Records recovered, put together and shared by blessings of priest and Parish Archist, Philip Abaya Jamisola, researcher and recorder. Approved by: Rev. Francisco; Rev. Fr. Crisolito R. Geangan, Parish Priest/Museum Curator.
Records from Archivo de la Iglesia De Baclayon, Immaculate Conception Parish, Baclayon, Bohol. The records were taken directly from the original archibes in the church, put together and prepared by the local historian and records keeper by direction and approval of the resident priest. I visited this Parish today and last week, met the Priest who was very generous, kind and helpful, excited himself that records of his families of the parish were being recorded. 2 Oct 2013, Larry Anderson while visiting Bohol for a 9 month stay, living while there in Tagbilaran City, Bohol.
Maria died single, never married. Records from Parish records of Baclayon Parish Church, Baclayon, Bohol, Philippines.
Sent by Sue Baker, also by Connie Dabel of West Valley, Ut. Found in HH book, pg. 228 and 235, Mary and Thomas were second cousins, their grandfathers being brothers. This family removed to Hancock Co., IN by 1850.
Found in 1850 Census of Brown Twp., Hancock Co., IN. No further records of them in the HH book, Vol I by William Perry Johnson. See further info in Vol II and III of this family.(406.) THOMAS HIATT (81.) (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. c1821, NC.; m. 2 November 1843 (date of marriage bond, Henry Co., Ind.), to (389.) MARY HIATT, d/o (75.) John and Rachel (Reese). Hiatt; b. 24-11mo-1824. To Hancock Co., Indiana, by 1850.1850 Census, Brown Twp., Hancock Co., Indiana:
Thomas Hiatt - 29 - Farmer - NC.
Mary - 25 - Ohio
Henry - 12 (?). - Ind. (Probably not a son -- editor.)Thomas Hiatt and Mary Hiatt were second cousins, their grandfathers being brothers.
Sent by Sue Baker.
(390.) MARY HIATT (75.) (10.) (2.) (1.):
b. 24-11mo-1824; m. in Henry Co., Indiana, 2 November 1843, to (406.) THOMAS HIATT, son of (81.) William and ---- (----). Hiatt; b. c1821, NC. (See No. (406.) ). (Thomas Hiatt and Mary Hiatt were second cousins, their grandfathers being brothers.)From p. 34 in Larry Anderson Book. Sent to Dennis in England. Also p. 91 where it says her information has already been printed in his book and descendants of this couple have already been printed.
See HH Book, vol I, pg 126-128. Married first to Elizabeth, secondly to Sarah Dunigan and had at least one child, Thomas, probably others, with Sarah. Chris has the birth place as Guilford, North Carolina.
FOURTH GENERATION: GRANDCHILDREN OF JOHN HIATT, JR.
(81.) WILLIAM HIATT (11.) (2.) (1.):
b. 28-11mo-1762, Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC., pob. Post 1830, Henry Co., Indiana; m. (1st). c1792, Surry or Stokes Co., NC., to (?ELIZABETH -------)., parentage unknown; b. date and place not known; d. prop. prior 1818 Surry or Stokes Co., NC.;m. (?2nd). 1817, Surry Co., NC., to SARAH DUNIGAN, parentage unknown; b. ate and place not known; d. prior 1830, prob. Surry Co., NC. Removed about 1829 from NC. to Indiana.
CH: (By first wife). (401.) Charles; (402.) Jesse; (403.) ?William; (404.) Rebecca (405.) ?Hiram (others.)
(By second wife). (406.) Thomas. (Others.)Westfield Mo. Mtg., Surry Co., NC.:
18-2mo-1792 - William Hiett, Jr., disowned for marriage out of unity.
19-7mo-1794 - William Hiett condemned his marriage out of unity.
23-3mo-1805 - William Hiett granted a certificate to Dep River Mo. Mtg.
Deep River Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
6-5mo-1805 - William Hiatt received on certificate from Westfield Mo. Mtg., dated 23-3mo-1805.
7-9mo-1812 - Charles Hiatt received by request.
2-11mo-1812 - William Hiatt and son Charles granted a certificate.(R45).Fairfield Mo.Mtg. Hihgland Co., Ohio:
30-10mo-1813 - A certificate received for William Hiatt and son Charles from Deep River Mo. Mtg., NC., endorsed to Westfield Mo. Mtg., NC. (R57).Westfield Mo. Mtg., Surry Co., NC.:
9-4mo-1814 - William Hiett and son Charles received on certificate from Deep River Mo. Mtg., dated 2-11mo-1812.
12-8mo-1815 - Jesse Hiett received by request.
11-4mo-1818 - William Hiett disowned for marriage out of unity.Surry Co., NC.:
1785 Tax List - Capt. Gain's District (upper Stokes co.) - William Hiett, Jr. - 1 poll.
1786 Tax List - Capt. Gain's District - William Highett, Jr. - 1 poll.
1789 Tax List - Capt. Gain's District - William Hiott, Jr. - 1 poll.
1792 Tax List -William Hyatt - 100 acres - 1 poll.
1793 Tax List - William Hiott - 100 acres - 1 poll
1794 Tax List - William Hiatt - 100 acres - 1 poll.
1795 Tax List - Capt. Humphrey's District - William Hiatt, Jr. - 100 acres - 1 poll.
1796 Tax List - Capt. Humphrey'a District - William Hiett - 100 acres - 1 poll. (The only Hiatt given on the 1796 Tax List of Surry Co., NC. -ed).
