To Earl Hitt I went back and re read your message and found the information on Frankey Banks Hitt. The source for her birth and death date came from the church book. Where did the information on her parents come from? I still could not find a sourse for the birth date of her husband John Hitt. Is it in the church book also? It is probably as plain as the nose on my face, but I don't find it. Cassie -----Original Message----- From: Earl J. Hitt <Earl_Hitt@email.msn.com> To: <HITT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:51 AM Subject: Re: John Hitt >Perhaps the following will help with the John and Frances (Banks) Hitt >discussion. This is information directly from my computer data base and was >developed over several years or researching the Missouri Hitts. > >1. Henry HITT[1,2,3,4] was born about 1719 in Germanna, Essex County, >Virginia. Henry was born at Germanna in Essex County (now Orange County, >Virginia). He died after 1783 in Edgefield County, South Carolina. Peter >Hitt, Henry's father, willed him only 100 pounds cash money. This could be >interpreted that Peter had disinherited Henry, however, it is more likely >that Henry was given his inheritance when he and Alice Holtzclaw married. >The couple also inherited property (300 acres) from Alice's father, Jacob >Holtzclaw and they were living on this land in 1759 according to Jacob >Holtzclaw's will. > On 22 July 1748, Henry was deeded 200 acres of land on Goose Creek in >Prince William County, Virginia (Later Fauquier County) by George Doggett >and his wife Ann. (Prince William County, Virginia Deed Book L, p. 58). On >18 October 1764, Henry and his wife Alice, Halifax County, Virginia, deeded >the same 200 acres of land to Henry's brother, Harman Hitt (Fauquier County, >Virginia Deed Book 2, p. 301). On 15 November 1764, John Lawson, Jr. of >Orange County, North Carolina deeded to Henry Hitt of Halifax County 202 >acres of land on the South Side of Dan River (Halifax County, Virginia Deed >Book 5, p. 249). On 12 October 1779, Henry deeded to John Dicke 202 acres >of land in Halifax County. (Halifax County, Virginia Deed Book 11, p. 371). > Based upon the land records cited, it is believed that Henry and Alice >moved from Culpeper County to Halifax County, Virginia in about 1759 and >were living in South Carolina in 1779. Henry would have been about 53 years >old when his father died and he and Alice may have already moved to >Edgefield County, South Carolina. It is believed that Henry died intestate >in South Carolina before the 1790 Census was taken. No will has been found. > Henry was married to Alice Katherine HOLTZCLAW (daughter of Hans Jacob >HOLTZCLAW and Anna Margaret OTTERBACH) in Fauquier County, Virginia. Alice >Katherine HOLTZCLAW[5,6] was born about 1724 in Fauquier County, Virginia. >Alice Katherine Hitt was named as a daughter and the wife of Henry Hitt in >the will of her father, Jacob Holtzcalw, which was dated 15 January 1759 and >proven 19 February 1760. They were living on the land they inherited from >Alice's father in 1759. Henry HITT and Alice Katherine HOLTZCLAW had the >following children: > > +2 i. John HITT. > 3 ii. James HITT. > 4 iii. Peter HITT. > 5 iv. Ailsey HITT[7,8]. > 6 v. Susannah "Susan" HITT[7,9] was born about 1766 in Fauquier County, >Virginia. One family history says that this Susan Hitt married Art >Gladstone in December 1786, which is believed to be in error. Others have >Susanna Hitt, daughter of John Hitt (Henry's Brother) as married to Arthur >Gladstone in 1786. > 7 vi. Anna HITT. > >SOURCES for Henry Hitt > >[1] Francis B. Heitman. Historical Register of Officers and Soldiers of >the Continental Army. >[2] Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw; Charles Herbert Huffman, Editor. The >Germanna Record, Number 1; Peter Hitt, John Joseph Martin, and Tillman >Weaver of the 1714 Colony and their descendants. The Memorial Foundation of >the Germanna Colonies, Inc., Culpeper, VA, July 1961; Second printing >February 1982. p. 29, 30, 37. >[3] B. C. Holtzclaw. Germanna Record No. 5; Ancestry and Descendants of >the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750. The Memorial >Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, Inc., P.O. Box 693, Culpeper, Virginia, >22701; 1964. pp. 260-261. >[4] Journal of Society of Germanna Colonies, Vol I, No. 3. p. 79. >[5] Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw. Germanna