LSA Families and Individuals

Notes

Hannah Burger TEETER

Only gives in Daniel R. letter that Will is married.

Abraham Burger TEETER

These families have no dates of births, etc. so no order given for
children.  There also is a lot of assumptions and may not be in correct family structure. This will at least be a good start and if proven different later can be corrected.  This information came from Daniel R. Teeters letters of 6 and 20 Jun 1897 to his cousin Lizzie, dau. of his uncle Jacob B.
    Sent by Bonnie Pecora.  Abraham Teeter moved his family back and forth
between Iowa and Penn.  That is why some of them were born in Iowa and some in Penn.

Rebecca Ann ALFRED

D/o Hugh Alfrod and Martha Weller.  Sent by Bonnie Pecora.

William SHIELDS

Settled in Williamsburg, VA. A great Great Grand-daughter was the grandmother of the 10th president of the US, President Tyler. According to Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5116, William and his brother James were transported in 1655 for being loyal to the King. They were sent to Barbados. In 1658, they got on a boat to Williamsburg, Virginia. Subsequently settled in Maryland. John A. Shields says William settled at Williamsburg. There is little information on William, but considerable information on his descendants in the records of Bruton Chapel Church at Williamsburg.
Judge Littell reports William was a tavern keeper.
Some sources have said James and William came from Barbados to Virginia on a cattle boat. One source says it was a chattel boat--a slave ship. The same source says James and William came together to Williamsburg, but James did not remain, going to Baltimore before 1660 and then to Kent County. James later moved his family to New Castle County, Delaware. It was there that William married Jeanette Parker.
Three years later, Thomas Parker, Jeanette's father, who died in 1695, left property to James.
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The two brothers, William and James, were deported from Ireland to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 for being loyal to the Crown (King Charles I). In 1658, they obtained passage to Williamsburg, VA and soon after settled in MD.
Selected History of the Shields Family Dr. Martin L. Skubinna, Ph.D.The major Shields family in America is chiefly of Irish origin and can probably lay claim to having ancestry in Ireland dating back to the time of the initial Celtic Invasions --- sometime between 500 and 1000 B.C. As one member of the Shields family from Georgia expressed it, "we Sheilds' are Irish, nothing but Irish, and damn proud of it. There is no family any better, and very few as good."Irish OrginasThe original migrating generations of the Shields family to America appears to have een the sons of a family member who lived at the turn of the 17th century in County Atrim, Ireland. County Antrim is "on the shores of Lough Neagh", adjacent to Belfast, and the largest lake in the British Isles. William Shields, born at some time between 1590 and 1600, fathered four sons of whom we have record. He may well have fathered daughters as well, but we know only of the sons - as many genealogical records from this period often mention female offspring only in passing or omit them entirely. These were: William (born 1630); Daniel and John (born apparently in the early 1640's and presumed by other circumstances to have been significantly younger than the two older Shields sons).ExileThe two elder Shields offspring seem to have been involved in the roundups and deportation of young Irish men during the Commonwealth Period (1653-1659) under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Their principal offense was the fact that they were Irish. Accounts report the family was greatly harassed, and younger sons were kept in concealment for much of their youth. This suggests that, for whatever reasons, the Shield's were in particular disfavor with Cromwell and the "Roundheads."
Family historians and tradition hold that these two older Shields brothers, William and James, were both exiled while in their early twenties to Barbados in the West Indies. At this time, during the middle of 17th Century, Barbados was an important British trading center and had a greater European population than the entire North American mainland. How they survived their exile we do not know, but family history is agreed that within less than two years they managed to take passage via a slave ship to Virginia, arriving around 1655 at Middle Plantation, the site of present-day Williamsburg.
The Subsequent histories of these two SHIELDS brothers is extensively chronicled, chiefly in books by the late John Arthur Shields, the late John Edgar Shields, and other descendant members of the resultant family lines. Other accounts exist which connect these two Shields immigrants with the two younger sons of William 1600, the youngest of whom, John Shields (ca 1640), was the progenitor of the line which is the subject of this compilation. To treat with their careers and descent in a very summary manner:
William Shields (1630) A few years after the arrival of the two Shields brothers to Middle Plantation, James migrated northward to the port of Baltimore. He subsequently located in Kent Co, MD. William, meanwhile, remained in Wiliamsburg. William became the owner and operator of Shields Ordinary, a noted inn and tavern of the day. The tavern is noted occasionally in constabulary records, as one assumes for occasional breaches of the peace. Shields Tavern has been restored within the past two decades as one of Colonial Wiliamsburg's historical points of interest and informal dining establishments, and has become a popular stop on tours of the restoration.William became the progenitor of a lengthy family line. Later generations migrated elsewhere in Virginia, to the river settlements in North Carolina, and ultimately into Indiana Territory around 1800. Various genealogical works treat with the resultant lines, which, collectively, are sometimes referred to as "The Wiliamsburg line." Among prominent Americans in this branch of the family were President John Tyler, and William Tyler Page.
James Shields From a Malthusian standpoint, James Shields was probably responsible for a greater portion of the Shields family in America than any other member of an immigrant generation. His own descent is not fully known, but included a son, William, born in 1668 at Kent County, Maryland. He died in 1741, at Augusta, Virginia, while helping one of his sons build a cabin. This William Shields married Jeanette Parker and fathered five children; James "The Cordwainer" Shields, Jane Shields (did not marry), Thomas Shields, Eliza Shields (Hathaway), and John Shields (born in 1709). The three sons migrated to Augusta County, Virginia and became major landowners, farmers, surveyors, and shoemaker/leatherworkers (cordwainer) in the Beverly Manor portion of the huge Borden Tract which included among his children a Robert Shields (1740) who married Nancy Stockton. This family, which later migrated father south in present day Pigeon Forge, consisted of ten sons and a daughter. Known as the "family of the Ten Brothers," all lived to maturity and fathered what inmost instances were large families. Many of the Ten Brothers migrated to Indiana Territory about 1800. Among this group were David "Big Dave" Shields, a man of great strength and equally great compassion. In his later years he was active in the Underground Railway, helping slaves escape to freedom in the North. Another of the Ten Brothers was John Shields, official scout and gunsmith of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Ten Brothers family built Shields Fort on Middle Creek in Sevier County, Tennessee, at the foot of Shields Mountain.
Major William ShieldsWilliam Shields was the son of the John Shields who died on the Ocean voyage to America. He was born in County Armagh on July 14, 1728. Certain basic particulars of his early life and emigration to America were written in a family Bible presented to William Shields II, in January 1796 and subsequently given by him to his daughter, Jane Shields Hunter, and comprise a basic family history of this line.
A note of orthography is in order. The spelling of most English words did not become standardized in the language until the appearance of Noah Webster's first dictionary in the early 19th century. Both common and proper nouns, in particular, were spelled in widely variant ways. In William Shield's hand written will, he spells his own family name three different ways. In consequence, until roughly the mid nineteenth century, spelling variations in teh family name did not necessarily denote different family lines, but simply the inconsistancy which characterized much of the spelling during ealier periods.
The wording of the above Bible account suggest that William arrived in America by himself. But this does not appear to be the case. He was, indeed, an orphan hood was then defined - The loss of a father - but so were his sister(s) and brother(s) as well. The Bible account, written some 60 years after the event, was focused on William Shields, not the other memebers of his family. There is substantial record which strongly suggests that hismother, one or more sisters, as well as at least one, and probably several older brothers were also part of the immigrant party. There was a James SHields associated with William Shields during the early years of the American Revolution hwo clearly was not his son, James (although both sons, James and John did serve with their father), but was quite possibly his older brother. A second probable brother was named David, who married Nesbitt, and concerning whom a genealogical record exists which suggests a family connection with William.
Profession By profession, William Shields was a surveyor who, his role, if any, in helping William Emmit lay out his new town is lost in history. What we do know is that in 1787 he purchased 106 acres just to the west of William's new town, upon the northern tip of which he laid out what became known as Shield;s Addition to Emmitsburg.
With his wife, the Welsh widow Jane Williams Bentley, daughter of John Williams, William fathered eleven children over a 28 year period, all born at the family plantation south and west of the town of Emmittsburg. The area comprised what was in the mid eighteenth century the Appalachian frontier. During the French and Indian War period, it was an area not unknown to Indian raids -formented by the French - on the Frederick County settlers.
Revolutionary War ServiceBy the outbreak of the American Revolution, William's older sons had reached adulthood, and several (John and James to our certain knowledge, and possibly one or more others) served with him in the Frederick County Military Company which he organized and commanded as a Captain. His later Revolutionary career included service with the Continental Army as a Major in a regiment organized by a member of the prominent Maryland Goldsborough family.
Major Shields is believed to have participated in several important early engagements of hte Revolutionary War, most notably the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, Long Island on August 27th, 1776 and the Battle of White Plains, New York on October 28th, 1776. During these confrontations, his company served in the Continental Line under direct command of General George Washington during the period of his majority in the later stages of the war.
Death, Will and Estate
In the 1780's and 1790's, a number of William's children began to migrate to East Tennessee, where they joined a number of their cousins who were descended from James (1633), the Cromwell deportee. By 1797, the year of William's death at the age of 69, only the youngest few of his children appear still to have been at home.William's will and estate inventory, as well as Maryland land records in Annapolis, indicate a substantial and comfortable lifestyle that was exceptional on the frontier. His possessions included a number of books, chiefly religious and cartographic in nature, a copper still, many furnishings and personal possessions; and seven slaves, whom he bequeathed to his wife and older sons.
In a message dated 9/12/2011 7:59:47 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, rickrussell@att.net writes:
First name I notice is Stockton. W F. Stockton witnessed the marriage bond of my Davs Clinard.
I attached a file on the Clinards. Keep in mind it is not complte, and not all of it is confirmed, so it is not gospel. My line is noton it since I don't know yet where it is attaches.

