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Hezekiah Witt (abt. 1730 - aft. 1790)

Hezekiah Witt
Born about in Colony of Virginiamap
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Son of and
Brother of , and
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Father of , , and
Died after after about age 60 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, USAmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Hezekiah Witt was born to Richard Witt, Sr. and Elizabeth Liptrot around 1730 [1]. Hezekiah was likely born in Virginia Colony based on his father being in the tithables list of Amelia County from 1745-1749 [2]. Hezekiah and several of his brothers were pioneers into North Carolina. Hezekiah died after the1790 census, probably in Rutherford County, North Carolina [3]. His wife has not been identified.

An alternate birth year of 1734 in Staunton, Augusta Co., Virginia was given in an unsourced Ancestry.com tree[4].

On 6 Sept. 1782, Hezekiah made a payment in the amount of 7 pounds, 8 shillings, in support of the Revolutionary War in Salisbury, Rutherford Co., North Carolina[5]. Additional records have not been located showing this Hezekiah Witt residing in Rowan Co., but he is the best match. Rowan and Rutherford Co. were not directly adjacent in 1782, but had only one small county (Lincoln) between them[6].

Censuses

1790 census shows Hezekiah in Rutherford Co., North Carolina[7] The household listed the following: males over 16 = 1; males under 16 = 2; all females = 3; slaves = 0.

Family

The following children have been attributed to Hezekiah [8]

  1. Jesse Witt b. 1760 in VA ; married 1st cousin Ruthy Whitt. Revolutionary War veteran.
  2. Aires Witt b. 1761 in VA ; 2nd married Rebecca Bryant. Revolutionary War veteran.
  3. Burgess Witt b. 1764 om VA; married Mary Elizabeth Mayo in SC. Revolutionary War veteran.
  4. William Rutherford Witt (abt.1774-1848); married Hanna Munsey.
  5. Joshua Witt, b. ca 1780; married Susan Tipton. War of 1812 veteran.
  6. Parthenia (Thenia) Witt; married Charles Sevier.
  7. Charles Witt/Whitt, Lincoln Co., NC. Revolutionary War veteran.
  8. Lewis Witt in Washington Co., TN in 1824; Madison Co., AL in 1840.
  9. James Witt, Washington Co., TN along with Burgess and Aires Witt.

Sources

  1. ↑ Whitt, David F. 2004. Ancestors and descendants of William Whitt, 1775-1850: portrait of an American family. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. Table 6.
  2. ↑ https://genfiles.com/witt/john-witt-c1645-by1715/
  3. ↑ Whitt, David F. 2004. Ancestors and descendants of William Whitt, 1775-1850: portrait of an American family. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. Table 6.
  4. ↑ Source: #S-2082296692 Page: Source number: ; Source type: ; Number of Pages: ; Submitter Code: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=1349465&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Data: Text: Birth date: 1738 Birth place: Marriage date: Marriage place: of VA APID: 1,7836::1349465
  5. ↑ "North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WT-P7TD : accessed 27 June 2019), Hezekiah Witt, 06 Sep 1782; citing Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh.
  6. ↑ https://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/map/map.html#NC
  7. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKB-531 : accessed 27 June 2019), Hezekiah Witt, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 145, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.
  8. ↑ Whitt, David F. 2004. Ancestors and descendants of William Whitt, 1775-1850: portrait of an American family. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. Table 4.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Betsy Bruce for creating WikiTree profile Witt-904 through the import of BBruce Maternal 2013.ged on Nov 20, 2013.





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Witt-1888 Holly Witt
Witt-904 and Whitt-158 appear to represent the same person because: Only slight differences in vitals. From David Whitt, 2004; Heritage Books, MD. Richard had one son, Hezekiah WITT, born c. 1730, died after 1790 in Rutherford Co., NC. Hezekiah did have sons Jesse and Burgess (among others).
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