This line was provided by William G. Hiatt. Received letter Aug. 15, 1991. William G. & Madeline E. Hiatt 429 Myers Rd., Wesminister, Md. 21157
He writes: "...I have been working on Hiatt Genealogy for over 30 years since inheriting material done by my AUnt Grace Hiatt Wilson.
....For years I have had the names of early members of the Hiatt family, but I was unable until recent to connect them with
FOURTH GENERATION: GRANDCHILDREN OF GEORGE HIATT(168.) NATHAN HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 30-9mo-1763, Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.; d. 24-2mo-1786, Guilford Co., NC.; m. 14-2mo-1784, Guilford Co., NC., to MARY THORNBURGH, d/o Joseph and Ann (Armfield). Thornburgh; b. 13-2mo-1764, Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC., (She m. (2nd). 29-12mo-1790 to William Hodgson, son of Joseph and Margaret (---). Hodgson.)
CH: (667.) Christopher.
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
11-2mo-1784 - Nathan Hiatt, son of Christopher and Lydia, Guilford Co., m. Mary Thornburgh.29-12mo-1790 - Mary Hiatt (widow)., Guilford Co., m. William Hodgson.
28-5mo-1791 - Mary Hodgson and son Christopher Hiatt granted a certificate to Center Mo. Mtg.
31-12mo-1803 - Christopher Hiatt received on certificate from Center Mo. Mtg., dated 17-12mo-1803.Page 200
Nathan Hiatt d. 2-24-1787
Ann Hiatt
Son: Christopher b. 2-14-1786
(The above follows immediately after the record of the m. of Nathan Hiatt, son of Christopher, and Mary Thornburgh, d/o Joseph, 2-11-1784.) (R45).
Sent by William Hiatt. Westminster, Md
TYPE Get Certifcate to
DATE 3 NOV 1787
PLAC Guilford County, North Carolina, New Garden MM.
EVEN
TYPE Moved to
DATE 27 APR 1799
PLAC Stokes County, North Carolina, Westfield MM.
FOURTH GENERATION: GRANDCHILDREN OF GEORGE HIATT(169.) ASHER HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 30-5mo-1765, Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.; d. c1800, Grayson Co, Va.; m. 1-10mo-1788, Guilford Co., NC., to MARY JOHNSON, d/o James and Margaret (Cook). Johnson; b. 21-9mo-1767, NC.; d. 28-8mo-1841, Hamilton Co., Indiana. (She m. (2nd). 2-11mo-1803, in Va., to John Beals, son of Thomas and Sarah (Antrim). Beals; John and Mary are buried in Hinkles Creek Friend's Cemetery, Hamilton Co., Indiana.
CH: (668.) Aseph.
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilfrod Co., NC.:
1-10mo-1788 - Ashier Hiatt, son of Christopher and Lydia, Guilford Co., m. Mary Johnson.
27-4mo-1799 - Asher Hiatt and family granted a certificate to Westfield Mo. Mtg.
27-4mo-1799 - Mary Hiatt (with husband). granted a certificate to Westfield Mo. Mtg.Westfield Mo. Mtg., Surry Co., N C.:
18-5mo-1799 - Asher Hiatt and son Joseph, received on certificate from New Garden Mo. Mtg., dated 27-4mo-1799.Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Grayson Co., Va.:
2-11mo-1803 - Mary Hiatt, Grayson Co., m. John Beals.26-11mo-1803 - Mary Beals (formerly Hiatt). and son granted a certificate to Miami Mo. Mtg. (R45).
Miami Mo. Mtg., Warren Co., Ohio:
8-11mo-1804 - Mary Beals and son Asaph Hiatt received on certificate from Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Va., dated 26-11mo-1803.Grayson Co., Va.:
Will Book 1, p. 48 - Inventory of Asher Hiatt dec'd. - Valuation of estate $160 3/4 - 15-1mo-1801. November 1803 Court,Ashor Hiatt is given on 1790 Census of Guilford Co., NC. (see p. 6).
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
Page 230
Asaph Hiatt, son of Asher and Mary, b. 8-30-1789. (R45).Guilford Co., NC.:
Deed Book 7, p. 281 - Grant No. 1998 - to Ashur Hiatt - 15 acres - 50 shillings per 100 acres - Horsepen Creek - William Hiatts line - Levi Coffins line - Jacob Jessups line - "his old Tracte" - 30 January 1800.Deed Book 7, p. 341 - Asher Hiatt of Grayson Co., Va.. to John White of Randolph Co., NC. - 1 September 1800 - 58 acres and 76 rods - 165 pounds - Horsepen Creek - Levi Coffins line - William Hiatt's line - Jacob Jessops line - Wit: Jehue and Amos Hiatt.
Sent by William A. Allee.
D/o James Johnson and Margaret Cook.
2) John Beals.
Moved, 17 AUG 1835, to Hendricks Co., IN, Fairfield MM.
Not proven Christopher was his father. Sent by Rhonda Goodwin.
See Genealogies of the HIATT FAMILY ACCORDING TO HARMON HIATT, 1895. Christopher HIATT's oldest son, John, lived and died in Virginia.(171.) JOHN HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 27-7mo-1769, Rowan (now Guilford). Co., NC.; no further record. (R45).
Sent by Rhonda Goodin. D/o Frederick Raker and Elizabeth Pickett
Marriage Notes for Robert Lester starkey and Nancy WILKERSON-17503
Line in Record @F2@ (MRIN 3) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
Sent by Connie Grein, Mildred Wynes, Velma Appl. S/o Samuel Kellum and Mary.