Marriage Notes for William Shields and Miss -5015

Line in Record @F0066@ (MRIN 30239) from GEDCOM file not recognized:

William SHIELDS

Settled in Williamsburg, VA. A great Great Grand-daughter was the grandmother of the 10th president of the US, President Tyler. According to Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5116, William and his brother James were transported in 1655 for being loyal to the King. They were sent to Barbados. In 1658, they got on a boat to Williamsburg, Virginia. Subsequently settled in Maryland. John A. Shields says William settled at Williamsburg. There is little information on William, but considerable information on his descendants in the records of Bruton Chapel Church at Williamsburg.
Judge Littell reports William was a tavern keeper.
Some sources have said James and William came from Barbados to Virginia on a cattle boat. One source says it was a chattel boat--a slave ship. The same source says James and William came together to Williamsburg, but James did not remain, going to Baltimore before 1660 and then to Kent County. James later moved his family to New Castle County, Delaware. It was there that William married Jeanette Parker.
Three years later, Thomas Parker, Jeanette's father, who died in 1695, left property to James.
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The two brothers, William and James, were deported from Ireland to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 for being loyal to the Crown (King Charles I). In 1658, they obtained passage to Williamsburg, VA and soon after settled in MD.
Selected History of the Shields Family Dr. Martin L. Skubinna, Ph.D.The major Shields family in America is chiefly of Irish origin and can probably lay claim to having ancestry in Ireland dating back to the time of the initial Celtic Invasions --- sometime between 500 and 1000 B.C. As one member of the Shields family from Georgia expressed it, "we Sheilds' are Irish, nothing but Irish, and damn proud of it. There is no family any better, and very few as good."Irish OrginasThe original migrating generations of the Shields family to America appears to have een the sons of a family member who lived at the turn of the 17th century in County Atrim, Ireland. County Antrim is "on the shores of Lough Neagh", adjacent to Belfast, and the largest lake in the British Isles. William Shields, born at some time between 1590 and 1600, fathered four sons of whom we have record. He may well have fathered daughters as well, but we know only of the sons - as many genealogical records from this period often mention female offspring only in passing or omit them entirely. These were: William (born 1630); Daniel and John (born apparently in the early 1640's and presumed by other circumstances to have been significantly younger than the two older Shields sons).ExileThe two elder Shields offspring seem to have been involved in the roundups and deportation of young Irish men during the Commonwealth Period (1653-1659) under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Their principal offense was the fact that they were Irish. Accounts report the family was greatly harassed, and younger sons were kept in concealment for much of their youth. This suggests that, for whatever reasons, the Shield's were in particular disfavor with Cromwell and the "Roundheads."
Family historians and tradition hold that these two older Shields brothers, William and James, were both exiled while in their early twenties to Barbados in the West Indies. At this time, during the middle of 17th Century, Barbados was an important British trading center and had a greater European population than the entire North American mainland. How they survived their exile we do not know, but family history is agreed that within less than two years they managed to take passage via a slave ship to Virginia, arriving around 1655 at Middle Plantation, the site of present-day Williamsburg.
The Subsequent histories of these two SHIELDS brothers is extensively chronicled, chiefly in books by the late John Arthur Shields, the late John Edgar Shields, and other descendant members of the resultant family lines. Other accounts exist which connect these two Shields immigrants with the two younger sons of William 1600, the youngest of whom, John Shields (ca 1640), was the progenitor of the line which is the subject of this compilation. To treat with their careers and descent in a very summary manner:
William Shields (1630) A few years after the arrival of the two Shields brothers to Middle Plantation, James migrated northward to the port of Baltimore. He subsequently located in Kent Co, MD. William, meanwhile, remained in Wiliamsburg. William became the owner and operator of Shields Ordinary, a noted inn and tavern of the day. The tavern is noted occasionally in constabulary records, as one assumes for occasional breaches of the peace. Shields Tavern has been restored within the past two decades as one of Colonial Wiliamsburg's historical points of interest and informal dining establishments, and has become a popular stop on tours of the restoration.William became the progenitor of a lengthy family line. Later generations migrated elsewhere in Virginia, to the river settlements in North Carolina, and ultimately into Indiana Territory around 1800. Various genealogical works treat with the resultant lines, which, collectively, are sometimes referred to as "The Wiliamsburg line." Among prominent Americans in this branch of the family were President John Tyler, and William Tyler Page.
James Shields From a Malthusian standpoint, James Shields was probably responsible for a greater portion of the Shields family in America than any other member of an immigrant generation. His own descent is not fully known, but included a son, William, born in 1668 at Kent County, Maryland. He died in 1741, at Augusta, Virginia, while helping one of his sons build a cabin. This William Shields married Jeanette Parker and fathered five children; James "The Cordwainer" Shields, Jane Shields (did not marry), Thomas Shields, Eliza Shields (Hathaway), and John Shields (born in 1709). The three sons migrated to Augusta County, Virginia and became major landowners, farmers, surveyors, and shoemaker/leatherworkers (cordwainer) in the Beverly Manor portion of the huge Borden Tract which included among his children a Robert Shields (1740) who married Nancy Stockton. This family, which later migrated father south in present day Pigeon Forge, consisted of ten sons and a daughter. Known as the "family of the Ten Brothers," all lived to maturity and fathered what inmost instances were large families. Many of the Ten Brothers migrated to Indiana Territory about 1800. Among this group were David "Big Dave" Shields, a man of great strength and equally great compassion. In his later years he was active in the Underground Railway, helping slaves escape to freedom in the North. Another of the Ten Brothers was John Shields, official scout and gunsmith of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Ten Brothers family built Shields Fort on Middle Creek in Sevier County, Tennessee, at the foot of Shields Mountain.
Major William ShieldsWilliam Shields was the son of the John Shields who died on the Ocean voyage to America. He was born in County Armagh on July 14, 1728. Certain basic particulars of his early life and emigration to America were written in a family Bible presented to William Shields II, in January 1796 and subsequently given by him to his daughter, Jane Shields Hunter, and comprise a basic family history of this line.
A note of orthography is in order. The spelling of most English words did not become standardized in the language until the appearance of Noah Webster's first dictionary in the early 19th century. Both common and proper nouns, in particular, were spelled in widely variant ways. In William Shield's hand written will, he spells his own family name three different ways. In consequence, until roughly the mid nineteenth century, spelling variations in teh family name did not necessarily denote different family lines, but simply the inconsistancy which characterized much of the spelling during ealier periods.
The wording of the above Bible account suggest that William arrived in America by himself. But this does not appear to be the case. He was, indeed, an orphan hood was then defined - The loss of a father - but so were his sister(s) and brother(s) as well. The Bible account, written some 60 years after the event, was focused on William Shields, not the other memebers of his family. There is substantial record which strongly suggests that hismother, one or more sisters, as well as at least one, and probably several older brothers were also part of the immigrant party. There was a James SHields associated with William Shields during the early years of the American Revolution hwo clearly was not his son, James (although both sons, James and John did serve with their father), but was quite possibly his older brother. A second probable brother was named David, who married Nesbitt, and concerning whom a genealogical record exists which suggests a family connection with William.
Profession By profession, William Shields was a surveyor who, his role, if any, in helping William Emmit lay out his new town is lost in history. What we do know is that in 1787 he purchased 106 acres just to the west of William's new town, upon the northern tip of which he laid out what became known as Shield;s Addition to Emmitsburg.
With his wife, the Welsh widow Jane Williams Bentley, daughter of John Williams, William fathered eleven children over a 28 year period, all born at the family plantation south and west of the town of Emmittsburg. The area comprised what was in the mid eighteenth century the Appalachian frontier. During the French and Indian War period, it was an area not unknown to Indian raids -formented by the French - on the Frederick County settlers.
Revolutionary War ServiceBy the outbreak of the American Revolution, William's older sons had reached adulthood, and several (John and James to our certain knowledge, and possibly one or more others) served with him in the Frederick County Military Company which he organized and commanded as a Captain. His later Revolutionary career included service with the Continental Army as a Major in a regiment organized by a member of the prominent Maryland Goldsborough family.
Major Shields is believed to have participated in several important early engagements of hte Revolutionary War, most notably the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, Long Island on August 27th, 1776 and the Battle of White Plains, New York on October 28th, 1776. During these confrontations, his company served in the Continental Line under direct command of General George Washington during the period of his majority in the later stages of the war.
Death, Will and Estate
In the 1780's and 1790's, a number of William's children began to migrate to East Tennessee, where they joined a number of their cousins who were descended from James (1633), the Cromwell deportee. By 1797, the year of William's death at the age of 69, only the youngest few of his children appear still to have been at home.William's will and estate inventory, as well as Maryland land records in Annapolis, indicate a substantial and comfortable lifestyle that was exceptional on the frontier. His possessions included a number of books, chiefly religious and cartographic in nature, a copper still, many furnishings and personal possessions; and seven slaves, whom he bequeathed to his wife and older sons.
In a message dated 9/12/2011 7:59:47 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, rickrussell@att.net writes:
First name I notice is Stockton. W F. Stockton witnessed the marriage bond of my Davs Clinard.
I attached a file on the Clinards. Keep in mind it is not complte, and not all of it is confirmed, so it is not gospel. My line is noton it since I don't know yet where it is attaches.

Mary NORCOTT

John Edgar Shields: The second wife of William the immigrant was a widow, Mary Norcott-Mason, whom he married when he was 65 years of age. Mary, of English ancestry, had been born in 1668 and was thus 38 years younger than her second husband. She had three children by her first husband, Richard Mason, whom she had married in 1690: Ruth (b. 1691) and two other children who died young. Following Mary's marriage to William Shields the immigrant, she gave birth on April 16, 1696 to twins, a son named Delight and a daughter named Comfort. The daughter died unmarried. William the immigrant died in 1699. After William's death, his widow and her children moved to Accomac County, Virginia, where Delight Shields, William's son, married Jerusha Stalker of Kent County, Maryland, in l719. That same year their son John Shields was born; in 1747 he married Mary Chipman, a Mayflower descendant. John and Mary had three children, Abel (b. 1746), Reuben (b. 1750) and Elizabeth or Perusia (b. 1753).

