edmond LOVETT, Jr., and Thomas Watson, newly appointed trustees."Came to Bucks County, PA, in 1699 with his parents, John and Mary Smith Hiatt
Children with Margaret (Stephens?) Edwards are Evan, James, Sarah, Ruth, Jonathan, Martha, Timothy and PhebeJohn Hiatt or Hiett was Quaker before the death of Geo. Fox, founder of the Soc. of Friends; There was a John Hiatt taken prisoner in Somerset shore in 1683 or 1693 at the time the Quakers were being presecuted in England. This may be our John Hiatt. The record says he lived in the village of Shipton Mallet in 1699. He turned up in PA and bought 300 acres in Bucks Co. for 350 pounds. His deed is in the courthouse @ Doylestown, then county seat of Bucks Co., He was about 26 years old at the time. Mary was 22. They had 3 small sons. In 1706. There is a deed for land he purchased on the Delaware River that had originally belonged to William Penn. He was still living in 1745 at the age of 78. He is believed to have come to US with William Penn on his second voyage c. 1699.The records say he died between 26 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1764, in Frederick Co., Virginia (now, Jefferson Co., West Virginia.)
The Hiatt Book Volume I by William Perry Johnson and the Hiatt Family Organization of Utah does not give the name of the first wife, unknown at that time.
NOTE BY Don Hiatt, 1905 ME 108th St., Mithcellville, IA 50169 5 Feb 2006
I have some old letters (1840's) from Sen. Isaack (Haines) Hiatt - Elijahs second wife, my GG Grandmother, some letters from Davis Haines, her brother and southern sympathizer, also a Quaker Marriage certificate from Ridge Belmont Co., OH, signed by Elijah and his first wife, Anne Boswell, Nov 23 1825.
John Hiatt, Jr. came with his parents c1699 to Bucks Co., PA, now Jefferson Co., WVA, was in Lancaster Co., PA in 1733. Moved in 1733/34 to the vicinity of Hopwell Friends Meeting house in what later became Frederick Co., VA. Was one of Alexander Ross's seventy families which settled on a large tract of land in the Shenandoah Valley, removed in 1756/57 to vicinity of New Garden Friends Meeting in what was then Rowen Co., (now Guilford Co.) NC, returned to Virginia c1760 and settled in Hampshire Co. Returned to Fredrick Co. in 1764 a few months before his death.
John Hiatt married his second wife c1764 in Fredrick Co., VA, Margaret (Stevens) Edwards, a widow with children, her parentage is unknown. She was born 1725, place unknown. Died post 1810 in Hampshire Co., VAa where she had resided since the death of John Hiatt, Jr.
JOHN HIETT JR.
JOHN HIATT'S EARLY LIFE WITH THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA
John Hiatt Jr. was born in England in 1696. He came to America with his Quaker parents, John Hiatt and Mary Smith, when he was three years old. They settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania along the Delaware River where he grew up. His youth must have been a combination of the joys of roaming the verdant hillsides and bubbling streams that flowed into the Delaware River. It was necessary for him to labor with his parents and brothers for their food, shelter and clothing. Their clothes were made from sheeps wool and the flax which they grew. Their parents had brought the flax seed with them when they came from England. Flax from which linen is made has come down from the dawn of history.
John Hiatt Jr. and his two brothers, George and William grew up in the vicinity of Chester, New Castle and Philadelphia which cities were located along the Delaware River. Philadelphia was lauded by Gabriel Thomas in 1698 as "This Magnificent City". So this was probably the port in which they landed in 1699. As they grew up they could have witnessed the endless procession of merchant vessels docked along the wharfs at Market Street, bringing settlers from Europe. So many emigrants entered the American colonies at this point that Market Street has been called "the most historic highway in America".
MARRIAGE TO RACHEL WILSON
John Hiatt Jr. married Rachel Wilson in 1720. Rachel was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1701. They raised eight children here in Pennsylvania. The children of John and Rachel are: George, John, William, (my line) Joseph, Catherine, Mary, Ann, Margaret. The first three or four children were born while still living here in Pennsylvania.
Their home here in Pennsylvania yielded an abundance of everything as was described by a Pennsylvania Quaker in a letter to his sister in Ireland in the year 1725.
This country yields Extraordinary Increase of all sorts of Grain Likewise-- above 80 bushels Increase so that it is as Plentiful a Country as any Can be if people will be Industrious. Wheat is 4 Shills a bushel, Rye 2s 9d, oats 2.3 pence, barley 3 Shills, Indian corn 2 Shills. Beef, mutton and pork is each 2 1/2 pence a pound. Turnips 12 pence a bushel. This country abounds in fruit, Scarce an house but has an Apple, Peach & cherry orchard. Chestnuts, Walnuts, & hazel nuts, Strawberries, Billberys & Mulberrys grow wild in the woods and fields in vast Quantities.
There is 2 fairs yearly & 2 markets weekly in Philadelphia also 2 fairs yearly in Chester & likewise in New Castle, but they sell no Cattle nor horses no living Creatures, but altogether Merchant's goods as hatts, Linnen & woolen Cloth, handkerchiefs, knives, Scizars, tapes & treds buckels, Ribonds & all Sorts of necessarys fit for our wooden Country & here all young men and women that want wives or husbands may be Supplyed. 19 p.35
Laid out in orderly squares, unlike earlier Jamestown in Virginia or Boston in Massachusetts, Philadelphia was well on its way to becoming the "green country town" to which William Penn had aspired when he designed it.
Philadelphia in these years shone as a beacon of hope to many more immigrants, now the Scotch-Irish. Along the wharfs at Market Street docked an endless procession of merchant vessels, bringing settlers from Europe. There the emigrant Benjamin Franklin had arrived from Boston on Sunday morning in 1723, while most of the town was at church.
During the first century of colonial life, settlers everywhere lived within a few miles of the seacoast or a river, for they still depended on England for many things they needed.
The trip to England usually took about two months. The fare was only about seventy-five dollars, but the traveler had to take with him all his own food and his bedding. He had to cook his own meals. The fare paid for nothing but the space in the ship.
Even the trade between one colony and another was by boat; for example, between New England and New York, or between Philadelphia and Virginia. From New England to Barbadoes, in the West Indies, was a month's journey.
Sailing was still dangerous. There were only four light-houses on the whole eastern coast, and the charts showing sharp rocks or shallow water were far from perfect. More-over, there were many pirates on all the seas, especially around the West Indies. When they seized a ship, they would sail it to some near-by port and sell all its goods. They would probably kill the sailors.
ENTER THE SCOTCH-IRISH
The Quakers were for many years the wealthiest and most powerful of any of the settlers in Pennsylvania. When Scotch-Irish and German settlers began to pour into Philadelphia after 1730, they found the Quakers in possession of the best lands and the highest political offices. Along Philadelphia's Front and Market streets, a coterie of Quaker merchants dominated the colony's trade.
This dominance was disturbed when a mad rush of Scotsmen wanted to leave Ulster. (Ireland) The Irish landowners, had introduced a bill in the Irish Parliament in 1735 to restrict emigration. As a result, hundreds of families rushed to board ships the next spring before the threatened cutoff occurred. A thousand migrant families crowded into dockside Belfast early in 1736, pleading for passage to America.
Because of Pennsylvania's reputation for religious toleration, most of the Ulster Scotts made their way to ports along the Delaware River where the Hiatt family had lived. Besides Philadelphia, these cities were principally Lewes and New-Castle, which stood on the western bank of the Delaware in the southern part of Pennsylvania which later became Delaware. All three towns had Presbyterian congregations, and they received the emigrants with open arms, offering them help and a friendly roof until they could begin their trek westward.
The Quaker people in Pennsylvania became excited when the feisty Scotch-Irish people continued to emigrate onto land around them. Pennsylvania's growth drove up land prices. A Pennsylvania Quaker, Robert Park, described the boom to his sister in Ireland in 1725 this way:
Land is of all Prices Even from ten Pounds, to one hundred Pounds a hundred [acres] according to the goodness or else the situation thereof, & Grows dearer every year by Reason of Vast Quantities of People that come here yearly from Several Parts of the world, therefore thee & thy family or any that I wish well I wood desire to make what Speed you can to come here the sooner the better.
GERMAN AND SWISS IMMIGRATION
Much as the Scotch-Irish, the Germans contributed to the frontier's growth. However, the Quaker settlers continued to resent this intrusion. William Penn's son wrote to Secretary James Logan in Pennsylvania in 1729, recommending that the Pennsylvania Assembly pass a law prohibiting further immigration. They promised to have King George II uphold it. However, the Germanic people also became too enmeshed in the growing fabric of colonial life to be halted. Throughout the 1730s, transplanted Swiss and Germans continued to pour into Philadelphia, spreading hence along the growing Appalachian frontier.19 p.29
THE JOHN HIATT FAMILY MOVE TO VIRGINIA
John and Rachael Hiatt and their family were among the Quakers who no longer could accept the continued influx of all the immigrants. They moved south and west to new lands away from these people who seemed to be crowding them out.
The three Hiatt brothers, John Jr., George, and William began to move. John moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania which had recently been created from Chester County one of its three original counties created in 1682. Bucks and Philadelphia were the other two counties. John and Rachael did not stay long in Lancaster County but moved on across the Virginia border to Orange County which later became Frederick County where the main body of Quakers had settled. John, Rachel, and their three children settled at the Quaker settlement of Hopewell Meetinghouse. Their third child, William (my line) was just a baby when they moved. John's brother George Hiatt stayed for a few years in Bucks County then moved to Maryland and then to Virginia and finally settled in North Carolina. William settled in Lancaster County but soon followed his brother John to Virginia.
The family loaded their horses and wagons with the family's goods, and started southwest over the Warrior's path, later called the Great Wagon Road toward the cheaper lands in Virginia. Crossing the Potomac River by Williams' or Watkins' Ferry, near the later site of Williamsport, they followed the narrow footpath along the Shenandoah River.
As early as 1734 the Great Wagon Road was cited on a survey as "...the Wagon Road that goes from Conestogo to Opecklin..." This was the road which brought the first settlers from Pennsylvania to the area popularly known as "the Opecklin," which meant the basin of the Opequon Creek. The Conestogo was a region in southeastern Pennsylvania, named after an Indian tribe and the river, where the famous Conestogo wagon was developed by the Pennsylvania Germans.
BEGINNINGS OF HOPEWELL MEETINGHOUSE COMMUNITY
"In their thriftiness they soon created a large community near the Opequon Creek, built houses of logs, set up saw mills and grist mills and had brought about a condition of orderly living, such as Friends have always established in every new wilderness into which they migrated.
"The terrain was wild and entirely uncultivated; houses had to be built of logs after clearings were made for them. But the new Land, "The Promised Land" as it were, was beautiful. Can anyone doubt that their spirits were uplifted when they reached their new homeland, which they had traveled long days to find, and that their first thought would have been to assemble together in praise and thanksgiving to God? We do not know what families formed the very first Caravan; but we must assume that Alexander Ross led them into this wilderness of beauty and fertility; and we know that within two years some seventy families of Friends had settled themselves in that lovely valley.
Often these new western meetings had their beginnings when a single family, a group of brothers with their wives and children, or perhaps a group of congenial neighbors would leave the older settlements and plunge into the wilderness looking for new homes. Here and there little handfuls of them would be scattered along the frontier. Once settled in their new cabins and homes they started silent worship.
"It has been the custom of Friends, upon arrival in any new settlement, to immediately hold meetings, sometimes out of doors, but usually held in the house of a Friend, as soon as such a house could be built and made available. Friends, everywhere, had in early times little need of shelters in order to hold meetings; their meetings were usually held in silence. When two or more Friends might meet on the road or in a forest, they were almost certain to stop and hold a meeting if circumstances permitted. They could sit down together under the shade of a tree and 'going into silence' have the experience of feeling the Presence of 'God amongst them.
One has only to read over the names of the 'Fathers of the Colony', all of whom are well know to history, to realize the great strength of this remarkable community of Friends. They became one of the greatest strong-holds of the whole of America for the up-building of character. .
John Hiatt and George Hobson Sr. and Jr were among the the list of men who were classed the 'Fathers of the Colony.' I may insert here that this George Hobson may be the same man who later became the father-in-law to John Hiatt's son William. The name was spelled Hodson in the Quaker records but most likely he is the same man.
In a land grant dated 12 Nov 1735, John Hiet Junior of Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania received three hundred acres of land situated on the north bank of the Opeckon River in Shenandoah River Valley in Orange County, Virginia. The fee rent was one shilling a year due upon the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. Three acres of every fifty was to be cultivated and improved within three years. This was one of seventy similar grants issued the same day to settlers from Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Most of the settlers, but not all, were Quakers.
The deeds on record in Orange County Virginia, show that John Hiatt Jr. of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania bought 200 additional acres on 18 April 1737. It lay on the west side of Shenandoah River near the source of Opeckon Creek. The following year when Frederick County was formed, this land lay in that County. This was only seven miles from Hopewell Meetinghouse.
The Hiatt book indicate early land records in Virginia show that the Hietts settled originally near what is now the village of Middleway, in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Middleway is about 25 to 50 miles northeast of Winchester just across the Virginia and the West Virginia border.
In 1941 Mary Lois Smith, and her cousin, descendants of William, brother of John Hiatt Jr. visited Middleway. She wrote of her trip as follows.
This is only a village of twelve or fifteen houses sitting by the roadside as they have for a hundred years. Some are old log houses yet in use - some are brick or stone. It is very ancient, and is near the Opeckon Creek. We talked with Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs C.J. Shaul, his sister, who are descendants of Captain John Smith who laid out the town in 1794 - and then it was named Smithfield. Because of its location midway between so many towns on all sides, it came to have the name of Middleway." A nephew of Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs. Shaul descends from a daughter of John Hiatt Jr.; Col. Robert L. Bates, is at the Virginia Military Institute, and has worked extensively on the history of the families of Middleway community.
Alexander Ross (1682-1748), the leader of the colony of Valley Friends, secured a tract of 2373 acres of land lying six or seven miles northeast of Winchester. On this tract, near Ross's home, the first monthly meeting, Hopewell, was set up in 1734.
This, the oldest religious organization in Virginia west of the Blue Ridge, is still main-tained. The first meeting house was probably of log structure but in 1759 a stone building was erected, 44 feet from south to north, 33 feet from east to west. Founder Alexander Ross also built his home of stone and it still stands today a short distance south east down the slope near a large spring of water. 14 p.89
Friends attending Hopewell however in the early days had to carry their rifles as a defense against the wolves which occassionially chased them. They used them for the defense against the wolves and not the Indians since there was no hostility with the Indians. When they arrived at Hopewell they just stacked their rifles in the back corner.
Twenty miles to the east the Blue Ridge mountains undulate along the horizon. In between lie broad plains threaded with streams and dotted with prosperous farms indicating thrift and plenty. West from Hopewell lies Pumpkin Ridge. A mile and a half farther west, and parallel with it lies Apple Pie Ridge, famous for its orchards. The dense follage of the orchards obstruct the view of the Alleghanies though by looking southward a bit you may catch glimpses of some of the higher crests. Northeast from Hopewell considerable stretch of Little North Mountain may be seen which slopes toward the Potomac and hides the greater ranges of the Alleghanies.
ORGANIZATION OF TOWN OF WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA
Not long after the setting up of the Friends' meeting at Hopewell, in 1734, a small group of log cabins began to rise at Shawnee Spring, 7 miles southwest of Hopewell.