1797 Tax List - Capt. Stone's District - William Hiet - 100 acres - 1 poll - 1 River Worker.
1798 Tax List - Capt. Word's District - William Hiet - 50 acres - 1 poll.
William Hiott - 100 acres - 1 poll.
1799 Tax List - Capt. Word's District - William Highett - 50 acres - 1 poll.
1800 Tax List - Capt. Forkner's District -William Hiatt - 50 acres- 1 poll.Surry Co., NC.:
Deed Book H. p. 274 - Robert Harris to William Hiott - 50 acres - 20 pounds or dollars - Arrarat River - 20 August 1799.Deed Book K, p. 76 - William Hiett to Benjamin Bledsoe - 50 acres- 50 ounds - Arrarat River - 20 August 1803.
Deed Book N. p. 224 - Thomas A. Ward to William Hiatt - 81 acres- $75 - Thomas Barker's corner - 30 January 1814.
Deed Book N. p. 225 - Thomas A.Ward to William Hiatt - 66 acres - $60 - Stoney Creek - 2 April 1815.
Deed Book N, p. 223 - Thomas Perkins to William Hiatt - 200 acres - $300 - Stoney Creek- 5 December 1815.
Deed Book N, p.441 - William Hiatt to Charles and Jesse Hiatt - 81 acres - $2 - 22 November 1817.
Deed Book U, p. 160 - William Hyatt to Benjamin Taylor - 100 acres - $200 - Stoney Creek - Hollow Road - 26 August 1829. (54).
1804 Tax List, Stokes Co., NC.: - Deep River District - William Hyet - 96 acres.
1810 Census, Stokes Co., NC., William Hiatt - 1 male aged over 45, 1 male aged 16 to 26, 2 males aged 10 to 16, 1 male aged under 10; 1 female aged 26 to 45, 1 female aged under 10.
1820 Census, Surry Co., NC.: William Hiet - 1 male aged 45, 2 males aged 18 to 26, 1 male aged 10 to 16, 1 male aged under 10; 1 female aged over 45, 1 female aged 10 to 16, 2 females aged under 10. (This William Hiatt and his son Jesse were the only Hiatts listed on this census for Surry - ed.)
1830 Census Henry Co., Indiana: William Hiatt - 1 male aged 60 to 70, 2 males aged 5 to 10; 1 female aged 15 to 20, 1 female aged 10 to 15.
Stokes Co., NC.:
Deed Book 5, p. 116 - 2nd February 1806 - William Hiatt purchased land in Stokes Co. on Waters of Muddy Creek. (Now in Forsyth Co. - editor.)Will Book 2, pp. 167, 168 - Will of Henry Burchum - dated 9 February 1815 - I will that the land -- 198 acres -- belonging to me on Toms Creek adjoining Kinkanos be sold at public sale, and money equally divided between four people, Namely Isaiah Fields, James Burchum, Thomas Hill and William Hyat. If I should sell land I will that each of the above four men be paid $ 25 each no more. I will that the following people be paid five shillings and no more, Daniel Smith, Ephraim Thompson, Shubil Burchum. Thomas Alephant be the executor. Signed: Henry Burchum. (This Henry Burchum is uncle to the Mary Burcham who married 1783 to John Hiatt, son of William and Susannah. The William Hyat mentioned in this will is either (81.) William Hiatt, or his father (11.) William Hiatt. Shubel Burcham was an executor to the will of Jesse Hiatt, son of (81.) William Hiatt. Shubel Burcham was a brother of Mary (Hiatt). Burcham. There may have been more than one intermarriage between the Hiatts and Burchams - editor.) (R74).
William is #81 in Hiatt-Hiett book of genealogy:
!p. 149 to 161 in Jeanne Guymon's John Hiatt and His Descendants.Chapter Eight
WILLIAM HIATT AND ELIZABETH THOMPSON
EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM HIATT
William Hiatt Jr. was born 28 November 1762 in Rowan (now Guilford) County North Carolina in or near the Quaker settlement of New Garden. North Carolina was a new frontier where his parents, William Hiatt and Susannah Hodson, had come before their marriage to find peace away from the French and Indian War. His father never became involved in fighting in this war because he did not believe in killing another human being and besides the Indians had been their friends.
In the 1760's, when William was very young, the family moved away from New Garden with many of his Hiatt relatives to what became known as Westfield Monthly Meeting in or near Mt. Airy, North Carolina five miles from the Virginia border and fifty miles from New Garden. The Westfield Quaker Meetinghouse pictured on page 35 still stands there today.(1992)
William Hiatt Jr., the sixth child in the family, grew up in these North Carolina hills near Mt. Airy with five sisters and six brothers: Sarah, John, George, Susannah, Ann, (William) Rachael, Ruth, Joseph, Jacob, Jesse, Richard.
Here on a 300 acre tract of land owned by his parents he and his brothers and sisters grew up sharing the joys of roaming the wooded hills together. There were many cousins living nearby with whom they enjoyed many happy hours.
WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH MARRY
He lived during the Revolutionary War but did not become a soldier in Washingtons Army. He was married in 1792 after the war ended.
William Hiatt Jr. married Elizabeth Thompson in Surry County, North Carolina in 1792. Her maiden name [plus birth place and date] was not mentioned on the certificate because in the Quaker records the name is only recorded after the marriage ceremony and the bride takes on her husband's name. In the following Quaker record William Hiatt is disowned and latter condemned for his marriage out of unity.