Continuing from JES: To follow this selective line of descent a generation or two further, John's son Abel, born in Sussex County, Delaware, married Grace Freeman in 1773. At some time in the late 1770s or early 1780s, Abel's family settled in Rowan County, North Carolina on the Yadkin River. Many Quakers and Baptists from Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, including some of the Stalkers and Lewellings from Kent County and some of the Shields[es] from Rockingham County, emigrated to the so-called "Yadkin Settlements" between 1760 and 1780, seeking religious tolerance and relief from burdensome taxation. Also, at about this time, several Coffin families from Nantucket Island, Mass. settled in North Carolina. The most important Quaker-Baptist settlement was in western Guilford County, some 40 miles northeast of Rowan County, and evidently the Abel Shields family later moved there, as the deaths of both Abel and his wife, Grace, are recorded at Kemersville, N. C. He died May 7, 1833; she died May 20, 1830. They had nine children: John (b. 1775), Mary (b. 1776), Sarah (b. 1779), Elizabeth (b. 1781), Rachel, b. 1783), Ann (b. 1786), Reuben (b. 1788), Deborah (b. 1789) and Grace (b. 1793).

Marriage Notes for William Shields and Mary NORCOTT-5021

Line in Record @F0098@ (MRIN 30240) from GEDCOM file not recognized:

Comfort SHIELDS

Comfort died unmarried.

William SHIELDS

         THE DESCENDENTS OF ROBERT AND MARGARET EMMERT SHIELDS

                                  FORWARD:

    A great deal of information has been recorded about the American SHIELDS families, especially that of the FAMILY OF TEN BROTHERS, to which we belong.  This family has been firmly traced to Northern Ireland, ca. 1600 AD, with reasonable confirmation of descent to there from Spain, ca. 300 BC.  Our Irish immigrant arrived on American Soil in 1658, along with a brother.  Other members of the famly continued to trickle to America well into the 1700's.  The descendents of these immigrants have been documented from time to time.  The best known record of the TEN BROTHERS is by John Arthen SHIELDS, of Illinois, dated 1917.  This is generally available only in mimeographed form.  It is available at a few libraries, including the Lawson-McGhee Library, of Knoxville.  It is my intention to record here, as far as possible, the descendents of a member of the sixth generation from the 1658 Immigrant, a grandson of the father of the TEN BROTHERS, a son of Richard, one of those brothers.  I hope that this will serve as a foundation for the present and future generations to keep track of their heritage, which will make this a start of an on going endeavor.  As will be ovserved, the genes of this SHIELDS line have infiltrated those of many other families bearing the names of earlier, as well as later, immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, England, contries of continental Europe, and a few of Oriental origin.
    I wish to express my appreciation to all those who have shared in this compiliation of information, and in the collection of family photos.  I have listed many of these throughtout the text, but I know that some may have been over looked, and to these I aplogize.  Without this help, it would have been impossible to do what we have accomplished here.  Many of the descendents have apparently vanished into the conglomerate population of our nation.  Perhaps this publication will bring many of them from obscurity.  We could not print all of the photographs that we received, but I think that we have a good sample of many of the families represented herein.
    I will appreciate hearing from anyone who refers to these pages, especially of errors that may be found, for which I have to accept sole responsibility.  Errors have a way of creeping in during the many times data have to be copied before they can be printed.  Anyone with knowledge of related familes that are not included here are implored to correspond with me, so that future printings may be brought up to date.
    Our heritage from these rugged pioneers is one to be proud of, and it is our obligation to preserve it for our descendents.

by   A. Randolph SHIELDS
    128 Sunset Drive
    Maryville, TN  37801

1987
   There may have been other children but these three are the ones that made it to America.  James and William were exiled to the Barbados Islands, in the West Indies, during the Cromwell era, arriving there in 1655.  By 1658 the two brothers were on American soil.  The youngest son, John, left Ireland much later, in 1738.  He died at sea, but his family, with a 9 year old son, William, found their way to East Tennessee, settling in Greene and Washington Counties.  John Edgar Shields, cited above, is a descendent of this William.  In an address 28 August 1928 at reunion of Shields-Winslow family, John A. Shields of Seymore, Indiana said "at a comparatively early date" a branch of the Shields family moved from Ireland to Northern Ireland, settling in County Tyrone. William Shields was born in County Antrim.

Oliver Cromwell, fresh from victory in the civil war against King Charles I, set out to quell the Irish rebellion, which had been dragging on for more than 10 years. He arrived in Ireland in August 1649 with an army of 17,000. His objective was threefold: Elimination of all military resistance, removal of all priests and landowners who were in any way implicated in the rebellion and eradication of Roman Catholicism. Within eight months, most of the military opposition was crushed, and Cromwell returned to England to pursue the other two objectives.

In 1653, Parliament passed an act providing that all Irish natives, under penalty of death, were to move from wherever in Ireland to the wastes of Connacht. No Irish person was to be found east of the River Shannon after 1 May 1654. The vacated land and properties were assigned to Cromwellian soldiers and to persons in England who had financed the conquest of Ireland. Catholic priests were hunted down and killed or imprisoned.

As a provision of the articles of peace, Irish soldiers were allowed to enter the army of any power friendly to England, and many did. Exceptions to the resettlement order were allowed for certain artisans and laborers needed to tend the holdings of the new landowners. Many able-bodied citizens were deported . During the next several years, more than 30,000 young persons were shipped into slavery in the American colonies and the West Indies.

William and James Shields, sons of William Shields b. 1600, were transported to Barbados on charges of loyalty to Charles I. It is not known if they were sold into slavery or just banished. They arrived in Barbados about 1655 and in 1658 secured passage on a chattel (slave) ship bound for Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Born on the shores of Lough Neah, Antrim, Ireland.
Information from G. Ronald Hurd of Vienna, VA, and letter to Walter Davidson from Ila and Oliver Shields of Veneta, OR (1 May 1983).

Re: Descendent of Lettie Mae Shields Date: 1/25/2011 5:06:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time From: cassdjohnston@gmail.com
LarryAndy@aol.com

Ok, I'm reading everything you are sending and I'm not seeing anything to tie Lettie Mae to your Shields group. I'm looking some more. Now I'm trying to find out who else Thomas S Shield's father may be.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Cassie Johnston > wrote:
Ok, I have to sift through all of this information, lol. I'm just finally able to sit back down. Someone else provided me with the name Joshua Shields, but I cannot find any records to substantiate it. I'm hoping to figure this out. I know for a fact that Lettie Mae was the daughter of Willis Haile Shields. Willis Haile, according to multiple census reports is the son of Thomas S and Mary R. I've tracked Thomas S Shields and Mary R Atkinson's marraige records, but I cannot fine Thomas' father's name anywhere except in an e-mail from someone whom I do not know and has not replied. Do you by chance have any information on Thomas S Shields, with wife Mary R Atkinson, being the son of Joshua Shields?