These cabins were the beginning of the town of Winchester, which occupies the site of a village or at least a favorite camping-ground of the Indians. In 1743 courts were organ-ized at Winchester for the new county of Frederick, the first regular courts west of Blue Ridge. The Quaker records at Hopewell anedated those at Winchester by nine or ten years. Unfortunately many of them were burned in 1759. Since then they are complete and valuable. The Friends have always been careful in keeping records, especially those of marriages.14 p.89
An early libel suit perhaps due to a religious difference was taken out by a Prebyterian Minister, William Williams, in the Shenandoah Valley dated 1734-1739 showed a large group of persons named as defendants. Some Hiatt names were among them. (Note different spellings.) Among the defendants were Peter Hyat, Jno. Hiatt, and Geo. Hyett. Peter Hyat probably was of the Maryland or Delaware Hiatts but Jno. Hiatt is possibly our John HIatt Jr. and Geo. Hyett may have been his son. This was from the Orange County, Virginia Order Book 1734-1739, page 331 under date of 22 June 1738. (Va.Hist. Mag., XXVIII,364)15 p.36
Hopewell and Center near Winchester are the only places in the Shenandoah Valley where the Friends hold meetings at this time (1955). Their membership, large in earlier years, as already indicated, was depleted by migration and disownments.
QUAKER MARRIAGE CUSTOMS
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of members in the old meetings were disowned, mostly for marrying out of unity--marrying persons not Friends, or for having a marriage ceremony performed by a "hireling" minister. The Friends make their marriage contracts by a ceremony conducted in their own way. A few members were also disowned for enrolling in the militia or for attending places of amusement; now and then one for evading payment of his debts. Such cases, however, were rare. Friends were generally to be thoroughly relied upon in their financial affairs. No one was given permission to move out of his community until a committee had investigated and approved the condition of his business relations. 14 p.94
Marriage customs and conditions were very strict in the Quaker faith. For a more in-depth study of disownments for marriage out of unity see Chapter Eight page 152. The following Quaker minutes show what couples had to do to obtain permission to marry. This couple happen to be John Hiatt Jr.'s brother, William and his wife, Alice.:
At our Monthly Meeting of Hopewell at Opeckon the fourth Day of the Second Month A.C. 1748: William Hiett and Alice Lowden appeared at this Meeting and declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage, this being the first time, this Meeting appoints James McGrew and Simeon Taylor to inquire into the said William Hiett's conversation and clearness in respect to marriage and what else may be needful to make report to the next Monthly Meeting accordingly... Next meeting.....At our Monthly Meeting of Hopewell at Opeckon 2nd day of 3rd month 1748: William Hiett and Alice Lowden appeared at this Meeting and declared their intention of taking each other in marriage, this being the second time the Friends appointed to inquire into the said William Hiett's conversation and clearness with others in respect to marriage, report that they find nothing to obstruct their proceeding. Therefore, this Meeting leaves them to their Liberty to consumate their said intentions when they meet, and this Meeting appoints James McGrew and Simeon Taylor -- to see that the marriage be decently accomplished and make report thereof to the next Monthly Meeting accordingly.
RACHEL DIES - JOHN MARRIES AGAIN
John and Rachel were content setting up their frontier home near Winchester. However their contentment was not to last long. John's wife, Rachel died in 1746. She was only 45 years of age and their youngest child Margaret was only ten years old. William (my line) was twelve. No doubt the rigors of pioneer life took a great toll. This was a big loss.
The children of John and Rachel are: George, John, William, Joseph, Catherine, Mary, Ann, Margaret. Most of the children were still at home and they needed a mother, and John Hiatt needed a companion. William, my line, was only twelve years of age at his mothers death.
The following year in 1747 he married Margaret Stephens Edward, a widow, who had children from her first marriage. The names of her children as well as ones born after their marriage are Evan, James, Sarah, Ruth, Jonathan, Martha, Timothy, and Phebe. After his marriage to Margaret, things began to get better again for the family. They acquired more land on which to support their family. They had been granted 240 acres by Lord Fairfax on the 28th of September 1755.
TROUBLE WITH INDIANS - FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
During the time of Quaker supremacy in Pennsylvania and for seventy years after the founding of the Colony, the Indians are said never to have taken a white man's life. The "Holy Experiment" was more success than failure. The Quakers gave up their power in Pennsylvania in 1756 rather than support by, taxes a war against their old friends, the Indians. Rather than fight they resigned their offices and handed over a government which they themselves had established.24 p.25
Up until now the Indians had been very friendly with the Quakers because they were treated very well by them. The war with the French changed this.
The French had claim to great tracts of land and was desirous to lay claim to more. They offered the Indians incentives like blankets, guns, etc. to help them gain their ends. Thus the Indians were in combat with the English settlers. George Washington was very active in military affairs to protect the settlers during the French and Indian War.
During the French and Indian War, when the Valley was frequently disturbed by incursions of the Indians, sometimes led by French officers, settlers were killed and carried off prisoners, many took refuge in forts and others fled eastward across the Blue Ridge, the Friends generally were not molested. Some were driven from their homes, but none were killed, and only one house was burned. Most of them, it appears, remained in their houses, without any special defense, while others around them were fleeing and seeking refuge. In January, 1758, William Reckett, a visiting Friend, was at Hopewell and several other places in the Valley. After the meeting at Hopewell he wrote:
"We lodged at Joseph Supton's, an ancient Friend, who with his wife was very loving to us. The Indians had killed and carried away several within a few miles of their habitation, yet they did not seem much afraid; for they said they did not so much as pull in the sneck-string of their door when they went to bed, and had neither lock nor bar."
Perhaps this instance is not typical--we can hardly believe that the Friends generally were equally indifferent to the dangers of the time, but they certainly did escape the atrocities that were suffered by others around them. Their immunity was no doubt due in part to the reputation that the Friends in Pennsylvania had for peace and fair dealing, and also to their won professions of friendship towards the Indians and their intentions to pay the red men for their lands in the Shenandoah Valley. A considerable sum of money was subscribed for this purpose, but apparently it was not paid over for the reason that it could not be determined definitely which tribe or tribes were best entitled to receive it. 14 p.96,
Although many of the Quakers did not experience trouble with the Indians at this time the Hiatts family did. John's wife, Margaret, had a daughter, Nancy, who was married to Hugh McIver. They had four children. The Indians killed Hugh and captured Nancy and her children. She escaped finally but the children remained as captives of the Indians.
In 1756 three bloody battles with the Indians took place. Indians killed and scalped almost 100 men in a regiment under the command of George Washington. Virginia appropriated $33,333 for the building of twenty-three forts. A tragedy at Fort Seybert took place April 28, 1758. There were survivors to return from captivity and relate the event. Fort Edwards was erected nearby.
FAMILY MOVES TO NORTH CAROLINA
In order to avoid the hostilities of this war many of the Quakers moved to North Carolina. John Hiatt was among this large exodus. Thus in 1756 he sold the 200 acres he had purchased in 1737 and moved to Rowan County, North Carolina. George Hiatt, his oldest son by his first wife went with them. William Hiatt, a younger son, from whom I descend had gone to North Carolina previously. We know that because he married Susannah Hobson 1754 in North Carolina.
John Hiatt Jr. and his second wife Margaret and their children settled 1756/57 in the fast-growing Quaker settlement at New Garden - which was at that time included in Rowan County, North Carolina, until the formation of Guilford County in 1770. In 1757 he purchased 632 acres of land on Deep River near the present town of Jamestown in Guilford County, North Carolina.-----
RETURN TO WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA
John Hiatt Jr. did not stay long in North Carolina. On 19 April 1760 he deeded these 632 acres to three of his sons, Joseph, George, and John and went back to Virginia that same year.
John Hiatt bought land from Lord Fairfax in Virginia. Lord Fairfax was a wealthy English gentleman who owned, it was said, almost a fifth of Virginia. He inherited the title from his father in England and the vast tract of land from his mother, a daughter of Lord Culpepper from England. He employed George Washington to survey his lands in the Shenandoah Valley.
DEATH OF JOHN HIATT JR.
A few months before his death, John Hiatt purchased 200 acres of land in Frederick County, Virginia and returned to Frederick County from Hampshire County, where he died. Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, Deed Book 10, p. 12 September 4, 1764 - John Hiatt from Thomas and Elizabeth Green; 200 acres of land, ying "on both sides of Opeckon"---"beginning at a Spanish White oak and two Hickorys in the line of Joseph Edwards". 15 p.38
John Hiatt Jr. died in the winter of 1764 and probably in the vicinity of Smithfield (now Middleway) in what was then Frederick County Virginia but is now Jefferson County, West Virginia. From the deeds he signed and from land mentioned in his will, it is ascertained that altogether John Hiatt Jr. possessed during his lifetime upwards of three thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina.
There were eight children by each wife with a lapse of twenty-six years between the two marriages and the youngest child Phebe was born after her father's death in late 1764. Margaret's eight Hiatt children were minors in 1764, at the time of his death. He was nearly seventy years old when he died and his wife, Margaret, was nearly forty. In his will the children by his first wife received but five shillings apiece. 15 p.45
The following story will explain how John Hiatt died. Evidently the Indian problem had not completely been solved. The situation is explained by a family tradition which has been brought down through the years. It was told by Margaret and John Hiatt's youngest daughter Phebe. This is the pioneer story about Old John Hiatt:
Scouts brought news that there was a body of Indians coming toward the fort on Capon and [John] Hiatt gathered up his family and started in the night. He took the quinzy and died that winter." Phepe Hiatt Slane's grandson wrote this story up.
This story was on a yellowed large sheet apparently taken from an account book as page 217-218 and was printed in the upper Corner. It was in the papers of the estate of - Lewis Largent who was born in 1838 and who is written up in "Miller and Maxwell's West Virginia and Its People II - page 376 published in 1913. 15 p.44
John Hiatt names his wife Margaret, in his will in 1764, and the following children (in this order): George, John, William, Joseph, Catherine Harrel, Mary Edwards, Ann Harris, Margaret Craven, Evan, Jonathan, James, Timothy, Martha Hiatt, Ruth Hiatt, and Sarah Hiatt --- fifteen children in all.
The last part of his will says:
Item. My will and desire is that my loving wife Margaret Hiatt have the tuition and bringing up of my son Evan Hiatt, my son Jonathan Hiatt, James Hiatt and my son Timothy Hiatt and my daughters Martha Hiatt, Ruth Hiatt, and Sarah Hiatt until they and each of them shall Respectively arrive to adge provided she continues in the station of a widow, and that she Expends my personal Estate toward the education and bring them up at her discretion during the continuance of her widowhood and that after my last named children shall arrive to adge, the Residue of my personal Estate be equally divided amongst them and I do hereby appoint my said loving wife Margaret Hiatt hole and sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of January one thousand seven hundred and sixty four.
The following inventory of John Hiatt Jr.'s estate at his death is very interesting. Notice the type of personal property he owned at that time. It shows that he was a farmer and planter and that he produced on his plantation much of his families needs. This was common to all families in those days. I will include only some items to show what type of things he owned.
INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN HIATT JR.
Will Book 3, p. 266, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia.
TO:-----------------------------------------------POUNDS--SHILLINGS--PENCE
Wearing apparel-------------------------------4--------------6-----------------0
1 Black Horse and saddle--------------------9--------------0-----------------0
1 Sorrel Horse-1 small old Mare Colt Bell-------7--------------0-----------------0
8 Cows ,1 Bell, 2 Heffers, 4 Yearlins,--4 calves----28-----------0-----------------0
21 head of small sheep, Weavers loom and geers-----6---------------0-----------------0
Plow, Iron Traces and Collars, 1 side saddle --------3---------------13-----------------0
Old Waggon and Gears,-Iron tooth harrow,------9---------------10-----------------0
4 Old Tubbs--3 old pails and churn, Branding Iron-------0---------------17----------------0
4 pewther Dishes 7 plates 2 Basons 1 Quart 1 pint 6 tin cups 2 Tinn
Basons six Spoons 1 Tin Kittle-1 Frying pan and Tongs--1--------------18----------------0
2 old spinning wheels-Flax seed-50 lb. swindled Flax-----0--------------30----------------0
1 old Feather Bed and Furniture,home spun cloth--------6--------------4-----------------0
Some shoemaker Tools candlestic, 1 spade, Iron clevis-0---------------8-----------------6
1 Dough Trough, 1 side saddle,-Inkholder, Chist & trunk-0--------------14-------------0
2 Broad Axes 3 narrow Axes 1 saw--------0---------------27----------------0
Sicessors-Cotton yarn Cotton cards------0----------------5-----------------0
Families were self-sufficient in those days. They were able to grow everything on their land to support their own life.
Impliments such as pichforks, hoes, grubbing hoes, axes, plows, harrows were still used by my father as I was growing up in the 1940s. They were used for clearing land for a garden. The grubbing hoe would be used for grubbing up the roots of trees and shrubs before the land could be plowed and harrowed. The harrow was pulled along the ground by a team of horses to smooth out the ground making it ready for planting garden vegetables and fruit trees.
MARGARET HIATT'S REMARRIAGE
A Deed on record in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia (Deed Book 12, p.646), shows that by 4 April 1767 Margaret, widow of John Hiatt, had married James Largent of Hampshire County, Virginia.15 p.41
Mr. Roger Avery Stubbs, of Long Lake, Minnesota, is a great-great-great-grandson of the above Margaret Largent, daughter of James and Margaret. He is compiling data on the Largents. There are several intermarriages between the Largents and the Hiatts. We are much indebted to Mr. Stubbs for interesting and valuable Hiatt-Largent data.
In 1942, Mr. Stubbs wrote: "--- I just received a pack of old genealogical data -- musty and dusty-- which I just returned to West Virginia after spending four hours copying it. Mostly Largent data but much of interest to you." This new data discloses that John and Margaret Hiatt had a posthumous child, a daughter Phebe. Mr. Stubbs continues: "Phebe Hiett was daughter of John and Margaret Hiett but as she is not mentioned in will must have been born after he died or at least after he made the will." In speaking of Margaret, wife of John Hiatt, he writes: "Margaret, supposedly Stephens, married first to - Edwards, and had three children: Thomas; Nancy, married Hugh McIver. Moved to Greenbrier River - had four children - Indians killed Hugh, captured Nancy -- for years -- she escaped but the children remained with Indians always.; a daughter, married first -- Dier, second--Craven, third Lenahan. Margaret (Stephens) Edwards married secondly to John Hiett of Jefferson County, Virginia now West Virginia editor. 15 p.44
Hiett, John, son of John and Mary (Smith) Hiett, Sr., was born circa 1696 and died in 1764 in Frederick or Hampshire County, Va. His widow. Margaret, re married to one James Largent, according to Frederick County, Va. court record. It is believe that this James Largent was a brother of John Largent II (ca 1720-1807) of Hampshire County, Va.
Rachel WILSON
Sent by Ronald Coleman, Connie Dabel of West Valley, Ut. Information given by Arthur Alee 20 Jan 1994 due to his research in SLC. Alternate name found in GEDCOM file: Rachel /WILSON/
Jesse Hiatt has her birthplace as Westmoreland, England.
George HIATT
CHAPTER IX
THIRD GENERATION: CHILDREN OF JOHN HIATT, JR.
(5.) GEORGE HIATT (2.) (1.) :
b. c1722, probably Bucks Co., Pa.; d. 1793, Surry Co., North Carolina; no record of any wife or children; was the George Hyatt who was a "Marker" for George Washington when he was a surveyor in northern Virginia, and is mentioned on pages 88,89 of George Washington's Journal, had land surveyed by George Washington in Virginia, which land adjoined a tract of land which he sold in 1760 to his father; he removed to North Carolina with his father 1756/7: his father deeded him 172 acres in 1760 (see page 37, this volume, where both the above mentioned deeds are given - editor). in Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.; in 1787 he sells this 172 acres to his nephew, William Hiatt: Deed Book 8, p. 309, Guilford Co., NC. : George Hiatt of Surry Co., to William Hiatte \, son of John Hiat, Sr., of Guilford Co. --- 172 acres - consideration 100 pounds -- land on north side of South fork of Deep River -- Wit. By Isaac, Joseph, and Ezekiel Hiatt -- signed by: George (his X mark). Hiatt -- dated 27 November 1787; on 1790 Census of North Carolina, he is listed as George Hiett, and was living alone; he is listed on the Tax Lists of Surry Co., NC. as follows ; 1774 Tax List -- Dr. Jacob Bonn'd District (now eastern Forsyth Co.) -- George Hyet - 1 poll; 1784 Tax List -Capt. Gaine's District (now Upper Stokes Co.) - George Highott - 1 poll; 1786 Tax List -- Capt. Gain's District -- George Hitt, Sr. (sic). - 100 acres - 1 poll; 1789 Tax List -- Capt. Gain's District -- George Hiott, Sr. -- 100 acres; in May of 1793 an inventory was taken of George Hiett's estate, Surry Co., NC. -- said inventory was taken by William Hiatt, and it mentions John Hiett's note of 20 pounds in gold and silver.
