Elisha DeWitt
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Elisha DeWitt
| Isabelle Cluff (View posts) | Posted: 29 Jan 1999 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bird, Records, DeWitt, Downey, Reeves, Downey, Downing, Materson, Jackson
Thanks Liz for pausing from digging to post a quiere regarding Elisha b. 1762 of VA.
One of the first records which may refer to the above Elisha is from: "The Early History of Falmouth, Pendleton Co, KY Dec. 10, 1793 - Feb. 20, 1837" which on pg. 9 quotes "Spencer Record's Memoir of the Ohio Valley Frontier" ------ Mr. Records tells of his trip made in the fall of 1783 (the year the Rev. War ended) from Peter's Creek, near Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania down the Monongahela River to the mouth of Limestone Creek. He describes a buffalo road which led past May's Lick about 12 miles from Limestone which went on to Lower Blue Lick on the Licking River, which they
travelled to by boat (flatboat??). Leaving their boat on the Ohio, they went by canoe and periogue to the fork of the Licking Creek where they found a wagon road which had been cut out by the British officer, Colonel Bird who had previously ascended Licking in keel boats with six hundred Canadians and Indians.
Mr. Records and his cousins took this wagon road and went on in snow which was about half leg deep. His journal then states: "Early in the morning about three miles from Riddle's Fort, we came upon three families encamped who had landed at Limestone, but finding no road, had wandered through the woods, crossed Licking and happening to find Colonel Bird's road, took it. The night before we came to them, Mrs. Downey was brought to her bed. They were poor folk and did not have so much as a spare blanket to stretch over her... we were obliged to put up forks and poles and place brush threron for a kind of shelter ...she had no necessities of any kind, not even bread, nothing but venison and turkey. ... she had several children one of them a young woman.....I have mentioned this circumstance, for the encouragement of other; we should in all times of trouble, trial or difficulty put our trust in the Lord, who alone is able to save all that put their trust in him. The names of these families were REEVES, DEWIT, and DOWNEY." (end of journal excerpt).
(NOTE: Until 1792 all of present-day Kentucky was part of Virginia and was at first called Kentucky Dist, VA.)
"The 1787 Census of Virginia, An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male, tithable Over 21 Years" compiled by Nettie Schreiner - Yantis and Florence Speakman Love in 3 volumes lists: Bourbon County, (Kentucky Dist.) Virginia --- Vol 1, pp. 375, 376
Elisha Dewitt "self", 3 cattle
Timothy Downing, "self" 1 horse, 6 cattle
Elijah REEVES, "self" 1 male 16-21, 12 cattle
John Materson, "self", 4 horses, 3 cattle
Petitions of Early Inhabitants of KY to the General Assembly of Virginia 1769 - 1792"
LDS Film # 1,425,691 --- 6th item on the film
Petition #32 dated 25 Aug 1786 --- sundry inhabitants settled in that part of the county of Bourbon known by the name of Limestone Settlement petition for a distinct county to be created from that part of Bourbon Co. situated north of Licking Creek down to the Ohio River. Signed by Elishua Dewitt, Timothy Downing, Elijah REEVES and others.
Petition #34 dated 22 Aug 1786 -- sundry inhabitants of Bourbon Co, Kentucky Dist. most of them settled in a new village called Washington in the settlemment of Limestone in the city aforesaid, ...about 50 families ... ask that the said village be judged the most central and convenient place and proper place for erecting public buildings for the use of a county as soon as one is laid off and humbly pray that your honourable House will establish the said Village into a Town by the name of Washington ---- Signed Elisha Dewitt, Timothy REEVES, Elijah REEVES and others.
It appears from the later petitions that the STRANDED families of Dewitt, DOWNEY and REEVES recorded in Spencer Record's journal probably are the three men by the same surname in the later petitions.
Does anyone have more specific detail regarding WHERE THESE FAMILIES ORIGINALLY CAME FROM ????
Elisha Dewitt b. 1762 named a son Elijah REEVES Dewitt (b. 27 Aug 1796 @ Nelson Co, KY)
Elisha Dewitt b. 1762 is found in the following census:
1800 & 1801 Tax List of Hardin Co, KY (vacinity of Nolin) with a son (taxable) age 16 - 21 (who may be Barnet Dewitt b. 24 Dec. 1781 in Maryland and md. 13 Nov 1806 Arcada Jackson in Fleming Co, KY)
1810 Census of Grayson Co, KY (Grayson Co was formed from Hardin Co, in 1810)
1820 Census of Troy, Perry Co, IND
1830 Census of Andersen Two, Perry Co, IND (both he and his wife? are listed in household age 60 - 70)
No record to date has listed Elisha b. 1762 wife name though from the 1830 census above she appears to have lived a lengthy life. One wonders if her surname may have been REEVES since they seemed to have migrated into KY with the REEVES family and names a son Elijah REEVES Dewitt.
