Thomas Hite.....my wife is a descendant of Samuel Hite and Mary Ann Pendrill and the Aboriginal story has been going around for years. Together with some mebers of the Hite Family I have done a considerable amount of research and proved that it is 99.99% NON FACTUAL. If anyone is interested I can provide supporting information including and not limited to.. The assertion by a Hite descendant in the book The Wailing...A National Black Oral History, by Ian RintoullThe application, granting and subsequent cancellation of a Certificate of Aboriginal Heritage.The Britton Family carried this connection on Tribal pages and withdrew it without comment when asked for prove. The research is far to voluminous to include here so anyone interested in sharing my conclusions can contact me. George Herring [chuditch@iinet.net.au]