CH: (No record of any wife or children -- editor.)
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JOHN HIATT (2.) (1.):
John Hiatt m. 1744 at Hopewell Friend's Meeting in Frederick Co., Virginia, to Mary Thomas, d/o Evan and Albert (Ross). Thomas (see p. 54, this volume - ed.) their marriage certificate being recorded by New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
"Whereas: John Hiatt son of John Hiatt of Opeckon in the County of Frederick Colony of Virginia and Mary Thomas, daughter of Evan Thomas of the same place having declared their intention of marriage with each other before several monthly meeting of the people called Quakers at Opeckon aforesaid and having consent of parent and parties concerned, their proposal was allowed of by said meeting and they left at liberty to accomplish their marriage according to the good order used among Friend which they did on the 12 day Second Month 1744 at Opeckon in presence of many witnesses, twelve of whose names are here inserted,
To wit:
Mary Ballinger James Wright
Mary McGrew William Hoge
Rachel Perkins Joseph Ballinger
Rachel Mills James McGrew
Ann Hoge Isaac Hollingsworth
Ann Taylor Hur Mills
On 28 of September 1755, Enos and Rachel Thomas deed 40 acres of land - consideration 5 shillings - on " Draines of Opeckon", land willed to Enos by his father Evan- to John Hiett, Jr. - Deed Book 4, p.69, Frederick Co., Va. (B39).
Deed Book 6, p. 412, Frederick Co., Va.: 18 September 1761 - John, Jun., late of Frederick Co., Va., now of Orange Co., NC., to John and Thos. Cunningham, sons of Thos. Cunningham, dec'd, late of Frederick Co., Va. -- Tract of 40 acres, part of a tract of 1014 acres granted to Evan Thomas by patent 12 November 1735, and part of a tract of 240 acres devised to Enos Thomas by will of Evan Thomas and granted by Enos Thomas to John Hiatt, Jr., 28 September 1755 -- Also a parcel of land, 345 acres (adjoining this one). which was granted to John Hiett, Jr., by Lord Fairfax, 29 March 1761 -- Wit.: John Ridgeway, Cuthbert Hayhurst, Jnc. Smith. Signed: John Hiatt, Jr., and Mary (her X mark). Hiatt. (R39).
Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., Orange (now Alamance). Co., NC.: 3-2mo.-1759 -- John Hiatt received on certificate. 3-2mo.-1759 -- Mary Hiatt with husband and children received on certificate from Hopewell Mo. Mtg. 6-8mo.-1763 -- John Hiett granted certificate to New Garden Mo. Mtg., NC. 6-8mo. - 1763 -- Mary Hiatt with husband granted certificate to New Garden Mo. Mtg., NC. (R45).
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.: 12-2mo.-1744 -- John Hiatt, son of John, Opeckon, Frederick Co., Va. m. Mary Thomas (m. at Opeckon). (see full copy of marriage certificate, above, as found in the original records of New Garden Mo. Mtg. -- editor.) 24-9mo. - 1763 - John Hiett and wife and children received on certificate from Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., NC., dated 6-8mo. - 1763. (R45). John and Mary Hiatt and family came under the jurisdiction of Deep River Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC. when it was formed in 1778.
The following deed on record at Greensboro, guilford co., NC., indicate a division of the estate of John Hiatt, although it is not so stated: Deed Book 7, p. 363: Evan, John, Enos, Joseph William, Ezekiel, and Ameriah (Hiatt). to Isaac Hiatt -- 110 acres -- consideration 110 pounds -- Deep River -- E. along Joseph Merany's line 176 poles, N. Joseph Stanfields line 132 poles, thence along river north 42 degrees West 49 poles, then S. 40 degrees West 225 poles to sd Merany's line, thence along his line to begin. Wit. By Joseph Hiatte, Jr., and Isaac Odle. Signed: Evan, John (his X mark)., Enos (his X mark)., Joseph (his X mark)., William, Ezekiel, and Ameriah Hiatt. 12 of February 1801.
Deed Book 7, p. 529 of December 1801 -- Evan, John, Enos, Joseph, William, and Ezekiel (Hiatt)., late of Guilford Co., to Ameriah Hiatt --103 acres -- consideration $50 -- Deep River - oak on Joseph Meranys corner - run along his line 84 poles E. 8 poles N. 16 - E. 64 - N. 75 - W. 8 (or 80?). - N. 15 - E. 92 on west bank of river, thence along river to mouth of branch thence up sd branch to first station.
Wit. By Joseph Hiatt, Jr., and James Johnson. Signed: Signed: Evan, John (his X mark, Enos (his X mark)., Joseph (his mark). William, and Ezekiel.
Deed Book 7, p. 519; 20 of December 1801 -- Evan, John, Enos, Joseph, William, and Ezekiel and Ameriah (Hiatt)., late of Guilford Co., to Joseph Hiatt --143 acres -- consideration $50 -- Deep River -- s. bank of Deep River -- N. 5 poles along John Stanfields line, then E. along his line 92 poles, N. along Shelleys to and along James Martins line 235 poles, then w. along his line 62 poles, S. 24 west 90 then S. 16 W. 82 to a Burch on E. bank of sd river then along river to begin. Wit.: Joseph Hiatt and James Johnson. Signed: Evan, John (his X mark, Enos (his X mark)., William, Ezekiel, and Ameriah Hiatt.
Deed Book 7, p. 533: 24 of December 1801 -- John, Evan, Joseph, William, Ezekiel, and Ameriah (Hiatt). to Enos Hiatt -- 126 acres -- consideration $50 -- Deep River -- Daniel Evans line W. 58 poles -- N. 200 poles along Horney's claim -- E. along Stalkers line 190 poles to River -- thence S. along river, 15, W. to W. bank of River, S. 56, west 45, S. 34, W. 23. Along creek S. 56, W. 86, along branch to first. Wit.: Joseph Hiatt, Jr., and James Johnson. Signed: Evan, John (his X mark)., Joseph (his X mark)., William, Ezekiel, and Ameriah Hiatt.
Deed Book 7, p. 534: John, Enos, Joseph, William, Ezekiel, and Ameriah Hiatt to Evan Hiatt -- 24 of December 1801 -- 111 acres -- consideration $50 - at Deep River in Stalkers line -- E. 50 -- N. 88 E. along Gilfford’s and Martins 80, S.80 along Martins. E. on Martins 56, S. 24, W. 82, then along river to 1st station. Wit.: Joseph Hiatt, Jr., and James Johnson. Signed: John (his X mark)., Enos (his X mark)., Joseph (his X mark)., William, Ezekiel, and Ameriah Hiatt.
Deed Book 7, p. 533: 24 of December 1801 -- Evan, John, Enos, Joseph, William, and Ameriah (Hiatt). to Ezekiel Hiatt -- 120 acres -- consideration $50 -- W. bank of Deep River -- S. 15 -- W. 92 -- S. 75 -- E. 80 -- S. 16 -- W. 64 -- W. along Joseph Merany's and Dan'l Evans line 116, to branch, along branch to a creek and down Creek 86 poles to a tree on N. bank of creek, thence N. 34 -- E. 23 -- N. 56 -- E. 45 to west bank of river, thence along River to begin. Wit.: Joseph Hiatt, Jr., and James Johnson. Signed: Evan, John (his X mark)., Enos (his X mark)., Joseph (his X mark)., William, and Ameriah Hiatt. (R49).
From the above deeds and other data, plus a careful study of all data pertaining to the family of John and Mary (Thomas). Hiatt, it is evident that there were eleven children in the family, rather than the eight listed by New Garden Mo. Mtg., NC.
Below is the family of John and Mary Hiatt, and with the exception of the data in parenthesis it is as appears on the records of New Garden Meeting.
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John Hiatt
Mary Hiatt
Ch: Evan b. 10 - 24 - 1744
(John " c1746).
Enos " 10 - 24 - 1748
Martha " 7 - 17 - 1751
Joseph ". 10 - 20 - 1753
Rachel " 7 - 20 - 1756
William " 7 - 27 - 1759
Mary " 4 - 2 - 1762
(Ezekiel " c1765).
Elizabeth " 4 - 15 - 1766
(Ameriah). " c1770). (R45).
Deep River Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., N
Page 116
John Hiatt d. 12-28-1790
Page 118
Mary Hiatt, widow John Hiatt, lately dec., d. 3 ---- 1791 ( R45).
Found pg.61 Hiatt-Hiett book, birth place and date taken from LDS
Genelaogical IGI Records.
Sent by Clifford Hardin. No record of a marriage has been found for
George Hiatt. He was the George Hiatt who was a marker for George Washington
when he was a surveyor in northern Virginia (mentioned on page 88, 89 of George Washington's Journal.) He owned land surveyed by George Washington in Vir., which land adjoined a tract he sold to his father in 1760. This tract of land is now in Hampshire County, West Vir.
He removed to North Carolina with his father, John Hiatt Jr. in 1756/7.
His father deeded him 172 acres in 1760 on the north side of the south fork of Deep River in an area that eventually became Guilford County. This land was sold to his nephew, William Hiatt, and deeded to him 27 Nov 1787. George Hiatt moved to Surry County by 27 Nov 1787. George Hiatt moved to Surry County by 1774 where he died in 1793. An inventory was taken of his estate in Surry County in May 1783.
Found in Journal of my Journey Over the Mountains: by George Washington.
March 31, 1750.
Then Survey'd for George Hyatt a certain Tract of waste Land Situate on a
branch of the N. River calld Davids Run in Frederick County Beg at 2 white Oaks on the side of a Hill in very stony ground and Run thence S 70 E One Hund & Seventy two Poles to a Chesnut Oak amongst a Parcel of Rocks on a Ridge of a Mountain thence N 20 E... 220 Pl to the Wag Road that leads to the S. Branch Two Hundred and Fifty Poles to a Hickory & two white Oaks thence N 70 W One Hund & Seventy Two Poles to two white Oaks on a Hill thence S 20 W Two Hund & Fifty Three Po: to Beg Cont 272 Acres.
John HIATT Jr.
ORIGINAL NOTES from Hiatt Hiett Family History
By William Perry Johnson and Utah Hiatt Family Association
1951
CHAPTER VI
SECOND GENERATION: JOHN HIATT, JR.
JOHN Hiatt, Jr. first appears on the records of Lancaster Co., Pa. The Land Office at Harrisburg, the state capitol of Pennsylvania, has record of John Hiett (sic)., showing that he received warrant number 5 for 200 acres on 25 April 1733, of lands to be situated on Beaver Creek. He apparently did not comply with the conditions of the warrant, for the land was declared vacant and granted to Jacob Light on 18 September 1744, and patented to him. This also appears in Penna. Archives, (3rd. Series, XXIV, 423)., Lancaster County Surveys, 1733-1896.
In 1730 Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan, Quakers, (the latter was grandfather of Daniel Boone's wife, obtained title to one hundred thousand acres of land in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Around 1732 seventy families are known to have settled thereupon, and they founded Hopewell Friend's Meeting in 1734. These families came, for the most part, from Quaker settlements in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and a few from New Jersey. Only thirty-six patents have been found, however for but thirty-four of the seventy families. All patents are dated 12 November 1735, and among those preserved is one for 300 acres granted to "John Hiatt, Jr." Early data on these seventy families were further destroyed then the home of William Jolliffe burned in 1759, at which time the Quaker records of twenty-five years were lost. (R34).
From early land records it appears that the Hiatts originally settled near what is now the village of Middleway, in the southwest corner of Jefferson Co., West Virginia. Middleway lies about fifteen miles northeast of Winchester, the county seat of Frederick Co., Va. It is only about a mile east of Berkeley-Jefferson county lien, and about four miles north of the point where the four counties of Berkeley, Jefferson, Frederick and Clarke meet. About seven miles southwest of Middleway, seven miles Northeast of Winslope of Apple Pie Ridge.
In 1941 Mary Lois Smith and her cousin visited Middleway, and he wrote of her trip as follows: "…This is only a village of twelve or fifteen houses sitting by the roadside as they have for a hundred years, in some cases. Some are old log houses yet in use--some are brick or stone. It is very ancient, and is near the Opeckon Creek. We talked with Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs. C. J. Shaull, his sister, who are descendants of Capt. John Smith, who laid out the town in 1794 - and then it was named Smithfield. Because of its location midway between so very many towns on all sides, it came to have the name of Middleway. Then it was also called 'Clip', from 'Wizard's Clip', a name which clung to it after some ghostly proceeding which occurred there about 1792-3 (?)." The early Hiatt deeds mention Elk Spring and Turkey Spring was a large one and said to be bottomless, and had several names, such as Big Spring, Elk Spring, Turkey Spring, etc. It was not far from Middleway but we did not have time to see it, and also, they said it was surrounded by brush and brambles and we could not get near enough to see much anyway. …Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs. Shaull have a nephew, Col. Robert L. bates, …who is at the Virginia Military Institute. He has worked extensively on the history of the families of the Middleway community…" (Miss Smith descends from William Hiatt, son of John the immigrant. Col. Bates descends from a daughter of John Hiatt, Jr. See subsequent chapters, and the Index ---editor.) (R35,37).
The ghost story mentioned by Miss Smith regarding 'Clip; or 'Wizard's Clip', was written up by R. Helen Bates (b.1855; an aunt of Col. Robert L. Bates, and a great-granddaughter of Ruth Hiatt, daughter of John Hiatt, Jr. -editor.), and printed in 1936 by Robert Smith. Following is a full copy of Miss Bate's story:
"The Legend of Wizard Clip"
"In the southern part of historic Jefferson County, West Virginia, nestled the foothills of the Blue Ridge, lies the ancient village of Wizard Clip. The land upon which the village is located was included in the grants made to Mr. William Smith in 1729 by Sir William Gooche who was proprietor of that part of Virginia at that time. In 1732 the pioneer home of Mr. Smith was built. Surrounded by majestic hills, this, the first home of Wizard Clip, was placed in a gloomy hollow, near a bottomless lake.
"Among those who obtained land grants from Mr. Smith was a man named Livingstone. Mr.Livingstone selected land lying along the Opequon Creek, but also adjoining the village.
"One night when the sky was inky black, the rain descended in torrents, and the winds rushed through the desolate pines with a wild bellow, a weary stranger presented himself at Mr. Livingstone's door. With genial hospitality the traveler was welcomed.
"In a few hours after retiring, the Stranger sent for Mr. Livingstone, and told him he was ill unto death. He requested that a Catholic priest might be sent for at once. Now, Mr. Livingstone was a bigoted man who hated the Catholic Church, and he swore no priest should enter his house. The Stranger (to whom no name has been given)., begged again and again that a priest should be brought, but his host was obdurate. At the weird hour of midnight, while the elements fought their terrible battle, the soul of the Stranger, unblest and unshriven, took its flight. The next day his body was buried in consecrated ground. For many years his grave was pointed out to the curious.