Has anyone come accross a Dewitt / REEVES marriage ca. 1780???????
in MD, VA, WVA, PENN, NJ ???/???
One of the first records which may refer to the above Elisha is from: "The Early History of Falmouth, Pendleton Co, KY Dec. 10, 1793 - Feb. 20, 1837" which on pg. 9 quotes "Spencer Record's Memoir of the Ohio Valley Frontier" ------ Mr. Records tells of his trip made in the fall of 1783 (the year the Rev. War ended) from Peter's Creek, near Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania down the Monongahela River to the mouth of Limestone Creek. He describes a buffalo road which led past May's Lick about 12 miles from Limestone which went on to Lower Blue Lick on the Licking River, which they
travelled to by boat (flatboat??). Leaving their boat on the Ohio, they went by canoe and periogue to the fork of the Licking Creek where they found a wagon road which had been cut out by the British officer, Colonel Bird who had previously ascended Licking in keel boats with six hundred Canadians and Indians.
Mr. Records and his cousins took this wagon road and went on in snow which was about half leg deep. His journal then states: "Early in the morning about three miles from Riddle's Fort, we came upon three families encamped who had landed at Limestone, but finding no road, had wandered through the woods, crossed Licking and happening to find Colonel Bird's road, took it. The night before we came to them, Mrs. Downey was brought to her bed. They were poor folk and did not have so much as a spare blanket to stretch over her... we were obliged to put up forks and poles and place brush threron for a kind of shelter ...she had no necessities of any kind, not even bread, nothing but venison and turkey. ... she had several children one of them a young woman.....I have mentioned this circumstance, for the encouragement of other; we should in all times of trouble, trial or difficulty put our trust in the Lord, who alone is able to save all that put their trust in him. The names of these families were REEVES, DEWIT, and DOWNEY." (end of journal excerpt).
(NOTE: Until 1792 all of present-day Kentucky was part of Virginia and was at first called Kentucky Dist, VA.)
"The 1787 Census of Virginia, An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male, tithable Over 21 Years" compiled by Nettie Schreiner - Yantis and Florence Speakman Love in 3 volumes lists: Bourbon County, (Kentucky Dist.) Virginia --- Vol 1, pp. 375, 376
Elisha Dewitt "self", 3 cattle
Timothy Downing, "self" 1 horse, 6 cattle
Elijah REEVES, "self" 1 male 16-21, 12 cattle
John Materson, "self", 4 horses, 3 cattle
Petitions of Early Inhabitants of KY to the General Assembly of Virginia 1769 - 1792"
LDS Film # 1,425,691 --- 6th item on the film
Petition #32 dated 25 Aug 1786 --- sundry inhabitants settled in that part of the county of Bourbon known by the name of Limestone Settlement petition for a distinct county to be created from that part of Bourbon Co. situated north of Licking Creek down to the Ohio River. Signed by Elishua Dewitt, Timothy Downing, Elijah REEVES and others.
Petition #34 dated 22 Aug 1786 -- sundry inhabitants of Bourbon Co, Kentucky Dist. most of them settled in a new village called Washington in the settlemment of Limestone in the city aforesaid, ...about 50 families ... ask that the said village be judged the most central and convenient place and proper place for erecting public buildings for the use of a county as soon as one is laid off and humbly pray that your honourable House will establish the said Village into a Town by the name of Washington ---- Signed Elisha Dewitt, Timothy REEVES, Elijah REEVES and others.
It appears from the later petitions that the STRANDED families of Dewitt, DOWNEY and REEVES recorded in Spencer Record's journal probably are the three men by the same surname in the later petitions.
Does anyone have more specific detail regarding WHERE THESE FAMILIES ORIGINALLY CAME FROM ????
Elisha Dewitt b. 1762 named a son Elijah REEVES Dewitt (b. 27 Aug 1796 @ Nelson Co, KY)
Elisha Dewitt b. 1762 is found in the following census:
1800 & 1801 Tax List of Hardin Co, KY (vacinity of Nolin) with a son (taxable) age 16 - 21 (who may be Barnet Dewitt b. 24 Dec. 1781 in Maryland and md. 13 Nov 1806 Arcada Jackson in Fleming Co, KY)
1810 Census of Grayson Co, KY (Grayson Co was formed from Hardin Co, in 1810)
1820 Census of Troy, Perry Co, IND
1830 Census of Andersen Two, Perry Co, IND (both he and his wife? are listed in household age 60 - 70)
No record to date has listed Elisha b. 1762 wife name though from the 1830 census above she appears to have lived a lengthy life. One wonders if her surname may have been REEVES since they seemed to have migrated into KY with the REEVES family and names a son Elijah REEVES Dewitt.
Has anyone come accross a Dewitt / REEVES marriage ca. 1780???????
in MD, VA, WVA, PENN, NJ ???/???