Willis Hiatt, 12 Jul 1815, son of John Hiatt and Mary Raker. John was son of Christopher and Lydia Beals Hiatt, son of George Hiatt and Martha Wakefield, son of John Hiatt and Mary Smith.
Larry Anderson Air Port Road, Cogan Tagilaran City, Bohol Philippines 6300
When Willis Hiatt b.1812 of Davidson county NC married the second time in 1880-1890 (forget exact year ) He put on marriage certificate his parents are John and Mary Hiatt. This rules out Joseph as his father . We also have 3 generations of John's thereafter ) I have a copy of the marriage certificate. Will email it to you later.
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Harmon Hiatt wrote in his booklett of 1895 that Christopher was a saddle and harness maker. He lived on the old family farm in New Garden, Guilford, N.C. THIRD GENERATION: CHILDREN OF GEORGE HIATT
(26.) CHRISTOPHER HIATT (3.) (1.):
b. 22-10mo-1737, prob. Bucks Co., Pa. (poss, in Md. Or Va.) ; d. 12-12mo-1792, Guilford Co., NC.; m. 23-9mo-1762, at New Garden Mo. Mtg., Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC., to LYDIA BEALS, d/o John and Margaret (Hunt). Beals; b. prob. 1740's in Md. Or Va.; d. 14-7mo-1801, prob. Chatham Co., NC. (At New Garden, on 22-2mo-1800, Lydia (Beals). Hiatt m. (2nd)., as his second wife, to Joshua Hadley, Jr., had been his first cousin, Ruth Lindley, dau, of Thomas and Ruth (Hadley). Lindley, b. 25-3mo-1745, d. 15-7mo-1798. On 16-7mo-1803, Joshua Hadley m. a third wife, Jane Hinshaw, d/o Jacob and Rebecca (Mackie). Hinshaw.) The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781, was fought practically in front of the home of Christopher Hiatt, and he acted as a guide to General Greene.
CH: (168.) Nathan; (169.) Asher; (170.) Zadock; (171.) John; (172.) Jehu; (173.) Esther; (174.) William; (175.) Amos; (176.) Mordecai; (177.) Chrsitopher; (178.) Lydia; (179.) Aseph.
Around 1900 Edna G. Bender wrote: "My mother was a daughter of Eli Hiatt, son of Jehu Hiatt, son of Chrsitopher Hiatt, son of George…My great-great-grandfather acted as a guide to Gen. Greene and the soldiers moulded bullets at his house for the Americans. Afterwards great-great-grandfather and my great-grandfather 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 Courthouse…."(R18,44).
Effie Hiatt van Tuyl wrote: "Father also said that in 1893 he had a talk with a grandson of Christopher Hiatt who was 82. He thinks the Hiatts came from Wales and had never heard of the van Hiatts. He thought Christopher was older than his brother William who married Charity Williams." (R20).
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.:
23-9mo-1762 - Christopher Hiatt, son of George, Roan Co., married Lydia Beals. 22-2mo-1800 - Lydia Hiatt, Guilford Co., married Joshous Hadley.
Page 36 Christopher Hiatt d. 12 - 12 - 1792 Lydia Hiatt Ch: Nathan b. 9 - 30 - 1763 Asher b. 5 - 30 - 1765 Zadock b. 7 - 22 - 1767; d. 11 - 24 - 1778 John b. 7 - 27 - 1769 Jehu b. 8 - 20 - 1771 Esther b. 2 - 10 - 1774 William b. 4 - 11 - 1776; d. 9 - 3 - 1778 Amos b. 7 - 18 - 1778 Mordecai b. 9 - 13 - 1780; d. 10 - 10 - 1799 Christopher b. 2 - 5 - 1783 Lydia b. 4 - 15 - 1786 (R45).
Family records give Christopher and Lydia Hiatt a son Aseph.,b. 4-1-1788. Christopher Hiatt is givne on 1790 Census of Guilford Co., NC. (See p. 6). Rowan Co., NC., Deed Book 6 p.258: 5 March 1765 - Thomas Beals to christopher Hiett - 11 acres - 5 pounds - "On the Branches of the Horsepern Creek, Beginning at sd. Beals' Corner and Running south Twenty poles to White Oak the West Eighty eight poles to a Black oak then North Twenty poles to a stake on the original line thence to the Beginning." Signed by Thomas Beals and Sarah Beals, and witnessed by Eleazar Hunt and John Unthank. (This land was located in that part of Rowan Co. which became Guilford Co. in 1770 - editor). (R40).