Westfield Monthly Meeting., Surry County, North Carolina: 18-2mo-1792 - William Hiett, Jr., disowned for marriage out of unity. 19th day 7th month, 1794 -William Hiett condemned his marriage out of unity.
Disownment for marriage out of unity- In the Quaker Meetings there was a report made up by the committee which investigated the couple "to determine if they were 'clear' for marriage, or in other words, if either the bride or bridegroom had been promised to anyone else. The report is usually in the minutes and makes interesting, if not particularly informative, reading. If the couple were not members of the same meeting, the marriage took place at the bride's meeting." 7 P.46
The quote below from the book "Our Quaker Ancestors", explains further the meaning of disownment for marriage out of unity.
In the monthly meeting records you will encounter two terms, "marriage contrary to discipline" and "marriage out of unity" While these appear to be synonymous, they are distinctly different. "Marriage contrary to discipline" means the couple was married by a civil servant, or by a "hireling priest" (a minister of another religion), while "marriage out of unity" means one of the parties in the marriage was not a Quaker. Either of these conditions was reason enough for the couple to be "disowned" by the Quakers. "Disowned" is a term you will encounter often in meeting records. It means just what you would think--the Society does not want those "disowned" persons attending the meetings. Members could be disowned for many reasons, all detailed in these records. Also noted are names of those appointed to a committee to meet with disgraced members--not once but as many times as necessary-in an effort to convince them of the error of their ways. Once they are repentant, they are invited back to the meeting to admit publicly their wrongdoing. They are then welcomed into the group as full-fledged members once again. Again, all of this activity is fully reported in the monthly meeting minutes, in details not always complimentary to the guilty party.
The fact is, in no other religious organization was it so easy to lose one's membership. Even though the Quakers had no official creed, the organization expected members to live by a discipline dictated by the yearly meeting. Any infraction was reported to the preparative meeting which, in turn, presented it to the monthly meeting. A committee was appointed to investigate the charge and the visits to the offender began. At such time as the culprit was ready to admit wrongdoing, he or she had also to explain the reason for such heinous action. Those on the committee would then ask Divine forgiveness and all was forgotten-except for the record in the minutes. However, if the person refused to admit guilt and ask this forgiveness, the committee recommended "disownment".
By modern standards, some reasons for disownment are trivial. They include:
1.*deviating from the truth (Quaker tenants)
2.*keeping liquor in the home
3.*fighting
4.*asking high interest on loans
5.*being seen on the street while a meeting was in progress 7 p.47Quaker Meetings. - Since Quakerism demanded organization, it was natural for these southern Friends to search for a meeting to which they could report and from which they could expect support of their efforts to establish themsleves on the frontier. The entire structure of the Friends movement was built around the concept of meetings of varying function, size, and authority. There were Yearly Meetings, Quarterly Meetings, and Monthly Meetings. The Yearly Meetings were the largest being composed of many Quarterly Meetings. The Monthly Meetings and Preparative Meetings were the smallest in size, but their function and authority were different. Monthly Meetings are under the jurisdiction of the Quarterly Meetings, the Quarterly Meetings are under the jurisdition of the Yearly Meetings. Most of the records were kept in the Monthly Meetings since they were closest to the people. They were able to keep track of the needs of the people better. Preparative Meetings were held to complaints of a trivial nature from more important matters so that the agenda of the monthly meeting was not overburdened. In addition, the preparative meeting reviewed requests for membership, together with announced intentions of any members who wished to mary. The recommendations for membership came out of the separate men's and women's meetings.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH
William and his wife Elizabeth had a family of four boys, and two girls according to the 1810 census. Names of family members are not mentioned on the census until 1850. but the Hiatt book gives their names as Charles, Jesse, (my direct line) William, Hiram, and Rebecca. The other girl's name is not known.
The Revolutionary War was won by the Americans in 1783 but their was no way for the new country to raise money to pay for the food, supplies and services of the soldiers who had fought this eight year war. Thus when the country became the United States and the Constitution was signed in 1787, there was now some means of changing chaos into order. The taxing system was started in 1792.
The following paragraph gives a list of the taxes paid by William Hiatt beginning in 1792
William's name was on the tax list in 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798 as owning 100 acres of land in Surry County. His father deeded it to him the same year that he was married in 1792. In August of 1799 he bought 50 acres for 20 pounds near the Arrarat River which was also near his father's farm where he had grown up.
In the year 1803 his Hiatt relatives began to emigrate into the wild frontiers of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois along with the main body of Quaker people. They were seeking a place where slavery was not accepted or practiced. His father, William Hiatt Sr, moved to the area of Ohio from Grayson County, Virginia with many of the Quaker Hiatts about 1803. William Hiatt Jr. did not choose to move to Ohio at that time. Instead he moved his family from Mt. Airy back to the Quaker community, Deep River Monthly Meeting in Guilford, North Carolina.
He sold this 50 acres in Mt. Airy for 50 pounds, at a profit of 30 pounds and bought 96 acres in the Deep River District. This was in the area where the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought during the recent Revolutionary War. Notice that the money classification was changed from pounds to dollars about 1804.
He and his family were received on certificate of removal (shown below) into the New Garden Quaker settlement in Guilford from the Westfield Monthly Meeting dated 23rd day 3rd month 1805. This was the same vicinity where he was born and where his father, William, had first settled when he first came from Winchester, Virginia to North Carolina in 1751.
Deep River Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carolina --6th day-5th month-1805. William Hiatt received on certificate from Westfield Monthly Meeting, dated 23rd day- 3rd month 1805.
