Evidence from the Past

William “Hayden” Truitt was never named in court records and deeds of Somerset, Maryland or Worcester, Maryland. The identity of this person is unknown. Does “Hayden” refer to a person long-time into the future? Outlier researchers usually add a “random” middle-name to indidvuals to promote their interpretation. So, this is a lesson about ind ividuals on Family Search . Do we believe what we read because we are empowered by uncritically thinking people, to accept, unsourced genealogies. You may be. But I am appaulled at that thought. Author: Sarah Baird. Date: 11 January 2025. Title: Correlation of evidence to establish the identities of Littleton Truitt and son, William Truitt using critical thinking. Report to file: Purnell Truitt, Belitha Truitt sons of William. All rights reserved. The purpose of this research was to separate the identities of many men named William Truitt, active in Worcester, Maryland around the same time. Thomas Truitt of Littleton is identified in the...

MilesFiles: 12 Mar 1772 tract Polehambleton, south arm of Wicomico River, Wicomico Co, Maryland. Rachel Jenkins widow of John, Thomas Lamberson wife Leah, Patey Truitt wife Rachel, William Gault wife Mary, daughters of John Jenkins, and Rachel to Joseph Dashiell 300 acres of this tract. Source cited, Ruth Dryden, cannot be verified. Since August 2024 MDLANDREC.net has been offline. FamilySearch wiki for Wicomico, Maryland says “Wicomico County was created 5 October 1867.” Further down the page states Wicomico, Maryland was created August 17, 1867 from Somerset and Worcester Counties.  Well, that is a doozey if you are trying to prove or disprove evidence? Why try to associate contemporary place names with old ones. Don’t get it. Is it because the researcher is trying to hide evidence that cannot be proved or disproved. Sarah Baird, January 2025.

Identifying Tabitha Phelps, heir of William Hearne, Lowndes, Alabama, 1832 This research forms part of a series of papers tracking Francis Truitt b. ca. 1769 Worcester, Maryland, migrated from Sussex, Delaware to Georgia by 1790. He disappears from record after 1816. Marital status unknown. Is he the Francis Truitt in Lowndes, Alabama by 1819? Author: Sarah Baird Date: December 2024 All rights reserved. “Documents, when put into context, have a lot more to say than the simple words we copy from them.” Elizabeth Shown Mills, 2024. [1] Literature review. William T Hearne, Brief History and Genealogy of the Hearne Family , Examiner Printing Company, Independence, Mo., 1907, p651. Links the Hearne genealogy back to the Normandy period. Does not cite primary sources. The organisation of his work is difficult to follow. Hearne asserts Tabitha, second child of Wm. and Tabitha Hearne married Frank Truitt [2] Deeds created by William Hearne before his death in 1832 name heirs Tabitha ...

Sarah Baird, 2017, "still don't get Foucault"

Herzog, Carl A., "Sailing Illicit Voyages: Colonial Smuggling Operations between North America and the West Indies, 1714-1776" (2020). Doctoral Dissertations. 2026. https://doi.org/10.7275/18003509 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/2026 For anyone interested in mariners during the colonial period and their trade routes, this is one dissertation which should be read. The dates match with Charles and Daniel Dingee of Sussex, Delaware.

Switzerland County, Indiana Circuit Court Order Book 5 April 1824 Term Page 138 Grand Jury Indictments:  John Roberts for horse stealing  Benjamin Hilderbrand for assault and battery  Thomas Coen for assault and battery with intent to murder  Jean Daniel Morerod, John Detraz, Benjamin Detraz et al for obstructing the execution of legal process  Enoch Shuf, John Peters Jr., Phelty Peters, George Peters, William Truitt, Parker Truitt, John Shear et al for riot. The only record I found at FamilySearch Centre 25 May 2024, in the court records Film # 007834324 image 77 Bottom of page; "And the Grand Jury *ing more business before them retired to their room." right underneath the above abstract.