Record No. 14; The Holtzclaw >Genealogy 1540-1935; Reprint of an original document published in 1936. >Memorial Foundation of Germanna Colonies, Inc.; 1990 Reprint. >[6] B. C. Holtzclaw. Germanna Record No. 5; Ancestry and Descendants of >the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750. The Memorial >Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, Inc., P.O. Box 693, Culpeper, Virginia, >22701; 1964. p. 260. >[7] Ruby Cox Eddleman; copyright 1983. The Cox-Bates Family and Related >Families; Allen, Kincaid, Hitt, Banks, Holtzclaw, Bruce, Echols, Hicks, >Royall, Fleming, Starnes, Povall, Miller, Pannill, Simmons, and others. >Robert E. Parkin; Genealogical R&D Research & Productions, 661 Clayton Road, >Suite 1B, St. Louis, MO 63117; 1983. >[8] Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw; Charles Herbert Huffman, Editor. The >Germanna Record, Number 1; Peter Hitt, John Joseph Martin, and Tillman >Weaver of the 1714 Colony and their descendants. The Memorial Foundation of >the Germanna Colonies, Inc., Culpeper, VA, July 1961; Second printing >February 1982. p. 30. >[9] Germanna Record No. 1 and No. 5. Jesse Martin Hitt Unpublished >Manuscript. >Book: Poe Family Line. p. 30. > >------------------------------------------------- > >1. John HITT[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] was born on 8 Jan 1759 in Fauquier County, >Virginia.9 He died on 2 Nov 1839 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. He >was buried in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. John Hitt was a >revolutionary soldier and on or about 28 March 1833 he made application for >a pension (Cape Girardeau County, Book D, page 332). John also served in >the South Carolina Militia under Col. Anderson. On 14 June 1833 John filed >an indenture in favor of his son John, Jr. leaving him all his farm animals >and personal property (Cape Girardeau County, Book H, page 130). > It is believed that John and Frances moved to South Carolina about 1785 >before the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth. The 1790 Census for South >Carolina shows a John Hitt in the 96th District with 2 males over 16, 4 >males under 16 and five females. > They moved to Washington County, Georgia, where John and his son, >William, entered the Georgia Land Lottery in 1805, but neither was awarded >any land. To be eligible for the lottery, they were required to have lived >in Georgia for at least a year. John was a Baptist and there are several >notes in the Bethlehem Church minutes concerning John and Franky in 1803 and >1804. (Bethlehem Church at Warthen, Washington County, Georgia). Then, in >about 1806, John and Franky sold their land in Georgia to John Banks, >Franky's brother, and moved on to Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. (The >Hitts traveled with a group to Missouri; that group including: William and >Charity Matthews, John and Nancy Sheppard, Thomas and Jane English, and >Catherine Anderson; See Bock Book) > On 19 July 1806, John and Frances Hitt joined with Rev. David Green, >George Lawrence and Henry Codkerham, deacons, and with a group of other >Baptist residents to organize a Baptist church called "Bethel." (First >permanent Protestant Church to be established west of the Mississippi River) >The church ceased to function in about 1868. (History of Old Bethel Church, >Mrs. Edgar Bock). Many of John and Frances' children were also members of >the Bethel Church. On 24 October 1906, the Missouri Baptist General >Association erected a monument at the Old Bethel Cemetery. The inscription >on the monument reads: > > "Old Bethel Baptist Church, the first permanent non-Catholic church west of >the Mississippi River. Constituted July 19, 1906 with these members: Thomas >English, Leaunde Green, Jane English, Agnes Ballou, Thomas Bull, Edward >Spears, Anderson Rodgers, John Hitt, Clara Abernathy, Catherine Anderson, >Rebecca Randol, Francis Hitt, William Mathews. The Missouri Baptist General >Association commemorated with a celebration and the erection of this >monument Oct. 24, 1906." > > The Old Bethel Cemetery is located in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri; 3 >miles south, slightly east of Jackson, and a mile west of Hwy. 25, on the >farm of William A. Lowes. > John appears in the 1829 Tax List for Cape Girardeau as the present >claimant on 225 acres of land (original Patentee, Daniel Doigin); and as >present claiment on 200 acres of land for which James Cox was the original >claimant. > Before John died he deeded his land to his sons. On 5 October 1819, he >deeded to his son John Hitt, Jr. 255 acres of land, "in consideration of the >natural love and affection for my son John Hitt, Jr.".