When a family wished to change locations, a certificate of removal was requested from its present meeting. A committee was appointed to determine if the family affairs were in order. If there were no debts outstanding and if all members of the family were in complete harmony with friends and neighbors, the committee reported that a certificate could be issued. This document could name the father, mother, all the children, the monthly meeting to which they were going, and the date. The meeting issuing the certificate is named also.
They lived at the Deep River Monthly Meeting, in the Guilford Courthouse area from 1804 until 1813.
WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH CONTEMPLATE MOVE TO OHIO
Since the main body of Hiatts had already gone west with the Quakers between the years 1803 and 1813, William and Elizabeth wondered if they should go west with the rest of the clan. William Hiatt Jr. and his older son Charles took a trip to Ohio in 1813 to check out the conditions as to whether they wanted to move or not. The following Quaker Certificates of Removal show that they first got a certificate from the Deep River Monthly Meeting in September, (ninth month) 1812 to go to the Fairfield Monthly meeting in Highland County, Ohio.
The next certificate of removal was obtained in the Fairfield Monthly Meeting in Highland County, Ohio [October] 10 month 1813, one year later. It was endorsed to Westfield Monthly Meeting. Evidently they wanted to return to Westfield Monthly Meeting instead of going back to the Deep River Monthly Meeting where they left a year before. They had been in Ohio for over one year and were ready to go back to Westfield Monthly Meeting in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
The following Quaker records of William Hiatt from the year 1805 to 1813 show how events were recorded in their Monthly meetings. These records also show a pattern of their moves.
Deep River Monthly Meeting, Guilford County, North Carolina --6th day-5th month-1805. William Hiatt received on certificate from Westfield Monthly Meeting, dated 23rd day- 3rd month 1805. 7th day 9th month 1812- Charles Hiatt received by request. 2nd day - 11th month 1812 - William Hiatt and son Charles granted a certificate.
Fairfield Monthly Meeting, Highland County, Ohio: 30th day 10th month 1813 A certificate received for William Hiatt and son Charles from Deep River Monthly Meeting, North Carolina endorsed to Westfield Monthly Meeting, North Carolina.
Westfield Monthly Meeting, Surry County, North Carolina - 9th day 4th month 1814 - William Hiett and son Charles received on certificate from Deep River Monthly Meeting dated 2nd day 11 month 1812. 12th day 8th month 1815 - Jesse Hiatt received by request. 11th day-4th month 1818. William Hiatt disowned for marriage out of unity.
WILLIAM BUYS PROPERTY ON STONEY CREEK
Now that the family were back in Surry County, North Carolina, William Hiatt bought 81 acres of land from Thomas A Ward for $75 in the Stoney Creek area on the 30th day of January 1814.
He bought an additional 66 acres on Stoney Creek for $60 from the same man on 2nd of April 1815 Then in December 1815 he bought another 200 acres on Stoney Creek for $300 from Thomas Perkins. This Stoney Creek property is still owned by Jesse Hiatt's descendants today. (1992) There is an old home still standing on that property which may have been built by William.
ELIZABETH DIES - WILLIAM MARRIES AGAIN
Three years after moving to Stoney Creek in 1817, heart-ache came to William. His beloved wife Elizabeth died. The rigors of pioneer life including clearing land, building homes and raising children took its toll. Her age is not known but William was only 54 years old at the time of her death and she probably was about the same age.
William Hiatt Jr. married another woman by the name of Sarah Dunigan soon after about 1818 and they lived on the Stoney Creek property. In the Quaker Westfield Monthly Meeting records in Surry County, North Carolina, William was disowned for marriage out of unity, indicating he had married again. She evidently was not a member of his faith which caused the disownment.
11th Month 4th month 1818 - William Hiett disowned for marriage out of unity.
William sold the 81 acre tract of land in 1817 to his two sons Charles and Jesse for only $2. This is the land which he had purchased in 1814 for $75. Evidently this was a wedding present to his two older sons, Charles and Jesse who were married the following year. According to the family group sheets, Jesse was twenty-two years of age at the time. Charles sold his land to Jesse and emigrated to Wayne County, Indiana in 1822.
On the 1820 census William Hiatt and his son Jesse were the only Hiatts listed in Surry County North Carolina. The rest of the Hiatts had all emigrated to the Quaker settlements in Ohio and beyond by that time. On this census he and his wife Sarah Dunigan were over 45 years of age. They had three male children at home and three female children, one being between the age of 10 and 16, and two were under the age of 10.
The 1820 census of Surry County, North Carolina lists William Hiatt Jr. and his family as follows: William Hiet - 1 male aged over 45, 2 males aged 18 to 26, 2 male 10 to 16, 1 male aged under 10.; 1 female aged over 45, 1 female aged 10 to 16, 2 females aged under 10. 15 p.127WILLIAM SELLS LAND IN PREPARATION TO EMIGRATE TO OHIO
William and Sarah continued to work this land growing enough food for their sustenance until 26th of August 1829 when he sold 100 acres to Benjamin Taylor for $200. Benjamin Taylor would later become a relative through marriage.
Benjamin Taylor had a daughter by the name of Elizabeth Taylor who later married Sterling Taylor. Elizabeth and Sterling Taylor were the parents of Mary Taylor who married William Hiatt, the son of Jesse Hiatt mentioned above. So this Stoney Creek property was owned by the Taylors as well as the Hiatts both of whom are our ancestors.
