Joseph Hite (1731 - 1757)

Born 1731 in Germantown, Pike, Pennsylvania

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Descendants

Died Feb 1757 at about age 26 in Frederick, Virginia

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Biography

Joseph Hite was born in 1731 in Perkiomen, Chester Co, Pennsylvania & was the son of Jost Hite & Anna Maria Merckle.

He married Elizabeth McKay.

He died in Feb 1757 in Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia.

Family

The will of his Jost Hite names the children of his deceased son Joseph as John, William and Ann.

Will of Abraham Hite^[1]
Written: 20 March 1787
Proved: 2 February 1790
Wife: Rebecca
Sons: Isaac, Abraham & Joseph Hite
John & William Hite, sons of my brother Joseph Hite
Hannah Vanmeter
Thomas Vanmeter, son of Hannah Vanmeter
(There is a suit defending brought by my father Jost that is currently pending)
Executors: Sons Isaac, Abraham & Joseph Hite
Witnesses: Vincent Williams, Alexander Doran, Isaac Vanmeter, Thomas Neal, Daniel Ashby & John Batman

Probate

27 February 1757
Frederick County, Virginia
Joseph Hite's widow and Jacob Hite were appointed by the Justices Court to administer on the estate of Joseph Hite "now recently deceased."

Research Notes

When Joseph married his wife, was her maiden surname McKAY or was she a young VanMETER widow ?

Joseph was born abt 1731 in Virginia. ^[2][3]

• He was the 8th and last child in his family. His parents were:^[4]
  • His father was 'Baron' Hans Jost Hite ( Heydt), who was a wealthy nobleman of Alsace, Germany, before fleeign to Holland, and to New York in 1710 on his own ship the brigantine Swift and the schooner Friendship, reaching Kingston, New York in 1710. He brought sixteen families of German and Dutch. In 1716, they went South to the Pastorious Colony at Germantown, Pennsylvania. He later moved to Shenandoah, Virginia in 1731. He died 1760 and is buried at Bunker Hill Church, the First Episcopal Church built west of the Blue Ridge in 1740.
  • His mother was his father's 1st wife Anna Maria Du Bois, whom he married in Holland. She died 1738. Her father of Louis Du Bois, a French Huguenot, who was b 1626 and died 1695, one of the Founders of New Paltz.

Joseph married Elizabeth ^[3] Mckay.^[5] Elizabeth went to Kentucky after her husband's death.

They had the following children: ^[3]

1. Joseph, b 1753, Lt 8th Virginia Regiment, resigned 1780, removed to Kentucky 1815
2. John, b 1754, trusteee of Shepherdstown, 1796
3. William, b 1756, d 1828 Kentucky
4. Ann, b 1757, d 1821 Ohio, m Thomas Cartmel, d 1808 Frederick County, Virginia

Joseph died 1757 in Federick County, Virginia. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P3B-935V?cc=1875188&wc=MMYS-15J%3A271045141 : 20 May 2014), > image 30 of 278; county courthouses, Kentucky.
2. ↑ "Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 61175 #73721 : accessed 12 August 2022), Name Joseph [Joseph Hite], Birth Date 1731, Death Date 1757, Death Place Frederick County, Virginia, Spouse Elizabeth; Vol IV Page number 201. #VIII Joseph
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Mackenzie, George Norbury. Colonial Families of the United States of America (Grafton Press, New York, Boston, 1907)
4. ↑ "Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775," Vol IV Page 185-186
5. ↑ "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900," database, (Ancestry Record 7836 #581188 : accessed 12 August 2022), Joseph Hite marriage to Elizabeth Mckay; citing Source number 20287.000, Source type Electronic Database, Number of Pages 1, Submitter Code WAY.

• 1985 "Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710" by Henry Z. Jones, Jr. of CA,Universal-City & available at NJ,Hunterdon Historical Society & Birmingham Library call#F130 .P2 J66.
• Richard Hite, "The Birth Order of Jost Hite's Children," Hite Family Association Newsletter, Spring (2006).
• Family Group Sheets of the Froman family with Frey and Spears family records of Henderson "Hank" L. Adams of FL,Ft.Walton-Beach.
• https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/joseph-hite_16139649 (Dead Link)

See Also:

• Birth - MH:IF21074
• Death - MH:IF21075

Acknowledgments

• Profile Hite-458 was created through the import of TDuncan.ged on Apr 15, 2013 by Terry Duncan.