Born about in Virginia, Colony of Virginia
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Frederick Schmidt
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
Richard Berryman (Wilbanks) Woolbank
— married
about 1751 in Goochland, Virginia,
Descendants 
Mother of
Henry Martin Wilbanks
Died about
at about age 79
in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States of America
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NOTE: Not to be confused with Priscilla Hewitt, daughter of Mary (Chesebrough) and Joseph Hewitt, who married Jesse Swan on 19 November 1758 in North Stonington, New London, Connecticut, and died in 1766. Please read and heed the copious public comments that have been posted to this profile.
This Priscilla Hewett was the spouse of Richard Henry (or Berryman) Wilbanks Jr. [1]. Her birth date and location are not known.
According to one record, Priscilla Hewett married on 14 Mar 1767 in Goochland County, Virginia to Richard Henry (or Berryman) Wilbanks, or Woolbank. [2]
Notably, the marriage of this Priscilla Hewett occurred after the other Priscilla Hewitt (the one from Connecticut), had died, in 1766.
The cited marriage date, however, fails to account for some earlier born children of this Priscilla Hewett who are listed in Family Search:
- William Wilbanks (1751 - 1816)
- Dorothy "Dolly" Woolbanks (1753-1838), m William Sturdie (1752-1791); Bennet Combs
- Nancy Wilbanks (1758–)
- Reuben Willbanks (1762–1805)
- Henry Martin Wibanks (1764-1818), m Elizabeth Phoebe sanders; Ruthe Gentry
- Berryman Wilbanks (1767 - 1824) [3]
- John Wilbanks
- William Wilbanks
Priscilla's husband Richard Henry (or Berryman) Willbanks Jr. died 17 July 1790. His Will hints at additional children.
This same Priscilla Hewett may have married second, Frederick Wilhelm Schmiidt/Smith; no known issue. The date and location of this second marriage are not evident.
Death data on this Priscilla Hewett are not certain. She may have died in 1795 (per her FamilySearch profile), or perhaps in 1804 (per an invalid online memorial site). The place of her death may have been Wilkes County, North Carolina; burial details unknown (possibly family home cemetery?).
Research Notes
The cited Find-A-Grave memorial site, in its header panel and in its caption, has significantly garbled the birth data on this Priscilla Hewett with the incorrect Priscilla Hewitt from Connecticut. The F-A-G profile, in its present condition, should not be used or consulted on the identity of this person beyond perhaps her death information, which even is uncertain. As noted throughout, and copiously described in the open comments for this profile, this Priscilla Hewett was from an entirely different geography, and was not the spouse of Jesse Swan. Apparently this same issue has been raised with, and settled by, the contributors to the relevant profiles in FamilySearch as well. Someone should likewise address and correct the F-A-G item, which perpetuates confusion.
Sources
- ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/LV6D-L2K
- ↑ Douglas Register on ancestry.com Ancestry Record 25436 #124
- ↑ Virginia Births and Christenings 1584-1917 on FamilySearch database (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRRC-5HK : 10 Feb 2018) citing call#975.5 V2D; with Priscilla Hewet in entry for son Berryman Woolbanks, b: 14 Mar 1767 (father: Richard Woolbanks & mother: Priscilla Hewet); christened: 19 Apr 1767 St.James Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia
- North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index 1790-1890
- American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) on ancestry.com Ancestry Record 3599 #3252493
- Bates Family Tree on ancestry.com
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Priscilla by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Priscilla:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Priscilla by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Priscilla:
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Rejected matches › Priscilla (Hewitt) Swan (1737-bef.1764)
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Second, there is only one spouse identified for her: Jesse Swan (not Richard Berryman Woolbanks). Since Priscilla died before 24 November 1764, the date that her widowed husband married (second) to Elizabeth Baldwin, it is unlikely that either of these profiles pertain to her with regard to a death date in 1804, and doubly unlikely that she was in North Carolina at any time.
Note also, the F-A-G memorial page cited in the Hewitt-3092 profile cites (in the caption) considerable confusion on who the wife of Mr. Woolbanks truly was. This confusion is evidenced by the posted date of her marriage to Mr. Woolbanks (Wilbanks?) in 1740, at which time the putatively profiled Priscilla would have been only 3 years old. Compounding evidence for this point of confusion is that her last name is spelled incorrectly in the Hewett-142 profile.
Probably neither of the profiles proposed for merger is correct, but certainly not for any Priscilla Hewitt who was born on the 28 May 1737 date in Stonington, Connecticut. Evidently there may have been significant garbling of at least one of these profiles over the past several months, such that some "shoehorning" assumptions have been made, leading up to the proposed merge.