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:36 PM, > wrote:
This was sent to me by Marge, redfordmi@msn.com
10/5/2007
Shields Family History
Emmetsburg Area Historical Society
Founded 1966
Selected History of the Shields Family
Dr. Martin L. Skubinna, Ph.D.
The major Shields family in America today is chiefly of Irish origin and can probably lay claim to having ancestry in Ireland dating back to the time of the initial Celtic invasions -- sometime between 500 and 1000 B.C. As one member of the Shields family from Georgia expressed it, "We Shields' are Irish, nothing but Irish, and damn proud of it. There is no family any better, and very few as good."
Irish OriginsThe original migrating generation of the Shields family to America appears to have been the sons of a family member who lived at the turn of the 17th century in County Antrim, Ireland. County Antrim is "on the shores of Lough Neagh," adjacent to Belfast, and the largest lake in the British Isles. William Shields, born at some time between 1590 and 1600, fathered four sons of whom we have record. He may well have fathered daughters as well, but we know only of the sons - as many genealogical records from this period often mention female offspring only in passing or omit them entirely. These were: William (born 1630); James (born 1633); Daniel and John (born apparently in the early 1640s and presumed by other circumstances to have been significantly younger than the two older Shields sons).
Exile
The two elder Shields offspring seem to have been involved in the roundups and deportation of young Irish men during the Commonwealth Period (1653-1659) under Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Their principal offense was the fact that they were Irish. Accounts report the family was greatly harassed, and younger sons were kept in concealment for much of their youth. This suggests that, for whatever reasons, the Shields' were in particular disfavor with Cromwell and the "Roundheads."
Family histories and tradition hold that these two older Shields brothers, William and James, were both exiled while in their early twenties to Barbados in the West Indies. At this time, during the middle 17th century, Barbados was an important British trading center and had a greater European population than the entire North American mainland. How they survived their exile we do not know, but family history is agreed that within less than two years they managed to take passage via a slave ship to Virginia, arriving around 1655 at Middle Plantation, the site of present-day Williamsburg.
The subsequent histories of these two Shields brothers is extensively chronicled, chiefly in books by the late John Arthur Shields, the late John Edgar Shields, and other descendant members of the resultant family lines. Other accounts exist which connect these two Shields immigrants with the two younger sons of William 1600, the youngest of whom, John Shields (ca. 1640), was the progenitor of the line which is the subject of this compilation. To treat with their careers and descent in a very summary manner:William Shields (1630)A few years after the arrival of the two Shields brothers to Middle Plantation, James migrated northward to the port of Baltimore. He subsequently located in Kent County, Maryland. William, meanwhile, remained in Williamsburg. William became the owner and operator of Shields Ordinary, a noted inn and tavern of the day. The tavern is noted occasionally in constabulary records, as one assumes for occasional breaches of the peace. Shields Tavern has been restored within the past two decades as one of Colonial Williamsburg's historical points of interest and informal dining establishments, and has become a popular stop on tours of the restoration.William became the progenitor of a lengthy family line. Later generations migrated elsewhere in Virginia, to the river settlements in North Carolina, and ultimately into Indiana Territory around 1800. Various genealogical works treat with the resultant lines which, collectively, are sometimes referred to as "the Williamsburg line." Among prominent Americans in this branch of the family were President John Tyler, and William Tyler Page.
James ShieldsFrom a Malthusian standpoint, James Shields was probably responsible for a greater portion of the Shields family in America than any other member of an immigrant generation. His own descent is not fully known, but included a son, William, born in 1668 at Kent County, Maryland. He died in 1741, at Augusta County, Virginia, while helping one of his sons build a cabin. This William Shields married Jeannette Parker and fathered five children: James "The Cordwainer" Shields, Jane Shields (did not marry), Thomas Shields, Eliza Shields (Hathaway), and John Shields (born in 1709). The three sons migrated to Augusta County, Virginia and became major landowners, farmers, surveyors, and shoemaker/leatherworkers (cordwainer) in the Beverly Manor portion of the huge Borden Tract which included much of the central Shenandoah Valley.John Shields, above, included among his children a Robert Shields (1740) who married Nancy Stockton. This family, which later migrated farther south in present-day Pigeon Forge, consisted of ten sons and a daughter. Known as the "family of the Ten Brothers," all lived to maturity and fathered what in most instances were large families. Many of the Ten Brothers migrated to Indiana Territory about 1800. Among this group were David "Big Dave" Shields, a man of great strength and equally great compassion. In his later years he was active in the Underground Railway, helping slaves escape to freedom in the North. Another of the Ten Brothers was John Shields, official scout and gunsmith of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Ten Brothers family built Shields Fort on Middle Creek in Sevier County, Tennessee, at the foot of Shields Mountain.
Major William Shields William Shields was the son of the John Shields who died on the ocean voyage to America. He was born in County Armagh on July 14, 1728. Certain basic particulars of his early life and emigration to America were handwritten in a family Bible presented to William Shields II in January 1796 and subsequently given by him to his daughter, Jane Shields Hunter, and comprise a basic family history of this line. A note about orthography is in order. The spelling of most English words did not become standardized in the language until the appearance of Noah Webster's first dictionary in the early 19th century. Both common and proper nouns, in particular, were spelled in widely variant ways. In William Shields' hand-written will, he spells his own family name three different ways. In consequence, until roughly the mid-nineteenth century, spelling variations in the family name did not necessary denote different family lines, but simply the inconsistency which characterized much spelling during earlier periods.The wording of the above Bible account suggests that William arrived in America by himself. But this does not appear to be the case. He was, indeed, an orphan as orphan hood was then defined - the loss of a father - but so were his sister(s) and brother(s) as well. The Bible account, written some 60 years after the event, was focused on William Shields, not the other members of his family. There is a substantial record which strongly suggests that his mother, one or more sisters, as well as at least one, and probably several older brothers were also part of the immigrant party. There was a James Shields associated with William Shields during the yearly years of the American Revolution who clearly was not his son James (although both sons James and John did serve with their father), but was quite possibly his older brother. A second probable brother was named David, who married a Nesbitt, and concerning whom a genealogical record exists which suggest a family connection with William.
ProfessionBy profession, William Shields was a surveyor who, his role, if any, in helping William Emmit lay out his new town is lost in history. What we do know is that in 1787 he purchased 106 acres just to the west of William’s new town, upon the northern tip of which he laid out what became know as Shield’s Addition to Emmitsburg.With his wife, the Welsh widow Jane Williams Bentley, daughter of John Williams , William fathered eleven children over a 28-year period, all born at the family plantation south and west of the town of Emmitsburg. The area comprised what was in the mid-eighteenth century the Appalachian frontier. During the French and Indian War period, it was an area not unknown to Indian raids - fomented by the French - on the Frederick County settlers.
Revolutionary War ServiceBy the outbreak of the American Revolution, William's older sons had reached adulthood, and several (John and James to our certain knowledge, and possible one or more others) served with him in the Frederick County Military Company which he organized and commanded as a Captain . His later Revolutionary career included service with the Continental Army as a Major in a regiment organized by a member of the prominent Maryland Goldsborough family.Major Shields is believed to have participated in several important early engagements of the Revolutionary War, most notably the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, Long Island on August 27, 1776 and the Battle of White Plains, New York on October 28, 1776. During these confrontations, his company served in the Continental Line under direct command of General George Washington during the period of his majority in the later stages of the war.Death, Will and EstateIn the 1780s and 1790s, a number of William's children began to migrate to East Tennessee, where they joined a number of their cousins who were descended from James (1633), the Cromwell deportee. By 1797, the year of William's death at age 69, only the youngest few of his children appear still to have been at home.
William's will and estate inventory, as well as Maryland land records in Annapolis, indicate a substantial and comfortable lifestyle that was exceptional on the frontier. His possessions included a number of books, chiefly religious and cartographic in nature, a copper still, many furnishings and personal possessions; and seven slaves, whom he bequeathed to his wife and older sons.
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Mordecai PRICE

S/o John Price and Rececca Merryman.  Sent by Isabel Jurinjak. Pierce City, Mo.  65723.   Gunpowder Rec. from Md. Gen. Soc.  Will Prob 16 Sept 1807.
   2nd Marriage Tabitha Tipton on 1 Jan 1772

   Doing research on the Price family is Isabel Jurinjak PO Box 4 Pierce City, Mo. 65723.  Also request of info from Ruth Price Burns, 1109 W 19th, Claremore, OK  74017   She wrote:  10-10-1995

 Found your name in the LDS Records. I am looking for information on Jesse Price, b. Dec 14, 1763 in MD and died about 1812 in NC.  I think he is my many times great grandfather.  I have his parents as Mordecai Price born 1731 and Mary HYATT born abt 1725 in MD.  I have no idea how or why Jesse went to NC but he ended up in Edgecombe Co.  If you have any knowledge at all that you are willing to share, I would love to hear from you.  Ruth Price Burns

Mary (Hyatt) HIATT

Found in The Winchester Journal-Herald, Saturday, December 28, 1946.  Randolph Co., Ind.  The History of the Hiatt Family.
   Gunpowder Rec. From Md. Gen. Soc. #148 The Price Fam. IGI

(21.)   MARY HIATT (3.)  (1.):

b. 28-4mo. - 1726 o. s., prob. Bucks Co., Pa.; d. prob. in Maryland; m. 1754, Gunpowder Mo. Mtg., Md., to MORDECAI PRICE, son of John Price; dates and locations of birth and death not known.

CH:  (137.)  Esther; (138.)  Ruth; (139.)  John; (140.)  Mary ; (141.)  Jesse; (142.)  Phebe; (143.)  Ann.

".…Mary Hiatt married Mordecai Price, their first intentions of marriage being 6th mo. 26th 1754 - Gunpowder Mo. Mtg., Maryland." (R44).

From the Quaker records in Baltimore:

Mordecai Price, son of John
Mary Hyatt
Ch:  Esther b.  11 - 28 - 1755
Ruth "     2 - 21 - 1758
John "     2 - 26 - 1760;  d. 6 - 23 - 1786, age 26 yrs. 5 mos. 2 days.
Mary "     5 -  2  - 1762
Jesse "   12 - 14 - 1763
Phebe "     1 - 12 - 1765
Ann "     2 - 27 - 1768

This family is given on the 1790 Census of Maryland.

John Iii HIATT

    Found in H-H BOOK, also found in IGI records of LDS Gen. Library in SLC.
    Marr date of 12 April 1744 given by Phyllis Slater of Bremond, Tx.  Ronald Coleman gives birth place as Bucks Co., Penn.
    Sent by Clifford Hardin.  John and Mary Hiatt were deeded land in Frederick County, Vir. by John Hiatt, his father, and by Enos Thomas, brother of Mary.  They removed to North Carolina in 1759.  There were deeded 248 acres by his father and step-mother on 19 April 1760 in the Deep River area of what became Guilford County.  They had eleven children between 1744 and 1770.

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,
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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.
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 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
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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
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John Hiatt d. 12-28-1790
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Mary Hiatt, widow John Hiatt, lately dec., d. 3 ---- 1791 ( R45).

(6.)   JOHN  HIATT  b. cl724, prob. Bucks Co., Pa.; d. 28-12mo. - 1790. Guilford Co.,
NC.; m.12-2mo. - 1744 at Hopewell Mo. Mtg., Va., to MARY THOMAS d/o Evan, Jr., and  Albenah  (Ross). Thomas; b. 30-11mo. - 1723, Philadelphia Co., Pa.; d. 3mo.1791, Guilford Co., NC..; removed on 1759 from Hopewell to Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., Orange (now Alamance). Co., NC.; in 1763 to New Garden Mo. Mtg., Rowan (later Guilford). Co., North Carolina; members of Deep River from its beginning (1778). until their deaths; John Hiatt was a farmer.

CH: (41.)  Evan; (42.)  John; (43.)  Enos; (44.)  Martha; (45.)  Joseph; (46.)  Rachel; (47.)  William; (48.)  Mary; (49.)  Ezekiel; 49.A.)  Elizabeth; (50.)  Ameriah.

The following item form the minutes of Hopewell Mo. Mtg., Va., refers to this John Hiatt: 4-2mo - 1748: Jas. McGrew, and Jno. Hiatt is appointed to enquire into Richard Merchants Conversation and what else may be needfull and necessary to prepare a Certificate accordingly, to North Carolina or elsewhere. (R48).