Guilford Co., NC., Deed Book 5, p. 334: - Levi Coffin to Christopher Hiatt - 10 acres - 10 pounds - Horsepen Creek - Jacob Jessup's line - Christopher Hiatt's line - Levi Coffin's line - 19-11mo-1782 (1792 - editor). -witnesses: Joel Hiatt and David Stephens. (R46). ****************
CHILDREN AND SOME OF THE GRANDCHILDREN OF JOHN BEALS
( JOHN BEALS ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( SARAH BEALS ( m. 1711 ( m. 1732 ( SARAH BOWATER ( JOHN MILLS ( ( ( ( JOHN BEALS ( ( m. c1738 ( WILLIAM BEALS ( MARGARET HUNT ( m. 1712 ( ( REBECCA CHAMBERS ( THOMAS BEALS ( ( m. 1741 ( ( SARAH ANTRIM ( ( JOHN BEALS ( ( ( ( ( ( ( JACOB BEALS ( ANN BEALS b. England ( m. 1714 ( m. (1st). c1740 d. 1726, Pa. (MARY BROOKSBY ( THOMAS HUNT m. in Pa. 1682 ( ( m. (2nd). 1788 MARY CLAYTON, ( ( Wm. BALDWIN D/o Wm. ( ( and Prudence ( MARY BEALS ( PHOEBE BEALS (-). Clayton ( m. 1710 ( m. (1st). c1740 b.29-6mo - 1665, ( RICHARD HARROLD ( CHARLES CANADY Parish of Rum- ( ( m. (2nd). c1746 Baldsweek, Co. ( ( ROBERT SUMMER Sussex, England. ( ( (William Clayton ( PATIENCE BEALS ( PRUDENCE BEALS as Acting Gov. ( m. 1717 ( m. 1746 of Pa. under Wm. ( JOSEPH JONES ( RICHARD WILLIAMS Penn., 1684 - 5.) ( ( BOWATER BEALS ( m. 1752 ( SARAH COOK
The children of Richard and Mary (Beals). Harrold were : Elizabeth, m. 1730 to Thomas Mills; Mary, died young; John; Jonathan, m. Catherine Hiatt; Mary; Rachel, m. Hurr Mills; Richard. There have numerous marriages between the Hiatt's and the descendants of John and Mary (Clayton). Beals.
See Census 26 Sep 1850 Clinton County, Indiana Christopher and wife Jemima living house hold 990, with family Elwood age 24, wife Mary age 25; another person in house, David Achles, age 10.
Several Hiatt's in the same neighhood.
!Birth date and place:Hiatt-Hiett Genealogy and Family History by Wm. Perry Johnson. Page 51
From Belle Johnson of Wheatland, Wyoming, 1992
Of the list of children of Martha and George, CHRISTOPHER is the one we are going to follow because he was your five-greats-grandfather.
When you study American history and the Revolutionary War, you don't always realize that not all the important action took place in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. There was a lot of action in the South, and one of the important battles was fought practically in Christopher Hiatt's front yard---the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. I have a map that shows where the British and American armies moved back and forth, and it shows the houses of many of the Quakers whose names appear on your ancestor chart. I am enclosing part of that map that shows where Christopher Hiatt's house was. I have also copied a map out of Mr. Johnson's Book that shows an even smaller part of the battle area showing what a difficult and dangerous position the Quakers were caught in.
Fighting of any kind was contrary to their religious beliefs, and warfare was unthinkable, but the pressures on them must have been enormous, It is reported that Christopher Hiatt acted as a guide to General Green of the American forces and he was arrested along with other Quakers by the British, but they were released as non-combatants when they explained their Quaker beliefs. Their womenfolk baked bread for the soldiers on both sides and one writer reports American soldiers molded their lead bullets in Martha's kitchen. The Quakers tried to help anybody who needed it and they allowed their homes to be occupied, their hay and grain commandeered and their Meeting House used for temporary medical headquarters by the British. The New Garden Meeting House was in the process of being built to replace the original log one and large boards had not yet been installed in the ceiling. They'd been stacked alongside the building, but were carried inside and used for operating tables and beds for the wounded soldiers. Years later it is said you could it in Meeting and look up at the brown blood stains on the ceiling from the blood of the British soldiers, six of whom were buried outside in the Quaker cemetery.
Christopher Hiatt was born in 1737 Martha went to North Carolina. In 1762 a prominent Quaker family. Christopher children were given names we never hear and was around two years old when he married Lydia Beals, daughter of and Lydia had eleven children. Their these days:
Nathan b. Sept. 30, 1763 Asher May 30, 1765 Zadock July 22, 1767 John July 27, 1769 Jehu August 20, 1771 Esther Feb. 10, 1774 William April 11, 1776 Amos July 28, 1778 Mordicai Sept. 13, 1780 Christopher Feb. 5, 1783 (he's the one who came to Ohio) Lydia April 15, 1786
Christopher Hiatt died December 12, 1792, a year before his father George. Lydia married again, a man named Joshua Hadley, and she died July 34, 1801.
