This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dewitt Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CEB.2ACI/687 Message Board Post: I am trying to determine if the African-American family Dewitt family in Desoto took its name from the white family in Desoto of the same name circa 1860.