"Then a curse seemed to rest upon Mr. Livingstone and his possessions. A murrain seized his cattle, strange and mysterious sounds were heard about the house, and things were as though ruled by a demon. More dreadful than ought else was a clear, distinct, insistent clipping, clipping, clipping which went on day and night. The bed-linen, the clothing of the family and of visitors, the saddles, bridles, and harness, were all clipped, and always in crescent or half-moon shape. Nothing was sacred from the terrible shears. The witches and wizards were now holding high revels. Mr. Livingstone, pursued by the horror of all this, dreamed a vivid dream in which he saw a man who promised to help him. On Sunday his wife, a devoted Catholic, persuaded him to go with her to a Catholic service at Shepherdstown. The instant Mr. Livingstone saw the priest, he cried out with streaming eyes, 'That is the man who can rid me of the witches.' The priest was told the story, and the next day he visited the home of Mr. Livingstone at Smithfield (Middleway)., sprinkled holy water on the threshold of the house, prayed fervently, and consecrated the ground wherein the Stranger lay buried. He declared deliverance had come. Sure enough the clippings ceased, 'the witches were laid,' and Mr. Livingstone was free.
"Moved by gratitude he gave to the Catholic Church forty acres of land lying along the Opequon. The Church still owns this land and receives from it. It is known as the Priest's Place. For four or five generations it was in the care of the Minhini family. Recently, however, the Church assumed control. A chapel has been erected on this site, and outdoor meetings held frequently. It is an ideal spot for camping, and the Church has extended the use as such to all.
"The 'spell' cast upon the old village of Clip still lingers upon it, and the bottomless lake through which the witches are said to have rushed when the priest exorcised them is still here; and the Opequon flows on, now calmly, now wildly, by the lonely grave of the Stranger."
When John Hiatt, Jr., settled in Virginia 1733/34, Orange County had just been formed (17340 from Spotsylvania County. At that time Orange County encompassed what later became thirty or more countries in Virginia and West Virginia. Thus, with the Hiatts remaining on their original land, they would have, due to the continual formation of new countries, lived from 1734 until 1738 in Orange Co., Va.; from 1738 until 1772 in Frederick Co., Va.; from 1772 until 1801 in Berkeley Co., Va., which became a part of West Virginia in 1863 when that state was created. About the middle of the 18th century some of the Hiatts settled in Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va.) which at that time adjoined Frederick and from Augusta Co., which had, in turn been formed from Orange Co. in 1745. Later generations scattered over a large area in that section of Virginia and West Virginia and Maryland, not to mention those who went early to North and South Carolina, and those who settled after 1800 in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and elsewhere.
The deeds on record in Orange Co., Va., show that "John Hiatt, Jr., of Lancaster Co., Pa.," bought 200 acres of land from Stephen Hollingsworth by deeds of lease and release bearing date of 17 and 18 of April 1737. These 200 acres were in "Orange County, Colony of Virginia, West side of Sherrendo (Shenandoah? -- ed.) River on the head of a branch of Opeckan Creek." (This land fell in Frederick Co., Va., when Frederick was formed the following year. There is a family of Hiatts, apparently from Delaware, who settled in later Orange County prior to Revolutionary War, and who later removed to Kentucky and elsewhere. There is no known connection between these Hiatts and the Quaker Hiatts - editor.) (R38).
The Orange Co., Va., Order Book, 1734-39, pages 331, under date of 22 June 1738, mentions a libel suit in the (Shenandoah). Valley which was due to some sort of religious difference between William Williams, an early Presbyterian minister, and a large group of persons named as defendants. Among the defendants were Peter Hyat, Jno. Hiatt, and Geo. Hyett. (Va. Hist. Mag., XXVIII,364). (Peter Hyat probably belongs to the Maryland or Delaware Hyatts, but Jno. Hiatt is possibly our John Hiatt, Jr., and Geo. Hyett may be his son -- editor.)
All is now peaceful until the time of the French and Indian Wars, when many Quakers removed to North Carolina to avoid hostilities. Thus, in 1756, John Hiatt sold the 200 acres he purchased in 1737 from Stephen Hollingsworth, and removed to Rowan Co., North Carolina. Deed Book 4, p. 104, Winchester, Frederick Co.,Va.: -31 May 1756 - John Hiatt to John Jude, tract of 200 acres, houses, buildings, etc., lying on east side of Elk Spring, at head of Opeckon Creek, part of 470 acres patented to Stephen Hollinsworth, 3 October 1734,and conveyed to John Hiett by deed, 17-18 April 1737. Witnesses" R. Worthington, Edward Thomas, and John Smith. Signed: John (his x mark). Hiatt, Margaret (her x mark). Hiatt. (R39).
John Hiatt, Jr., and his wife and family had settled 1756/57 in the fast-growing Quaker settlement at New Garden-which was at that time included in Rowan Co., NC. until the formation of Guilford County in 1770 from parts of Rowan and Orange Countries. In 1757 he purchased 632 acres of land on Deep River near the present town of Jamestown in Guilford Co., North Carolina. Rowan Co., NC., Deed Book 2, p. 192: -20 July 1757 -Zebulon Guantt, wheelwright, and Esther Guantt, to John Hiatt, Planter; 632 acres, consideration 120 pounds of Virginia; "Beginning at a Black Walnut Tree on the North Bank of the South fork of Deep River, from thence North 200 poles to a white oak, then West 88 poles to a White oak, then North 180 poles --- to a white oak, then West 220 poles to a White oak, then South 380 poles to a white oak, then east 308 poles to the first Station." Signed: Zebulon and Esther Guantt. Witnesses:William Buis, and John Harris. (R40). (Esther Guantt (sic). was a sister to the noted Quaker Journalist, John Woolman. William Hunt, Quaker Minister of North Carolina, was their first cousin, being a son of William and Mary (Woolman). Hunt. Nathan Hunt, son of William Hunt, Jr., was the founder of what is now Guilford College, in Guilford Co., NC., in the New Garden Quaker Settlement. There are many intermarriages between the descendants of John Hiett, Quaker, from England 1699, and the descendants of William and Mary (Woolman). Hunt.- editor).
In 1760 John Hiatt deeds these 632 acres to three of his sons, Joseph, George, and John. Deed Book 4, p. 485, Rowan Co., NC.:-19 April 1760 - John Hiett, Sr., Planter, to Joseph Hiett, Planter; 212 acres, consideration 45 pounds; "Beginning at a white oak on the North Side of the South fork of Deep River, 8 Degrees to the West of the Northwest, thence 258 poles to a hickory thence South 204 poles to a white oak, thence East 240 poles to a Red Oak, then North 90 poles to a black oak, then West 20 poles to the first Station." Witnesses: William Buis, John Mills. Signed by John (his x mark). Hyatt, and Margaret Hyatt. (R40).
Rowan Co., NC.: 19 April 1760 - John Hiett, Sr. Planter, to son George Hiett,Planter; 172 acres, consideration 150 pounds; "Beginning at a white oak on the North Side of the South fork of Deep River, thence North 200 poles, to a White Oak, then West 68 poles to a Black Oak, thence South 90 poles to a Red Oak, then West, 240 poles to a White Oak, then South 102 poles to a white oak, the East 380 poles to the first Station." Witnesses: William Buis, John Mills. Signed by John (his X mark). Hyatt, and Margaret Hiett. (R40).
At Romney, the county seat of Hampshire Co.,Va.,there was recorded on 11 November 1760, the following deed: Book I, pp.43-4 - 28 April 1760 - George Hiatt of Rowan co., NC., to John Hiatt, Sr., of the same place; 272 acres in Hampshire Co., Va., on David's Run Branch of the North River; granted to ye said George Hiatt by deed from Lord Fairfax, 5 April 1751, bounded by a Survey made by George Washington; consideration 150 pounds. Witnesses: Thomas Edwards, Mary (her X mark). Edwards, and Jeremiah Ham. Signed by George (his X mark). Hiatt.
John Hiatt appears to have returned to Virginia soon after executing the above deeds, and settled on the plantation which he had just purchased from his son George -- in Hampshire Co., Va. Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., Deed Book 7-3 August 1762 - John Hiatt of Hampshire Co., Va., to John Judy of Frederick County; a tract of 659 acres, including 59 acres extra by recent survey, also some waste land in Frederick County; tract had been granted to John Hiatt by Lord Fairfax, 6 July 1761. Signed by John (his X mark). Hiatt, and Margaret Hiett. (R39).
In 1763 John Hiatt sells the 300 acres he was granted when he first came to Virginia in the Alexander Ross Colony in 1735. Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., Deed Book 7-3 may 1763 - John Hiatt and wife Margaret of Hampshire Co., Va., to William Burns of Frederick Co., Va.,; two small adjoining tracts of land on north side of Opeckon Creek; first, tract of 300 acres patented to John Hiatt 10 November 1735, joins lower end of Col. Adam Steven's land (now Paul William's land).; other tract east of this -- 77 acres granted to John Hiatt by Lord Fairfax, 7 July 1761, lying on west bank of Opeckon; total,377 acres, houses and buildings. Signed: John (his X mark). Hiatt, Margaret Hiat. (R39).
A few months before his death, John Hiatt purchased 200 acres of land in Frederick co., Va., and returned to Frederick from Hampshire County, where he died. Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., Deed Book 10, p.12 - 4 September 1764 - John Hiatt from Thomas and Elizabeth Green; 200 acres of land, lying "on both sides of Opeckon"…"beginning at a Spanish White Oak and two Hickories in the line of Joseph Edwards." (R39).
John Hiatt probably died in the vicinity of Smithfield (now Middleway)., in what was then Frederick Co., Va., but is now Jefferson Co., W. Va. The witnesses to his will were residents of the Smithfield community. From the deeds mentioned above, and from land mentioned in his will, it is ascertained that altogether John Hiatt, Jr., possessed during his lifetime upwards of three thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina.
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WILL OF JOHN HIATT (JR.)
Will of John Hiatt, Will Book 3, p. 242, Winchester, Frederick Co., Va.,
"In the name of God Amen. I John Hiatt of the county of Hamshear and colony of Virginia being sick and weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be to God for the same, and calling to mind the uncertain Estate of this transitory Life, and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please Almighty God to call. Do make and pronounce this my Last Will and Testament in the manner hereafter mentioned (to wit).
Primas, and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God who first gave it to me and my body to be decently buried in the Earth in a Christian like manner, and to what trancenry Estate the Lord has been pleased to bestow upon me in this trancetory Life I do give and bequeath in the manner following.
Item. My will and desire is that all my Just debts and funeral Expenses be first paid out of my personal Estate by my Executors hereafter named.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Eldest son George Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid out of my Personal Estate by my Executors hereafter named.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son John Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son William Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Hiatt the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Catherine Harrel the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Edwards the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ann Harris the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Margaret Craven the sum of five shillings to be paid as aforesaid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Evan Hiatt Two Hundred and twenty two acres of Land lying in the County of Hampshear and on a branch of the North river of Capcapon and being part of a tract of two hundred and seventy acres I bought from my son George Hiatt and being the upper part on which house and plantation is on, And to him and hi heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my said son Evan Hiatt a tract of Land of about twenty five acres, surveyed for me and returned unto the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax's Land Office, adjoining on the upper side or east side of the aforementioned Land and adjoining a place called the Sandy Ridge. And to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son James Hiatt fifty acres of Land part of a tract of Two Hundred and seventy-two acres, which I have before given and bequeathed to my son Evan Hiatt, and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my said son James Hiatt one survey of Land surveyed for me adjoining the foresaid fifty acres, and below it, on the same branch which said Survey is Returned into the aforementioned Land Office's, and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Jonathan Hiatt one certain tract or survey of Land lying in the county aforesaid and on the branch aforesaid which was surveyed for one James Buckhanan, and by me purchased of the James Buckhanan for which I have his request to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax for the deed to issue in my name and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Timothy Hiatt one certain tract of land lying in the county aforesaid and on a branch of Capcapon called the Sandy lick branch which I have obtained a deed for from the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax containing ninety one acres to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Item. My will and desire is that my son George Hiatt may give some Instrument of Writing directed to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax that a certain survey of land he has returned in the office may issue to and in the name of my said son Timothy Hiatt I having paid my said son George Hiatt for his Right of the said survey.
Item. My will and desire is that my any costs charges and Encumbrances that is on any of the lands aforementioned for which Deeds has not Issued may be discharged out of my personal Estate before any distribution be made then beforementioned.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Margaret Hiatt one part of my Estate according to law.
Item. My will and desire is that my loving wife Margaret Hiatt have the tuition and bringing up of my son Evan Hiatt my son Jonathan Hiatt James Hiatt and my son Timothy Hiatt and my daughters Martha Hiatt Ruth Hiatt and Sarah Hiatt until they and each of them shall respectively arrive to age provided she continues in that station of a widow, and that she expends my personal Estate (?). toward the education and bringing them up at her discretion during the continuance of her widowhood and that after my last named children shall arrive to age the residue of my personal estate be equally divided amongst them and I do hereby appoint my said loving wife Margaret Hiatt whole and sole Executrix of this my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of January one thousand seven hundred and sixty four.
Sig'd sealed and pronounced in Signed: John (his x mark). Hiatt
Presents of
John Grantam
Joseph Grantam
Jno. Smith
Whereas I the above named John Hiatt since my making the above mentioned will have bought and purchased of and from one Thomas Green two hundred acres of land lying and being in the county of Frederick in Virginia and lying on both sides of Opeckan Creek, and my will and desire is as to the two hundred acres of land that my executrix aforementioned do sell and dispose of the said Land at her discretion to the best advantage and that the money arising thereby be by her equally divided between my children Evan Hiatt Jonathan Hiatt James Hiatt Timothy Hiatt Martha Hiatt Ruth Hiatt and Sarah Hiatt hereby empowering my said Executrix to Execute all and every lawful deeds conveyance or conveyances To the said Land as in Law may be Necessary to the purchase thereof, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of October one thousand seven hundred and sixty four. 1764
Sign'd Seal'd and pronounced Signed: John (his x mark). Hiatt
In presents of
John Grantham
Joseph Grantham
Jno. Smith
At a Court held for Frederick County the 4th day of December 1764. This Last Will and Testament of John Hiatt Deceased was produced in Court by Margaret Hiatt the Executrix therein named who made oath thereto and the same being proved by the oaths of John Grantham and John Smith two of the Evidences thereto is Ordered to be Recorded and upon motion of the said Margaret who entered into bond with George Hiatt Simyeon Hiatt William Hiatt Junr and John Smith her securities in the penalty of five hundred pounds conditioned for her due and faithful administration of the said Estate Certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate in due form.
By the Court.
Ja. Keith C.C." (R39).
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INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN HIATT (JR).
Will book 3, p. 266, Winchester, Frederick Co., Va.:
A True and Perfect Inventory of the Appraisement of the Personal Estate of John Hiett late of Frederick County Dec'd, being brought to our view by Margaret Hiett executrix this 15th day of January 1765 We being first sworn as the Law directs..etc.