Found in the Witnesses of North Carolina Quaker Marriages by William Perry Johnson New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carohina
Page 61 - Christopher Hiatt, son of George, Roan Co., married Lydia Beales, dau of John, same place, 23 of 9 Mo. 1762 Witnesses: John Beales, John Hiatt, Peter Dicks, Jeremiah Reynolds, Robt. Lamb, John Stone, Ann Hunt, Mary qzburn, Ruth Hoggatt, Catharine Hunt, Elizabeth Dicks, Hannah Hoggatt.Found in the Witnesses of North Carolina Quaker Marriages by William Perry Johnson New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carohina
Page 61 - Christopher Hiatt, son of George, Roan Co., married Lydia Beales, dau of John, same place, 23 of 9 Mo. 1762 Witnesses: John Beales, John Hiatt, Peter Dicks, Jeremiah Reynolds, Robt. Lamb, John Stone, Ann Hunt, Mary qzburn, Ruth Hoggatt, Catharine Hunt, Elizabeth Dicks, Hannah Hoggatt.Burritt Hiatt charts show a death date of 14 July 1801.
Never married.
(170.) ZADOCK HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 22-7mo-1767, Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.; d. 24-11mo-1778, Guilford Co., NC. (R45).
(174.) WILLIAM HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 11-4mo-1776, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 3-9mo-1778, Guilford Co., NC.
Died young. birth date also given as 20 Aug 1787
(179.) ASEPH HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 1-4mo-1788, Guilford Co., NC.; died young.
Found in HH Book pg 80 Sent by Mary Lamb and Jerry Roberts.
S/o Nathan and Deborah Clark(e) Dicks.
In a letter from Nancy Speers, researcher for Phyllis Slater of Bremond,
Texas, she writes,
Besides Hannah Dicks, Peter and Esther had: Elizabeth, Sarah, Esther,
Deborah, Nathan and Peter. (Hannah Dicks married Jonathan Thatcher, who's
granddaughter Sarah Hodgson married John Hiatt, son of George Hiatt #2 in HH
Book.) Peter Dicks born 1660/66 in Cheshire, England married 4 Aug 1681 to
Esther Maddock she was born 16 Dec 1661. Peter died 1704 Chester Co., Penn.
He was the son of James Dicks, of England.
Friends "at the Spring"
A History of Spring Monthly Meeting
by Algie I. Newlin
Zachariah Dicks was probably the most noted minister of the gospel in the
history of Spring Friends. He and his family were members of Spring meeting
for more than twenty-eight years yet his name does not appear in the minutes of
that monthly meeting. His sojourn within the limits of Spring Meeting is
divided into two parts: more than seventeen years while Spring was a
preparative meeting and more than ten years after Spring became a monthly
meeting. No records of the preparative meeting are extant and his membership
in Spring Monthly Meeting was during the long period in which the minutes of
the meeting were lost. The name of his wife, Ruth Hiatt Dicks, does appear in
the minutes of the Spring Monthly Meeting of Women Friends.
A short biographical sketch of Zachariah Dicks has its beginning when he
reached New Garden Monthly Meeting on August 30, 1755, on a certificate from
Warrenton Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania. At that time he was referred to as
"a young man." When he reached New Garden Monthly Meeting it too was young,
being established just one year easlier. On December 8, 1756, he and Ruth
Hiatt, the daughter of George Hiatt, were married at New Garden.
After living at New Garden for Approximately twenty years, Zachariah and
Ruth Hiatt Dicks and their seven children moved to within the limits of Cane
Creek Monthly Meeting. Their Certificate of membership was recieved by Cane
Creek on June 3, 1775. This Dicks family settled within the limits of Spring
Particular Meeting, on a tract of land which lay on both sides of Cane Creek a
short distance west of Lindley's Mill. It seems probable that their land
bordered on the west side of the land owned by Hugh Laughlin. During
theTwenty-Eight years that Zachariah Dicks lived at this place he was active in
the ministry and made several religious journeys, including a long one to
England and Ireland.
On June 4, 1793, Cane Creek Monthly Meeting granted Zachariah and Ruth
Hiatt Dicks a certificate which enabled them to move within the limits of
Centre Monthly Meeting. Here they lived for five years. On May 7, 1798,
Spring Monthly Meeting of Women Friends recieved a certificate from Centre
Monthly Meeting for Ruth Dicks. We may safely assume that the record of the
certificate for Zachariah Dicks was in the lost minutes of Spring Montly
Meeting. It is also assumed that they returned to their old home west of
Lindley's Mill. On May 28, 1808, the minutes of Spring Monthly Meeting of
Women Friends report that Ruth Dicks, with her husband, was sgiven a
certificate to Ohio. On September 23, 1809, West Branchg Monthly Meeting in
Ohio recieved a certificate for Zachariah Dicks and Ruth Dicks from Spring
Montly Meeting in North Carolina.
