John WITT

  Noted events in his life were:

• Emigration, 1659. Emigrated to Virginia in 1659.

• Baptism, 1645, Sterling, Kilseth, Scotland. Recorded baptism date of 1645 of infant Jon Whyt in Sterling, Kilseth near Edinburgh, a port in Scotland.

• Religion, 1653. Listed as a student or altar boy in 1653 in Stirling, Kilseth.

• Employment: mariner, 1659, Herefordshire, England. From Witt's End Vol. 1, Issue 1 by Wayne Witt Bates: The name John Witt appears in a 20 November 1659 record that gives the information that "John Witt of Ross Wye. Herefordshire, England is bound to serve John Braine, mariner" destination Bristol (probably Bristol Parish in the Barbadoes).

• Land: 600 acres, 1666-1695, Stafford County, VA. JOHN WHITT & JOHN WOORMAN (Worrnam). 600 acres Stafford Co., N. E. side of Occkaquon bay or river, beginning at a neck opposite to Dogges Iland, a creek dividing this & land of Will. Harriss & Tho. Bartar, adjacent Robert Collingwood, &c: 20 July 1670, p. 289. Transportation of 12 persons: Rich. Hunt, John Phillips, Jone Holland, John Browne, Hen. Godfrey, Tho. Williams, Jone Tharpe, Tho. Tomson, Will. Harding, Rich. Martin, James Claw (or Clare). John Nagro (a Negro?).

Nell Marion Nugent Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1666-1695, II (Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1992, reprint), p. 74

• Land: 623 acres, 1689, Charles City County, VA. Before 1699 when treasury rights were instated, land was deeded in the form of head bounties granted to people who brought new immigrants to the colonies. One of these individuals who obtained land by bringing in settlers was Captain William Randolph. A relative of Thomas Jefferson, Randolph amassed a huge estate known as Tuckahoe. Randolph and others like him to obtain more land often made several patents claiming the same individual. One of the individuals claimed several times was John Witt. The first patent that John Witt was included in was for 623 acres in Charles City County, Virginia. It was for land on the south side of the Appomattox River, beginning at Hugh Lee's, to the Great Meadow, up the swamp, and was dated November 20, 1689. Another, submitted by Thomas Cock Sr., was for 816 acres in Henrico County on the south side of the Chickahominy. This was dated October 20, 1689. John Witt is found in another claim of William Randolph's recorded on October 25, 1695. This was for 2,926 acres in Charles City County, Virginia.

• Land: 300 acres, 1715, Henrico County, VA. Brothers John and William Witt obtained 300 acres in Henrico County, Virginia from Charles and Mary Hudson on September 14, 1715.

John married Ann DAUX, daughter of Walter DAUX and Mary FEB, about 1669 in Charles City County, VA. (Ann DAUX was born about 1650 in Charles City County, VA.)