The Kellum Name and Beginnings
The name Kellum is English or Welsh. Orginally the spelling was Kilham, the Kil or Kel portion meaning a basin. (Land frained by a river or bay or land area which dipped to the center as opposed to hilly terrian) and the Ham
portion denoting location, hence "owner of lands in a basin". There remains an old town in Sussex, England of this name and feeling is that all people with various spellings of the name stemmed from this area. In America the name shows up in the Early Settlers List for 1633-1680, in the Compendium of
American Genealogy, on the payroll of the Revolutionary War, and in the first
United States Census in Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Virginia,
Maryland, and Delaware.
The search for family roots disclosed a family in Nottingham county,
England in 1100 of Gilbert de Kilham and thirteen generations later a John de
Killam sells the family estate in 1530 to Robert Brown. John de Killam had a
son, Gilbert and these early land owners were ancestors of Henry Kilham or
Kellam who married Aug 12, 1582 to Alice Goodale in Dennington county, Suffolk, England and had a son, Austin Kilham. Austin Kilham cam eto AMerica in 1637 on the ship,"Mary Anne" from Framlingham, England with a wife and three sons and settled in Wenham, Massachusetts where many Killams still live. About the same time of Austins's arrival in the United States, the ship "Primrose" brought Richard Kellum, age sixteen, to American Shores. Richard settled first in Vir and then in 1663 went to Maryland. Genealogist propose that all Kellum-Killham-Kellam-etc families are related and stem from the aforementioned Henry and Alice who had children. Mary, Alice, Austin and Robert. IF this is true, our own Kellum ancestors probably descended from the family who remained in the United Kingdom. By legend, our branch of the family began in America with brothers, Henry and Samuel Kellum, arriving mid 1700's from Wales. This contention, however, is unproven, as no record of either Henry or Samuel living in or emigrating from Wales had been found. Our first documented direct ancestor is Noah Kellum. He himself recorded his birth in his Bible, "In the year of our Lord 1769 the 25th of the 10 month, Noah Kellum, son of Samuel Kellum and Mary his wife was born." It is assumed he was born in Maryland, probably is Somerset county. Episcopal records there give several other births in this locality, there are unaccountable oversights in most early reocrds of churches and of civil events. The Noah Kellum Bible now belongs to Allan Carter Kellum, son of Clark Kellum of Plainfield, Ind who descends from Noah's son Jesse.
The Kellums in England, and later in Maryland, were Episcopalian and it was Noah Kellums imminent marriage to a Quaker girl Esther Hiatt that led to his joining the sect in 1792 in Guilford, N.C. Thereafter the family history is closely tied to the Quaker movement for some one hundred years and some of the Indiana distant relatives still are affiliates.
TYPE Received
DATE 29 SEP 1792
PLAC Guilford County, North Carolina, New Garden MM.
(173.) ESTHER HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 10-2mo-1774, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 10-9mo-1837; m. 4-12mo-1793, Guilford Co., NC., to NOAH KELLUM, son of Samuel; b. 25-10mo-1769; d. 18-10mo-1843, West Newton, Marion Co., Indiana. (The Temple Genealogy gives 11-5mo-1774, as date of birth for Noah Kellum -- ed.)
CH: (672.) Samuel; (673.) Christopher; (674.) Lydia; (675.) Jesse; (676.) Noah; (677.) Asenath; (678.) Amos; (679.) Esther; (680.) Asher.
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
4-12mo-1793 - Esther Hiatt, d/o Christopher and Lydia, Guilford Co., m. Noah Kellum.
29-9mo-1792 - Noah Killum received by request.
22-2mo-1794 - Noah Killum and wife granted a certificate to Springfield Mo. Mtg.
22-2mo-1794 - Esther Killum (with husband). granted a certificate to Springfield Mo. Mtg.Springfield Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
5-4mo-1794 - Noah Killum received on certificate from New Garden Mo. Mtg., dated 22-2mo-1794. (same data for Esther -- ed.)
6-10mo-1819 - Esther Kellum and dau. Asenath and Esther, granted a certificate to Newberry Mo. Mtg., Ohio. (See Hinshaw's Volume V for further data -- ed.) (R45).
Sent by Connie Grein, and Mildred Wynes, of Centerville, IA.
Never Married(678.) AMOS KELLUM (173.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 3-1mo-1809; d. 19-4mo-1829; unmarried.
SENT FROM CONNIE GREIN
SENT FROM MILDRED WYNES(680.) ASHER KELLUM (173.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 17-10mo-1814; d. 1821.
Capon Valley 1698 to1 940 by Maud Pugh.
TYPE Get Certifcate to
DATE 26 JUL 1800
PLAC Surry County, North Carolina, Westfield MM.
FOURTH GENERATION: GRANDCHILDREN OF GEORGE HIATT(175.) AMOS HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 28-7mo-1778, Guilford Co., NC.; d. c1815, Grayson Co., Va.; m. 2-9mo-1801, Surry Co., NC., to PRISCILLA HUNT, d/o Abner and Mary (Pope). Hunt; b. 6-11mo-1776, Guilford Co., NC.; d. ______, Clinton Co., O. (?). Removed 1800 from Guilford Co. to Surry Co., NC. and a little later to Grayson Co., Va. In 1818 Priscilla took the family to Ohio.