Rusus M. Jones said to him:
Zachariah Dicks was a moving influence in some, perhaps in many, of the
southern meetings. He was a powerful rhapsoldical preacher, believed in his
day to have prophetic insight in an ususual degree.
In 1803 he traveled to the meeting in Georgia and South Carolina giving
Friends there dire warnings of impending disaster if they did not move to the
Middle West to escape the curse of slavery. Some of the itinerant ministers
who knew Zachariah Dicks wrote into their journals their appreciation of the
man. One of these was Elisha Kirk, who visited Spring Meeting in 1784, three
years after the Battle of Lindley's Mill. As he told part of his story, " We
went home with our beloved friend Zachariah Dicks, and on the way he showed us
the place where he and other friends buried thirty-four men in one grave,
during the late troubles.
Zachariah Dicks and Ruth Hiatt Dicks had six daughters and two sons.
Deborah, their oldest child, married Jonathan Lindley, son of Thomas and Ruth
Hadley Lindley. Jonathan Lindley was probably the outstanding political figure
in the history of Spring Meeting. He was born May 15, 1756, the last of the
children of Thoams and Ruth Lindley. He and Deborah were married in 1775, when
Jonathan was nineteen and Deborah seventeen. The Cane Creek Monthly Meeting
minutes report that they were married contary to the regulations of the Society
of Friends and for that offense were disowned. They both gave acceptable
apologies and were retored to membership in the Society. Jonathan Lindley
inherited the homestead which his parents had established near Spring Meeting
House.Line in Record @I48798@ (RIN 48791) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
EVEN
TYPE Received from
DATE 30 AUG 1755
PLAC York County, PennsylvaniaLine in Record @I48798@ (RIN 48791) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
EVEN
TYPE Moved to
DATE 29 APR 1775
PLAC Alamance County, North Carolina, Cane Creek MM.
Found in The North Carolinian
Vol I No I March 1955 My Wm Perry Johnson
The Following records have been copied froma volum at Guilford College, N.C. labeled "New Garden M.M., Vol I - Records." a transcript, the orignial being too fragile to handle.Page 50 - Zacharias Dicks, son of Nathan Dicks, of York County in Pennsylvanis, and Ruth Hiatt, daughter of George Hiatt, of Roan County in North Carolina, having declared intentions at New Garden, were married at New Gasrden 8 of 12 mo. 1756.
Witnesses: Martha Hiatt Peter Dicks
Elizabeth Dicks Nathan Dicks
Mary Dicks Christopher Hiatt
Margaret Johnson William Hunt
Mary Beeson Joseph Unthank
Rachel Mills Henry MillsRuth Holt of Olympia, Wash has Ruth's date of death about 1843 which would have 1made her age about 108 years of age at death.
THIRD GENERATION: CHILDREN OF GEORGE HIATT
(25.) RUTH HIATT (3.) (1.):b. 1-4mo.-1735, prob. Bucks Co., Pa. (or pages in Md. Or Va.) ; d. post 1809, Ohio or Indiana, date and place unknown; m.8-12mo-1756, at New Garden Mo. Mtg., Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC., to ZACHARIAH DICKS, son of Nathan and Deborah (Clark??). Dicks; b. prob. Chester Co., Pa.; d. post 1812, Wayne Co., Indiana, dates of birth and death not known; he was a leader in the crusade against slavery, and is called "typical incarnation of Southern Quakerism."
CH: (160.) Deborah; (161.) Martha; (162.) Nathan; (163.) Esther; (164.) Lydia; (165.) Peter, (166.) Ruth; (167.) Mary.
Zachariah Dicks joined the Quaker Mtg. At Warrington, York Co., Pa., 15-6mo-1754. In 1755 he removed to North Carolina, with brothers Nathan and Peter, and settled in the Cane Creek Quaker settlement.
On 10 July 1788 he was granted 770 acres on both sides of Cane Creek; on 20 November 1792 he sold 200 acres of this tract to Nathan Dicks. (R64).
New Garden Mo., Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.:
30-8mo-1755 - Zachariah Dicks, a young man, received on certificate from Warrington Mo. Mtg., Pa., dated 21-6mo-1755.
27-6mo-1772 - Zachariah Dicks received on certificate from Warrington Mo. Mtg., Pa., dated 11-4mo-1772.
29-4mo-1775 - Zachariah Dicks and family granted certificates to Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., NC.Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., Orange (now Alamance). Co., NC.:
3-6mo-1775 - Zacharias Dicks and sons, Nathan and Peter, received on certificate.
3-6mo-1775 - Ruth Dicks and children, Deborah, Martha, Lydia, Ruth and Mary, received on certificate from New Garden Mo. Mtg., dated 29-4mo-1775.
