Evidence from the Past

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.

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...

The inclusion of John Burton Truitt died 22 February 1838, Old Truitt Farm, Falls County, Missouri as the alleged son of Peter Truitt, Nanticoke Hundred, Sussex, Delaware is flawed. This error has been replicated across multiple on-line genealogy platforms. John Burton Truitt's identity is assembled from the identities of men, named John Truitt. Analysis, synthesis, deductive and inductive reasoning of evidence located in probate records for Peter Truitt, died 1790 and land deeds for his son John, support the assertion John Burton Truitt is not the son of Peter Truitt. John Burton Truitt's middle name suggests a strong kinship connection between the Truitt and Burton families. Kinship connections were a defining feature of colonial society. Kin acted as witnesses to legal documents, bondsmen and guardian of decedents minor children. Kin migrated together and sponsored migration. "Conspicuously absent" among Peter Truitt's eleven children, named in his will, is a m...

Primary sources infer several men named John Truitt were active same time and place. 1. John Truitt d. about 1722 Resident Somerset, Maryland 20 July 1689. Parentage unknown. Wife Mary. Children: Benjamin, Joseph, Rachel and Solomon Truitt are in Sussex, Delaware by the late 1730s. His land is traced through deeds created by his descendants after his death. Truett's Lott 30a. surveyed 2 October 1689 for Jno. Trunett [sic] lying in Quapanqua Neck possessed by John Truett. 30a. John Brown fr Benjamin Trewett 2 January 1733. Mentions Henry Bishop's line. 30a. Isaac Marshall fr John Brown & ux. 21 July 1735 30a. Jno. Purnall Junr. from Isaac Marshall November 1744. Saml Donaldson fr Thos. Pud* and Lavina April 7 1759 30a. This tract and 235a. Spittalfields Michl. Purkins from Saml Donaldson 31 August 1762. Sources: Somerset Land Office (Rent Rolls) 1662-1772 9, SO, i of tracts SR4380-1, folio 170, SM130_16 and Somerset County Court (Land Records) AZ, p. 0123a, MSA_CE102. 20 J...

Many Trees assert without evidence, Priscilla Truitt, widow of James Truitt who died in 1787, is Priscilla Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, who married second Benjamin Phillips. By correlating information found in court and deed records created by Prisicilla Truitt, widow of James between 1787 and 1790, and Priscilla Phillips, daughter of John Thompson, it appears two women bearing the same christian name, were active same time and place. Because Priscilla Truitt, widow, was active in the administration of James Truitt's estate between 1787 and 1790 and she was still James' widow when Priscilla Phillips, named as the heir of John Thompson Sr., conveyed land in 1789, then Priscilla Truitt, widow of James, did not marry Benjamin Phillips, otherwise probate records created for James Truitt, in the Orphans Court of Sussex, Delaware, would have reflected that.

The words, my four small children" and the statement "my desire that they may divide peaceably and quietly and have no disputes" suggests Peter's widow, Betty, may be his second or third wife. Direct evidence supporting this assertion is found in the probate case file, opened for Betty Truitt, February 1796, when Adam Short paid an administration bond on her estate, inventoried her personal property, and distributed the proceeds of her estate to her heirs, John, Charlotte, Lovey and Leah (deceased). Peter Truitt's seven adult children did not share in the proceeds of Betty's estate. If Betty was the mother of Peter's elder children, not only, is it reasonable, one of them would administer "their mother's" estate, but also logical, Betty's estate would be distributed among Peter's eleven children. There is a clear delineation between the guardianship of Peter's "four small children", overseen by Adam Short and the admi...