State of Virginia

County of Tazewell

On this the 27th day of March eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared in open court Hezekiah Whit a resident of the County of Tazewell and State of Virginia aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of

the provision made by Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

The declarant states that he was born in the State of South Carolina in the year 1760, that from thence his father removed to Stewards Creek, North Carolina and afterwards to Montgomery County Virginia. That in the June of 1776 or 1777 (he is not clear in his recollection which) he was drafted to go to the relief of Island Creek Fort, against the Indians. This fort stood upon New River, and an express was sent to Colonel William Preston informing him of the danger from the presence of the Indians. The declarant marched under the command of Lieutenant Israel Lorton, and entered the fort which was then commanded by

Captain Henry Patton. This draft was ordered by the Colonel Commandant William Preston of Montgomery County. Owing to the necessity of cultivating the growing crop, the service only was

ordered for the space of one month for which space of time this declarant served. In the month of March and he thinks in the year 1770, he went as a volunteer under Captain Thomas Mast! in upon the expedition against the Cherokee Indians to Tennessee, called the "Chickamaugy Expedition". the point of

rendezvous was at Colonel Campbell's in the County of Washington, Virginia. The men were marched to the big Island of Holston, where they were incorporated into the regiment of General Evan Shelby. From thence they marched against the Indian towns, but found upon entering them that they had already been abandoned by the Indians. this declarant was three months in this service having left home in the early part of March and returning after the troops were disbanded sometime in June.

On this expedition there was a regiment of regular troops, declarant thinks of the "State Line" destined for service in the Illinois country. The Colonel who commanded them was Montgomery and the Major he thinks was Quirk. These troops continued their march westward after the militia returned home.

This declarant got a regular discharge for his serviced under Shelby, which was signed by Captain Aaron Lewis, who had been sent to New Dublin in Montgomery, for the purpose of paying off the men and giving them discharges.

In the following October this declarant was drafted to serve in a fort on Back Creek in Montgomery County, in which service he continued until the next March under the command of Captain James

Thompson, an officer serving in the militia of Virginia. Colonel /William Thompson held the chief command of this fort. After the expiration of this service this declarant was regularly discharged by Colonel William Thompson.

In the early part of the summer of 1780 (as this declarant thinks, for at this distance of time he cannot pretend to strict accuracy in dates) he was drafted by order of Colonel William Preston, to go into Caroling for the purpose of joining the army under the command of General Gates. The lead mines in Montgomery

County was designate as the place of rendezvous for the troops. Here Colonel Cloyd took command. He marched with the main body of the men into Carolina. It was determined however to leave a strong guard at the lead mines, which was accordingly done. Under Colonel Saunders of this guard, this declarant stayed and remained one month. In August after wards, there was much excitement and alarm in the county least a large body of Tories and deserters should embody themselves and harass the inhabitants. Colonel William Preston ordered out the militia, and in the company of Captain Daniel Trigg this declarant served

twenty days. From this time until the close of the Revolution this declarant always held himself ready to go upon any service to which he might be ordered, either in the militia or as an Indian spy.

He further states that except in the instances mentioned, he never received a regular discharge, and that those he did receive have long since been lost, declarant supposing after the close of the war that a discharge was of no value. this declarant states that he has no documentary evidence to prove the facts he has stated, nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove his service except those rendered in the Chickemaugy or Tennessee campaigns, that he can prove by the testimony of a

witness who was on the expeditions.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Hezekiah Whitt

We William McGuire a clergyman residing in the County of Tazewell and Thomas Christain residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hezekiah Whit, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty four years of age that he is reputed and

believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in the opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

William McGuire

Thomas Christian

Certified by Geo. W. G. Brown, Clerk of Court

Tazewell County, March 27th, 1844

Lyles Dolsbury certifies that he served with Hezekiah Whit in various services and has known him since.

Lyles (X) Dolsbury

In addition to the certificate given by this affiant, he would state that this affiant was raised from childhood (being Left an orphan) by Captain Thomas Martin, whom he has often heard say, that Hezekaih Whit, the applicant for a pension in the foregoing declaration, was a soldier under him in the Cherokee Expedition

into Tennessee. this affiant knew the said Whit at that time and has known him ever since. This affiant knows nothing of any other service stated by the said Whit, but he believes them to have been performed as stated. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written in open court.

Thomas Christian

Revolutionary War Pension Application

Virginia # S7885

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Lt. S. Evans, Clerk

Book E. Vol. 642 Page 39

Coped from the National Archieves.

Tazewell County Virginia

Will Book 4

Page 171

I, Nancy Whitt, woman of lawful age and sound mind, reflecting that all men must die, have seen fit, and of my own self to set my house in order, before I go to be no more among mortals, do make and constitute to this my last will and testiment, to wit;

Article I=85.I will and bequeath to Jonas Whitt (son of Griffey) all my land in the homeplace on which I now live. Bounded as follows=85on the East by lands of Hugh Bailey, on the south by lands of James Sheffey, on the West by lands of John G. Harrison and on the North the land of Rees Dikes and G.E. Deskins.