CH: (681.) Thomas; (682.) Christopher; (683.) Lydia; (684.) Jemima; (685.) Aaron Lindley.
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
26-7mo-1800 - Amos Hiatt granted a certificate to Westfield Mo. Mtg.Westfield Mo. Mtg., Surry Co., NC.:
22-8mo-1801 - Amos Hiett received on certificate from New Garden Mo. Mtg., dated 26-7mo-1800.
2-9mo-1801 - Amos Hiett, Grayson Co., Va., son of Christopher and Lydia, dec. m. Priscilla Hunt.Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Grayson Co., Va.:
29-9mo-1818 - Priscilla Hiette and daus. granted a certificate to Newberry Mo. Mtg., Ohio. (R45).Newberry Mo. Mtg., Clinton Co., Ohio:
26-11mo-1818 - Priscilla Hiatt and children Thomas, Christopher, Lydia, Jemimah and Aaron Lindley received on certificate from Clermont (sic). (should be Mt. Pleasant -- editor).Mo. Mtg., Va., dated 26-9mo-1818.Grayson Co., Va.:
Deed Book 2, p. 9 - 25 second mo. 1805 - Samuel Carey and wife Rachel of Grayson Co. to Amos and Christopher Hiatt of Grayson Co. - 87 acres - $200 - Babbetts Crk., a br. of little Reed Island a br. of New River - Wit.: Joshua Stoneman, Thomas Davis, Daniel McPherson.Deed Book 2, p.151 - 11-10mo-1805 - Thomas Lundy of Surry Co., NC. to Amos and Christopher Hiett of Grayson Co. - 71 acres - $100 - Babbette Crk.
Deed Book 2, p.493 - Sept. 1809 - Zachariah Stanley of Grayson Co. to Amos and Lydia Hiett adm. of estate of Jehu Hiett deceased - ? acres - $500 - on waters of little Reed Island - "line between Ama Hiett and Jonathan Hiett and Zachariah Stanley" - Sept. 1809.
Deed Book 3, p. 128 - 16-10mo-1812 - Abner Hunt and wife Mary to Amos Hiatt - 100 acres - $100 - br. of Laurel Creek a br. of New River - March 1813. (Amos was the last Hiatt to appear on records of Grayson as a Grantee -- ed.)
Will Book 1, p.108 - January Court 1816 - Inventory and appraisement of estate of Amos Hiatt.
Deed Book 7, p.146 - Priscilla Hiatt, "relick" of Amos Hiatt decd. - Thomas Hiatt - Christopher Hiatt - David W. Hocket with Lydia his wife late Lydia Hiatt - and Aaron S. Hiatt - heirs of Amos Hiatt decd. - of Clinton Co., Ohio, except Christopher and he of Henry Co., Indiana - appoint James Hadley of Clinton Co., Ohio, their attorney. 17-10mo-1834.
Deed Book 7, p. 170 - The above named heirs of Amos Hiatt to Henry Hardy 87 acres - $300 on Babbette's Creek.
(176.) MORDECAI HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 13-9mo-1780, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 10-10mo-1799, Guilford Co., NC.
Sent by Wm. Allee
D/o Abner Hunt and Mary Pope
(684.) JEMIMA HIATT (175.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 12-8mo-1810; no further record.
(685.) AARON LINDLEY HIATT (175.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 29-6mo-1814, Grayson Co., Va.; d. 1850, unmarried, in Clinton Co., Ohio. He was living in 1850 with the family of his brother Thomas Hiatt (681.)Amos was living in the household of his brothers family, Thomas at the time of 1850 census.
26 Sept 1850
1850 United States Federal Census about Aaron L Hiatt
Name: Aaron L Hiatt
Age: 36
Birth Year: abt 1814
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1850: Clark, Clinton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Family Number: 993
Found in the LDS Genealogical Libray, IGI.
Sent by Bernice Norris. When Christopher was nineteen years of age he married Jemima Hunt, and they moved to Grayson County, Vir. Only a few years were spent in Virginia, however, until with wagon and team he removed with his
wife and two or three small children to Clinton Co., Ohio about fifty miles North of East of Cincinnati. They were disturbed by the alarms incident of the war of 1812 and had long distances to travel in order to get supplies.
Christopher would say when he first saw Cincinnati it was composed of log huts, and pigs running around at will.Hiatt Family History by Dorothy Lang Hiatt
When Christopher and Jemima arrived in Clinton County in 1810 it had a population of only 2,674 people. The town of Martinsville had not even been laid out and the roads around there were only blazed trails through the wood.
But by 1819 there were enough people in the neighborhood to organize the village, and they decided to hold an election, where a common brown crock was used as a ballot box. Sixteen votes were cast and township officials elected. (That was before women could vote by a hundred years.)
In 1816 Newberry Monthly Meeting was established and Christopher Hiatt was chosen clerk. (In Quaker Meetings the clerk is like the Chairman or President)
In 1829 Christopher went to Wilmington to a special meeting to hear an aged Quaker minister speak. His name was Elias Hicks, a persuasive speaker who preached a somewhat different kind of Quakerism than had heretofore been
followed. I have never understood just what the difference was but it must have been considerable for eventually he caused a great break amongst the Quakers who split into two fashions. There were those who clung to the "orthodox" ideas and those who decided to follow those of Elias Hicks. Christopher was one of the latter and in 1830 he was officially "disowned" by his own Newberry Month Meeting. In other words, he was kicked out. In November they disowned Jemima and eventually all the children.
