Evidence from the Past

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.

Truitt, Thomas, William, and Levi and Nancy Jones Truitt; Claiborne County, Mississippi about 1820 - confirming their identity was easy because there is no interest in these individuals on FamilySearch. Thomas is the father of Levi. There is no evidence Thomas is the father of William and Nancy. But William is guardian to Levi Truitt, son of Levi. Citation: Claiborne County Court House Chancery Clerk State of Mississippi, Land Deed Record Volume 6, 1822-1824, p438. Thos. Truwit to Levi Trewit Deed Clk's fees $1.38 charged. Indenture 9 July 1824 between Thomas Truitt of the county Claiborne, State of Mississippi and Levi Trewit son of the said Thomas Trewit Witnesseth that the said Thomas Trewitt as well for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which he the said Thomas Trewitt hath and beareth unto the said Levi Trewit as also for the better maintenance support and livelihood of him the said Levi Trewitt hath given granted aliened enfeoffed and confirm and by these

The value of published, peer reviewed, research. MIERS-HAWORTH LETTERS The letters of Quaker migrant Mary Haworth, later Mrs John Miers, to her brother James, and her Delawarean born son, John, to his mother’s brother, James Haworth, domiciled England, form part of "A Collection of Letters Written at Various Times from America” that have not been transcribed or published. Excerpts from these letters have been used by Thomas R Saxton in his essay, “Living in Two Worlds: Kinship networks and Pennsylvania's Integration into the Atlantic World. [1]   letter writing - important to keep contact; knowledge of identity – where came from – important to sustain identity while at the sametime create a public identity in a new society. The Haworth Miers letters are an important resource for ancestral studies and present an inviolable representation of family relationships and lineage at a precise period. 1715: Writing to his brother James Haworth, in the summer of 1715, George wro

https://familylocket.com/genealogy-research-is-still-hard/ Nicole Elder Dyer, "Genealogy Research in the 21st Century Part I: Genealogy Research is Still Hard", 20 March 2020. Before the mass digitisation of extant records, Ruth Dryden's Research Notes for Worcester County, Maryland, asserts, without evidence, Riley Truitt's wife was Margaret Newbold - "Invent. of Riley Truitt 1770 Worc. Co. filed by Mrs Margaret Newbold Truitt adm. and John and Thomas Newbold". Multiple trees across multiple platforms cite this research. Are these multiple trees "victims of the the random search-and-click hunting encouraged by the slot-machine effect." ? An image of James Truitt's will made October 1770 Worcester, Maryland and recorded 1775 in Sussex, Delaware, which contains a trove of information , is available on Ancestry. The will verifies the identity of Riley Truitt's wife, Maja: "I give and bequeath to my grandson James Truitt son of Ryley T

Conclusion – William R Truitt, grantee and grantor of one-acre of ground near the town of Bowling Green between 1822 and 1824 is the same William R Truitt that married Catharine A Morrow on 19 February 1824. He is not the son of Riley Truitt and his wife Catharine Thetford. In 1824, William, the son of Riley and Catharine, a propertied minor, is under the guardianship of first, David Reed, second, Mark Andrew and third, Franklin Trewitt. He could not marry without his guardian’s consent, nor enter into deeds for the sale and purchase of land. [1] No research verifying the identity of William Truitt, son of Riley and Catharine Thetford, likely born after 1803 and before 1808, Georgia, who migrated with his parents to Warren, Kentucky by ca. 1809 is extant. Land records created after 1825 by William, son of Riley and Catharine, show the use of a middle initial “R”. No research verifying the identity of William R Truitt of Logan county, Kentucky, active in land deeds from 1822 and d

No reliable research exists for Parker Truitt. Future research seeks to remedy this problem and contribute new information to the knowledge pool. Registration of births, deaths and marriages were not compulsory during Parker Truitt’s lifetime. No known church or Bible record names Parker’s parents, his spouse or descendants. Parker penned his last will and testament before July 1844 when the Court granted Samuel S Mason, letters testamentary. The records that would have been created in the administration of Parker’s estate, showing his legal heirs and representatives, do not appear to have survived the courthouse fire of 1910. According to an inscription on the headstone for Parker Truitt in Copas Cemetery, Blue Creek, Adams, Ohio, he died on 7 June 1844 in the 81st year of his age. The headstone for his wife Rhoda shows she predeceased him by sixteen years, age sixty-five. However, according to research of the 1990s, Copas Cemetery, Blue Creek, Adams, Ohio did not exist in the 1840s

Registration of births, deaths and marriages were not compulsory during Riley Truitt's lifetime. No known church or Bible record names Riley's parents, his spouse or descendants. Because he left a trail of court records and deeds across four American states, Riley Truitt, son of Riley and grandson of James Truitt died between 1770-1775 Worcester, Maryland is differentiated from men of the same name, born around the same time. There are sufficient, surviving deeds and court records of Worcester, Maryland, Sussex, Delaware, the State of Georgia and Warren county, Kentucky, available freely on FamilySearch, which provide personal information to link him to his family members. While no direct source confirming his marriage to Catherine Thetford appears to exist, an assemblage of direct and indirect evidence establishes the identity of Catherine, her marriage to Riley and her parents. Conclusion – Catherine, wife of Riley Truitt, was the daughter of William Thetford and his wife Mar