The property is located on Sheep Farm Road which intersects with Hollow Road shown on the map on page 163 (obtained from the Surry Community College Library in Dobson) and on page 19 sent to me by Delia Dechrest or Ella Gammons.). It is also interesting to note that "Hollow Road" called the "Main Wagon Road", most likely is the Great Wagon Road which was greatly traveled from 1740 to 1800 and took the Hiatts from Philadelphia to Yadkin River.
DEATH OF WILLIAM HIATT AND SARAH DUNIGAN
Sarah, William's wife, died in 1830 in Surry County, North Carolina according to the William Hiatt Jr. family group sheet. We can imagine that William Hiatt became very discouraged after her death for he soon left his Stoney Creek property in Surry County, North Carolina. He took his family of two teenage girls and two small boys five to ten years of age to Henry County, Indiana where his father, William and the main body of Quaker Hiatts were living. His father moved there previously in the year 1803. He, William, did not leave until 1829 and was one of the last of the Hiatts to emigrate into Indiana. He died there in Indiana soon after his arrival.
The 1830 census for Henry County, Indiana: William Hiatt - 1 male aged 60 to 70, 2 males aged 5 to 10; 1 female aged 15 to 20, 1 female aged 10 to 15.
William did not live very long after he moved to Indiana. His family group sheet shows he died in the year 1830 but evidently he was still living when the 1830 Indiana census was taken. His father, who preceeded him to Indiana, outlived him by four years, living to be almost 100 years old. He was only 68 years of age leaving four children to be raised by other family members. The younger children on that census were children of Sarah Dunigan. 15 p.128HISTORY OF THE QUAKER MIGRATION TO OHIO AND INDIANA
The United States won the Revolutionary War in the year 1783 making it possible to extend their land holdings.. Before the Revolutionary War the land was owned by the British. And before French and Indian War, the land on the east side of the Alleghany Mountains was owned by the French which then went to the British when the British won that war. Now the land was owned by the American people and they were free to move westward.
The Quakers began to leave North Carolina around 1803. A panic was caused by Zackariah Dicks, a respected Quaker leader they believed to be a prophet, when he warned them "to come out of slavery" which produced a sort of panic and they began to emigrate west to Ohio.15 p.82
North Carolina was considered a slave state after the Revolutionary War. The Census of 1790 reported the State's white population at 288,204 and the slave population at 100,572 or a little more than one -third of the total. The majority of North Carolinians never held slaves at any time. The percentage of slaveholding families in the State was 31 per cent in 1790, 26.8 per cent in 1850, and about 28 per cent in 1860. Slavery was later to be abolished completely after the Civil War in all the states. The Civil War was caused by two different groups of people - those who favored states rights of the people to own slaves and those who did not.
The Quakers were abolitionists and were bitterly opposed to slavery and the fugitive slave laws enacted in the United States between 1793 and 1850. The laws provided for the return between states of escaped slaves. The struggle to abolish slavery was largely religious. The struggle was led by the Quakers, to outlaw slavery in Pennsylvania as early as 1675. They obtained, almost single-handedly, the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire and the U.S.A. by acts of Parliament and Congress in 1808.
Another reason for moving west was to obtain cheap land which was opening up. The United State made a large purchase of land in 1803 which was called the Louisiana Purchase.. The Quakers did not emigrate to this area but went further north to Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. These states were part of the Northwest Territory which did not allow slavery.
The Northwest Territory was awarded to England after the French and Indian War in 1763 and then it was ceded to the United States after the Revolutionary War in 1783. The Ordinance of 1787 provided that the territory should be divided into divisions and as soon as any of the divisions had 60,000 free inhabitants it should be admitted to the Union. It embraced territory now comprising the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and part of Minnesota. It is estimated that in the year following the passage of the act, not less than 20,000 men, women, and children settled on the banks of the Ohio. Ohio was organized as a territory in 1799. In 1800 the district of Indiana was organized and the Illinois Territory was created in 1809.
Opposition to slavery was the main reason for the Quakers to leave North Carolina. The Ordinance of 1787 in the Northwest Territory provided that "schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged;" and that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude--". This made the Northwest Territory a very favorable place in which to settle.
HIATTS MOVE NORTHWEST TO OHIO, INDIANA AND ILLINOIS
I am including two stories from the Hiatt Book which give an unders-standing of how the Quaker Hiatt's may have lived as they moved to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
The first story is about Jesse Hiatt, the younger brother of William Hiatt Jr. (do not confuse with our Jesse Hiatt) He first went to Clinton County, Ohio in 1810 with his first wife Martha. His wife died and Jesse married another woman by the name of Sarah Kinsey Maxson, for both the marriage was their second. The following account of the Maxsons and Hiatts gives a picture of how the Hiatts may have emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio and Indiana and finally to Illinois. It also gives a picture of how they lived during pioneer times. It is taken from a history of McLean County, Illinois, written in 1874, and gives an account of the Maxons and the Hiatts. I quote part of the story which goes as follows: Jonathan Maxson was a step-son of Jesse Hiatt.
Jonathan Maxson was born June 11, 1820, on a farm about half a mile from the town of Freeport in Harrison County, Ohio. His ancestors were of Scotch, Irish and French descent. He was one of a family of ten children. His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Kinsey, was twice married, and he had four brothers, two sisters and four half sisters. Jonathan was intended by his father to be a farmer, and while a lad he learned the duties of that laborious but independent calling. Farmer's boys do not usually pine away for the want of work, and Jonathan could always find plenty to do. His education was not very well attended to, as educational advantages were not to be had where he lived. He went to school only two terms and learned to read and spell. Some time after the death of his father, David Maxson, his mother married a very worthy man named Jesse Hiatt, and moved to Clinton County, Ohio.(from Harrison County, Ohio) Shortly after this the family determined to move to Illinois, and in the fall of 1830 started on their journey to Tazewell County, (of which McLean was then a part), as they had friends and relatives there.