So then there was a New Hicksite Meeting formed and Christopher was again chosen one of the leaders. Since the records of the meeting are lost we know very little about him from that time one. We do know that he was one of
the committee to oversee the subscription school the Quakers established.There were no public schools and the Quakers set up their own schools and each family paid a modest amount for each child who attended.
In 1827 Christopher built the first carding mill in the community. That had to do with repairing fibers like wool and linen to make thread to weave into the cloth they used in those days. That's where the name "Linsey-Woolsey"
came from. Later he built the first mill.Clintons Co. Oh Obituaries 1867-1875 and Selected Geneological Rates by Larry D. Mart 1976.
Biography, Christopher HIATT living near Martinsville. Born in Guilford County, N.C. two miles from famous Revolutionary War Battle of Guilford, on February 5, 1783. His father was guide for General Green. Married Jemima HUNT in Grayson County, Va. on May 5, 1802. Removed to Ohio in 1810.EVEN
TYPE Get Certifcate to
DATE 25 AUG 1810
PLAC Highland County, Ohio, Fairfield MM.
FOURTH GENERATION: GRANDCHILDREN OF GEORGE HIATT(177.) CHRISTOPHER HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 5-2mo-1783, Guilford Co., NC., d. 7-4mo-1868, Clinton Co., Ohio; m. 5-5mo-1802, Grayson Co., Va., to JEMIMA HUNT, d/o Abner and Mary (Pope). Hunt; b. 22-6mo-1784, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 15-6mo-1868, Clinton Co., Ohio. Christopher removed in 1802 from Guilford Co., NC. to Grayson Co., Va., and in 1810 to Highland Co., Ohio, finally settling in Clinton Co., Ohio.
CH: (686.) Asher; (687.) Samuel L.; (688.) Mahala; (689.) Anna; (690.) Elizabeth; (691.) ___; (692.) Greenberry; (693.) Amos; (694.) Mary; (695.) Abner; (696.) Clarkson; (697.) Elwood.
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
27-3mo-1802 - Christopher Hiatt granted a certificate to Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg.Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Grayson Co., Va.:
5-5mo-1802 - Christopher Hiatt, Grayson Co., son of Christopher & Lydia, Guilford Co., m. Jemimah Hunt.
25-8mo-1810 - Christopher Hiatt & wife Jemima & daus. granted a certificate to Fairfield Mo. Mtg., Ohio. (R45).Fairfield Mo. Mtg., Highland Co., Ohio:
29-12mo-1810 - Christopher Hiatt and sons Asher and Samuel received on certificate from Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Va., dated 25-8mo-1810.
29-12mo-1810 - Jemima Hiatt and dau. Anne received on certificate from Mt. Pleasant Mo. Mtg., Va., dated 25-8mo-1810.Newberry Mo. Mtg., Clinton Co., Ohio:
24-9mo-1829 - Christopher Hiatt disowned for joining the Hicksites.
25-11mo-1830 - Jemimah Hiatt disowned for joining the Hicksites. (R57).Guilford Co., NC.:
Deed Book 8, p. 316 - Christopher Hiatt of Grayson Co., Va. to William Stanley, Jr. - 10 acres and 147 rods - $58 - Horsepen Creek and on old Salisbury Road - "it being a part of a tract of land that fell to sd. Hiatt by Virtue of his Father's will" - Wit.: Christopher Hiatt and Benjamin Hiatt. 18 May 1804.Grayson Co., Va.:
Deed Book 1, p. 324 - 1-8mo-1799 - Zachariah Stanley of Montgomery Co. to Christopher Hiatt of Grayson Co. - 200 acres - 50 pounds - on Salt Peter Ridge - Patrick Co. line. Wit.: Jehu, Asher and John Hiatt.For land that Christopher Hiatt owned in Grayson Co. jointly with his brother Amos Hiatt, see pgs 166 & 167.
Deed Book 3, p.447 - 21 December 1816 - 87 acres sold by Sheriff in name of Christopher Hiatt, for back taxes.
Beer's History of Clinton Co., Ohio (1882)., p. 958, states that Christopher Hiatt settled 1813 in Clark Township, Clinton Co., Ohio.
1850 Census, Clinton Co., Ohio - Clark Twp.: Christopher Hiatt, 67, NC., Farmer; Jemima, 66, NC.
On 1 January 1939, B. M. Hiatt of Wilmington, Ohio, wrote the following sketch, which is self-explanatory. Mr. Hiatt is a great-grandson of the above Christopher and Jemima (Hunt). Hiatt. (Parenthetical notes are mine - editor.):
"When our oldest son Edwin and his wife Dorothy wrote us that they intended, if their child was a boy, to call him Christopher, I wrote them a sketch of this name in the family."My great-great-grandfather, Christopher, was born in Virginia October 22, 1737 (prior to 1752 all dates were old style, i. e., the year began the 25th of March, thus 10th Month was actually December, not October. See data on the calendar elsewhere in this volume -- editor.) his mother was Martha Wakefield of Belfast, Ireland, a noted Quaker minister. His father was George Hiatt, son of William and Mary Smith Hiatt (see pages 32 and 33 - editor.) When Christopher was fourteen years of age his mother got a certificate for herself and her children from Hopewell Meeting in Virginia to Cane Creek Meeting in North Carolina. Christopher had four sisters and a brother older than he was. He had three sisters and two brothers younger than he was. There were eleven children in all. This removal to the vicinity of Greensboro, North Carolina, was in 1751. In 1754 Christopher's father, George, was received at New Garden Monthly Meeting in North Carolina from Fairfax Meeting held in Monoquesy, Virginia. When Christopher was twenty-five of age he was married to Lydia, daughter of John Beales of Roan County. This was in 1762. We know nothing more of this Christopher until 1780. At that time he was the father of eight children, seven boys and one girl.