Mary THOMAS

    D/o Evan Thomas Jr. and Albenah Ross  Found in HH Book Vol 1.
    Sent by Phyllis Slater, Dr. Wm. Allee of Houston, Texas.  Ronald Coleman gives death date as May 1791.  Death date also given as March 1791.

William Sr. HIATT

    Sent by Connie Dabel, 6468 W 3935 So.,West Valley, Utah. Jan. 1989. See Hiatt Vol.1.
    Sent by Clifford Hardin.   William and Susanna Hodson Hiatt lived in the Deep River area of North Carolina until the late 1760's.  They then moved with several of their relatives and nieghbors to that part of Rowan County that became Surry County in 1770.  Here they were affiliated with Tom's Creek Preparative Meeting.  The latter was located about 5 miles south of the North Carolina-Virginia state line and what was then Grayson County, Vir. but now is Patrick County, Vir.  After Susanna's death in 1792, William moved to Grayson County, Vir.
  In the first decade of the 1800's, William Hiatt with many of his children and grandchildren settled in Ohio, and prior to 1830, was living in Henry County, Ind.  He was 100 years old when he died in Henry Co.
   See also the Index of Surnames, Vol I, pg. 132, by Iowa Gen. Historical Society.  Code M50.
   Sent by Ethel Hiatt.  William Hiatt lived first in the New Garden Quaker settlement in Rowan (now Guilford Co.,) Co., North Carolina.  He removed probably in the 1760's to that section of Rowan Co., which became Surry Co in
1770.  The family moved along with divers friends and relatives. All were early members of Tom's Creek preparing Mtg.  and the founders of Westfield MM.  Was located in Surry Co., NC very close to the Stokes Co., line.  It was only five miles south of the North Carolina-Virginia State Line, and what was then Grayson Co., Vir.  It is now Patrick Co., Vir.  Until Westfield MM was established in 1786, records of the members of Tom's Creek preparative MM were kept by New Garden MM in Guilford Co., N.C. Ne Garden MM was some forty or fifty miles southeast of Westfield.
   While living in N.C. William and Susannah had a large family.  Seven boys and five girls were added to the union.  Although William was only 48 years of age at the time of Susannah's death, no record has been found to show that he remarried, in which case he remained a widower for 52 years.
   William is included in the Tax lists in Surry Co., N.C 1784-1795.  He does not appear to have record his 300 acres on the Deed books of Surry Co., N.C.
   About 1795 William removed with his family from Surry N.C. to Grayson Vir.
   William removed prior to 1830 to Henry Co., Ind. which at that time was a veritable stronghold for the Quaker Hiatts and their center of population. Of the 72 families of Hiatt listed on the 1830 Census of Ind. 20 of these family resided within the bounds of Henry Co., William Hiatt, in 1830 was living with a grandson, William Hiatt Son of William, and his wife and three children.  He is the male listed as aged between 90 and 100.
  When he died about 1834, age 100, he left a little estate of unfinished business back in Grayson Co., Vir.  Grayson Co., Vir. will book 1,pg 445, Settlement of William Hiatt's Estate - 29th July 1834 - William Hiatt Jr. Dr. of the estate of William Hiatt Sr. one Rect in the hands of William Davis principal and interest.

Have two places of possible birth.  Orange Co. VA. and Frederick Co. No. Carolina.

                                                                                 FROM HIATT HISTORY Vol. I
Page 67

(11.)   WILLIAM HIATT (2.)  (1.):

B. c1734, Prob. In what was then Orange Co., Va. (now Jefferson Co., W. Va.): d. c1834, prob. in Henry Co., Indiana; m. 20-2mo-1754, Guilford Co., NC., to SUSANNA HODSON, dau of George and Mary (Thatcher). Hodson or Hodgson; b. c1735, Chester Co., Pa.; d. 8-9mo-1782, Surry Co., NC.

CH:  (76.)   Sarah; (77.)  John; (78.)  George; (79.)  Susannah; (80.)  Ann; (81.)  William; (82.)  Rachel; (83.)  Ruth; (84.)  Joseph; (85.)   Jacob; (86.)  Jesse; (87.)  Richard.

Following is a full copy of the marriage certificate of William Hiatt and Susanna Hodgson:
"Whereas: William son of John Hiatt of Roan county North Carolina, and Susanna Hodson, daughter of George Hodson of the same place, having declared their intention of marriage with each other before several monthly meetings of the people called Quakers at Cane Creek and New Garden in North Carolina, aforesaid and having consent of parents and parties concerned, their said proposal was allowed of by the meeting and they left at liberty to accomplish their said marriage according to good order, the which they did on the 20th day of 2nd Mo. 1754 in the presence of many witnesses, twelve of whose names are here inserted, to wit:
Mary Hodson George Hodson
Mary Mills John Hiatt
Martha Hiatt Robert Summer
Catharine Harrold William Hunt
Rachel Moon David Dillon
Catharine Hunt Thomas Thornburgh" (R45).
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Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., Orange (now Alamance). Co., NC.: 4-7mo.-1752 - William Hiatt received on certificate from Hopewell Mo. Mtg., Va., dated 2-7mo.-1751.

New Garden Mo. Mtg., Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.: 20-2mo.-1754 - William Hiatt, son of John, Rowan Co., m. Susanna Hodson. (R45).

William Hiatt lived first in the New Garden Quaker settlement in Rowan (now Guilford). Co.,NC., but probably in the 1760's removed to that section of Rowan Co. which became Surry Co. in 1770, along with divers friendsd and relatives, and all were early members of Tom's Creek Preparative Meeting and the founders of Westfield Mtg. Was located in Surry Co., NC., ver close to the Stones County line, and only five miles south of the North Carolina- Virginia State line and what was then Grayson co., Va., but is now Patrick Co., Va., Until Westfield Mo. Mtg. Was established in 1786, records of the members of Tom's Creek Preparative Mtg. Were kept by New Garden Mo. Mtg. In Guilford Co., NC., some forty or fifty miles souteast of Westfield.  So many families left North Carolina in the early 1800's (including most of the Hiatts). that the membership at Westfield Mtg. Dwindled rapidly, until finally in and about 1832 it was "laid down" and the remaining members to Deep Creel Mo. Mtg. In the southern section of Surry Co. which became Yadkin Co. around 1850.

1771 Tax List, Surry Co., NC.: William Hiott - 1 poll
1774 Tax List - Capt. Deatherage's District (Westfield section of what is now Stokes Co. and the Dan River section).- William Hiatt and John Hiatt, son, and George Hiatt, son - 3 polls.
1784 Tax List - Capt. Gaine's District - William Highott - 1 poll.
1785 Tax List - Capt. Gaine's District - William Hiett, Sr. - 1 poll.
1786 Tax List - Capt. Gain's District - William Highett, Sr.- 1 poll.
1789 Tax List - Capt. Gain's District - William Hiott - poll
1790 Cenus, Surry Co., NC. :William Hiett - 4 males over 16 years of age including Heads of Families  - 4 males under 16 years of age - 3 dfemales.
1790 Tax List - Capt. Lovill's District - William Hiett - 1 poll.
1791 Tax List - William Hiett - 1 poll.
1793 Tax List - William Hiott, Sr. - 300 acres.
1794 Tax List - William Hiett - 300 acres.
1795 Tax List - William Hiatt, Sr. - 300 acres. (R54).

William Hiatt, Sr., does not appear to have recorded his 300 acres on the Deed Books of Surry co., NC. About 1795 he removed from Surry co., NC. to Grayson Co., Va.

Deed Book 1, p. 294, Grayson Co., Va.: 25 march 1800 - David Reese of Grayson to William Hiett of Grayson - 80 acres - 25 poundsd - waters of Chestnut Creek a branch of New River - recorded March 1800.
Deed Bool 1, p. 445 - 6 of 3rd. mo 1802 - William Hiatt of Grayson to nathan Lundy pf Grayson - 80 acres - 30 pounds - on Chestnut Creek a branch of New River - Wit: Byrom Ballard, John Pickrell, Sarah Ballard - recorded March 1802. (R56).

That William Hiatt left Grayson Co., Va., in the early 1800's and settled in Ohio along with many of his children and grandchildren there can be no doubt.  Also, it is believed he removed prior to 1830 to Henry co., Indiana, which at that time was a veritable stronghod for the Quaker Hiatts and their center of population.  Of the seventy-two families of Hiatt listed on the 1830 Census of Indiana, twenty of these families resided within the bounds of Henry Coutny.  Willim Hiatt, in 1830, was living with a grandson, William Hiatt (son of William)., and his wife and three children and is the male listed as aged between 90 and 100.  When she
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died about 1834, aged 100, he left alittle estatre or unfinished business back in Grayson Co., Va.  Grayson Co., Va., Will Book 1, p. 445: Settlement of Wiliam Hiatt's Estate - 29th July 1834 - William Hiatt, jr. dr the estate of William Hiatt Ser one Rect in the hands of William Davis principal and Interests $135.00.  Jon Cook and Peter Stephens being appointed to settle with the said Hiatt find the above amount in his hands.  John Coock, Comm.  July Court 1834:  This Report and Settlement made with the administrator of William Hiatt Decd was returned and ordered to be recorded.  Test.  James Dickenson, C.C.  Persuant to an order of court to us directed we procede to settle with William Hiatt administrator of William Hiatt Decd:

Dr. to Bond Collectec $ 101.72
Cr. Commission on $ 101.71 @ 5%       5.08
Cost of  Administration                       1.25
Lawyers fee for advice and etc.                       5.00
Cr. Part of $ 90.39 Cents                    15.061/2
Paid William Davis (power of atty
to receive it).     55.00

    81.391/2

There appears to be in the hands of William Hiatt $20.321/2 due to the estate.
4 Septmeber 1834.
Jonathan Cook Comr.
Peter Stephens

Grayson County Court October term 1834.
This report and settlement made with the administrator of William Hiatt deceased was returned to court, and ordered to be recorded.
Teste.
James Anderson C. C. (R56).