They went in two wagons, one under charge of Mr. Hiatt and the other driven by Christopher Kinsey, Jonathan's grandfather. They also had five hundred sheep and four milch cows. Their journey of two hundred and fifty miles occupied twenty-one days, because of the difficulty in taking charge of their large flock of sheep. They camped out every night of their journey, except one, and by day they traveled from point to point without any road to guide them. It was necessary every night to guard the sheep from the wolves, but this was easily done as the frightened sheep huddled closely together.
The entire expense of the journey was ten dollars spent for food, which was less than a dollar apiece, as the caravan consisted of eleven persons. They had a very easy and pleasant journey with no remarkable adventures. One of the party caught an eel about four feet long and weighing about six pounds with his hands in the White River. It made a supper for the whole party. Jonathan the son of William's second wife, says this is not a fish story.
The party arrived at Stout's grove on the twenty-first of September , 1830, but after a few days of rest proceeded to Dillon's Settlement (now in Tazewell County). After spending two of three weeks in taking observations of the country, Mr. Hiatt returned to Stout's Grove and bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, (twenty acres under fence) with a log cabin, for four hundred dollars. One half of the farm was prairie and the other half timber.
Here the family succeeded very well. Mr. Hiatt followed his trade as a blacksmith, and the boys attended to the farm, and they all did well. Jonathan went to school sometimes during winters, for five years. His teacher was Hosea Stout, the nephew of Ephraim Stout, the founder of the settlement at the grove which bears his name. The School was attended by thirty or forty children, who came great distances and boarded with the farmers nearby.
Jonathan Maxson never saw any candy until he was eighteen years of age. How terrible this must have been for a boy. People spun and wove their own clothing. A calico dress to wear on Sunday was a piece of unwarrantable extravagance. The family was always quite independent of the market. Their tea was made from roots and herbs, their sugar from maple sap, and they kept twenty swarms of bees for honey.
Jonathan Maxson states that during the winter of the deep snow (1830) he and his brother went out into the woods where it did not drift nor blow away and took a careful measurement of the depth of the snow with a stick and found it four feet deep. During the early part of that terrible winter deer were very numerous, but when the deep snow came they were starved and hunted by famished wolves and by settlers with snow shoes, until they were almost exterminated.
Shortly after the snow fell Mr. Jesse Hiatt killed a very large deer, which he was unable to carry home. He buried it in the snow and covered it with his coat to keep the wolves away. But the snow afterwards fell so deep that he was unable to visit the spot for two weeks. At last he put a harness on one of his horses and went to drag it home. On his return with the deer he killed three others and attached them also to his horse. But the load was so hard to drag that he did not return until late at night, when he found the frightened neighbors collected at his house, about to start on a search for him.
Families Blaze Trail in Back Country on horseback
They had collected on horseback with trumpets and horns and various things with which to make unearthly noises, and were no doubt disappointed to find that there was no occasion for their fearful shrieks. The remainder of the night was spent in dressing the deer. ---
Jonathan's step-father, Jesse Hiatt, kept for a long time a gun which went through the Black Hawk war. Captain McClure borrowed it and carried it through the war and when that exciting and troublesome campaign was finished, he returned the gun to its owner.
Jonathan Maxson was eighteen years of age when his stepfather died and upon him devolved the duty of overseeing the farm. ---- 15 p.132
The following was written by Mrs. Flora (Harvey) Kittle, in 1926 -- a great-granddaughter of Isaac and Lydia (Dicks) Harvey -- The subjects of the stories are no direct relation to the Hiatts on our line. I am quoting this story to show what the Hiatts who went to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois went through as they were emigrating to many of the same destinations. It gives more background on the Revolutionary War and why the settlers felt a need to emigrate Northwest from North Carolina.LYDIA DICKS HARVEY --EMIGRATES TO OHIO, AND INDIANA
The second story of Lydia Dicks Harvey also tells about the emigration from North Carolina into the frontier life in Ohio and about the Underground Railroad set up to help the Negro slaves escape out of slavery into non-slaveholding states and into Canada. It also gives some background material about the Revolutionary War.
In later times in North Carolina, there were many emigrations due not only to the Revolutionary War, but to troubles within the state itself, culminating in the "War of the Regulations". Some went to South Carolina, and on to Georgia. Some moved farther west to the region of old Salisbury; and some hardy pioneers surmounted the difficulties of the almost impassable mountains, and settled in eastern Tennessee. We have found two lines of Harveys among these settlers.
Then later, when the sickening wrongs of slavery were becoming more and more intolerable, the tide of emigration turned toward the Territorial lands north of the Ohio. By the Congressional Ordinance of 1787, no slaves could be held there. We have accounts of some Harveys emigrating from Tennessee to the Friend's settlement at Redstone, Pennsylvania. Most of our people living in North Carolina came north together in 1806, settling in Clinton County, Ohio, and adjacent counties, particularly Warren County, where my people were among the earlier settlers. "Most families," she writes, "made the trip in a farm wagon drawn by two horses. Most every wagon carried a tent to be used at night, and when they arrived at their destination till a cabin could be built. The distance was called 700 miles or more. Every one of the family able to walk was expected to do so. My grandmother Harvey was a frail little woman, but she walked, so she said, over half of the way. Besides, she did the cooking by the roadside, for a family of seven whose appetites were sharpened by the pure mountain air they traveled through.
