Earl, Thanks so much for all the good information you sent to the List. Do you also have information on Frankey Banks Hitt wife of John Hitt? Thanks. 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 > > >