TO: POUNDS - SHILLINGS - PENCE
Wearing apparel 4 6 0
1 Black Horse and Saddle 9 0 0
1 Sorrell Horse 6 0 0
1 Small old Mare and Colt and Bell 1 0 0
1 Old small Mare and Bell 2 5 0
8 Cows 1 Bell 2 Heifers 4 Yearlings 4 Calves 28 0 0
21 Heads of small sheep 5 0 0
A Plow and Iron Traces and Collars 1 3 0
1 Old Wagon and Gears 9 0 0
4 Raw Hides 0 14 0
4 Old Tubbs 0 5 0
3 Old pails and churn 0 4 0
4 Wooden Trays 6 Trenchers and strainer 0 3 0
1 Brass Kittle 0 6 0
4 Old potts Hook and Rack 1 15 0
4 Pewther Dishes 7 Plates2 Basons 1 Quart I Pint
6 Tin Cups 2 Tin Basons six Spoons 1 Tin Kittle 1 11 0
2 Old Riffell Gunns I smooth Do. 3 0 0
Some Earthen Ware 0 3 0
4 Bottles 0 2 0
2 Old spinning wheels 0 15 0
6 Knives 6 forks 0 3 0
Some leather 3 0 0
1Old Feather Bed and Furniture 3 0 0
1 Old Do and 2 old chaff Do 3 10 0
8 Old Baggs and some Flax seed 0 15 0
1 Old Chist 2 old Boxes and 1 Trunk 0 10 0
TO: POUNDS - SHILLINGS - PENCE
Sundry carpenter tools 1 0 0
Some shoemaker tools candlestick 2 boxes 0 8 6
1 Dough Trough 0 1 6
2 Broad Axes 1 ads 3 narrow Axes 1 Han saw 0 19 0
1 Cross Cut saw and square 1 10 0
Sundry old Irons 0 10 0
3 Old Hacketts 0 15 0
1 Looking Glass Box Iron & Heathers 0 7 6
4 Old small Belles 0 4 0
A Drinking Glass and Some Earthen ware 0 2 0
Sundry Old Books 0 15 0
2 Iron Cleveces and Links 0 5 0
1 Frying Pan and Fire Tongs 0 7 0
1 Pair small shears 2 pair small Sicessors 0 2 0
2 Raszor one hone penknife and Inkholder 0 3 0
1 Great Wheel and saddle Baggs 0 10 6
1 Side saddle 2 10 0
Some home spun cloth 3 4 0
2 Old Chairs 1 Howel 2 plains 0 5 0
2 Pitchforks 6 old hooks 0 6 0
1 Small grinstone 0 2 6
A weavers Loom and Geers 1 0 0
A Iron Tooth Harrow 0 10 0
A Barr shear J Colter (?). 0 15 0
4 Old Weeding Hoes 0 2 0
1 Spade two Iron Clevises and Branding Iron 0 8 0
1 Grid Iron 1 Hair seive 1 Raying Seeve 1 Riddle 0 6 6
25 Spools 0 3 6
1 Iron Skillet Cotton Cards and Sheep Sheers 0 3 0
1 Old cagg 1 pigging 1 reel and cheese fatt 0 6 0
1 Old Whip saw 0 11 3
2 Old Grubing Hoes and sprouting Hoe 0 6 0
About 50 lb(?). swingled Flax 1 5 0
Some Cotton Yarn 0 6 0
Spair Trousers and Round shave 0 3 0
Total 112 11 9
Appraised by us the Subscribers
Joseph Edwards Jun'r
Edward Thomas
Alexander Frier
At a Court held for Frederick County the 2 day of April 1765.
This Appraisement of John Hiatt's Estate was Returned and ordered to be Recorded.
By the Court. Ja. Keith. C. C.
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Will Book 3, p. 400, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia:
Hiatt's Estate Account - 1765
DR. The Estate of John Hiatt dec'd. to Margaret Hiatt Executrix.
TO: POUNDS - SHILLINGS - PENCE
Paid Doct'r. Briscoe by obligation & etc. 14 40
Paid John Arnold by obligation & etc. 8 0 0
Paid Edward Dodd for a Coffin 1 5 0
Paid Joseph Humphreys for Digging his Grave 0 5 0
Paid John Grantom per account Proved 0 6 0
Paid Joseph Grantom by account Proved 0 3 6
3 Appraisers 1 Day appraising the Estate 0 9 0
1 (-- ?). Note for Recording Greens
Deeds 150 to Tobacco 8/4 0 12 6
Sundry Sums paid and Expended by Sundry persons
by the Said Executrix for Sundries Towards the
support of the said Decedents children agreeable to
the Decedents Will and etc., as by the account proved
by the Executrix 36 0 2
1766
Quit Rents paid the Collector 1 17 0
Paid William Burnes by obligation 7 5 9
John Scott by account Proved 0 4 0
Paid in his Lordship's office as per account 9 0 0
My Commission for Paying and Receiving @ 5% 11 15 8/4
Copy 1 will 3/4. Recording Appraisement 8/4 0 11 8
Balance Due the Estate 235 14 9
CONTRA………………………………….CR
BY:
The appraisement of the Said Estate 112 11 9
Cash at his Death 12 0 0
Cash received from Bethell Pugh 0 10 0
Cash received from John Stonebridge 0 6 0
Cash received from Doct'r John Briscoe 0 7 0
Cash received from William Burnes 110 0 0
235 14 9
I have Examined the above Account and find it to be Just and True as it now Stands Stated 7th May 1767
James Wood
SECOND GENERATION: JOHN HIATT, JR.
At a court Continued and held for Frederick County May 7th 1767.
This Account Current of the Estate of John Hiatt Deceased was Returned into Court and being Examined and Approved of by the Court is ordered to be Recorded.
By the Court
Ja. Keith, C. C. (R39).
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John Hiatt in his will, 1764, names wife Margaret, and the following children (in this order).: George - "eldest son", John, William, Joseph. Catherine Harrel, Mary Edwards, Ann Harris, Margaret Craven, Evan, Jonathan, James, Timothy, Martha Hiatt, Ruth Hiatt, and Sarah Hiatt -- fifteen children in all. A Deed in record in Winchester, Frederick Co., Va. (Deed Book 12, p.646)., shows that by 4April 1767 Margaret, widow of John Hiatt, had married to James Largent of Hampshire Co., Va.
The will of James Largent was dated 14 May 1810, and proven 19 April 1813, at Romney, the county seat of Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va.) He names wife Margery; son John -- land conveyed by Enoch and Henry Enoch and James Slone or Slane --; daughter Mary Slane (husband, Hugh)., note of James Slane given her, returned to him; daughter Margrate. Exec., son, John, and friend John Hiet. Sec., George Sharp and Francis White. Wit., Francis, Robert N., and Sam P. White. (R41). (This John Hiet is a grandson of John and Margaret Hiatt -- editor.)
Mr. Roger Avery Stubbs, of Long Lake, Minnesota, is a great-great-great-grandson of the above Margaret Largent, daughter of James and Margaret. He is compiling data on the Largents. There are several intermarriages between the Largents and the Hiatts. We are much indebted to Mr. Stubbs for interesting and valuable Hiatt-Largent data.
In 1942 Mr. Stubbs wrote: "….I just received a pack of old genealogical data -- musty and dusty -- which I just returned to W. Va. after spending four hours copying it. Mostly Largent data but much of interest to you." (R42). This new data discloses that John and Margaret Hiatt had posthumous child, a daughter Phebe. Mr. Stubbs continues: "Phebe Hiett was daughter of John and Margaret Hiett but as she is not mentioned in will must have been born after he died or at least after he made the will." In speaking of Margaret, wife of John Hiatt, he writes: "Margaret, supposedly Stephens, married first to - Edwards, and had three children: Thomas; Nancy, married Hugh McIver. (Moved to greenbrier river - had four children - Indians killed Hugh, captured Nancy -- for years -- she escaped but the children remained with Indians always.) ; a daughter, married first --- Dier, second --- Craven, third Lenahan. Margaret (Stephens?). Edwards married secondly to John Hiett of Jefferson (Co., Va., now W. Va. -editor.) - he had three sons and four daughters. Right order of sons: Evan, married Sarah Smith and had five sons and six daughters; James, married -- Pugh, and moved to Marietta (Washington Co., Ohio -- editor.) ; Timothy, died single. Right order of daughters birth: a daughter, married first --Frier, second to -- Shirley; a dau. m. David Caudry; a dau. m. -- Pugh; Phebe m. John Slane. Margaret married thirdly to James Largent, and had: John, married Sarah Critton; Mary, married Hugh Slane; and Margaret, married James Slane. There is an old pioneers story in these papers about old John Hiett (above). - Scouts brot news that there was a body of Indians coming toward the fort on Capon and Hiett gathered up his family and started in the night. He took the quinzy and died that winter…family and started in the night. He took the quinzy and died that winter…etc." (R42). A note following the above record of the marriage of Phebe Hiatt to John Slane states: "and a grandson (I do not know his name). wrote this up." (R42).
In a subsequent letter, Mr. Stubbs writes:"I do not know the author of the statement about John Hietts quinzy. The story was on a yellowed large sheet apparently taken from an account Book as page 217-8 was printed in the upper corner. It was in the papers of the estate of …Lewis Largent (b. 1838; and who is written up in Miller and Maxwell's West Virginia and Its People, II, 376 (pub.1913)." (R42).
The foregoing account of the children of Margaret (Stephens?). by each of her three husbands, since written by a grandson of John and Phebe (Hiatt). Slane -and thus a great-grandson of John and Margaret Hiatt -- is, of extreme interest and value. There is no doubt but what it is authentic and reliable, and there is further assurance from the fact that Lewis Largent, among whose papers these data were found was himself a great-grandson of Margaret through her third husband James Largent. Lewis Largent (b. 1838). was a son of Joseph and Mary (Largent). Largent, and a grandson of Lewis and --- (Parish). Largent, and, through his mother, a grandson of John and Sarah (Critton). Largent. The paternal great-grandfather of Lewis Largent was John Largent, who is said to have come from France to Virginia in 1737. The maternal great-grandfather was the James Largent who married Margaret (Stephens?). (Edwards). Hiatt, widow of John Hiatt, James being a son of John Largent, the immigrant. It is a tradition in another branch of the Largent family that their ancestor, James Largent, married first to Margaret Stephans, and secondly to --- Hiett. (R42). From a careful study of the records, however, it appears that James Largent was married but once, the mother of his three children being Margaret (Stephens?). (Edwards). (Hiatt). Largent.
Not the slightest clue has been found to date regarding the first wife of John Hiatt, Jr. -- not even her given name is known. John Hiatt and his first wife were married around 1720, presumably in Bucks Co., Pa.; she died about 1746 in Frederick Co., Va. It was about the year 1747 that John Hiatt, Jr., married to Margaret (Stephens?). Edwards. There were eight children by each wife. Nearly thrity years elapsed between the two marriages, and it will be noticed that each of his eight children by his first wife received but five shillings each in his will of 1764. Margaret's eight Hiatt children were minors in 1764, the youngest, Phebe, probably posthumous, being born late in 1764 or early in 1765. John Hiatt, Jr., was nearly seventy years of age at this time, practically a great-grandfather, the age of his wife, Margaret, was near forty.
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JOHN HIATT, JR. (1.):
b. c1696(?)., England(?).; d. between 26 October and 4 December 1764, in Frederick co., Va. (now Jefferson Co., W. Va.) ; came with his parents c1699 to Bucks Co., Pa., was in Lancaster Co., Pa., 1733; removed in 1733/4 to vicinity of Hopewell Friends' Meeting in what later became Frederick Co., Virginia; was one of Alexander Ross' seventy families which settled on a large tract of land in the Shenandoah Valley; removed in 1756/7 to vicinity of New Garden Friends' Meeting in what was then Rowan (now Guilford). Co., North Carolina; returned to Virginia c1760 and settled in Hampshire Co., returned to Frederick Co. in 1764, a few months before his death; m.(1st). c1720, prob. In Bucks Co., Pa.; name and parentage of wife unknown; she was b. c1701 (?)., place unknown; d. c1746, Frederick Co., Va., John Hiatt, Jr. m. (2nd). c1747, in Frederick Co., Va., to MARGARET (STEPHENS?). EDWARDS, a widow with children; her parentage unknown; she was b. c1725, place unknown; d. post1810, in Hampshire co., Virginia, where she had resided since the death of John Hiatt. (She m. (3rd). c1765 to James Largent of Hampshire Co., Virginia.)
CH: (By first wife.) (In approximate order of birth.): (5.) George; (6.) John; (7.) Catherine; (8.) Mary; (9.) Ann; (10.) Joseph; (11.) William; (12.) Margaret.
(By second wife, Margaret).: (13.) Evan; (14.) James; (15.) Sarah; (16.) Ruth; (17.) Jonathan;
(18.) Martha; (19.) Timothy; (20.) Phebe.
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John Hiatt, Jr., like his father, was not an active member of the Quaker Meeting, but many of his children were members of Hopewell Meeting in Virginia and various meetings in North Carolina. His son Evan became a minister at Hopewell. The sixteen children of John Hiatt, Jr., will each be discussed in detail in a subsequent chapter.
Found in HH book, by William Perry Johnson, for following story see Edwards book, by Lela Lillian Lones, page 36.
John Hiatt Jr. died between 6 Oct. and 4 Dec 1764, the dates his will was written and probated. An old pioneer story in a paper stated, "Scouts brot news that there was a body of Indians coming toward the fort on Capon and Hiatt gathered his family and started in the night. He took Quinsy and died that winter."
John Hiatt, Jr.'s Will left five shillings to each of his first wife's eight children. Teh balance of the estate provided for his second wife and her seven children, who were minors. An eighth child is believed to have been born after the Will was written. For names of Children, see pg. 60 of Hiatt-Hiett Genealogy and Family History 1699-1949 by William Perry Johnson.
An invoice and appraisment were made 11 May 1772 for David Edwards (son of Joseph Edwards?) Etc., see under Joseph Edwards.
Sent by Clifford Hardin from the Ancestors and Family of J. Alvin Hardin by Dorothy Hardin Massey and Clifford Hardin 1986.
John Hiatt, Jr. first appears on the records of Lancaster County, Penn on 25 April 1733 when he received warrant number 5 to 200 acres of land situated on Beaver Creek. He apparently did not comply with the conditions of the
warrant, for the land declared vacant and regranted in 1744. George Hiatt also held land in Lancaster County which he sold before moving to Frederick County, Maryland where he was associated with Pipes Creek Meeting. All three Hiatt brothers eventually were living near Hopewell in Frederick County, Vir. Even thought John Jr. and George owned land in Lancaster County in Penn. It appears that their real base of operations was in the Elk County area prior to the move southward.
About 1733 seventy families settled in what became Frederick County, Vir and they founded Hopewell Meeting. Thirty-six patents have been found for thirty-four of these families. All patents were dated 12 Nov 1735. John Hiatt Jr. was granted 300 acres. He purchased 200 acres more in 1738. The Hiatt's settled at the head of a branch of Opeckon Creek near the present day village of Middleway, north east of Winchester. This location was in Orange County, Vir. in 1734, Frederick County in 1738, Berkeley County in 1772, Jefferson County in 1801. Today Berkeley and Jefferson Counties still exist but they are part of West Viriginia. The Hiatt's remained there about twenty years.
John Hiatt's Jr. first wife died about 1746. She was the mother of eight of John Jr.'s sixteen children. About 1747 John Jr. married young widow Margaret Edwards. She had three children by her first marriage. One of these daughter, and her family were captured by Indians in Greenbrier County, Vir. The husband was killed and the mother escaped but the children remained with the Indians.
In 1757 the Hiatt's moved to Rowan (now Guilford) County, North Carolina, although John Jr. did not sell the land in Vir. He bought 640 acres on the south fork of Deep River and built a mill. This land fell in Guilford County
when it was formed in 1772. Some maps show Hiatt Creek flowing into Deep River.
In 1760 John Jr. deeded this land to three sons by his first wife, Joseph, George and John and retured to Vir. This time he settled in Hampshire County on a plantation of 659 acres purchased from his son, George.
Shortly before his death, John Hiatt Jr. returned to Frederick County, Vir. His sixteenth child was born posthumously. His oldest child would have been forty-two years of age when John died.
A story found by R. A. Stubbs which has been recorded by one of John Jr.'s grandsons said that scouts brought news that Indians were approaching the fort on Capon (Cacapon River) John Jr. took his family to the fort in the night. John took quinsey and died that winter 1764.
John Hiatt left a will naming all of his children except Phebe who was born after his death. It was dated 3 Jan 1764 and probated 4 Dec 1764.
Margaret Hiatt later married James Largent and had three more children a total of fourteen by three husbands.
Also found in Iowa Gen. Historical Society Surname Index, Vol. I, pg. 132: Hiatt/Hiett, John Jr. b. 1696 EN. D. 1764 VA. M. 1747 2 Margaret Stevens Edwards. Code M50
Hopewell Friends History (1734-1934) page 20 Sent by Darlene Peterson
Note by Tanya, I'm not sure which of the John Hiatt's this belongs to.