"In March 1780 Thomas Beales, William Hiatt -- probably Christopher's youngest brother William --, Christopher Hiatt and David Ballard got a certificate from New Garden Monthly Meeting to be near and labor with the Delaware Indians near the Ohio river. Christopher Hiatt returned his certificate to New garden monthly Meeting on September 1, 1780. On September 18, his eight son, Mordecai, was born. On February 5, 1783 when Christopher Hiatt was forty-seven years of age his tenth son and eleventh child was born. He called his name Christopher. The elder Christopher died nine years later at the age of forty-five. His father and mother were still living but George Hiatt died in the next year, 1793, and Martha Wakefield Hiatt died the second year following, or 1794.
"The young Christopher was educated by his mother, Lydia Beales, who was a capable woman. When her youngest son, Christopher, was twenty he married Jemima Hunt in Grayson County, Virginia, on May 5, 1802 at the Mt. Pleasant Meeting House. He had applied on March 27, 1802 to get a certificate from New Garden, North Carolina to Mount Pleasant, Virginia. On August 25, 1810 Christopher Hiatt and Jemima Hunt Hiatt applied in meeting for a transfer to Fairfield Monthly Meeting in Ohio. This means Martinsville, Ohio. One tradition says that Christopher had been in Ohio previously to prepare for his family. On their journey their son (daughter -- editor)., Mahala, three years of age, died. Christopher Hiatt wrote a long poem in 1810 about their trip to Ohio and their suffering with ague and fever.
"In 1810 when Christopher Hiatt arrived in Clinton County the entire population of the county was 2,674. The city of Martinsville was not yet laid out. About the same time John Beales -- who may have been a relative of Christopher's mother, Lydia Beales -- (he was -- editor)., James Puckett and Daniel Puckett came from North Carolina to the neighborhood. Daniel Puckett did not stay long but went on to Indiana as so many of Christopher Hiatt's relatives and friends did later. Christopher himself owned some land on the Hiatt settlement near Winchester, Indiana. His entry for land there in White River Township is dated September 17, 1817. (This land belonged, instead, to his first cousin, Christopher Hiatt, son of John. See No. (144.) -- editor.)
"The roads were often only blazed trails around Martinsville. One setler, Isaac Miller, needed a hoe. He walked sixteen miles on foot to New Market in Highland County to make his purchase. In 1809 Samuel Moon and a neighbor took a horse a piece and rode to the Scioto Salt Works to buy a supply of salt. They carried it home in sacks on the horses. A few years later salt could be bought at eighteen dollars a barrel in New Vienna.
"In 1819 enough people were in the neighborhood to organize the village. Asaph Hiatt, a brother of Christopher (Christopher's brother Aseph died young; this Asaph was his nephew, son of Christopher's brother Asher. Asher's widow had married the above John Beals -- editor.), was the first cabinet maker and he began to make articles of furniture about 1815. Some of these places were in use in the different families of the community for many years. John Wright had a store in Martinsville with a stock of goods valued at from $400 to $500. It was decided to organize the township and hold an election. This was held in John Wright's store. Runners were sent out to the different clearings to summon the voters in. A common brown earthen crock was used for the ballot box. Sixteen votes were cast and the township officials elected.
"In 1816 when Newberry Monthly Meeting was established Christopher Hiatt was chosen clerk. The service was held in a log house with puncheon floor, clapboard roof and ceiling and it was warmed by a bed of charcoal on a hearth in the center of the room. As the meeting increased with incoming settlers an addition was made to the building by driving sharpened logs between logs of the first building. The wall between the two thus formed the partition between the mens and womens meetings. When still more room was needed a shed was attached in which the children generally sat.
"By 1825 Christopher and Jemima Hiatt had eleven children of which our grandfather, Clarkson Hiatt, was the tenth child and fifth son. Thus the two Christopher Hiatts, father and son, had eleven children each.
"During the division among Friends in 1829, Christopher Hiatt turned to the side of the Hicksite Meeting. Since the minutes of that meeting are not available now very little appears in the existing records about Christopher Hiatt from 1829 on. When a subscription school was established, Christopher Hiatt was appointed on of the committee of three to have oversight of it. In 1827 he built the first carding mill in the community. The machine was run by oxen on an inclined wheel. Later he built a grist (mill). on Little East Fork, the stones of which are now in our front yard on each side of the steps.
"Christopher Hiatt was one of the first advocates of the abolition of slavery. Some traveling speakers for this cause stopped at his home over night and violence was feared by the community. Nothing happened except that the manes and tails of the traveler's horses were trimmed in the barn. Christopher Hiatt was a shelterer of runaway slaves. Once he was in the field with one of these refugees when they saw his nephew Evan Stephens approaching. Christopher knew that they must name the black man quickly. So they called him Martin Davis. That name stuck to the negro for the rest of his life and was passed on to his children and descendants.