4-5mo-1793 - Zacharias Dicks granted certificate to Center Mo. Mtg., NC.
4-5mo-1793 - Ruth Dicks granted certificate to Center Mo. Mtg., NC.Spring Mo. Mtg., Orange (now Alamance). Co., NC.:
7-5mo-1798 - Ruth Dicks received on certificate from Center Mo. Mtg., dated 17-3mo-1798
28-5mo-1808 - Ruth Dicks (with husband). granted certificate to Ohio.West Branch Mo. Mtg., Miami Co., Ohio:
3-10mo-1809 - Certificate received for Zacharias Dicks and wife Ruth, from Spring Mo. Mtg., NC. dated 24-3mo-1808, endorsed to Center Mo. Mtg.
Center Mo. Mtg., Clinton Co., Ohio:
3-10mo-1812 - Zachariah Dix granted certificate to White Water Mo. Mtg., Indiana. (R57).
"Zachariah Dicks - He is in many respects a typical incarnation of the history of Southern Quakerism. Born in Pa., he came to NC. about 1754 and settked in the Cane Creek section when it was small. Here the greater part of his life was spent. He visited Europe between 1784 and 1787. He visited South Carolina between 1800 and 1804; finally removed to Indiana and died there. His visit to the South Carolina meetings was full of moment to them. 'He was thought to have also the gift of prophecy. The massacres of San Domingo were then fresh. He warned 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." (O'Neall, Annals of Newberry, 40). (R7).
1790 Census, North Carolina:
Orange County, Hillsborough District (from Tax Lists). -
Zachariah Dix - Caswell District.
Nathan Dix - Caswell District.
(163.): ESTHER DICKS (25.) (3.) (1.):
b. 22-2mo-1764-1764, Orange Co., NC., d. 31-5mo-1767.
"In an account of Zachariah Disks' missionary journeys accompanied by William Hunt, I read a note of his in which states that at the hour of is departure he left his youngest in the arms of her mother in the throes of spasms. I wonder if this child were Esther...The manuscript is in the possession of Earl L. Carter. 5230 E. Washington St., Indianapolis...''Mrs. Peter McEwen R82.
S/o James Wright and Mary.
See extensive article on the Wright Family in the West Virginia Advocate 17 April 1989
James Wright was a Quaker Minister and spiritual leader in Frontier Settlements. He served as one of the first elders at Hopewell MM., a Quaker church which was organized in 1734, at Clear Brook, Frederick Co., Va.
During a period of Indian warfare, James and Mary Wright were driven from their land. The clerk of Hopewell MM wrote, "Our ancient Friends James Wright and his Wife are much reduced, being driven from there Habitation and are unable to labour for the Livelyhood."
See Historical Records of Old Frederick County, Va. by Dr. Wilmer Kerns, pg. 156-157. Sent by Robert Fetters.
HIETT, Esther, daughter of George and Martha (WAKEFIELD) HIETT, was born on the 1st day, 4th month, 1731, in Lancaster Co., Pa. and died in Frederick Co., VA., March 6, 1778. She came with her parents as one of the first settlers along the Opequon Creek, in 1735. Esther married Thomas WRIGHT, son of James and Mary Wright. See an article published in the May 1989 issue of the West Virginia Advocate, titled "The Opequon Settelment: Settler James WRIGHT."
Source: Quaker records, courthouse and Va. State archives records.
(23.) ESTHER HIATT (3.) (1.):
b. 1-2mo-1731, prob. Bucks Co., Pa.; d. 1778, Frederick Co., Va.; m. (1st). c1747, prob. at Hopewell Mo. Mtg. Frederick Co., Va., to THOMAS WRIGHT, parentage unknown; b. 11-1mo-1711, place not known;d. 18-8mo-1765. Frederick Co., Va.; m. (2nd). 12-2mo-1767, at Opequon Mtg., Va., (Hopewell)., ROBERT HAINES, son of Bethanah and Mary (--). Haines; b. 30-9mo-1736, Orange (now Frederick or Culpeper). Co., Va.; d. 1796, Frederick Co., Va. (He m. (2nd). in 1780, at Opequon Mtg., Va., to Margaret Smith, b. 16-9mo-1754, and had: Noah, Mary, Ann, Amos, Robert, Jr., Enos, Nathan, and Margaret.) (R63).
CH: (Of Thomas and Esther Wright). (151.) Martha; (152.) Jonathan; (153.) Mary; (154.) Thomas; (155.) Hannah; (156.) Ruth; (157.) David.