John Hiatt Jr., 300 Acres. No further information of certain character concerning this man appear, though various persons by the name of Hiatt (Hiett) were in the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent sections at later periods. At Hopwell, February 4, 1748, Ja. MaGrew and Jno. Hiatt were appointed to enquire into Richd. Merchant's claims to a certificate of removal to North Carolina or elsewhere. This John Hiatt was probably the John Hiatt Jr. of 1735. On February 28, 1782, Samuel Brockman Jr., Richard C. Webb and William Thomas returned to the Orange County court an appraisement of the personal estate of John Hiatt, deceased. In 1795 Jonathan Hiatt and wife, Mary, with others, of Fayette County, Ky. sold land on Terry's Run in Orange County, Va. It is not known rather these Hiatt's of later Orange were connected with the Hiatt's of the Valley.
West Virginia Advocate by Dr. Wilmer Kerns 15 Feb 1990, page 18
John Hiett Jr. purchased land at North River Mills and lived there for a brief period during the early 1750's. Hiett's Run, a tributary of North River, still bears his name.
One of his sons, George Hiett, settled on adjoining property. George helped develop the Great Wagon Road, which led from his North River farm to Jospeh Edward's property along the Cacapon River. George fled to North
Carolina during the Indian war and did not return to Hampshire County.
From a paper found in the book that was given me by Annis Bales: (Larry Anderson)
Submitten by: Dulcia Grm, Coolidge, Kansas
To: Mayme L. Bales, Linneus, Missouri
--- HISTORY OF THE QUAKER CHURCHES OF PENNSYLVANIA ---
Middleton Mo. Mtg., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Entry 166, page 196. 1880:
"For three years, meetings were held in the homes of WIlliam BILES, Nicholas WELN, John OTTER and Robert HALL."
See page 30 [of HH book, Vol. I WPJ, 1950]
Falls Mo. Mtg., Bucks, Co., Pennsylvania, 1680. Entry 162, page 193:
--- "Still an other burial place of this Meeting is the Watson Graveyard. This was laid out prior to 1700 by John ROWLAND, on 5 square perches of teh 300 acres of land patent to him by William Penn in 1683. Although the small burial ground was on Rowland's land, it was near the land and home of Thomas WATSON. It is supposed that this was the reason the burial ground was called Watson Graveyard. In 1700, John ROWLAND disposed of his grant of 300 acres to John HIETT, with the exception of the Graveyard which had been fenced in prior to 1700. In 1703-4, the Graveyard was deeded by John ROWLAND to Edmond LOVETT, William ATKINSON and Nehemiah BLACKSHAW (or Black Shaw), trustees of Falls Mo. Mtg. Willaim ATKINSON, the surviving trustee in 1745-46, transferred this declaration of trust to Joseph WHARTON, Joseph ATKINSON, Edmond LOVETT, Jr., and Thomas Watson, newly appointed trustees."Came to Bucks County, PA, in 1699 with his parents, John and Mary Smith Hiatt
Children with Margaret (Stephens?) Edwards are Evan, James, Sarah, Ruth, Jonathan, Martha, Timothy and PhebeJohn Hiatt or Hiett was Quaker before the death of Geo. Fox, founder of the Soc. of Friends; There was a John Hiatt taken prisoner in Somerset shore in 1683 or 1693 at the time the Quakers were being presecuted in England. This may be our John Hiatt. The record says he lived in the village of Shipton Mallet in 1699. He turned up in PA and bought 300 acres in Bucks Co. for 350 pounds. His deed is in the courthouse @ Doylestown, then county seat of Bucks Co., He was about 26 years old at the time. Mary was 22. They had 3 small sons. In 1706. There is a deed for land he purchased on the Delaware River that had originally belonged to William Penn. He was still living in 1745 at the age of 78. He is believed to have come to US with William Penn on his second voyage c. 1699.The records say he died between 26 Oct. and 4 Dec. 1764, in Frederick Co., Virginia (now, Jefferson Co., West Virginia.)
The Hiatt Book Volume I by William Perry Johnson and the Hiatt Family Organization of Utah does not give the name of the first wife, unknown at that time.
NOTE BY Don Hiatt, 1905 ME 108th St., Mithcellville, IA 50169 5 Feb 2006
I have some old letters (1840's) from Sen. Isaack (Haines) Hiatt - Elijahs second wife, my GG Grandmother, some letters from Davis Haines, her brother and southern sympathizer, also a Quaker Marriage certificate from Ridge Belmont Co., OH, signed by Elijah and his first wife, Anne Boswell, Nov 23 1825.
John Hiatt, Jr. came with his parents c1699 to Bucks Co., PA, now Jefferson Co., WVA, was in Lancaster Co., PA in 1733. Moved in 1733/34 to the vicinity of Hopwell Friends Meeting house in what later became Frederick Co., VA. Was one of Alexander Ross's seventy families which settled on a large tract of land in the Shenandoah Valley, removed in 1756/57 to vicinity of New Garden Friends Meeting in what was then Rowen Co., (now Guilford Co.) NC, returned to Virginia c1760 and settled in Hampshire Co. Returned to Fredrick Co. in 1764 a few months before his death.
John Hiatt married his second wife c1764 in Fredrick Co., VA, Margaret (Stevens) Edwards, a widow with children, her parentage is unknown. She was born 1725, place unknown. Died post 1810 in Hampshire Co., VAa where she had resided since the death of John Hiatt, Jr.
JOHN HIETT JR.
JOHN HIATT'S EARLY LIFE WITH THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA
John Hiatt Jr. was born in England in 1696. He came to America with his Quaker parents, John Hiatt and Mary Smith, when he was three years old. They settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania along the Delaware River where he grew up. His youth must have been a combination of the joys of roaming the verdant hillsides and bubbling streams that flowed into the Delaware River. It was necessary for him to labor with his parents and brothers for their food, shelter and clothing. Their clothes were made from sheeps wool and the flax which they grew. Their parents had brought the flax seed with them when they came from England. Flax from which linen is made has come down from the dawn of history.
John Hiatt Jr. and his two brothers, George and William grew up in the vicinity of Chester, New Castle and Philadelphia which cities were located along the Delaware River. Philadelphia was lauded by Gabriel Thomas in 1698 as "This Magnificent City". So this was probably the port in which they landed in 1699. As they grew up they could have witnessed the endless procession of merchant vessels docked along the wharfs at Market Street, bringing settlers from Europe. So many emigrants entered the American colonies at this point that Market Street has been called "the most historic highway in America".
MARRIAGE TO RACHEL WILSON
John Hiatt Jr. married Rachel Wilson in 1720. Rachel was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1701. They raised eight children here in Pennsylvania. The children of John and Rachel are: George, John, William, (my line) Joseph, Catherine, Mary, Ann, Margaret. The first three or four children were born while still living here in Pennsylvania.
Their home here in Pennsylvania yielded an abundance of everything as was described by a Pennsylvania Quaker in a letter to his sister in Ireland in the year 1725.
This country yields Extraordinary Increase of all sorts of Grain Likewise-- above 80 bushels Increase so that it is as Plentiful a Country as any Can be if people will be Industrious. Wheat is 4 Shills a bushel, Rye 2s 9d, oats 2.3 pence, barley 3 Shills, Indian corn 2 Shills. Beef, mutton and pork is each 2 1/2 pence a pound. Turnips 12 pence a bushel. This country abounds in fruit, Scarce an house but has an Apple, Peach & cherry orchard. Chestnuts, Walnuts, & hazel nuts, Strawberries, Billberys & Mulberrys grow wild in the woods and fields in vast Quantities.
There is 2 fairs yearly & 2 markets weekly in Philadelphia also 2 fairs yearly in Chester & likewise in New Castle, but they sell no Cattle nor horses no living Creatures, but altogether Merchant's goods as hatts, Linnen & woolen Cloth, handkerchiefs, knives, Scizars, tapes & treds buckels, Ribonds & all Sorts of necessarys fit for our wooden Country & here all young men and women that want wives or husbands may be Supplyed. 19 p.35
Laid out in orderly squares, unlike earlier Jamestown in Virginia or Boston in Massachusetts, Philadelphia was well on its way to becoming the "green country town" to which William Penn had aspired when he designed it.
Philadelphia in these years shone as a beacon of hope to many more immigrants, now the Scotch-Irish. Along the wharfs at Market Street docked an endless procession of merchant vessels, bringing settlers from Europe. There the emigrant Benjamin Franklin had arrived from Boston on Sunday morning in 1723, while most of the town was at church.
During the first century of colonial life, settlers everywhere lived within a few miles of the seacoast or a river, for they still depended on England for many things they needed.
The trip to England usually took about two months. The fare was only about seventy-five dollars, but the traveler had to take with him all his own food and his bedding. He had to cook his own meals. The fare paid for nothing but the space in the ship.
Even the trade between one colony and another was by boat; for example, between New England and New York, or between Philadelphia and Virginia. From New England to Barbadoes, in the West Indies, was a month's journey.
Sailing was still dangerous. There were only four light-houses on the whole eastern coast, and the charts showing sharp rocks or shallow water were far from perfect. More-over, there were many pirates on all the seas, especially around the West Indies. When they seized a ship, they would sail it to some near-by port and sell all its goods. They would probably kill the sailors.
ENTER THE SCOTCH-IRISH
The Quakers were for many years the wealthiest and most powerful of any of the settlers in Pennsylvania. When Scotch-Irish and German settlers began to pour into Philadelphia after 1730, they found the Quakers in possession of the best lands and the highest political offices. Along Philadelphia's Front and Market streets, a coterie of Quaker merchants dominated the colony's trade.
This dominance was disturbed when a mad rush of Scotsmen wanted to leave Ulster. (Ireland) The Irish landowners, had introduced a bill in the Irish Parliament in 1735 to restrict emigration. As a result, hundreds of families rushed to board ships the next spring before the threatened cutoff occurred. A thousand migrant families crowded into dockside Belfast early in 1736, pleading for passage to America.
Because of Pennsylvania's reputation for religious toleration, most of the Ulster Scotts made their way to ports along the Delaware River where the Hiatt family had lived. Besides Philadelphia, these cities were principally Lewes and New-Castle, which stood on the western bank of the Delaware in the southern part of Pennsylvania which later became Delaware. All three towns had Presbyterian congregations, and they received the emigrants with open arms, offering them help and a friendly roof until they could begin their trek westward.
The Quaker people in Pennsylvania became excited when the feisty Scotch-Irish people continued to emigrate onto land around them. Pennsylvania's growth drove up land prices. A Pennsylvania Quaker, Robert Park, described the boom to his sister in Ireland in 1725 this way:
Land is of all Prices Even from ten Pounds, to one hundred Pounds a hundred [acres] according to the goodness or else the situation thereof, & Grows dearer every year by Reason of Vast Quantities of People that come here yearly from Several Parts of the world, therefore thee & thy family or any that I wish well I wood desire to make what Speed you can to come here the sooner the better.
GERMAN AND SWISS IMMIGRATION
Much as the Scotch-Irish, the Germans contributed to the frontier's growth. However, the Quaker settlers continued to resent this intrusion. William Penn's son wrote to Secretary James Logan in Pennsylvania in 1729, recommending that the Pennsylvania Assembly pass a law prohibiting further immigration. They promised to have King George II uphold it. However, the Germanic people also became too enmeshed in the growing fabric of colonial life to be halted. Throughout the 1730s, transplanted Swiss and Germans continued to pour into Philadelphia, spreading hence along the growing Appalachian frontier.19 p.29
THE JOHN HIATT FAMILY MOVE TO VIRGINIA
John and Rachael Hiatt and their family were among the Quakers who no longer could accept the continued influx of all the immigrants. They moved south and west to new lands away from these people who seemed to be crowding them out.
The three Hiatt brothers, John Jr., George, and William began to move. John moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania which had recently been created from Chester County one of its three original counties created in 1682. Bucks and Philadelphia were the other two counties. John and Rachael did not stay long in Lancaster County but moved on across the Virginia border to Orange County which later became Frederick County where the main body of Quakers had settled. John, Rachel, and their three children settled at the Quaker settlement of Hopewell Meetinghouse. Their third child, William (my line) was just a baby when they moved. John's brother George Hiatt stayed for a few years in Bucks County then moved to Maryland and then to Virginia and finally settled in North Carolina. William settled in Lancaster County but soon followed his brother John to Virginia.
The family loaded their horses and wagons with the family's goods, and started southwest over the Warrior's path, later called the Great Wagon Road toward the cheaper lands in Virginia. Crossing the Potomac River by Williams' or Watkins' Ferry, near the later site of Williamsport, they followed the narrow footpath along the Shenandoah River.
As early as 1734 the Great Wagon Road was cited on a survey as "...the Wagon Road that goes from Conestogo to Opecklin..." This was the road which brought the first settlers from Pennsylvania to the area popularly known as "the Opecklin," which meant the basin of the Opequon Creek. The Conestogo was a region in southeastern Pennsylvania, named after an Indian tribe and the river, where the famous Conestogo wagon was developed by the Pennsylvania Germans.
BEGINNINGS OF HOPEWELL MEETINGHOUSE COMMUNITY
"In their thriftiness they soon created a large community near the Opequon Creek, built houses of logs, set up saw mills and grist mills and had brought about a condition of orderly living, such as Friends have always established in every new wilderness into which they migrated.
"The terrain was wild and entirely uncultivated; houses had to be built of logs after clearings were made for them. But the new Land, "The Promised Land" as it were, was beautiful. Can anyone doubt that their spirits were uplifted when they reached their new homeland, which they had traveled long days to find, and that their first thought would have been to assemble together in praise and thanksgiving to God? We do not know what families formed the very first Caravan; but we must assume that Alexander Ross led them into this wilderness of beauty and fertility; and we know that within two years some seventy families of Friends had settled themselves in that lovely valley.
Often these new western meetings had their beginnings when a single family, a group of brothers with their wives and children, or perhaps a group of congenial neighbors would leave the older settlements and plunge into the wilderness looking for new homes. Here and there little handfuls of them would be scattered along the frontier. Once settled in their new cabins and homes they started silent worship.
"It has been the custom of Friends, upon arrival in any new settlement, to immediately hold meetings, sometimes out of doors, but usually held in the house of a Friend, as soon as such a house could be built and made available. Friends, everywhere, had in early times little need of shelters in order to hold meetings; their meetings were usually held in silence. When two or more Friends might meet on the road or in a forest, they were almost certain to stop and hold a meeting if circumstances permitted. They could sit down together under the shade of a tree and 'going into silence' have the experience of feeling the Presence of 'God amongst them.
One has only to read over the names of the 'Fathers of the Colony', all of whom are well know to history, to realize the great strength of this remarkable community of Friends. They became one of the greatest strong-holds of the whole of America for the up-building of character. .
John Hiatt and George Hobson Sr. and Jr were among the the list of men who were classed the 'Fathers of the Colony.' I may insert here that this George Hobson may be the same man who later became the father-in-law to John Hiatt's son William. The name was spelled Hodson in the Quaker records but most likely he is the same man.
In a land grant dated 12 Nov 1735, John Hiet Junior of Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania received three hundred acres of land situated on the north bank of the Opeckon River in Shenandoah River Valley in Orange County, Virginia. The fee rent was one shilling a year due upon the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. Three acres of every fifty was to be cultivated and improved within three years. This was one of seventy similar grants issued the same day to settlers from Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Most of the settlers, but not all, were Quakers.
The deeds on record in Orange County Virginia, show that John Hiatt Jr. of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania bought 200 additional acres on 18 April 1737. It lay on the west side of Shenandoah River near the source of Opeckon Creek. The following year when Frederick County was formed, this land lay in that County. This was only seven miles from Hopewell Meetinghouse.