Arriving at Cumberland Gap (a road was built in 1806 in Jefferson's administration. New Standard Encyclopedia,) no team could take a wagon down its steep slopes. There were two ways of descending. One was to unload the wagon, secure a strong rope to the tongue and wind it a time or two around a deeply rooted tree. Several men would then hold the rope, plying it out gradually and letting the wagon down backwards. Grandfather chose the other way, that of unloading and taking the wagon to pieces, and carrying it piece by piece down the steep grade, as well as everything they had in the wagon. They were seven weeks on the road.
A glimpse of our people in the early settling of Clinton County, Ohio, is given in a sketch written by Rebecca Harvey, a sister to my grandfather. (Rebecca a daughter of Lydia Dicks Harvey, and a granddaughter of Ruth Hiatt Dicks -[editor-WPJ] She was a small child when they came to the new home, and wrote the sketch when she was nearly 80 years old.)
"In the year 1804", she writes, "Samuel Lee, an orphan boy raised by my father, moved with his family and built a cabin on the place my father had bought previous to that time." Then she speaks of their coming with other settlers in the year 1806. "In those early days," she continues, "there were some remarkable circumstances took place, and, I think, providentially.
It was getting late in the fall when we arrived at our new home. Isaac Harvey (her father) had employed Samuel Lee to build him a house - which he did - had it up and covered, and a pretty good hewed log house it was, with a snug puncheon floor. It looked to be such a nice place in which to live, Eli Harvey's wife being weakly, that Isaac proposed they come in with his family; and he took in their mother and a hired hand that came with us, which made just twenty in all; and we lived that way for a while. All seemed satisfied but Eli; he was so dissatisfied that he thought he must go back to North Carolina in the spring; and he thought he would not build such a house as others had built. It was an extremely cold winter, but whenever the weather was so they thought they could stand it to go out to work, Eli would go down to his place and clear away the under brush in readiness to build. By this time he had concluded to stay till fall, but thought he could not stay any longer in such a wilderness country.
He finally cut the logs for a house and hewed them very particularly; and while cutting and preparing the logs, he became so homesick that he decided to move his family down to where he was at work. This would save him much time going and coming. So, when the coldest weather was over, they set up a tent and lived in it for a time. The rest tried to persuade him not to do this because of the ill health of his wife; but she was willing if only it would satisfy him. He set the tent with the opening to the east. Just behind it stood a very large sugar tree which forked several feet from the ground. One day, when he was away from home, there came up a tremendous hurricane, such a one as I had never seen before. Greatly alarmed, he started for home. When within a quarter of a mile from home, he observed trees torn up by the roots, or broken down, and the underbrush flattened to the ground. Now he had to walk the logs of fallen trees and pick his way, in search of his dear family. He thought if he found them at all, they would surely be crushed to death. But at last he spied the tent and saw that it had been unharmed. The great sugar tree had been uprooted, and had fallen in the direction of the tent, but in such a manner that the tent stood unharmed between the two great arms of the forked tree.
The family were greatly frightened, but unhurt. They had been alarmed about his safety. His family was safe; and the dear old pioneer knelt with them then and there, to express his gratitude in prayer for their providential deliverance. After that he lost sight of going back to North Carolina, and with the help of his neighbors, he cleared away the timber and built a snug little house, which I believe is still standing by the side of the frame house he built afterwards. (This was written in 1872.)
By a treaty with the Indians at Greenville, Ohio, a very desirable strip of land in what is now eastern Indiana, was opened for settlement in 1811. The valley of the Whitewater was then literally flooded with the stream of emigration, principally from the south. Coming from North Carolina, there was a dividing of ways. Some chose to go on into what is now Washington County, Indiana. A young man whose parents settled in Washington County, had a sweetheart whose parents settled in what is now Wayne County. The distance was so great that the suitor was obliged to stay over night in the woods, on the way, and keep up a fire that he might not be attacked by wild beasts.
Quaker ford rivers to get to their destination
A people strongly opposed to the slave traffic made themselves felt by the operation of what was known as the underground railway, in the newly settled lands of Ohio and Indiana, especially in the Whitewater valley. Many of our people were instrumental with others in helping fugitive slaves on toward Canada, where they could not be overtaken and brought back by their masters.
---William, my ancestor, son of Isaac and Martha, also died in North Carolina. His wife, Elizabeth, with her children and grandchildren were among the early settlers of Clinton County, Ohio. She could remember the overland trip from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in a Conestoga wagon, and she lived to see her fourth generation. There would be much to tell of this family of hers, but I will mention only one of the sons, Isaac Harvey, my great grandfather. He was one of many in our branch of the family in Ohio and Indiana who sacrificed much in missionary work among the Indians. Through his efforts, Friends were interested to establish a mission at the headquarters of the reservation for the Shawnees at Wapakonnetta, Ohio, and he and his wife who was Lydia Dicks, were the superintendents for many years. He is accredited with having put an end to belief in witchcraft among the Shawnees, and the story of his offering his own life before the council of war-determined chiefs, to save that of one accused, I have found in four different books on the shelves of our State Library. It is best given in "History of the Shawnee Indians", by Henry Harvey, and it is well given in "The Prophet", by Edward Eggleston.