In 1944 Iva (Hiatt). Allen wrote: "Speaking of our William Hiatt maybe being the one who died in Grayson Co., Va., in 1833/34.  I remember hearing my father's oldest sister - who was born in 1842 - saying her great-great-grandfather lived to be one hundred years old." (R590

New Garden Mo. Mtg., Rowan (now Guilford). co., NC.:
Page 23
William Hiatt
Susanna Hiatt d. 9-8-1782
Ch:  Sarah b.   3 - 17 - 1755
      John "    3 - 19 - 1756
     George "    6 -   4 - 1757
     Susanna "    8 - 14 - 1759
     Ann "    3 -   1 - 1761
     William "  11 - 28 - 1762
     Rachel "    5 -   4 - 1764
     Ruth "    5 - 31 - 1766
     Joseph "    6 - 15 - 1769; d. 4 - 10 - 1781
     Jacob "    3 - 27 - 1771
     Jesse "    4 ------  1773
     Richard "     1 -  5 - 1775

Westfield Mo. Mtg., Surry Co., NC.:  Page 19
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William Hiett
Susannah Hiett
Ch:  Sarah           b.    3 - 17 - 1755
John           "     3 - 19 - 1756
George           "     6 -   4 - 1757
Susannah           "     8 - 14 - 1759
Ann           "     3 -   1 - 1761
William           "   11 - 28 - 1762
Rachel           "     5 -   4 - 1764
Ruth           "     5 -   3 - 1766
Joseph           "     6 - 15 - 1769;  d. 4 - 10 - 1781
Jacob           "     3 - 27 - 1771
Jesse           "     3 - 17 - 1773
Richard           "     1 -   5 - 1775
Susannah Hiett, wife of William, d. 9 - 8 - 1782.

The minutes of the Quaker Meetings in Va. and North carolina to which William Hiatt belonged are silent as to his removals, etc., but both New Garden and Westfield Mo. Mtgs. Give their family records, as above. (R45).

In addition to appearing on the Surry Co., NC., Tax Lists as given on page 68, William Highott is also listed on the 1782 tax List of Surry Co., NC., with 3 horses or mules, and 10 cattle.  This was the year that William's wife, Susannah died.  Although he was but 48 years of age at that time, no record has been found to show that he remarried, in which case he remained a widower for 52 years.

In 1751 the Hodgsons removed from Pa. And settled in the Quaker community at New Gardem in rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.  There have been many intermarriages between the Hodson and Hiatt families beginning in 1750 and continuing to the present.  Through her maternal grandmother, who was Hanah Dicks, Susannah (Hodgson). Hiatt was a first cousin, once removed, to the Zachariah Dicks who married Ruth Hiatt, daughter of George and Martha (Wakefield). Hiatt.  Susannah's sister, Sarah Hodgson, married John Hiatt, son of George and Martha.  Through the Thatchers, Susannah was also a cousin to the Phebe Thatcher who married John Hiatt, son of John and Mary (Thomas). Hiatt.

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CHART SHOWING ANCESTRY OF SUSANNAH (HODGSON). HIATT

(GEORGE HODGSON
( b. 1701  England ( RICHARD THATCHER
( d. 1774, NC. (
SUSANNAH HODGSON JONATHAN   THATCHER
m. 1754, NC. ( m. 1729;  b. 1667 Eng.
WILLIAM HIATT, (Wilmington, Del.  d. 1750 (JANE STEVENS).
(  MARY THATCHER    Penna.
   b. Pa. ( (PETER DICKS - Immigrant
  d. NC. ( (
(NATHAN DICKS (NATHAN MADDOCK
b.  Eng. ( ( Immigrant
(  ESTHER MADDOCK
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(ALICE
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William is #11 in Hiatt-Hiett book of genealogy:
!John Hiatt and His Descendants by Jeanne Oliphant Guymon, pp. 135 to 148

The following material was taken from my book "John Hiatt And His Descendents" by Jeanne Oliphant Guymon which I put into the Salt Lake Library in 1992.

WILLIAM HIATT MOVES TO NORTH CAROLINA ALONG THE GREAT WAGON ROAD
  Many of the Quakers came into the "Hollows" between 1740 and 1760.  William was one of the first of his family to move into these Hollows in the year 1751.
  One group traveled down through what was known as the Piedmont area, settling in what would become Guilford County which is  where William Hiatt settled.  The other group came into the Hollows by the way of the Sauratown Mountains taking up lands along Big Creek, Tom's Creek and other streams north and west of Pilot Mountain.
  The road on which the greater part of the settlers came to the Carolinas was called the Great Wagon Road.  Historic records show that extensive emigration occurred between Orange (now Frederick County Virginia) and the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina during the middle of the 18th century.  One of the early land developers in Frederick County, Morgan Bryan (1691-1763), led a movement to Yadkin in 1748.
  Bryan previously came to Orange Ccunty, Virginia, (now Frederick) with the Quakers in 1730 where he and Alexander Ross set up the Quaker community of Hopewell Meetinghouse.  The main transportation route led through this community.  The road was generally called the Great Wagon Road to distinguish it from the Indian trail on which it was built.
  William L. Kerns says that a crude map bearing the date 1755, published in London, showed the course of the Great Wagon Road.  Generally speaking, the road commenced in Philadelphia and followed a westerly course through Lancaster and York.  At some point below Shipensburg (sic), it turned south which took it across the Potomac River into old Frederick County.  This section of the road was labeled "The Great Wagon Road to Philadelphia."
  He goes on to say that a companion survey map showed the path of The Great Wagon Road as it moved through the Shenandoah Valley, with the notation "Indian Road by the Treaty of Lancaster."  An extension of the same road, illustrated on a third map dated 1747, showed the road continuing up the valley until it crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Staunton River cuts through a mountain pass.  This map labeled it "The Great Road from the Yadkin River thru Virginia to Philadelphia (distance 455 miles)."
  A minister writing from Virginia, in 1756, reported that three hundred Virginians en route to North Carolina passed Bedford courthouse in one week, that between January and October of 1755 five thousand had crossed the James River bound for North Carolina, and that great numbers were following each day.  If the figures such observers cited were not always very accurate, at least they give some impression of the magnitude of the movement.
  The Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) did not interrupt the flow, which continued unabated in the 1760's.  In 1763, Benjamin Franklin estimated that ten thousand families, or forty thousand persons, had emigrated from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in the previous few years.  Other Southern colonies were also experiencing large increases but Governor Tryon was not far wrong when, in 1766, he boasted that his colony was being settled faster than any on the continent.  The rate of increase was greater only in Georgia, where much smaller increments sufficed to produce a greater rate of increase because of the smaller size of the total population involved.
  Many of the immigrants headed for the western part of the colony.  A newspaper report from Williamsburg, Virginia, described the effect of the uneven impact of the incoming waves of settlers:
  There is scarce any history, either ancient or modern, which affords an account of such a rapid and sudden increase of inhabitants in a back frontier country, as that of North Carolina.  To justify the truth of this observation, we need only to inform our readers, that twenty years ago there were not twenty taxable persons within the limits of the above mentioned County of Orange; in which there are now four thousand taxables.  The increase of inhabitants, and flourishing state of the other adjoining back counties, are no less surprising and astonishing.
  William and Carrie Carter in their book Footprints in the Hollows describe the Great Wagon Road this way.  The road began at Schuykill River ferry on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania - thense through York to Williams' Ferry on the Potomac where it entered the great valley of Virginia, passing through Winchester, Strasburg and Staunton, crossing the James River at present Buchanan and turning almost due south to the present site of Roanoke, thence eastward through Stauton Gap of the Blue Ridge, then southward crossing the Blackwater, Irvine and Dan Rivers on to Wachovia on the Yadkin River.  Here in the "Hollows" they came to make their homes, (far from the persecutions of the Old World and the exactions of the English government along the coasts), and to know freedom in its sweetest sense. 1 p.7
  The following Quaker document shows that William Hiatt  "was received" from Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia as a member in good standing  into the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Orange County, North Carolina on the 4th of July 1752, as indicated below.
Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange (now Alamance) County, North Carolina:  4th day-7th month-1752 - William Hiatt received on certificate from Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Virginia, dated 2nd day 7th month-1751.
  For a discussion about the significance of these Quaker "certificates of removal" turn to page 153.
  His sister Catherine Harrold and her husband, Jonathan came to North Carolina in 1751 also as shown in the following Quaker record.
Jonathan Harrold received on certificate from Hopewell Monthly Meeting Virginia, dated 2nd day 7th month 1751.
  The Hodsons, Mary and George Hodson, parents of the bride to be , and their family also came to North Carolina the same day in 1751 from Pennsylvania and settled in the New Garden Quaker community in Rowan County (now Guilford) in or near the present town of Greensboro.15 p.70 This leads us to believe that William came with the Hodson family when he was eighteen years of age.  Three years later he and Susannah Hodson were married.
  Regarding George and Mary (Thatcher) Hodson, parents of Susannah , wife of William who was son of John Hiatt Jr. the March 1989 Hiatt Newsletter, page 11 Nancy P. Speers tells about research done on the Hodson/Hodgson family.  She states that Robert Hodson, an officer in the King's army, left England for Ireland in 1701, and came to America in 1710.  His son George was born 6 Jan 1701 in England, and died in North Carolina in1774.  The father and the rest of the family died at sea of smallpox.  George and Mary Thatcher removed to North Carolina in 1750, according to her.  Children of George and Mary were:  John born 1731 who married Mary Mills, Sarah born 1733 married John Hiatt # 22 in Hiatt Book, Susannah born 1735 married William Hiatt, (my line), Robert born 1738 -married Rachel Mills, Joseph born 1740 - married Margaret Williams and George Jr. married Rachel Oldham.
MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM HIATT AND SUSANNAH HODSON
  The marriage of William Hiatt and  Susannah Hodson was a Quaker wedding. His father John Hiatt Jr. and sister, Catharine Harrold were both present at their marriage which took place on the 20th day-2nd month-1754 at Guilford County, North Carolina.  The first sentence of the marriage certificate below shows that John Hiatt, the father, was living in Rowan County, North Carolina at the time of the marriage.  Following is a full copy of the marriage certificate of William Hiatt and Susanna Hodson and witnesses of the marriage ceremony:
  Whereas:  William, son of John Hiatt of Roan County, North Carolina, and Susannah Hodson, daughter of George Hodson of the same place, having declared their intention of marriage with each other before several monthly meetings of the people called Quakers at Cane Creek and New Garden in North Carolina, aforesaid and having consent of parents and parties concerned, their said proposal was allowed of by the meeting and they were left at liberty to accomplish their said marriage according to good order, the which they did on the 20th day of 2nd month, 1754 in the presence of many witnesses, twelve of whose names are here inserted, to wit:
Mary HodsonGeorge HodsonRachel Moon
Mary MillsJohn HiattCatharine Hunt
Martha HiattRobert SumnerDavid Dillon
Catharine HarroldWilliam HuntThomas Thornburgh