"In 1851 the Marietta and Lebanon Railroad -- now the B. and O. -- was built, near the Hiatt land. During the Civil War Christopher's son, Abner, enlisted in the company F of the eighty-eighth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Christopher's two grandsons, Edgar aged 16 and Lorenzo aged 15, but stated he was 16, left home ostensibly to go to Friends Sunday School at Martinsville. In reality they ran off to Hillsboro and Lorenzo enlisted in Company M of the second Ohio Cavalry. He served with General Sheridan and was with that General near Winchester, Virginia, during the fanous ride. Later in his service Lorenzo -- nicknamed 'Wren' -- was struck on the head by a spent musket ball but survived to come home at the end of the war.
"Christopher Hiatt died April 7, 1868, at the age of eighty-five. His wife died in June of the same year, less than two months later. They are buried in the graveyard at the Martinsville Meeting House. My Father, who was born in December 1865, was, of course, only three or four years old at the time of their death. Their first son had been born in Virginia in 1803, or sixty-two years before my father's birth (he being a grandson -- editor).
"Thus each generation could have but little recollection of their grandfathers.
"Many of Christopher and Jemima Hiatt's sons and daughters had married and passed to the West in the great flow across the continent between the war of 1812 and the Civil War. Consequently, my father could have known only those who remained around Martinsville after the Civil War or who returned for visits since then. "B. M. Hiatt (R84).
Following a copy of the poem written in 1810 by Christopher Hiatt:
THE OHIO RAMBLER
I Now I set out It's without doubt In perfect health and strength To view a place That is far from this Though I came there at last. II When I got me On that western shore, I explored the country round. As it might be To try to see The quality of ground. III The earth is good Likewise the food That's in each fruitful field It produces well This I can tell And plentious crops doth yield. IV The land is rich The ground of which Plainly doth (discover?). That the soil is deep. Nor is it steep But level lies all over. V Much sugar-tree There I did see. And products of them shared Their bread was wheat Their coffee sweet Their sugar never spaired. Bee trees are found On the forest ground With honey heavy laden. With wagons they Do it convey As though they were for trading. VI The grass also That they mow Both tall and thick doth stand. The wheat grows high (Give?). what like rye With fraught heads doth bend. VII The hunter there Kill deer and bear Enough for their supply. With meat and skins Which they bring in Thay use both flesh and dry. VIII He that would wish To feast on fish Might be furnished there I saw them thick Swim in patient creek And large ones appeared. IX The water was scarce In many a place That run above the ground But by digging down A smallish depth Good water is to be found Most frequently Where I did see The springs were pretty good But by other men Who there has been It was not so understood X Most all that is good Of natural food That Columbias soil produces There men may raise That which pays A plenty for their use Of good qualities. XI I've not much more to tell I think it far superior To Greyson where I do dwell I can but mourn to Take a turn And view the greatest fault Which makes me hold back And be more slack XII In coming to a result There is one thing That is a sting Unto the fruitful place The fever and shake With a sick headache Discoloreth many a face I do not know Why it should be so The cause I can not tell. XIII But more or less It doth oppress In that Ohio State Some comes by fits Which intermits And gives a little ease Others again Doth still complain Their fever never ceases XIV It was for me To taste and see The bitter drugs that spoil And doth exhaust That sweetest taste, And products of the soil XV The time had come For to start home A fever I took severe Which did me confine For a short time To start I did not dare There was others three Along with me That wished for to get home. XVI Our minds was bent With true intent And straightway wished to come. A scene full hard To be declared Shure no pen nor tonque can tell. To be left behind I was not much inclined Nor could I travel well XVII I grew more stout So I set out To Greyson clifts were bound A task severe It did appear Full hard for me I found Yet I came on Though troublesome Unto myself and friends XVIII In my sickly state They did on me wait. T'would make them amends We pursued our way Some every day Though come but little speed The water scarce The fever fierce I suffered much indeed. XIX It was one afternoon That I began To see I must give ore I was to unwell I did them tell To travel anymore The miles seemed long As we passed on I thought they give good measure If I should no more That road explore They may count them at their leisure. XX The sun had set When we did get To a small cottage where To stay we tried We were not denied So we took up loging there I steped in the door I saw them poor Though sweet it seemed to me To get the rest It seemed the best Which I did in some degree. XXI It sheered my mind to see them kind Though hard and rough the fare It was unfit For persons sick But such as they had did spare It was my lot There to be brought In sickness very low All hope was gone Of getting home For a short time was so. XXII It is in pain I can't explain So deep so trying a scene The greatest cross To nature course What could have greater been Or more hard To be debared From home and near connection. XXIII When it did appear That death was near Though clear of all reflection It might not be best For us to rest To much in slothful ease Perhaps the mind Would more incline Its natural lusts to please. XXIV Let me again Return my theme And see how we got home In a short space There at that place I had recruited some With cheery hearts We did depart And tried the road again With remembered hope We now rode up, The bold Kenawa stream XXV It may not be song As I go along To tell how my partner fared. It did not all Upon me fall Two more of them with me shared. One of them An oldish man Before we left that place Did some complain Of ache and pain Which much did him oppress XXVI With sorrow I One day did lie Saw him draw near the fire He was chilly took And farely shook To bed he did retire With ague fits That intermits That everyday was caught XXVII But still he rode in sickly mode Till it upon him brought Now by chance It did commence About four in the afternoon We had to stop Or take up And for me it was none to soon
Composed by Christopher HiattGreyson Co. NC. (Grayson Co. is in Va. -- editor.) (This account evidently pertains to a trip that Christopher Hiatt and three others took from Grayson Co., Va., to Ohio, and back, prior to the time he took his family to Ohio in 1810, and bears out the tradition to that effect -- editor.)
