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Family: John DEWITT / Nancy CULBERTSON (F215)

• Father | Male John DEWITT

  
  

  Born	23 Apr 1758
  Died	14 Jan 1820	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA
  Buried
  Married	Abt 1789	Probably in Westmoreland Co, PA
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Mother | Female Nancy CULBERTSON

  
  

  Born	1770
  Died	15 Aug 1841
  Buried		Dewitt Cemetery, Jackson co, WV
  Father	John CULBERTSON | F612 Group Sheet
  Mother	Margaret [CULBERTSON] | F612 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male Thomas Dewitt

  
  

  Born	Abt 1790	Pennsylvania, USA
  Died	16 Mar 1879	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA
  Buried		Dewitt Cemetery, Jackson co, WV
  Spouse	Mary Magdalene Buffington | F613
  Married

  
  

  Child 2 | Female Margaret Elizabeth Dewitt

  
  

  Born	1796
  Died	1823
  Buried
  Spouse	David Rardin | F615
  Married	22 Jan 1810

  
  

  Child 3 | Male John Dewitt

  
  

  Born	25 Nov 1792	Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Died	1 Dec 1840	Grant Dist, Jackson Co, WV
  Buried		Dewitt Cemetery, Jackson co, WV
  Spouse	Catherine Dernberger | F951
  Married	13 Aug 1818	Wood County, West Virginia, USA

  
  

  Child 4 | Female Martha Charlotte Dewitt

  
  

  Born	14 Aug 1797
  Died	7 May 1877
  Buried		Rardin Cemetery, Jackson Co, WV
  Spouse	John Woodruff Rardin | F647
  Married	Abt 1816

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Nancy Elizabeth DEWITT

  
  

  Born	1803 OR 1801	West Virginia, USA
  Died	1838 OR 19 Mar 1834	Jackson County, West Virginia, USA
  Buried		Muses Bottom Cem - is this Dewitt Cem?
  Spouse	Isaac Baldwin SHERMAN | F137
  Married

  
  

  Child 6 | Male Alexander C Dewitt

  
  

  Born	Abt 1803	or (1805)
  Died	19 Feb 1823 OR 1825
  Buried		Dewitt Cemetery, Jackson co, WV

  
  

  Child 7 | Female Lydia Dewitt

  
  

  Born	Abt 1804
  Died	28 Dec 1884
  Buried		Meigs County, Ohio, USA
  Spouse	John Robinson | F648
  Married	2 Apr 1820	Mason, Mason County, West Virginia

  
  

  Child 8 | Female Charlotte Dewitt

  
  

  Born	1807	Virginia, USA
  Died	28 Dec 1884
  Buried		Meigs County, Ohio, USA
  Spouse	Samuel Hall | F649
  Married	30 Apr 1829	Mason, Mason County, West Virginia

  
  

• Notes

  1790 Hempfield, Westmoreland, PA John Dewit 1 free white male 16+ 1 free white female 16+ John Culbertson is listed next Mason Co tax list John Dewitt sr 1811-13-14 1810 Mason, VA John Dewit 1m 10-15 Alexander? 1m 16-25 John? 1m 26-44 John would have been about 51 2f 0-10 1f 10-15 1f 26-44 Nancy should have been about 40 1820 Mason Co, VA Thomas Duett (6 people, 1 in agriculture) Males 0-10: 1; 16-26: 1 Females 0-10: 2; 16-26: 2 John Duett (4 people, 2 in agriculture) Males 16-26: 2 Females 16-26: 2 Nancy Duett (6 people listed, 1 in agriculture) males 10-16: 1, 16-26: 1 ( females 10-16: 1, 16-26: 1, 26-45: 1, 45+: 1 (Charlotte, Lydia, 1830 Mason Co, VA John Duett males 5-10: 1, 10-15: 1, 20-30: 2, 30-40: 1 females 10-15: 1, 30-40: 1 Thomas Duett males 0-5: 2, 5-10: 1, 10-15: 1, 30-40: 1 females 5-10: 1, 10-15: 1, 20-30: 1 Revolutionary War Service; PA Archives Vol 8, pp 380, 421, 426, 435 Buried Dewitt Cemetery, Tombstone destroyed when rocks were quarried out of the bank of the river below the cemetery ~~~ "Jackson County in the Wars" Revolutionary Soldiers John Dewitt. A Revolutionary soldier who was the first settler at Muses Bottom in 1811; believed to have been the first white settler in Grant district. He died in 1810. (Date of settlement was 1807, not 1811. . drh) His son, John Jr, is listed in Mason County Tax Lists for 1811-14 and census for 1820. There seems to have been three John Dewitts in that area of the county at that time. ~~~ This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the Section "Lower Sandy Valley". Dewitt Family The first settler at Muse's Bottom was John DeWitt (some of the old settlers pronounce it Doo-it), who built the first cabin, in 1807. Soon after, Thomas DeWitt, John Powers, Thomas Coleman, Ellis Nesselrode, and John Boso came. It is not at all certain that these parties all came the same year, but they were all among the very early pioneers. Where the DeWitts were from is not given, but the name recurs several times in the early history of Mill creek and Sandy, and parties of the same name are still to be found in Grant District. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S24] Cheryl Gallagher.