(of Robert and Esther Haines). (158.) Allen; (159.) John.Hopewell Mo. Mtg., Frederick Co., Va.:
Thomas Wright b. 11 - 1 - 1711 d. 18 - 8 - 1765
Esther (Hiatt). b. 1 - 4 - 1731
Ch: Martha b. 15 - 5 - 1748
Jonathan b. 27 - 4 - 1750
Mary b. 8 - 5 - 1752
Thomas b. 1 - 7 - 1756
Hannah b. 14 - 2 - 1758
Ruth b. 6 - 2 - 1759
David b. 14 - 3 - 1763 (R34).Hiett, Esther, daughter of George and Martha (Wakefield) Hiett, was born on the 1st day, 4th month, 1731, in Lancaster County, PA and died in Frederick County, Va., March 6, 1778. She came with her parents as one of the first settlers along Opequon Creek, in 1735. Esther married Thomas Wright, son of James and Mary Wright. See and article published in the May 1989 issue of the West Virginia Advocate, titled "The Opequon Settlement: Settler James Wright." Source: Quaker records, courthouse and Virginia State archives records.
(157.) DAVID WRIGHT (23.) (3.) (1.):
b. 14-3mo-1763, Frederick Co., Va.; disowned by Hopewell Mo. Mtg., 3-9mo-1781, for enlisting as a soldier in order for war; no further record. (R34).
See pg. 216 of Richard Haines Gen. by John W. Haines Book presented to us by Annis Bales of Linneus, MO. Nov. 1992.
Robert Haines, son of Bethaniah, (son of Richard, Jr. son of Richard, Sr.) of Frederick Co., Va. b. 9 mo. (Nov) 27 1736 (the last 3d day of the month); d. 1796, m. 1st, Opeckon MH, under the care of Hopewell MM, Va., 2 mo 12, 1767, Esther (Hiatt) Wright; who was born probably in Bucks Co., Penn., either 2 mo. (Apr.) 1, 1731, or 4 mo. (June) 1, 1731; d. Frederick Co., Va., 6 mo., 3, 1778; daughter of George and Martha Wakefield) HIatt and widow of Thomas Wright. Both were ministers in the Society of Friends. He owned proprety in Frederick Co., part of which was near Chester's Gap. In 1788 Front Royal, now Warren Co., was laid out on this piece of land, togetheer with lands owned by others. In 1758, wheen Colonel George Washington was elected to the House of Burgesses, he was a voter in Frederick Co. and voted for Colonel Martin and Captain Swearingen. His will was dateed 1 mo. 9, 1796, and was probated Feb. 3, 1796. (Ref: Hinshaw - American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. V. pg. 64; Vol VI, pp. 396, 459, 596. Hopewell MM, Va. Minutes, p. 174. Virginia Magazine, Vol VI, pp. 162, 168, 173, Frederic Co. Va. Minutes, Bk. 6, p. 99. Wayland - Histoy of Shenandoah Co., Ba. p. 162. Johnson Hiatt Family pp. 60, 81. Warren Co., O. Administrations, Bk. DE 1/2, p. 67. Records furnished by Mary Lee Kinkead. Records furnished by Lela D. Carroll. (Larry Anderson)
See Historical Records of Old Frederick County, Va. by Dr. Wilmer Kerns, pg. 156-157. Sent by Robert Fetters.
HIETT, Esther, daughter of George and Martha (WAKEFIELD) HIETT, was born on the 1st day, 4th month, 1731, in Lancaster Co., Pa. and died in Frederick Co., VA., March 6, 1778. She came with her parents as one of the first settlers along the Opequon Creek, in 1735. Esther married Thomas WRIGHT, son of James and Mary Wright. See an article published in the May 1989 issue of the West Virginia Advocate, titled "The Opequon Settelment: Settler James WRIGHT."
Source: Quaker records, courthouse and Va. State archives records.
(23.) ESTHER HIATT (3.) (1.):
b. 1-2mo-1731, prob. Bucks Co., Pa.; d. 1778, Frederick Co., Va.; m. (1st). c1747, prob. at Hopewell Mo. Mtg. Frederick Co., Va., to THOMAS WRIGHT, parentage unknown; b. 11-1mo-1711, place not known;d. 18-8mo-1765. Frederick Co., Va.; m. (2nd). 12-2mo-1767, at Opequon Mtg., Va., (Hopewell)., ROBERT HAINES, son of Bethanah and Mary (--). Haines; b. 30-9mo-1736, Orange (now Frederick or Culpeper). Co., Va.; d. 1796, Frederick Co., Va. (He m. (2nd). in 1780, at Opequon Mtg., Va., to Margaret Smith, b. 16-9mo-1754, and had: Noah, Mary, Ann, Amos, Robert, Jr., Enos, Nathan, and Margaret.) (R63).
CH: (Of Thomas and Esther Wright). (151.) Martha; (152.) Jonathan; (153.) Mary; (154.) Thomas; (155.) Hannah; (156.) Ruth; (157.) David.