  Notice that Mary and George Hodson, parents of the bride, signed as the witnesses of the marriage ceremony.  Martha Hiatt could be his step-sister who married Evan Hiatt, a step-brother of William.  Catharine Harrold is an older sister to the groom, William Hiatt.
  William and Susannah Hiatt lived first in the New Garden Quaker settlement in Rowan (now Guilford) County in North Carolina but probably in the 1760's they removed to that section of Rowan County which became Surry County in 1770, along with divers friends and relative, and all were early members of Tom's Creek Preparative Meeting and the founders of Westfield Monthly Meeting located five miles from the Virginia-North Carolina border which is now the present town of Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
  With high hopes for the future they set about constructing houses of logs and native stone and clearing lands for farming.  The forests and fields offered game in abundance while the streams were abounding in fish.  There was plenty of wild fruit in season and soon the vegetables would be appearing in the rich garden soil.  The few cattle they were able to bring into the region would soon become herds, and sheep would range the hillsides.
  Nature had provided iron ore along some of the streams and this they mined and forged into farm implements, - kettles, posts of various sizes, and many other needed commodities used in building such as hinges, latches, iron bars, andirons, horseshoes, and the crane which hung in every chimney.  One such mine was located on the Ararat, originally called the Tarrarat River, another on Tom's Creek near Pilot Mountain.
  Flax, the fiber used to make cloth, was grown on the farms.  Nearly every home contained flax wheels, set up on wooden looms, where skillful hands wove it into the cloth for clothing, bedding and table linens.  In the same way wool from the sheep was woven into clothing and blankets.  They commonly used wood to make basins, bowls, spoons, tubs etc., and the man with a whittling knife found a real welcome from the housewife.  After wood they started to use pewter for plates, cutlery, candlesticks and many other articles.  Then later on the traveling tinker found his way into various parts of the country, mending and selling kitchen wares.  1 p.9
  Later the houses were generally constructed with a great stone fireplace in the center of one wall where all the food would be cooked.  They added crude furniture of their own con-struction to the few pieces they were able to bring with them.  They used skins of animals for much of their clothing and for shoes.  Deer skin was preferred for hats and leggings.  The hides of large animals were tanned and made into harnesses, saddles, rugs and numerous  other articles;  bear skins were especially prized for use as rugs.  The cobbler's bench was a familiar object in many homes, with its wood moulds for shoes, ranging from a man's size to the tiny baby's mould which would fit into the hollow of a hand.
  Twelve children were born to William and Susanna. The names of their children were Sarah, born 17 March 1755; John, born 19 March 1756; George, born 4 June 1757; Susanna, born 14 August 1759; Ann, born 1 March 1761; William, born 28 November 1762; (my direct ancestor) Rachel, born 4 May 1764; Ruth, born 3 May 1766; Joseph, born 15 June 1769; Jacob, born 27 March 1771; Jesse, born 17 March 1773; and Richard born 5 January 1775.
  They lived on a 300 acre tract of land which must have been located near Mt. Airy, Surry County North Carolina.  The 1771 and 1774 Tax Lists locate William Hiatt Sr.in Captain Deatherage's District. In the 1782 Tax List of Surry County indicate that he owned 3 horses or mules, and ten cattle.- The 1784, 1785, 1786, 1789 Tax Lists  reveal he was  in Captain Gains District.  William Hiatt Sr. does not appear to have recorded his 300 acres on the Deed Books of Surry County, North Carolina.  About 1795 he removed from Surry County, North Carolina to Grayson County, Virginia (which is just across the Virginia border). 15 p.67,

WIFE AND MOTHER, SUSANNAH HODSON DIES
  William Hiatt suffered a great loss  in 1781 and  1782. On April 10th, 1781 their son Joseph died.  He was only twelve years of age.  Another great loss took place the following year when on 8 September 1782 his wife, Susannah died when she was 47 years of age.  Their youngest child was only seven years old.  Susannah was born in 1735 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  William, left a widower at 49 years of age, raised his large family by himself.  None of his children were married except Ruth though the older ones were of marrying age.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN NORTH CAROLINA
  The Revolutionary War had been raging since 1775.  The war was still going on in 1782 when Susanna died.  Since the Quakers did not believe in fighting they did not serve in the Revolutionary war.  But they greatly cherished their freedom.
  Money was badly needed to pay the soldiers who were fighting these battles.   The colonies were asked to pay a property tax to supply the food, clothing and ammunition for the soldiers who were fighting for the freedom of an emerging New Republic.
  The following two pages about the war in North Carolina was taken from The North Carolina Guide found in the Surry Community College library in Dobson eight miles from Mt. Airy, North Carolina.  It gives some background about the underlying causes of this war.
  From early colonial times, a marked distinction existed in Southern colonies between inhabitants of the coastal region and of what was known as the backwoods.
  It is easy to see why the independent and usually poor immigrants, whether Scotch-Irish or German, (or Quakers) did not linger on the coast where an aristocratic society had taken root.  Instead, they pushed on toward the interior, where land was comparatively free and living was simpler.
  The people in the coastal region were sometimes referred to as Tuckahoes, from their use of an edible plant grown in the coastal swamps.  The back-woodsmen were often called Cohees from their crude expression, "Quo(th) he" shortened to Quohe or Cohee.  The Tuskahoes were pleasure-loving, drank good wines, enjoyed considerable leisure, and were confident that they had a divine right to rule.  The Cohees, on the other hand, were passionately eager for freedom and willing to work long and hard, providing only that they be let alone to enjoy the fruits of their labor.  The Tuckahoes wanted slaves to do their heavy work; the Cohees disliked slavery, did their own work, and with thrift and perseverance often built up a considerable fortune.
  At the close of the Great War for Empire, [French and Indian War] in 1763 England was complete master of North America east of the Mississippi, but the mother country, faced with a national debt which had doubled as a result of the war, inaugurated a "New Colonial Policy", designed to tighten up on colonial administration and to raise additional revenues from the colonies by means of taxation.
  In 1764, William Tryon became the royal governor of North Carolina, a vain, ambitious man who was eager to become rich at the expense of his colony.  Having most of the appointive power, he named the justices of the courts that levied the taxes and also named the sheriffs who collected them.  Abuses of the most sordid kind were soon in evidence, and the backwoodsmen arose in masse, calling themselves Regulators.  Governor Tryon led his forces against the Regulators, and in the battle of Alamance, 1771, completely overpowered them.  This may well be called the first battle of the American Revolution, since the Regulators were fighting for justice, freedom, and representation in government.  The following ten years were marked by repeated instances of Appalachians rising on their own initiative to demand fair treatment, representation, and independence.
  The shooting war started at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775.  North Carolina's last royal governor, Josiah Martin, fled, and royal authority broke down.  A provisional government was set up.  There was a provincial council which, in a sense, replaced the governor.  The provincial congress was the law-making body, while safety committees were chosen in counties and towns to take charge of local government and raise troops and military supplies.
  According to tradition, the Mecklenburg County Safety Committee met at Charlotte, May 20, 1775, and drew up a Declaration of Independence from the mother country.  The Declaration made plain that they were declaring themselves a free and independent people, sovereign and self-governing, under the control of no other power than that of God and the general government of Congress.
  For the maintenance of this independence they pledged to each other their mutual co-operation, their lives, their futures, and their most sacred honor.
PROBLEMS OF THE NEW STATE
  The new State government faced many critical problems.  Troops had to be raised, organized, trained, and equipped.  Additional revenues had to be raised to prosecute the war and to operate the new government.  Tories had to be watched, though their ardor had been cooled by the defeat at Moore's Creek.  The Cherokee Indians, who were keeping the frontier settlements in a state of constant alarm, had to be subdued.
  There were also the acute problems of taxes, paper currency, and inflation.  Perhaps the greatest problems were those of unifying the State politically and of making a constitution work.  In a situation which necessitated centralization of power in the prosecution of the war, this latter problem was even more difficult, since the constitution emphasized decentralization of power.
  Beginning in the year 1779 the Revolutionary War was fought almost entirely in the south.  The army in the south had twice been depleted through bad generalship.  Consequently George Washington assigned Nathanael Green to take the command.  The battles of Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse were fought by a band of rustic backwoodsmen against Cornwallis, one of Britain's brightest commanders.  From a military standpoint, Cowpens was undoubtedly the best American battle of the entire revolution.  By July 1781, after having been in the southern theater for less than eight months, Green had recaptured all of the south with the exception of Savannah and the Charleston area.  The victories had not come easily.
  The Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781 took place some fifty miles away.  Edna G. Bender, a descendant, wrote in the Hiatt Book that one of her ancestors "acted as a guide to General Green and the soldiers molded bullets at his house for the Americans.  Afterwards he and another son were taken prisoners by the British, but soon released, as they were noncombatants.  The stand for attack was made on their farm for the battle of Guilford Court House."15p.83 (A map of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse is in the Hiatt Book page 85)  It shows that both the Quaker meetings, New Garden and Deep River Monthly Meetings were located in the town of Guilford Courthouse.
Another experience which happened during the Revolutionary War was recorded in 1943 by Mrs. Luther J. Hiatt, a relative, as follows:  William Hiatt, son of George Hiatt, (brother of John Hiatt Jr. my line) inherited his father's farm and married Charity Williams.  It was during his lifetime that the Battle of General Green and Cornwallis took place on the farm and adjoining territory.  The wounded soldiers of both armies were taken into the New Garden meeting house; and grandmother Hiatt baked bread for them.
  The years from 1781 to 1789 were extremely critical for the 350,000 people in the State's 47 counties.  Archibald D. Murphey some years later said:  "When the war ended, the people were in poverty, society in disorder, morals and manners almost prostrate."  There were many grave problems: a weak and inefficient state government, unsatisfactory local government, political strife and bitterness between Conservatives and Radicals, economic depression, and general social demoralization.
  Problems that demanded immediate action were demobilization of soldiers; release of prisoners of war; state policy regarding confiscated Tory (British sympathizers) property (under the laws of 1777 and 1779 vast tracts of Tory lands had been confiscated and sold by the State); and the location of a permanent capital.
  The war ended in 1783 but it was not until 1787 that America adopted a completely different form of government, one in which the national government would be much stronger and the states would in many ways hold a subordinate position.   After much conflict and compromise the Constitution of the United States was signed on 17 September 1787.  This document was truly a masterpiece to protect and serve a people to keep them free from tyranny.
INDIANS IN NORTH CAROLINA
  The Indian nation claimed all the mountain lands from Georgia to the Ohio River.  This mountain land which they owned became a great mountain barrier between the English settlements on the east and French garrisons along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.  The Cherokees being the strongest tribe, forced the other tribes southeast.  One of the early travelers stated that the Cherokees in their disposition and manners' are grave and steady, dignified and circumspect in their deportment, frank and cheerful, tenacious of their liberties and natural rights of man.
  Meanwhile white settlements were being made in the mountain area of North Carolina.  By treaties with the Cherokee Indians in 1777, all lands east of the Blue Ridge were ceded to the State; and, by Indian treaties with the United States in 1785, 1791, and 1795, nearly all lands in North Carolina east of the Alleghenies became state property.
  Prior to the settlement of the whites or palefaces in the "Hollows" there was a Cherokee Indian village along the Ararat River, which according to tradition, was located near Mt. Airy on the present site of Bannertown, or so there is reason to believe.  The chief, whose name was Renfrow, had his home high on a hill above the village.  The earliest settlers in those parts named this hill Renfro Hill after the chief, a name which it kept for at least two hundred years.  The hill was bulldozed to form the site for a new Mt. Airy postoffice in 1932.   1 p.6