The Hiatt book indicate early land records in Virginia show that the Hietts settled originally near what is now the village of Middleway, in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Middleway is about 25 to 50 miles northeast of Winchester just across the Virginia and the West Virginia border.
In 1941 Mary Lois Smith, and her cousin, descendants of William, brother of John Hiatt Jr. visited Middleway. She wrote of her trip as follows.
This is only a village of twelve or fifteen houses sitting by the roadside as they have for a hundred years. Some are old log houses yet in use - some are brick or stone. It is very ancient, and is near the Opeckon Creek. We talked with Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs C.J. Shaul, his sister, who are descendants of Captain John Smith who laid out the town in 1794 - and then it was named Smithfield. Because of its location midway between so many towns on all sides, it came to have the name of Middleway." A nephew of Mr. Robert U. Smith and Mrs. Shaul descends from a daughter of John Hiatt Jr.; Col. Robert L. Bates, is at the Virginia Military Institute, and has worked extensively on the history of the families of Middleway community.
Alexander Ross (1682-1748), the leader of the colony of Valley Friends, secured a tract of 2373 acres of land lying six or seven miles northeast of Winchester. On this tract, near Ross's home, the first monthly meeting, Hopewell, was set up in 1734.
This, the oldest religious organization in Virginia west of the Blue Ridge, is still main-tained. The first meeting house was probably of log structure but in 1759 a stone building was erected, 44 feet from south to north, 33 feet from east to west. Founder Alexander Ross also built his home of stone and it still stands today a short distance south east down the slope near a large spring of water. 14 p.89
Friends attending Hopewell however in the early days had to carry their rifles as a defense against the wolves which occassionially chased them. They used them for the defense against the wolves and not the Indians since there was no hostility with the Indians. When they arrived at Hopewell they just stacked their rifles in the back corner.
Twenty miles to the east the Blue Ridge mountains undulate along the horizon. In between lie broad plains threaded with streams and dotted with prosperous farms indicating thrift and plenty. West from Hopewell lies Pumpkin Ridge. A mile and a half farther west, and parallel with it lies Apple Pie Ridge, famous for its orchards. The dense follage of the orchards obstruct the view of the Alleghanies though by looking southward a bit you may catch glimpses of some of the higher crests. Northeast from Hopewell considerable stretch of Little North Mountain may be seen which slopes toward the Potomac and hides the greater ranges of the Alleghanies.
ORGANIZATION OF TOWN OF WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA
Not long after the setting up of the Friends' meeting at Hopewell, in 1734, a small group of log cabins began to rise at Shawnee Spring, 7 miles southwest of Hopewell.
These cabins were the beginning of the town of Winchester, which occupies the site of a village or at least a favorite camping-ground of the Indians. In 1743 courts were organ-ized at Winchester for the new county of Frederick, the first regular courts west of Blue Ridge. The Quaker records at Hopewell anedated those at Winchester by nine or ten years. Unfortunately many of them were burned in 1759. Since then they are complete and valuable. The Friends have always been careful in keeping records, especially those of marriages.14 p.89
An early libel suit perhaps due to a religious difference was taken out by a Prebyterian Minister, William Williams, in the Shenandoah Valley dated 1734-1739 showed a large group of persons named as defendants. Some Hiatt names were among them. (Note different spellings.) Among the defendants were Peter Hyat, Jno. Hiatt, and Geo. Hyett. Peter Hyat probably was of the Maryland or Delaware Hiatts but Jno. Hiatt is possibly our John HIatt Jr. and Geo. Hyett may have been his son. This was from the Orange County, Virginia Order Book 1734-1739, page 331 under date of 22 June 1738. (Va.Hist. Mag., XXVIII,364)15 p.36
Hopewell and Center near Winchester are the only places in the Shenandoah Valley where the Friends hold meetings at this time (1955). Their membership, large in earlier years, as already indicated, was depleted by migration and disownments.
QUAKER MARRIAGE CUSTOMS
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of members in the old meetings were disowned, mostly for marrying out of unity--marrying persons not Friends, or for having a marriage ceremony performed by a "hireling" minister. The Friends make their marriage contracts by a ceremony conducted in their own way. A few members were also disowned for enrolling in the militia or for attending places of amusement; now and then one for evading payment of his debts. Such cases, however, were rare. Friends were generally to be thoroughly relied upon in their financial affairs. No one was given permission to move out of his community until a committee had investigated and approved the condition of his business relations. 14 p.94
Marriage customs and conditions were very strict in the Quaker faith. For a more in-depth study of disownments for marriage out of unity see Chapter Eight page 152. The following Quaker minutes show what couples had to do to obtain permission to marry. This couple happen to be John Hiatt Jr.'s brother, William and his wife, Alice.:
At our Monthly Meeting of Hopewell at Opeckon the fourth Day of the Second Month A.C. 1748: William Hiett and Alice Lowden appeared at this Meeting and declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage, this being the first time, this Meeting appoints James McGrew and Simeon Taylor to inquire into the said William Hiett's conversation and clearness in respect to marriage and what else may be needful to make report to the next Monthly Meeting accordingly... Next meeting.....At our Monthly Meeting of Hopewell at Opeckon 2nd day of 3rd month 1748: William Hiett and Alice Lowden appeared at this Meeting and declared their intention of taking each other in marriage, this being the second time the Friends appointed to inquire into the said William Hiett's conversation and clearness with others in respect to marriage, report that they find nothing to obstruct their proceeding. Therefore, this Meeting leaves them to their Liberty to consumate their said intentions when they meet, and this Meeting appoints James McGrew and Simeon Taylor -- to see that the marriage be decently accomplished and make report thereof to the next Monthly Meeting accordingly.
RACHEL DIES - JOHN MARRIES AGAIN
John and Rachel were content setting up their frontier home near Winchester. However their contentment was not to last long. John's wife, Rachel died in 1746. She was only 45 years of age and their youngest child Margaret was only ten years old. William (my line) was twelve. No doubt the rigors of pioneer life took a great toll. This was a big loss.
The children of John and Rachel are: George, John, William, Joseph, Catherine, Mary, Ann, Margaret. Most of the children were still at home and they needed a mother, and John Hiatt needed a companion. William, my line, was only twelve years of age at his mothers death.
The following year in 1747 he married Margaret Stephens Edward, a widow, who had children from her first marriage. The names of her children as well as ones born after their marriage are Evan, James, Sarah, Ruth, Jonathan, Martha, Timothy, and Phebe. After his marriage to Margaret, things began to get better again for the family. They acquired more land on which to support their family. They had been granted 240 acres by Lord Fairfax on the 28th of September 1755.
TROUBLE WITH INDIANS - FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
During the time of Quaker supremacy in Pennsylvania and for seventy years after the founding of the Colony, the Indians are said never to have taken a white man's life. The "Holy Experiment" was more success than failure. The Quakers gave up their power in Pennsylvania in 1756 rather than support by, taxes a war against their old friends, the Indians. Rather than fight they resigned their offices and handed over a government which they themselves had established.24 p.25
Up until now the Indians had been very friendly with the Quakers because they were treated very well by them. The war with the French changed this.
The French had claim to great tracts of land and was desirous to lay claim to more. They offered the Indians incentives like blankets, guns, etc. to help them gain their ends. Thus the Indians were in combat with the English settlers. George Washington was very active in military affairs to protect the settlers during the French and Indian War.
During the French and Indian War, when the Valley was frequently disturbed by incursions of the Indians, sometimes led by French officers, settlers were killed and carried off prisoners, many took refuge in forts and others fled eastward across the Blue Ridge, the Friends generally were not molested. Some were driven from their homes, but none were killed, and only one house was burned. Most of them, it appears, remained in their houses, without any special defense, while others around them were fleeing and seeking refuge. In January, 1758, William Reckett, a visiting Friend, was at Hopewell and several other places in the Valley. After the meeting at Hopewell he wrote:
"We lodged at Joseph Supton's, an ancient Friend, who with his wife was very loving to us. The Indians had killed and carried away several within a few miles of their habitation, yet they did not seem much afraid; for they said they did not so much as pull in the sneck-string of their door when they went to bed, and had neither lock nor bar."
Perhaps this instance is not typical--we can hardly believe that the Friends generally were equally indifferent to the dangers of the time, but they certainly did escape the atrocities that were suffered by others around them. Their immunity was no doubt due in part to the reputation that the Friends in Pennsylvania had for peace and fair dealing, and also to their won professions of friendship towards the Indians and their intentions to pay the red men for their lands in the Shenandoah Valley. A considerable sum of money was subscribed for this purpose, but apparently it was not paid over for the reason that it could not be determined definitely which tribe or tribes were best entitled to receive it. 14 p.96,
Although many of the Quakers did not experience trouble with the Indians at this time the Hiatts family did. John's wife, Margaret, had a daughter, Nancy, who was married to Hugh McIver. They had four children. The Indians killed Hugh and captured Nancy and her children. She escaped finally but the children remained as captives of the Indians.
In 1756 three bloody battles with the Indians took place. Indians killed and scalped almost 100 men in a regiment under the command of George Washington. Virginia appropriated $33,333 for the building of twenty-three forts. A tragedy at Fort Seybert took place April 28, 1758. There were survivors to return from captivity and relate the event. Fort Edwards was erected nearby.
FAMILY MOVES TO NORTH CAROLINA
In order to avoid the hostilities of this war many of the Quakers moved to North Carolina. John Hiatt was among this large exodus. Thus in 1756 he sold the 200 acres he had purchased in 1737 and moved to Rowan County, North Carolina. George Hiatt, his oldest son by his first wife went with them. William Hiatt, a younger son, from whom I descend had gone to North Carolina previously. We know that because he married Susannah Hobson 1754 in North Carolina.
John Hiatt Jr. and his second wife Margaret and their children settled 1756/57 in the fast-growing Quaker settlement at New Garden - which was at that time included in Rowan County, North Carolina, until the formation of Guilford County in 1770. In 1757 he purchased 632 acres of land on Deep River near the present town of Jamestown in Guilford County, North Carolina.-----
RETURN TO WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA
John Hiatt Jr. did not stay long in North Carolina. On 19 April 1760 he deeded these 632 acres to three of his sons, Joseph, George, and John and went back to Virginia that same year.
John Hiatt bought land from Lord Fairfax in Virginia. Lord Fairfax was a wealthy English gentleman who owned, it was said, almost a fifth of Virginia. He inherited the title from his father in England and the vast tract of land from his mother, a daughter of Lord Culpepper from England. He employed George Washington to survey his lands in the Shenandoah Valley.
DEATH OF JOHN HIATT JR.
A few months before his death, John Hiatt purchased 200 acres of land in Frederick County, Virginia and returned to Frederick County from Hampshire County, where he died. Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, Deed Book 10, p. 12 September 4, 1764 - John Hiatt from Thomas and Elizabeth Green; 200 acres of land, ying "on both sides of Opeckon"---"beginning at a Spanish White oak and two Hickorys in the line of Joseph Edwards". 15 p.38
John Hiatt Jr. died in the winter of 1764 and probably in the vicinity of Smithfield (now Middleway) in what was then Frederick County Virginia but is now Jefferson County, West Virginia. From the deeds he signed and from land mentioned in his will, it is ascertained that altogether John Hiatt Jr. possessed during his lifetime upwards of three thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina.
There were eight children by each wife with a lapse of twenty-six years between the two marriages and the youngest child Phebe was born after her father's death in late 1764. Margaret's eight Hiatt children were minors in 1764, at the time of his death. He was nearly seventy years old when he died and his wife, Margaret, was nearly forty. In his will the children by his first wife received but five shillings apiece. 15 p.45
The following story will explain how John Hiatt died. Evidently the Indian problem had not completely been solved. The situation is explained by a family tradition which has been brought down through the years. It was told by Margaret and John Hiatt's youngest daughter Phebe. This is the pioneer story about Old John Hiatt:
Scouts brought news that there was a body of Indians coming toward the fort on Capon and [John] Hiatt gathered up his family and started in the night. He took the quinzy and died that winter." Phepe Hiatt Slane's grandson wrote this story up.
This story was on a yellowed large sheet apparently taken from an account book as page 217-218 and was printed in the upper Corner. It was in the papers of the estate of - Lewis Largent who was born in 1838 and who is written up in "Miller and Maxwell's West Virginia and Its People II - page 376 published in 1913. 15 p.44
John Hiatt names his wife Margaret, in his will in 1764, and the following children (in this order): George, John, William, Joseph, Catherine Harrel, Mary Edwards, Ann Harris, Margaret Craven, Evan, Jonathan, James, Timothy, Martha Hiatt, Ruth Hiatt, and Sarah Hiatt --- fifteen children in all.
The last part of his will says:
Item. My will and desire is that my loving wife Margaret Hiatt have the tuition and bringing up of my son Evan Hiatt, my son Jonathan Hiatt, James Hiatt and my son Timothy Hiatt and my daughters Martha Hiatt, Ruth Hiatt, and Sarah Hiatt until they and each of them shall Respectively arrive to adge provided she continues in the station of a widow, and that she Expends my personal Estate toward the education and bring them up at her discretion during the continuance of her widowhood and that after my last named children shall arrive to adge, the Residue of my personal Estate be equally divided amongst them and I do hereby appoint my said loving wife Margaret Hiatt hole and sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of January one thousand seven hundred and sixty four.
The following inventory of John Hiatt Jr.'s estate at his death is very interesting. Notice the type of personal property he owned at that time. It shows that he was a farmer and planter and that he produced on his plantation much of his families needs. This was common to all families in those days. I will include only some items to show what type of things he owned.
INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN HIATT JR.
Will Book 3, p. 266, Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia.
TO:-----------------------------------------------POUNDS--SHILLINGS--PENCE
Wearing apparel-------------------------------4--------------6-----------------0
1 Black Horse and saddle--------------------9--------------0-----------------0
1 Sorrel Horse-1 small old Mare Colt Bell-------7--------------0-----------------0
8 Cows ,1 Bell, 2 Heffers, 4 Yearlins,--4 calves----28-----------0-----------------0
21 head of small sheep, Weavers loom and geers-----6---------------0-----------------0
Plow, Iron Traces and Collars, 1 side saddle --------3---------------13-----------------0
Old Waggon and Gears,-Iron tooth harrow,------9---------------10-----------------0
4 Old Tubbs--3 old pails and churn, Branding Iron-------0---------------17----------------0
4 pewther Dishes 7 plates 2 Basons 1 Quart 1 pint 6 tin cups 2 Tinn
Basons six Spoons 1 Tin Kittle-1 Frying pan and Tongs--1--------------18----------------0
2 old spinning wheels-Flax seed-50 lb. swindled Flax-----0--------------30----------------0
1 old Feather Bed and Furniture,home spun cloth--------6--------------4-----------------0
Some shoemaker Tools candlestic, 1 spade, Iron clevis-0---------------8-----------------6
1 Dough Trough, 1 side saddle,-Inkholder, Chist & trunk-0--------------14-------------0
2 Broad Axes 3 narrow Axes 1 saw--------0---------------27----------------0
Sicessors-Cotton yarn Cotton cards------0----------------5-----------------0
Families were self-sufficient in those days. They were able to grow everything on their land to support their own life.
Impliments such as pichforks, hoes, grubbing hoes, axes, plows, harrows were still used by my father as I was growing up in the 1940s. They were used for clearing land for a garden. The grubbing hoe would be used for grubbing up the roots of trees and shrubs before the land could be plowed and harrowed. The harrow was pulled along the ground by a team of horses to smooth out the ground making it ready for planting garden vegetables and fruit trees.
MARGARET HIATT'S REMARRIAGE
A Deed on record in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia (Deed Book 12, p.646), shows that by 4 April 1767 Margaret, widow of John Hiatt, had married James Largent of Hampshire County, Virginia.15 p.41
Mr. Roger Avery Stubbs, of Long Lake, Minnesota, is a great-great-great-grandson of the above Margaret Largent, daughter of James and Margaret. He is compiling data on the Largents. There are several intermarriages between the Largents and the Hiatts. We are much indebted to Mr. Stubbs for interesting and valuable Hiatt-Largent data.