(of Robert and Esther Haines). (158.) Allen; (159.) John.Hopewell Mo. Mtg., Frederick Co., Va.:
Thomas Wright b. 11 - 1 - 1711 d. 18 - 8 - 1765
Esther (Hiatt). b. 1 - 4 - 1731
Ch: Martha b. 15 - 5 - 1748
Jonathan b. 27 - 4 - 1750
Mary b. 8 - 5 - 1752
Thomas b. 1 - 7 - 1756
Hannah b. 14 - 2 - 1758
Ruth b. 6 - 2 - 1759
David b. 14 - 3 - 1763 (R34).Hiett, Esther, daughter of George and Martha (Wakefield) Hiett, was born on the 1st day, 4th month, 1731, in Lancaster County, PA and died in Frederick County, Va., March 6, 1778. She came with her parents as one of the first settlers along Opequon Creek, in 1735. Esther married Thomas Wright, son of James and Mary Wright. See and article published in the May 1989 issue of the West Virginia Advocate, titled "The Opequon Settlement: Settler James Wright." Source: Quaker records, courthouse and Virginia State archives records.
(158.) ALLEN HAINES (23.) (3.) (1.)
b. 2-3.1768, Frederick Co., Va.; d. 24-4 mo.-1768. (R34).
(1663.) to (1665.) No further record.
Sent by Marion Johnson. Ira never married and died in North Dakota. It
is possible that Alvin went to North Dakota also since I can find no other trace of him.
Sent by Jerry Roberts
Hiatt Hiett History, Volume I, page 495
(2508.) AMANDA M. BUCKINGHAM (881.) (232.) (38.) (4.) (1.):
b. 23-7mo-1846; m. 10-7mo-1886, to WILLIAM R. MASON.CH: (4567.) Jennie M.; (4568.) Sarah Grace; (4569.) Augusta Pearl.
Found in the Witnesses of North Carolina Quaker Marriages by William Perry Johnson New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carohina
Page 61 - Christopher Hiatt, son of George, Roan Co., married Lydia Beales, dau of John, same place, 23 of 9 Mo. 1762 Witnesses: John Beales, John Hiatt, Peter Dicks, Jeremiah Reynolds, Robt. Lamb, John Stone, Ann Hunt, Mary qzburn, Ruth Hoggatt, Catharine Hunt, Elizabeth Dicks, Hannah Hoggatt.Found in the Witnesses of North Carolina Quaker Marriages by William Perry Johnson New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carohina
Page 61 - Christopher Hiatt, son of George, Roan Co., married Lydia Beales, dau of John, same place, 23 of 9 Mo. 1762 Witnesses: John Beales, John Hiatt, Peter Dicks, Jeremiah Reynolds, Robt. Lamb, John Stone, Ann Hunt, Mary qzburn, Ruth Hoggatt, Catharine Hunt, Elizabeth Dicks, Hannah Hoggatt.Burritt Hiatt charts show a death date of 14 July 1801.
Birth: Batch 7423124 #98, Film 935153. Donna has the date as 17 Aug. 1717.
Sent by Thomas Hamm. As a young man John Beals moved with his parents to Maryland.
Sent by Margery Freas: Was imprisoned in England in 1681.! Birth: Batch 7423124 #98, Film 935153. Donna has the date as 17 Aug. 1717.
Margaret Hunt was a native of Bucks Co., Penn. born in 1721, the oldest child of William and Mary Woolman Hunt. Her father was a recent immigrant from Radnorshire in Wales who had come to Penn. in 1718. Her mother came from a prominent Quaker Family in Burlington, N.J. Mary Woolman Hunt's parents, John and Elizabeth Borton Woolman, were leaders among the Burlington Friends, while her grandfather, John Borton, had been a member of the New Jersey provincial legislature. Margaret's first cousin was John Woolman (1721-1772) the eminent Quaker minister and pioneer abolitionist whose Journal is considered a spiritual classic. Her brother William Hunt, Jr. (1733-1772) was also a well
known Quaker minister who traveled widely and died on a visit to England.William and Mary Woolman Hunt had lived in Bucks Co., unil 1730, when they moved to Nottingham. In 1736 they moved again, to Prince George Co., Maryland. Three of their five children married into the Beals family.
After their marriage, John and Margaret Beals moved across the Potomac to the Hopewell settlement of Friends in Frederick Co., Va. On March 1, 1743 John purchased 165 acres of land for six pounds from his brother-in-law John Mills. He remained on it at least 11 years until Nov 1, 1754 when he sold it for 5 shillings. This was a considerable loss, but it may be that rumors of the Indian war that did come in 1755 impelled him to move his family farther south.
The family's new home in Guilford Co., N.C. where many Friends, including all of Johns siblings had already settled.