WILLIAM HIATT MOVES TO VIRGINIA THEN TO OHIO
  In 1795 William Hiatt moved from his 300 acre farm where he had raised his large family to an 80 acre farm in Grayson County, Virginia just across the Virginia border.  He bought this farm on the 25 March 1800. for "25 pounds".  It was located on the waters of Chestnut Creek a branch of New River.  All of his children were married except Richard his youngest child, who was twenty years old.
  Many of William Hiatt's relatives also moved to Grayson County Virginia in 1795.  His brother Joseph bought land there on the 14th of November 1795.  His Uncle Joseph (son of George Hiatt who was a brother of John Hiatt Jr) bought land and was living there before September of 1801.  His son John moved there that same year.  His daughter Rachel moved there in 1803.  Two other sons Jacob and Richard also lived there.  It would be interesting to know why they all moved there at a close proximity of time and seemingly together as one body.
  William Hiatt did not stay long in Grayson County, Virginia.  He sold the recently purchased 80 acres already noted, on the 6th of March 1802 for 30 pounds.  (Grayson County Deed Book 1- page 445)  Then within five to ten years he and all his children moved away from there at approximately the same time between 1801 to 1808.
  This Quaker migration began.  Zachariah Dicks, a typical southern Quaker, and respected Quaker leader was responsible for their great migration to Ohio and Indiana between the years of 1805 and 1815.  He was thought to have had the gift of prophecy.  He visited the Carolinas between 1800 and 1804.  The massacres on the island of San Domingo were then fresh in the minds of the Quakers.  He warned the Friends "to come out from slavery".  He told them that if they did not, their fate would be that of the slaughtered islanders.  This produced a sort of panic and removals to Ohio commenced in 1805.  O'Neall, Annals of Newberry.   15 p.82
  The recently opened Northwest Territory which composed the present states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mishigan, was very attractive to them. The charter for this territory made a law against owning slaves.  This was a great incentive for the Quakers to move and thus by 1830 almost all of them had moved to this new Territory.  The Louisana Territory was acquired by the United States in 1803 but this was not their destination because slavery was not banned there.
  That William Hiatt left Grayson County, Virginia in the early 1800's and settled in Ohio along with many of his children and grandhildren there can be no doubt.  Also, it is believed he moved prior to 1830 to Henry County, Indiana, which at that time was a veritable stronghold for the Quaker Hiatts and their center of population.  Of the seventy-two families of Hiatt listed in the 1830 census of Indiana twenty of these families resided within the bounds of Henry County.
  William Hiatt, in 1830 was living with a grandson, William Hiatt, (son of William) and his wife and three children.  On the 1830 census, he is the male listed as aged between 90 and 100.15 p.68
DEATH OF WILLIAM HIATT SR.
  No record has been found to show that William Hiatt ever remarried in which case he remained a widower for 52 years.  He outlived his son William Hiatt Jr. by four years who died in 1830.  When he died about 1834 at age 100, he left a little estate back in Grayson County, Virginia.15 p.67
  So many families left North Carolina in the early 1800's that the membership at Westfield Meeting dwindled rapidly, until finally in or about 1832 it was "laid down" and the remaining members attached to Deep Creek Monthly Meeting in the southern section of Surry County which became Yadkin County around 1850. 15 p. 68
NORTH CAROLINA AND ITS EARLY  GOVERNMENT

  Before the Revolutionary War, the Carolinas was a British royal colony owned by many English proprietors living in England.  They showed consideration for the people whom they hoped would colonize their lands by setting down a charter.  A few of the Articles of the Charter gave the proprietors license, liberty and authroity to permit all religious groups to follow their own forms of worship.  They expected everyone to have a religion. - "No man shall be permitted to be a Freeman of Carolina that does not acknowledge a God."  This charter marked the beginnings of colonization in the Carolinas.  The eastern sections along the coasts and inland where rivers made navigation possible were thickly settled by 1730.  West of these settlements was virgin country, the home of the native Indians.  In 1729 the rule of the Carolinas by Lord Proprietors came to an end when all except the Earl of Granville sold their interest to the English Crown.  The Earl of Granville is said never to have come to see the vast and richly endowed land that was his in the New World but administered his property through agents who executed grants and collected rents.  Most of these grants were for a few hundred acres though a person could have more than onegrant.  Thus the Granville district covered about half of the state, excepting grants made by the Crown before the final settlement in 1744. 1 p.2

Susannah HODSON OR HODGSON

         FOUND IN THE HH BOOK, Sent by Colleen Milbocker

   Found in The North Carolinian.  Hodson also spelled Hodgson.
   The following records have been copied from a volume at Guilford College,
N. Carolina, labeled "New Garden M.M., VOl 1 Records" a transcript, the original being too fragile to handle.

Page 41 - William Hiatt, Son of John Hiatt of Roan County, N.C. and Susanna
Hodgson, daughter of George Hodson of the same  place, have declared intentions at Cane Creek and New Garden in North Carolina, were married 20 of 2 Mo. 1754

Witnesses:   Mary Hodson     George Hodson
            Mary Mills      John Hiatt
            Martha Hiatt    Robt. Sunmer
            Catherine Harrold  Wm Hunt
            Rachel Moon     Daniel Dillon
            Catherine Hunt  Thos. Thornbrugh

   From Nancy P. Speers, researcher, to Phyllis Slater of Bremond, Texas
written 26 May 1985.

   Dear Friend,
       I just ran across some research done by Bill Carter, 27280 Gasparilla
Drive, Bonita Springs, Flor  33923, on the Hodson/Hodgson Family.  He states
that Robert Hodson, an officer in the Kings army, left England for Ireland in
1701, and came to America in 1710.  His son George was b. 6 Jan 1701 in Eng.
and died in NC 1774.  The father and the rest of the family died at sea of
smallpox.  George and Mary (Thatcher) removed to NC in 1750, according to him.  Chidlren of George and Mary were: John b. 1731, marr Mary Mills, Sarah b. 1733 marr (#22 in HH Book) John Hiatt, Susannah b. 1735 marr (#11 in HH Book) William Hiatt, Robert b. 1738 marr Rachel Mills, Joseph b. 1740 marr Margaret Williams, and George Jr. marr Rachel Oldham.  Write to him for more information.

Also place of birth is given as Guilford Co., NC and death as 1792 instead of 1782.

Her maiden name could have been spelled Hodgson.
Chris says Susanna (Sarah) died 1 Mar. 1817?

According to the Westfield monthly meeting of Friends: Page 19 listing children of William and Susannah...it notes that Susannah died 8 Sep 1782.

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