Evidence from the Past

Riley Truitt Birth 1793 - Worcester, Maryland, USA Death 1829 - Sparta, Dearborn, Indiana, USA Mother Andesiah (Ann Deziah) McColley Father Thomas Truitt Born in Worcester, Maryland, USA on 1793 to Thomas Truitt and Andesiah (Ann Deziah) McColley. Riley Truitt married Sarah Elizabeth Lambertson and had 1 child. He passed away on 1829 in Sparta, Dearborn, Indiana, USA. What happened to the Riley who died ca. on or after 1817 ? How many Riley Truitt's were in Dearborn, Indiana, 18 hundreds? Did Andesiah McColley marry a Marvel ? Who is Anda Truitt, enumerated tax lists Sussex, Delaware - [Tax lists, #1-30, no dates given] Film # 007834363 Delaware Tax Assessments, total images 734. image 555 James Truitt 100a. of land bot of Mary Coverdil 200 50a. of land bot. of Elihu Short 75.00 70a. bot. of John Truitt [blank] - [which John Truitt and was he of Nanticoke Hundred?] Total $275.00. Anda Truitt widow 1 Maire 26.00 1 Do 24.00 2 cows 10.00 1 sow and pig 4.00 = $64.00. image 556 William

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.

 - categorising the wealth of ancestors, how to determine their status in colonial society Qualified appraisers assigned a value to items owned at the time of the deceased's death; status is determined by the extent of items required to service a dinner party of ten or more people; knives and forks, the more gentile items provide an indication of status and possibly wealth. I was particularly interested in applying the Gunston Hall Plantation methodology to Sarah Miers, wife of first Aaron Williams, son of Reynear, Kent, Delaware, and second Nehemiah Draper, a wealthy merchant of Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex Delaware. She was a wife, mother, yeowoman and maintained a book of debtors and creditors. No books, it seems, filled the shelves of the bookcase in Sarah Miers home. No jewellry is listed nor clothes. Jewellry and clothing are two of the items I was interested in seeing, mainly to compare it with the jewellry and clothing Naomi Wiltbank devised in her will made 22 September 177

 Why you should go to your FamilySearch Center, because they help you - How can we help you ? Today, for the first time, I visited my local FamilySearch Center. I had the best time, learning tidbits from an experienced researcher. I failed to achieve my goal of separating the identities of Riley Truitt of Dearborn [supposedly] and Riley Truitt of Switzerland county, Indiana. Sadly, my hypothesis failed. But, I learned alot on my first visit.

https://theconversation.com/in-the-1600s-hester-pulter-wondered-why-must-i-forever-be-confined-now-her-poems-are-online-for-all-to-see-106747 " In 1996, a graduate student named Mark Robson was creating a digital catalog of the University of Leeds’ Brotherton Library when he discovered a small manuscript on the shelf. The elegantly titled “Poems Breathed Forth by the Noble Hadassas” contained 120 poems and a half-finished prose romance. As far as Robson could tell, the manuscript hadn’t been read in over 250 years. He hadn’t heard of the “Noble Hadassas” – nor had anyone he asked. But a riddle scribbled in the manuscript offered a hint about her true name:       “Marvel not my name’s concealed / In being hid it is revealed.” " Quite how I feel about Catherine Dingee, the unnamed daughter of Charles, the mariner-privateer. A proof argument for Catherine Dingee's identity b. ca. 1760 is required.