From Belle Johnson of Wheatland, Wyoming 1992.
Christopher & Jemima Hunt Hiatt
Grayson County, Virginia is right on the line with North Carolina and by 1802 quite a few of the Quakers had moved up there, a lot of them relatives of Christopher. Grayson County is at the far western tip of Virginia, in the mountains, on the route the Quakers someday would take on their way to Ohio. Christopher's old uncle William, younger brother of our George, had been in Grayson County for some time and along with Joseph was already getting ready to move on to Ohio. Christopher's older brother, Asher, had moved to Grayson County in 1799, then brother Jehu. They wrote back to Christopher and said there were two hundred acres of land for sale near them for fifty pounds and suggested that he buy it. We don't know where at age 16 he got the fifty pounds ---possibly his share of his father's estate--but he sent the money and a deed was recorded for him in 1799. The land was referred to as "Grayson Cliffs".
One of the homes in Grayson County that Christopher Hiatt visited after he got there was that of Abner Hunt on Laurel Creek, a branch of the New River. Abner Hunt was married to Mary Pope of another prominent Quaker family. There were some lively young people in the Hunt home, including Christopher's brother, Amos, who had come the year before and had married Priscilla Hunt. Now came Christopher, who found it a very pleasant place to visit, especially because he found there Priscilla's sister, Jemima. Christopher Hiatt married Jemima Hunt on may 5, 1802. She was eighteen and he nineteen years old.
They went to housekeeping in a: log cabin on his land. At that time there were fifteen couples with the Hiatt name living in that area to say nothing of the Hunts and Popes and other Quakers from North Carolina. A number of them had already left for Ohio and others were planning to go. This movement onward to new frontiers was the big topic of conversation whenever they got together, but for young Christopher and Jemima it was only conversation because it was necessary to get together a lot of equipment before they could follow the others. It required good wagon, which would cost about $250. It required two teams of good horses, costing about $500. It required capital to buy land in Ohio and build a cabin. Their farm in Grayson County had not even been cleared to the point where it produced any surplus beyond the immediate needs of the family. It was what is called subsistence farming.
To show how isolated these small families were, three months after Christopher and Jemima were married his brother, Jehu, who didn't live too far away, died in the night. His wife and two older children sat up the rest of the night with the body. Lydia went outside at intervals to blow on a conch shell in the hope that one of the neighbors would hear it and come. She also hoped it would scare away the wild animals who always seemed to know when someone was dead and already were approaching the house. This was one of the few deaths amongst the Hiatt's while they lived in Grayson County, quite different from when Christopher lived in Guilford County, were a. close relative had died just about every year, sometimes oftener.
In the seven years Christopher and Jemima lived in Grayson County, from 1802 to 1809, they had four children Asher, Samuel L., Mahala and. Anna.
There is a record that Christopher Hiatt vent to Ohio in 1803 with three other men to look at the land and observe the route they would have to follow later with their families. They went down the Kanawha River to the Ohio, then down the Ohio to the Scioto near Chillicothe, which was at that time the
capital of Ohio.
The men from Grayson County got as far as Waynesville, not far from Wilmington, and looked at the possibility of buying land there, but the seller
was in some kind of trouble with the government and couldn't guarantee them a
title so they decided to go back to Virginia. On the way Christopher got very
sick with "ague". They called lots of things ague back then. It could have
been something like influenza. Could have been malaria. He was very sick and
shook with violent chills and fever and his face became discolored. They
waited several days and then had to travel slowly and made little progress.
Finally, he told the others to go on and leave him at the cabin of a very
poor family they had come upon. They shared their small store of provisions and
left him. He had delerium and thought he would never see his wife or Grayson
Cliffs again. He did get better and rode back to his home thinking about how
hard the trip would be for a family when the time came.
In 1810, Christopher decided it was time to move. instead of starting in
the warm summer, he waited till fall because he figured it would be freer of
malaria. He didn't want his family getting sick like he did. They left Mount
Pleasant Meeting in Grayson County August 25, 1810, headed for Fairfield
meeting near Waynesville in Ohio.
We don't know if Christopher and Jemima went part way on the river, but it
is likely as river travel was a lot easier than going up and down mountains.
I've heard your Grandpa Ed say he'd heard they went over the Cumberland Gap and
up the wilderness Trail.
For Jemima Hiatt it was a sad trip because her little daughter, three-
year-old Mahala, died somewhere in the mountains. Jemima wanted to stay a few
days by the grave, but time was short and they had to push on to get to Ohio
before winter set in. They finally reached their destination in early
December, three weeks before their Quaker certificate was formally received at
Fairfield Meeting on December 29, 1810.
It is thought that relatives had already put up a cabin for Christopher and
his family because he had already bought the land---150 acres for 0300. The
farm lay in what was at that time Highland County, now Clinton County. The
cabin faced south toward level country, but fifty yards in the rear was a cliff
that descended sharply down 25 feet to the waters of East Fork. This gave
excellent drainage to the land around the cabin and there was sufficient flow
of water to power a mill. The settlers always looked for a stream where they
could set up a mill and they preferred the smaller streams so that the flow
of water was fairly constant and didn't have the big floods a larger stream
would have in times of snow melt or heavy rains.