(Cape Girardeau >County, Missouri, Land Records, Jackson, Missouri, Deed Book E, pp 113/14). >On 17 August 1827, "in consideration of the nartural affection I have to my >beloved son Henry Hitt of Cape Girardeau County, I give all the plantation I >now live on containing two hundred and seventeen acres, to revert and >descend to him at my death". (Deed Book G, p. 162). On 29 June 1819, John >and Frances Hitt deeded five acres to their son-in-law, James Cox, Jr., for >the sum of twenty-five cents. (Deed Book E, pp 59/60). On 14 June 1833, >John conveyed all his personal property to his son John Hitt, Jr. (Deed Book >H, pp. 129-130). John evidently felt that a will was not required of him >since he had deeded all his land and personal property to his sons during >his lifetime. > John and Frances are both buried in the John Hitt Cemetery at Cape >Girardeau. John Hitt's obituary can be found on page 53 in the Old Bethel >Baptist Church minutes. Franky's obituary can be found on page 65 of the >minutes. > On 9 November 1839 the following note appears in the minutes of the >Bethel Baptist Church near Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri: > > Church conference opened by prayer and proceeded to business. Resolved >that a biographical sketch of the life of Bros. Jno. Hitt, deceased be >placed in the Church Book. The Bethel Church unanimously agreed in a >resolution that a biographical sketch of the life and conversation of their >Decd. Bros. John Hitt be placed in the Church Book and a memorial of >departed worth. > "John Hitt fromthe best information we can obtain, has been a member of >the Baptist Church near 50 years all of which time we have reason to believe >has never once swerved from his profession, but has been a very orderly and >an exemplary christian, showing the reality of his profession although >confined to his home for a long time. Yet he was extremely patient under >all his affection. He departed this life Nov. 2, 1839. Firmly fixed in the >faith he had lived in. In the 80th year of his useful life." > >Note: B. C. Holtzclaw (Germanna Record No. 5) wrote that John, the son of >Joseph Hitt, Jr., who married Frances Holtzclaw moved to Cape Girardeau, >lived, died and is buried there. This is incorrect. Holtzclaw listing of >John and Frances (Banks) Hitt's children is also incorrect, although all the >Hitts were from the Cape Girardeau, Missouri area. Holtzclaw cited mostly >the grandchildren of John and Frances (Banks) Hitt. > > John was married to Frances "Franky" BANKS (daughter of Gerard BANKS Jr. >and Frances BRUCE) on 21 Jan 1782 in Halifax County, Virginia.[10] Frances >"Franky" BANKS[6,11,8] was born on 8 Sep 1763 in Halifax County, Virginia. >She died on 17 May 1852 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. She was buried >in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The 1850 Census for Cape Girardeau >County, Missouri lists Frances living with her daughter, Mary, and her >husband John Randol. She gave her age as 87 born in Virginia. Frances >died at the home of her daughter, Mary. > On 13 November 1852 the following note was made in the Church Book of >the Bethel Baptist Church: > "Sister Frans Hitt departed this life the 17 day of May A.D. 1852, she >was born Sept. 8, 1763, and was baptised by Bro. Joseph Baker in 1804 in the >state of Georgia, Washington County, in Bethel Church, she move from Georgia >to Missouri, Cape Girardeau County and was received by letter into the >Bethel Church A.D. 1806. Making in all an orderly member of the regular >Baptist Church forty eight years." > John HITT and Frances "Franky" BANKS had the following children: > > +2 i. William HITT. > 3 ii. Elizabeth HITT[2,12] was born on 4 May 1785 in Edgefield County, >South Carolina. She died young. > +4 iii. Benjamin HITT Sr.. > +5 iv. Anna HITT. > +6 v. Rachel HITT. > +7 vi. John HITT Jr.. > +8 vii. Mary Katherine "Polly" HITT. > +9 viii. Sarah HITT. > +10 ix. Henry Banks HITT. > 11 x. Ailsey HITT was born on 7 Jun 1805 in Washington County, Georgia. >He