In 1942, Mr. Stubbs wrote: "--- I just received a pack of old genealogical data -- musty and dusty-- which I just returned to West Virginia after spending four hours copying it. Mostly Largent data but much of interest to you." This new data discloses that John and Margaret Hiatt had a posthumous child, a daughter Phebe. Mr. Stubbs continues: "Phebe Hiett was daughter of John and Margaret Hiett but as she is not mentioned in will must have been born after he died or at least after he made the will." In speaking of Margaret, wife of John Hiatt, he writes: "Margaret, supposedly Stephens, married first to - Edwards, and had three children: Thomas; Nancy, married Hugh McIver. Moved to Greenbrier River - had four children - Indians killed Hugh, captured Nancy -- for years -- she escaped but the children remained with Indians always.; a daughter, married first -- Dier, second--Craven, third Lenahan. Margaret (Stephens) Edwards married secondly to John Hiett of Jefferson County, Virginia now West Virginia editor. 15 p.44
Hiett, John, son of John and Mary (Smith) Hiett, Sr., was born circa 1696 and died in 1764 in Frederick or Hampshire County, Va. His widow. Margaret, re married to one James Largent, according to Frederick County, Va. court record. It is believe that this James Largent was a brother of John Largent II (ca 1720-1807) of Hampshire County, Va.
Margaret STEPHENS
1st husband was Edwards, 3 husband James Largent according to Frederick
Co., Va. court records.
See HH book, volume I, pg. 65:
"There are several intermarriages between the HIATT and EDWARDS family. THe Thomas Edwards who married Mary HIATT may well have been son of the Margaret (Stephens?) Edwards who later married John HIATT, Jr., as his second wife. Also, iti s quite possible that the "daughter Margaret Craven" nameed in the will of John HIATT, Jr. is in reality his step daughter, a daughter of Margaret (Stephens?) Edwards."
Information from Patricia Caudy of Portland, Ore. presents that Margaret
Stevens "Post".
April 1991, letter from Dr. Wilmer Kerns disclosed that in his book "Historical Records of Old Frederick and Hampshire Co., Va." Margaret married a Mr. James Largent, born circa 1716, son of immigrant John Largent I, born abt 1690 -1738). Researchers and historians have confused him with a James Largent, who lived at the Forks of Capon, Hampshire Co.
According to church records, Kerns said, James Largent of the Forks of Capon was born Sept. 1, 1753, and his parents were John and Elizabeth Largent II (1720 - 1806). There is a great deal more concerning the Largent and
related families in the forementioned book by Dr. Kerns.
Letter from Michael H. Charles.
With reference to your newsletter request for information about Margaret Stephens, wife of John Hiett I, find the fllowing in my files.
Margaret Stephens was the daughter of Evan Stephens Jr., His wife's names is unknown, but he was the son of Evan Stephens Sr., born in Wales probably in the mid-1600's, came to Radnor, Pennsylvania, area about 1683. His wife's name was Elizabeth. He died 14 Aug 1706 in Pennsylvania. His issue: (at least)
1. John
2. Phebe
3. David
4. Stephen
5. Evan Jr., born about 1695
The sources quoted for this are are follows:
Hinshaw's Quaker Encyclopedia 2:448
Penn. Archives, Serices 3, 20:508
Now and Long Ago, page 301 form a chapter on Revolutionary soldiers buried in Marion Co., W. Va.
Early Settlement of Friends at New Garden, N.C.A Widow with Children.
Mr. Stephens and Margaret had children.
Jonathan HIATT
Has temple work done twice. Bap. 25 feb 1936 and End. 12 Apr 1949.
This Jonathan Hiatt died young, and should not be confused with another, who married Mary Connor in 1784.
(17.) JONATHAN HIATT (2.) (1.):
b. c1758, Rowan (now Guilford). Co., North Carolina; prob. died young.
He is named in his father's will in 1764, which is the last that he appears on the records. He is not to be confused with another Jonathan Hiatt of later Orange Co., Va., who m. 1784 to Mary Conor and removed to Kentucky.
Timothy HIATT
Sent by Clifford Hardin. Timothy drowned in Caqcapeon River. Unmarried.This county is now in West Virginia.
He has had temple work done twice. Bap. 25 Feb 1936 and End. 12 Apr 1949.
Timothy died unmarried. He drowned in the Cacapeon River, near Cacapeon Bridge, Virginia (now W. Virginia). "He had a violent fever and concluded to symbolize The Master and walk in the water, and drowned."
(19.) TIMOTHY HIATT (2.) (1.):
b. c1762, Hampshire Co.,Va. (now W. Va.) ; d. post 10 April 1781, Hampshire Co., Va. (now W. Va).; is said to have d. single. He was a witness, 10 April 1781, to the will of Joseph Edwards, Sr., of Hampshire Co.,Va. -- Timothy Hiett. He was drowned in Cacapeon River, near Cacapeon Bridge, Va. (now W. Va. "He had a violent fever and concluded to symbolize the Master and walk in the water, and was drowned."
Thomas AVERY
SENT FROM I JO SUSMMERS
Silas Kenworthy HIATT
(1662.) SILAS HIATT (607.) (150.) (22.) (3.) (1.):
b. 5-8mo-1823, Montgomery Co., Indiana; m. (1st). 1843, to ELIZABETH KASHNER; m. (2nd). 1848, to ELVIRA BOOHER; b. c1825, Tenn.
CH: (By second wife). (3556.) Eleanor; (3557.) Ira; (3558.) Elvira; (3559.) Clara; (3560.) Lydia R.; (3561.) Belle; (3562.) William.
1850 Census, Franklion Twp., Montgomery Co., Indiana: Silas Giatte, 26, Ind.; Elvira, 24, Tenn.; Eleanor, O, Ind.
Sent by I. Jo Summers and Marion Johnson.
Letter to I.Jo from Aunt Hazel Hiatt Anderson dated 4 June 1971.
Silas Kenworthy Hiatt's mother was a Kenworthy and the two families were among the very first white people to settle there in Indiana. I do not remember (if I ever knew) where they came from. Silas Hiatt was the first white baby boy to be born in what became Montgomery County later. Both familes were Quakers and early in life Silas married a young Quaker girl and had two children. The wife and born children died and I remember seeing their graves in what was then the Quaker Cem. east of town. Of course it is now Greelawn, later when he married my Grandmother, who was (not) a Quaker, he was put out of the church which was their custom at the time. I think he always resented this. He lived a year or two after Grandmother died. I do not know just when but it must have been about 1900. The house did not burn till some time after their deaths. They had a farm 2 or 3 miles southeast of Darlington and lived there until they were old and moved into Darlington. I have always understood that the Kenworthy family built the water mill which stood for more than a century near the covered bridge on Sugar Creek. It was destroyed about 20 or 25 years ago. I am not sure enough about it to state it as a fact about their building the mill.
Silas was the first male child born in Montgomery Co.
Crawfordsville's Centennial celebration and the impending Indiana Sesquicentennial have interested many people in their pioneer ancestry. The Montgomery History Society has a letter from Mrs. Nell Hiatt Talbert of Franklin, sister of Harry L. Hiatt of Darlington, regarding their family in the early history of this county.
The great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hiatt, settled in the early 1820's three and one half miles northeast of Crawfordsville, where their first Hoosier child was Silas, born on May 8, 1823. They believed him to be the first white male child born in Montgomery County.
His mother, Sarah Kenworthy Hiatt, was a practicing physician and preceded by a number of years the several women doctors in Crawfordsville. Her father, Elisha Kenworthy built the first grist mill on Sugar Creek just west of Darlington, according to Mrs. Talbert.
The Hiatt immigrant acnestor was John, who came from England in 1699 with William Penn on his second trip. The Hiatts were Quakers and fled to England to escape persecution. Harry Hiatt of Darlington and his sister, Mrs. Talbert
of Franklin, are grandchildren of Silas Hiatt. The Hiatts have lived continuously in the Darlington community.
From notes on page 60 by Marion Hiatt Johnson, her book, on John B. and Sarah Kenworthy Hiatt.
Of the five girls, I only remeber Aunt Eleanor and Aunt Belle. They both lived at Frankfort, Indiana. There was just one house between Aunt Belle's and Aunt Eleanor's house. In my young eyes of around 10 years old, I thought they
were real old. They both had leg trouble and didn't get out of the house much, so they both would sit on their upstair sunporches and talk back and forth across the way.
Taken from "History of Montgomery County 1881" Beckwith page 545 Silas Hiatt, farmer and stock raiser, Darlington, is the oldest person now living who was born in this county. His parents, John and Sarah (Kenworthy) Hiatt, were natives of North Carolina, where they were married (Ed. note - wrong) and removed at an early date to Ohio, from which state they came to Union township, Montgomery County, where the subject of this memoir was born 5 August 1823. His maternal great-grandfather came to America from London previous to the revolutionary war, and served throughout the whole campaign, his grandmother hiding the valuables in the soap barrel to prevent the soldiers from carrying them off. (Ed. note - We think this is unlikely since they were Quakers, but perhaps we are wrong. Even if they did not bare firearms, they could have furnished supplies, doctored the wounded and helped in many other ways. In the history of the Hiatt's it is stated, that the wounded of both armies were taken into the New Garden Meeting house and 127 William Hiatt's (3) wife, Charity (Williams) Hiatt baken bread for them). Story continues - During his youth the Indians were still in this part of the country and when quite a little fellow he can recollect of witnessing the exodus of the aborigines,
there being a body of over 300 horsemen, beside the other members of the tribe, all dressed in gorgeous style, and presenting a gay appearence.
He received his early education at the pioneer log school-house his tutor being Jedediah Bowles. Col. Clark was his companion, and sat on the same split pole bench. The education he recieved was very limited, having only att4ended
in all nine months, but during his after life, he has studied and improved himself greatly. He has followed farming since he reached his eight year and has just passed through his forty-third harvest.
He married, in 1843, Miss Elizabeth Kashner, whose father was one of the early settlers of this neighborhood. His first wife having died he, in 1848 married Miss Elzira Booher, whose parents arrived here about 1830. By the latter union there is a family of seven children. Mr. Hiatt now has a splendid farm of 100 acres, well improved and in general good shape, the result of his own industry and thrift. He is a member of the IOOF and trustee of the lodge, and in politics in connected with the republican party.
Silas sold his farm in 1898 to J. Corns. Elzira died in 1900 and Silas 5 months later in 1901.
Name: Silas Hiatt Age in 1860: 36 Birth Year: abt 1824 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1860: Franklin, Montgomery, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Darlington Value of real estate:
Household Members:
Name Age
Silas Hiatt 36
Elyira Hiatt 33
Ellener Hiatt 10
Ira Hiatt 9
Elvira Hiatt 7
Clary Hiatt 6
William Hiatt 4
Lidda Hiatt 2
Elvira BOOHER
D/o William M. Booher and Rhoda Hampton. See Booher Family History Bk.
Elzira Booher Hiatt and Elizabeth (Aunt Bet) Booher were full sisters. Their father William Booher was widowered and in 1840 married Silas Hiatt's Aunt Lydia Kenworthy Cox, who was also a widow. Then then had Rhoda Booher Tribbett, Martha Booher Bowers and Al (Uncle Al) Booher.
Elzira Booher Hiatt moved by wagon train with her family and a group of people who were seeking a new home in Indiana, from Tennessee when she was a young girl. She was a small woman and I remember her well. She was the usual pioneer farm wife and I remember my father saying she waited on her husband hand and foot. She also had a large loom in an upstairs room and she wove rag carpets and rugs for the entire country side. She was proud of the fact that in one day she wove 25 yards of rag carpet. She also had a spinning wheel which would be priceless if we had it now. In the same room I remember seeing hoops like women wore under hoop skirts. After they moved into Darlington she
and her Old main sister Betty Booher and her younger daughter Belle formed a dress making group. Belle married and my sister Ethel joined the group. Aunt Bettie Booher's house was the house in which Bert and Leota Saidla died. They
bought it after Bettie death. The sewing group lasted until a short time before my Grandmother's death.
Crawfordville Journal 11 -7-1900
Darlington, Grandmother Hiatt, wife of Silas Histt, died at 6:30 this morning, age 76 years. Elzira Booher came to this county in an early age and was known and respected for her many virtures. The funeral will occur Friday at the South Christian Chruch conducted by her pastor, Rev. A.L. West at 10 AM
Elisha HIATT
I would like to make it perfectly clear that this line is not proven as far as standards for good genealogy are concerned. I only include it hear as a means to establish what is known and to include this line in our work. It is, however, strongly suspected to be true, and has tradition, as well as some indiction to be the case. There is an Elisha named in an old history left to us in my familly that names this person as one of the brothers but no firm documentation has yet been located.
In one instance, this Elisha was suppose to have been visiting his Uncle, Thomas Hiatt in Ireland and assisting, perhaps, him in his move to the colonies, where they both were reported to have been about 1715 - Hopewell MM. Further, this Thomas Hiatt line was suppose to have had two grandsons in the 1790 census who were next to Elisha, a grandson of this Elisha and they being cousins. The other names were supposedly John and Thomas found in the Kentucky Census.
These lines are not well reported and supposed to comprise much of the unknown and unproven lines in S.C., Ky., Tenn., Georgia and other such southern states. It is fervently hoped that proof will soon be forthcoming, that wills, marriage bonds, church, service records, etc. will be available in order to afford the necessary breakthrough.
It also is interesting to notice many similiar names, places and events
which bond together John #37 in HH book and his descendents and those of these unproven lines.
Edgecomb County, NC Bibles HYATT
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Martha Marble
Delia HYATT Papers
Abstractedc by Martha Mewborn Marble
HYATT BIBLE
This is the actual bible and appears to be slightly differnt then the H. O. HYATT BIBLE foundat Heritage Place, Lenoir Co., Community College. The Hyatt family was not originally from Lenoir Co.
WIlmore's New Analytical Reference Bible; The Holy Bible; New York; J. A. Wilmore & Company
MISCELLENEOUS
Jesse Battle Hyatt was the son of Joab Hyatt and Mary Robbins his wife, who was born Nov. 9th 1787.
Joab HYATT was the son of Elisha Hyatt, Margaret Ann Shirley was the daughter of Geraldus Shirley who was born Nov. 1, 1806.
Margaret Ann Shirley was the son of Henry Shirley who was born May 1779 and Elizabeth Shirley who was born Dec. 9th 1791 and died Oct 15, 1867.
Henry Shirley died Oct. 13, 1854.
GRANDPARENTS
Jesse Battle Hyatt b. 1 July 1820 Edgecombe CCo., died 9 DCec 1886 Tarboro, NC. Margaret Ann Shirely born 1 Nov 1831, Edgecombe Co., dcied 31 Dec 1848, at Kinston.
Delia Maria Henry, born 20 Oct 1835, Waterbury, Vermont - died 8 March 1884, Kinston, married 17 Sep 1857.
PARENTS
Henry Otis Hyatt born 5 May 1848, Tarboro, NC, died Feb 24, 1922, Tarboro, NC hospital.
Sybil Henry Miller born 14 June 1856, La Crosse, WIS, died 4th Nov 1933 in Kindsotn, NC, married 15 Feb 1877 in Kinston, NC by Rev. E. A. Yates.
Children
Sybil b. 18 Dec 1877 Kinston, NC
Harriett b. 13 Nov 1878, Kinston, NC d. 14 Nov 1878, Kinston, NC
Henry Shirley b. 20 Oct 1879, Kinston, NC d. 12 Aug 1881, Kinston, NC
Delia b. 15 July 1882, Kinston, NC d. 29 March 1964
Anderson Laurence b. 5 March 1884, Kinston, NC
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