When Christopher and Jemima arrived in Clinton County in 1810, it had a
population of only 2,674 people. The town of Martinsville had not even been
laid out and the roads around there were only blazed trails through the woods.
By 1819, there were enough people in the neighborhood to organize the village,
and they decided to hold an election. Runners were sent out to summon the
voters to John Wright's store where a common brown crock was used as a ballot
box. Sixteen votes were cast and township officials elected.
In 1816 Newberry monthly Meeting was established and Christopher Hiatt was
chosen clerk.
By 1825 Christopher and Jemima Hiatt had eleven children. Your three-greats
grandfather, Clarkson, was the tenth child, fifth son.
In 1829 Christopher went to Wilmington to a special meeting to hear an aged
Quaker minister speak. His name was Elias Hicks, a persuasive speaker who
preached a somewhat different kind of Quakerism than had heretofore been followed.
There were those who clung to the "orthodox" ideas and those who decided to follow
those of Elias Hicks. Christopher was one of the latter and in 1830 he was
officially "disowned" by his own Newberry monthly Meeting. it's in the
Minutes of the Meeting for 23 September 1830. In November they disowned
Jemima and eventually all their children.
A new Hicksite Meeting was formed and Christopher was again chosen one of the leaders. Since the records of that meeting are lost, we know very
little about him from that time on. We do know that he was one of the committee to oversee the subscription school the Quakers established. There were no
public schools and the Quakers set up their own schools and each family paid modest amount for each child who attended.
In 1827, Christopher built the first carding mill in the community.
Later he built the grist mill.
Christopher was one of the first advocates of the abolition of slavery. He was, in fact, a shelterer of runaway slaves. One day he was out in a field with one of these refugees when he saw people approaching. He knew the black man must have a name immediately and introduced him a Martin Davis, a name that occurred to him on the spur of the moment. The man was known by that name all his life and it was continued to all his children and their descendents.
Christopher Hiatt wrote his first will at age 58, but he didn't die till he was 85. In the first will he gave each minor son Ha horse creature and a cow" and a saddle. Each girl was to have a side-saddle. Over the years he made many codicils and his last will, written Sept. 9, 1867, left all his real or personal property to Jemima for her lifetime, then to be equally devided amongst the remaining children. He died April 7, 1868. Jemima lived only two months longer. They had eleven children:
Asher b. July 17, 1803
Samuel L. August 9, 1805
Mahala May 5, 1807
Anna March 8, 1809
Elizabeth July 24, 1811
died at birth 1813
Greenberry June 3, 1815
Amos March 18, 1817
Mary March 17, 1819
Abner February 16, 1821
CLARKSON June 25, 1823
Elwood October 30, 1825
Clinton Co. Ohio Obituaries 1867-1875 and Selected Geneological Rates by
Larry D. Mart 1976.
Biography, Jemima HIATT wife of Christopher HIATT, and dau. of Thomas
HUNT. Born in State of N.C. afterwards moved. To Grayson County, Va. where she married. Had also Jemima Carter given as the mother.
See HH book, Volume I.
"Genealogy of our branch of the Quaker Hiatts" was written by Major William Edwin Hiatt; he completed it on June 15, 1950.
Mahalah Hiatt, daughter of Christopher Hiatt, Jr., was born 5-5-1807. Died 18XX during the family trip from Virginia to Ohio.
(688.) MAHALA HIATT (177.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 5-5mo-1807, Grayson Co., Va.; d. 10mo-1810, on the way to Ohio. (R57, 84).
See Hiatt Hiatt History, volume I by William Perry Johnson. 1951
Also, sent by James Arthur Curl, from his line. "Genealogy of our branch of the Quaker Hiatts" was written by Major William Edwin Hiatt; he completed it on June 15, 1950.
Only a few years were spent in Virginia, however, until with covered wagon and team he removed with his wife and children to Clinton County, Ohio, in the year 1813. Their new home was about 50 miles North and East of Cincinnati, Ohio. One child died enroute and was buried by the roadside, Later when some member of the party returned along the route, the location of the buriel place could not be found.
(691.) ---- HIATT (177.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 1813; d. young.
TAKEN FROM HH BOOK
(692.) GREENBERRY HIATT (177.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 3-6mo-1815; d. 1-5mo-1832. (R84).
(178.) LYDIA HIATT (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 15-4mo-1786. Guilford Co., NC.; d. 15-4mo-1806, Guilford Co., NC.; m. 7-12mo-1803, in NC., to JOSHUA HADLEY, son of Joshua and Ruth (Lindley). Hadley; (her step-brother).; b. 13-12mo-1783, NC.; d. 20-8mo-1847, NC.
CH: (698.) Jane.
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
31-5mo-1800 - Lydia Hiatt granted a cetificate.Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., Orange (now Alamance). Co., NC.:
6-6mo-1801 - Lydia Hiatt disowned.
6-8mo-1803 - Lydia Hiatt condemned misconduct for which she was disowned.
7-12mo-1803 - Lydia Hiatt, d/o Christopher and Lydia, Guilford Co., m. Joshua Hadley.
Marriage Notes for Joshua III Hadley and Lydia HIATT-17509
Line in Record @F267@ (MRIN 430) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
Sent by William Hiatt. Westminster, Md
TYPE Get Certifcate to
DATE 3 NOV 1787
PLAC Guilford County, North Carolina, New Garden MM.