When the lands of Ohio were wanted for settlements of white people, the Indians, by treaty, accepted a reservation in what is now the state of Kansas. Many of the Harveys of our branch had a part in the work of carrying on the mission established there. Simon D. and Mary H. Harvey, my grand-parents, assumed the work at a time when there was so much lawlessness and border ruffians had already attempted to break up the mission because of the sympathy shown to fugitive slaves. My parents, Moses B. and Martha Harvey and their two little girls, my older sisters, went out by wagon from Indiana in 1857, to assist at the mission. They later settled in Kansas, and in Kansas I was born.
The Northwest Territory - destination of the Quaker people
One more view and the pageant is done. Back there where we were looking upon the efforts of our people with others, to mitigate the sufferings of the slaves, I should have called your attention to a scene enacted at the National Capital. I give it as found in Cyrus Pringle's Diary, a book in our city library. "On several occasions, friends, in larger or smaller groups, went to Washington for times of prayer and special communion with the great president, Lincoln. These times were deeply appreciated by the heavily burdened man. Tears ran down his cheeks, we are told, as he sat in bowed silence, or knelt as they prayed for him to Almighty God. Writing of the visit of Isaac and Sarah Harvey, of Clinton County, Ohio, in the autumn of 1862, Lincoln tenderly said, "May the Lord comfort them as they have sustained me."15 p.158Quaker families build their wilderness homes in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
There may have been other children, but no record as of this date, Feb. 1990.
(75.) JOHN HIATT (10.) (2.) (1.):
b. 17-1mo-1778, Surry Co., NC.,; d. post 1830, Henry Co., Indiana; m. 5-5mo-1803, Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Grayson Co., Va., to RACHEL REESE, d/o David and Elizabeth (Babb). Reese; b. 16-2mo-1783, place not known; d. post 1830, Henry Co., Ind. Removed 1810 from Va. to Ohio; to Ind. 1827.
CH: (384.) Christiana; (385.) Henry; (386.) Ruth; (387.) Greenberry; (388.) Lydia; (389.) Mary.
Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Grayson Co., Va.:
5-5mo-1803 - John Hiatt, son of Joseph and Hannah, Grayson Co., m. Rachel Reece. (R45).
Witnesses: Caleb Reece Samuel Amburn
Joseph Hiatt William East
Stephen Vidito John Hiatt
Jacob Talbet Absalom Hiatt
Robert Commons Jonathan Hiatt
Isaac Moris Mary Talbet (R72).30-6mo-1810 - John Hiatt and wife Rachel and children granted a certificate to Fairfield Mo. Mtg., Ohio.
Fairfield Mo. Mtg., Highland and sons Hervey and Greenberry received on certificate from Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Va., dated 30-6mo-1810.
25-5mo-1811 - Rachel Hiatt and daus. Christine and Ruth received on certificate from Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Va., dated 30-6mo-1810.Fall Creek Mo. Mtg., Highland Co., Ohio:
19-5mo-1827 - John Hiatt and family granted a certificate to Duck Creek Mo. Mtg., Indiana (Henry Co. -- editor).1830 Census Henry Co., Ind.: John Hiatt - 1 male aged 50 to 60, 2 males aged 20 to 30; 1 female aged 40 to 50, 1 female aged 10 to 15, 1 female aged 5 to 10.
There were three or four John Hiatts living in Grayson Co., Va., in the early 1800's, and since all deeds apparently were not recorded it is impossible to distuinguish between them, hence ALL John Hiatt deeds on record in Grayson Co., Va., are given below:
Grayson Co., Va.:
Deed Book 1, p. 246 - 9-3mo-(March).-1779 - Isom and Elizabeth Puckett to John Hiett - 90 acres - $200 - both sided Crooked Creek - Wit.: Joshua Stoneman, David Reese, Levy Burcham. June 1799.Deed Book 2, p. 171 - 7 December 1805 - Zachariah Stanley of Montgomery Co. to John Hiett, Sr. of Grayson - 200 acres - $200 acres - 200 - on grassy creek a br. of big Reed Island a br. of New River - Wit.: William Williams, William East, William Iams. March 1806.
Deed Book 2, p. 91 - 27 October 1804 - John Hiatt to William Ward - 100 acres - $83 - a br. of Cole Cr. A br. of Chestnut Cr. A br. of New River. Nov. 1804.
Deed Book 2, p. 548 - 20 July 1810 - John Hiatt of Grayson to Ephraim Dickens of Grayson - 100 acres - $210 - waters of big Snake Creek - waters of big Reed Island. August 1810. Signed for John Hiatt by David Reese.
Deed Book 3, p. 239 - 9 August 1814 - John Hiatt of Grayson to William Sutphin - 100 acres - $100 - big Reed Island. Wit.: Jether Hiatt, Martha Glandon, William Sutphin, Jr. August 1814.
Deed Book 3, p. 402 - 21 December 1816 - 80 acres sold for taxes in the name of John Hiatt.
Deed Book 3, p. 411 - 21 December 1816 - 100 acres sold for taxes in the name of John Hiatt.
Deed Book 8, p. 487 - 18 December 1840 - James Anderson, Jr., Comm- 90 acres on Crooked Creek sold in the name of John Hiatt.
From p. 34 in Larry Anderson Book. Sent to Dennis in England.
(388.) LYDIA HIATT (75.) (10.) (2.) (1.):
b. 23-11mo-1817; no further record.
Sent by Sue Baker S/o Elias Thomas and Leeanna Messmore
2nd wife Laura Jones June 1916
Sent by Sue Baker