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Hi Steven,
Many thanks for your reply.
I am sorry to hear about your health issues.
You just might have a valuable (to me) clue here.
Although, I am having trouble keeping the various Johns and James apart.
The 3 brothers John, William and James, do you know who their father was and/or the approximate era of their existence ?
Do you know the name of John’s daughter ?
Concerning the John Wiatt who owned 360 acres and died about 1789/1790:
There is a John Wiatt who joined the Petsworth Parish Vestry in Mar 1768, and there is a John Wiatt who resigned from the Petsworth Parish Vestry in Dec 1785.
I am taking a guess on this, but I think that these John Wiatts are all the same person. So, he was living in Gloucester County no later than the 1760s and stayed there for the rest of his life.
I am also guessing that his birth year was around 1710 plus or minus a few years.
Concerning the John Wiatt who owned 340 acres and died in 1795:
JOHN WIATT is my 5th great-grandfather and we estimate his birth as the mid 1730s. We do not know where he was born. He died intestate in 1795. At the time of his death he owned land in Gloucester County, Va and the Gloucester county platt book shows that the land was divided up between his heirs, Mary, Elizabeth,
Thomas and James.
His son, THOMAS WIATT, is my 4th great-grandfather and we estimate his birth as the late 1750s but we do not know where. He married in Middlesex County, Virginia, 2 July 1785, to CATHERINE ROBINSON, daughter of (Major) John Robinson, of the Hewick Plantation on the Rappahannock
River, and his second wife Frances Yates. They had only one son, John Robinson Wiatt.
Based on the Gloucester County land tax rolls found at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaggsv/
we estimate that he died between 1803 - 1806.
JAMES WIATT, the other surviving son of John Wiatt, we believe is younger than Thomas and we estimate his birth as the early 1760s. Based on the Gloucester County land tax rolls, we estimate that he died between 1815-1817.
Another guess of mine is again, concerning John Wiatt who died in 1795;
I assume that Thomas is the oldest son and James came next. My theory is that Thomas was named after his mother’s father and James was named after is father’s father (ie, John’s, who died in 1795, father was named James).
I welcome your opinions and any additional information.
Best wishes,
W W
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