Article II=85All the property which I may possess at my death I will and bequeath to my nephew, Jonas Whitt, (son of Griffey) to wit; Horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, and all y farming utinsils, plows, hoes, axes, wagons, harness, of every description what so ever.

Article III =85I will and bequeath to my nephew Jonas Whitt, (son of Griffey) all the debts due me or may be due me at the time I decease.

Article IV=85I will and bequeath out of my property and effects all of my just debts be paid by my Executor here in after to be appointed.

Article V=85.I hereby constitute and appoint my nephew (son of Griffey) my lawful Executor of this my last will and testiment in witness there of I hereby have signed my name and affixed my seal in the year of our Lord 1866.

Nancy Whitt

6th day of June 1866

Witnessed by J.R. Bagle and William Hankins

Page 172 Recorded 28th of October 1868 in Tazewell County Virginia

Nancy Skaggs was the daughter of Jeremiah Skaggs and the sister of Martha Skaggs who married Griffith Whitt. Nancy was married to James Whitt, son of Hezekiah Whitt and brother to Griffith Whitt. James and Nancy had no children of their own.

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Hezekiah Whitt

Washington County

Henry Lee Esquire governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings: Know ye that by virtue of a Certificate in right of Settlement given by the Commissioners- for adjusting the Titles to unpatented Lands in the District of Washington and Montgomery, and in Consideration of the Ancient Composition of ten Shillings Sterling paid by Hezekiah Whitt into the Treasury of this Commonwealth there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Hezekiah Whitt Assignee of John Hankins a certain tract or parcel of Land, containing eighty four Acres by Survey bearing date the twenty sixth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty three Lying and being in the County of Washington on the waters of Clinch River in the Baptist Valley and bounded as followeth towit: Beginning at two white oaks on a hill thence South forty degrees East Sixty seven poles to a large sugar tree at the foot of Kents Ridge and along the same North fifty three degrees E!

ast two hundred and twenty six poles to a Lynn on Major Matins land and along his line North thirty one degrees West fifty seven poles crossing a branch to a large Chestnut oak on a high ridge corner to said Mastins land, thence leaving Mastins line and a long the said ridge South fifty five degrees West two hundred and thirty six poles to the beginning: with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Hezekiah Whitt and his Heirs forever. In Witness whereof the said Henry Lee Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two and of the Commonwealth the Seventeenth.

Hezekiah Whitt

Tazewell Land Survey

Tazewell Co. VA

Land survey

March 20, 1820

page 190

Surveyed for Hez Whit 120 acres of land by virtue of an entry made the 20th March 1820 a part of a land office treasury warrant assigned to him by Hez Harmon assignee of John Cally and part of warrant No. 5334 for 500 acres dated the 6 January 1814 being in Tazewell Co. on Indian Creek a branch of Clinch River and bounded as follows; Beginning at a black oak W oak and cucumber on the top of Ready Ridge a corner of James Whitts and with the same line S 63 E 48 poles to 3 W oaks S 9 W 40 poles to a W oak on a hillside S 30 E 40 poles crossing a cabin branch to a white poplar on the point of a ridge S 86 W 80 poles to a buckeye in a rich hollow N 56 W 44 poles to a sugar sapling on a rich hillside N 80 W 60poles crossing Indian Creek to 3 sp pines in an island S 65 W 66 poles crossing said Creek to a dogwood N 8 E 32 poles crossing the creek to two birches N 53 W 10 poles to 3 black gums on top of the ridge N 7 to 50 poles to a red oak N 70 E 80 poles crossing Loone Creek to a !

W oak and birch in a bottom S 84 E 120 poles to the beginning March 24, 1820.

Isaac Brown Sur

for Hez Harmon S.T.C.

Will

James Whitt

Will Book 3

Page 192

Tazewell County, Virginia

In the name of God Amen I James Whitt of the county of Tazewell, and State of Virginia, Taking into the consideration the uncertainty of life and being of sound mind and disposing memory do make and publish this as my last Will and testament revoking all others.

1st I give and bequeath unto my father, Hezekiah Whitt the sum of ten dollars.

2nd I give and bequeath unto my wife Nancy Whitt all the residue of my Estate both real and personal and all such Real and Personal Estate as I may hereafter acquire and lastly I hereby appoint my wife Nancy Whitt my executor to this my last will and testament and direct that she in the first place shall pay all my just debts. In testimony where of I have hereinto affixed my hand and seal this 12th day of August in the year of Christ 1842.

James Whitt

In the County of Tazewell State of Virginia in Sept 1855. The last will and Testament of James Whitt was presented in Court and proved according to law by the oath of Bird Lockart and John M. Lockart subscribing witness thereto and ordered to be recorded.

James Whitt was the son of Hezekiah Whitt. He married Nancy Skaggs, daughter of Jeremiah Skaggs. They had no children.