The records of New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford Co., show that John Beals and his family were received on certificate from Hopewell MM in Vir., 5 Mo 27, 1758. John's brother-in-law William Hunt, however, recorded in his diary
that on Feb 5, 1755, he stayed at John's house in Guilford Co. Land records show that in 1756 John took up land in the vicinity of what in now Jamestown in southwestern Guilford Co. Later John and Margaret moved a few miles east to
the vicinity of Center Friends Meeting house. The log cabin that John built late in the 1750's was still standing and was used as a farm shed as late as the 1940's. A photgraph is in the Friends Historical Collection at Guilford College in Greensboro.In N.C., John and Margaret became members of New Garden MM., which until 1773 embraced all of the Quakers in Guilford Co. John and Margaret and their siblings were active in Quaker affairs, serving on committees and attending
quarterly and yearly meetings. This did not preclude an occasional lapse from grace. The New Garden men's minutes for 1st Mo 27, 1759 show that "John Beals, Senr., haveing some time ago Drunk strong liquor to Excess now Signifies his Sorrow therefor in a paper produced to this Meeting which is accepted for Satisfaction and Hur Mills is appointed to read it publickly at the close of a first day meeting at Deep River and make Report to the next meeting." Margaret
was apparently firmer in the light. In 1761 she was recorded a minister among Friends.John and Margaret apparetnly spent their last years in the home of their daughter Hannah at Center. Just before his death, John Beals had a remarkable experience, a record of which has been preserved at Guilford College:
A remarkable account related by John Beals a little before his death to a friend at the close of a religious opportunity in the family to the following Import: having had a fit of sickness but hen on the recovery tho' very weak he desired his family one evening to retire to rest sooner than usual all despistion to sleep being taken away his wife lying beside him on a sudden the door of this room opening a person drew to his bed side clothed in white raiment and bade him to arise and follow him which he did they went out of the room together and ascended up throught the air and was brought by his guide to heaven and placed before the great being who was seated on a bright throne of glory and his guide disappeared the divine being looking upon him enquired how he came there to which he relied that a person in white raiment came to him and conducted him thither and calling the guide who had conducted him to this glorious place he bade him to take him and show him the glory of the saints which he beheld his heart was overcome with joy and he was desirious of remaining there forever but was informed that he must go back again to the world and remain for two days and a half and if he spent his time in faithfulness he should return at the accomplishment thereof and have his inheritance among the saints, whom he beheld forever. Then he said to the guide take him where he may have a fragrant smell. He was accordingly conducted to a place where a door opened out of which came the most delightful
odor he had ever before experienced and he was soon filled there with and afterwards brought back by his guide to his chamber and the bed where he lay and remarked that his fragrant smell remained in his nostrells for many days
and that he recovered very fast afterwards from his sickness and apprehended it might not be long e're the season was accomplished when even the two days and a half which was alotted and if preserved to the end he trusted what he had been would be fulfilled.One of Margaret (Hunt) Beals's writing has also been preserved. It was published in 1858 in Memoirs of William and Nathan Hunt. It is Margaret's Testimony to the memory of her younger brother, William Hunt, the minister who died on a visit to England in 1772. It had the sing-song quality in which the old Quakers customarily preacher.
Oh my brother, how lovely and pleasant thou hast been to me! Thou hast forsaken all that was near and dear to thee in this world to follow the Lamb both by sea and land. Thour didst obey the heavenly voice and preferred the Lord's work before thy own. Thou hast gone to and fro in many parts of the earth to sound forth the trumpet of the Lord, and hast been able to speak a word in due season. It was they delight to meditate on the law of the Lord.
Ah, my brother, what shall i say in remembrance of thee? Surely I may lament the loss of such a friend; although I have no cause to mourn that thou art laid in the silent grave, yet livinly speaketh inthe hearts of many. Oh, the many deep baptims, trials, and exercises thou hast gone through with much meekness and patience. thou didst improve thy talents (as if thou knewest how short thy time shoud be) unto the praise of Him that first did raise they mind from eartly things to heavenly. Thou hast been a valiant soldier in the holy warfare, to promote the honour and glory of God;
so, after many hard labours and travails for the promotion of truth, thou hast ended thy days in a dsitant land, where I believe thou hast gone to everlasting rest and peace, with glory crowned, amongst saints and angels forever blest. Oh
that he Lord would be pleased to raise up many more such faithful laborers in his vineyears! Now we are left behind; let it be our daily care to keep down in humility, in patience and self-denial, in reverence and holy fear before the Lord, that, when this short and uncertain time here is at an end, we may be thought worthy of an inheritance amontst the sanctified, where we may sing praises forevermore. So saith one that wisheth well to all mankind.Margaret Beals
4th of the 2nd Mo., 1773