died in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. Died young. > >SOURCES for John Hitt > >[1] Beatrice Myers & Vada Phillips. Hitt Highlights, Supplement to >Benjamin Hitt & Nancy Curnal, their Antecedents and Descendants. Private >Publication, 10 Aug 1987. Copy at Memorial Foundation Library, Germanna >Community College. >[2] Ruby Cox Eddleman; copyright 1983. The Cox-Bates Family and Related >Families; Allen, Kincaid, Hitt, Banks, Holtzclaw, Bruce, Echols, Hicks, >Royall, Fleming, Starnes, Povall, Miller, Pannill, Simmons, and others. >Robert E. Parkin; Genealogical R&D Research & Productions, 661 Clayton Road, >Suite 1B, St. Louis, MO 63117; 1983. >[3] Compiled by Marie De Lamar & Elisabeth Rothstein. Records of >Washington County, Georgia. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, >1985. p. 27. >[4] B. C. Holtzclaw. Germanna Record No. 5; Ancestry and Descendants of >the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750. The Memorial >Foundation of the Germanna Colonies, Inc., P.O. Box 693, Culpeper, Virginia, >22701; 1964. p. 190, 191. >[5] Dr. Benjamin C. Holtzclaw; Charles Herbert Huffman, Editor. The >Germanna Record, Number 1; Peter Hitt, John Joseph Martin, and Tillman >Weaver of the 1714 Colony and their descendants. The Memorial Foundation of >the Germanna Colonies, Inc., Culpeper, VA, July 1961; Second printing >February 1982. p. 27, 30. >[6] Mrs. Edgar Bock. History of Old Bethel; Biography of Historic Cape >Girardeau County,. A Project of the Bicentennial Commission of Cape >Girardeau, Missouri, 1976, p 34. >[7] Marie Allene (Hitt) Stalon. Ancestors and Descendants of William >Benjamin Hitt and Mary Elizabeth Zimmerman, 1714 - 1982. Private >Publication, June 1982. p. 33-44. >[8] Loyd Collins. Bethel Church Book Minutes of Proceedings of the Bethel >Church, 1806-1867. Missouri Historical Records Survey, Division of >Professional and Service Projects, Works Projects Administration; St. Louis, >Missouri; 1940. >[9] International Genealogical Index, L.D.S. FHC; Batch 8119401, Sheet No. >57, Call No. 1260928. >[10] International Genealogical Index, L.D.S. FHC; Batch 8619702, Sheet No. >23, Call No. 1396218; Batch 8719602, Sheet No. 1, 1396384. >[11] Gleanings from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Newspapers. >[12] Marie Allene (Hitt) Stalon. Ancestors and Descendants of William >Benjamin Hitt and Mary Elizabeth Zimmerman, 1714 - 1982. Private >Publication, June 1982. p. 39-40. > >----------------------------- > >Hope the above is of some assistance. Also you might want to refer to my >web site at: > >http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/3596/ > >Earl J. Hitt > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ellen M. Crawford <emcraw@azstarnet.com> >To: HITT-L@rootsweb.com <HITT-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:23 AM >Subject: Re: John Hitt > > >>Hi to everone! I am so happy that I asked about the >>Hitt/Banks/Holtzclaw families. I want to thank everyone who has >>answered me personally and for the messages on the Hitt List. >> >> I also like to have any information I can find on any of the >>descendants of a family I am researching. If you think it would be of >>interest to anyone I will post my husband's line from John Hitt and >>Franky Banks. I have gotten a lot of information from other people but >>on his direct line I have lots of proof, so feel comfortable with it. I >>would love to exchange info with any and all. Isn't genealogy >>wonderful? Ellen >> >>Cassie wrote: >>> >>> OH I would like your descendency from John Hitt and Franky Banks. >>> And also do you have information on Frankey Banks? I don't have any. >> >>Mike wrote: >>> I think most of us who have collected Hitt family data have the older >generations, leading back to the Germanna colony in VA and back to their >German ancestors, but >less on many of the more modern branches such as the >one you describe. I for one am interested in following all branches to their >present generations. >> >> >>==== HITT Mailing List ==== >> List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received >>when you subscribed. Feel free to contact Yvonne James-Henderson, >>list administrator with questions concerning this list! >>mailto:hen1@idt.net >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >==== HITT Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > >