"JOHN McNITT we remember as the son who referred so reverently to his deceased father in the deed by which he conveyed the Palmer homestead to his brother Andrew in 1776. John married Mary Fuller at Palmer in 1773, but she was soon lost to view. In those days young wives often died in their first childbirth, and Mary may have lost a baby and her own life thus. The records at Rowe show that John subsequently married Patty Wilson in that town, and that the following children were born to them:
Mary, b. March 16, 1777, d. September 21, 1778; Sally, b. May 8. 1779; James, b. November 29, 1781; Bebe, b. June 16, 1784, d. January 16, 1787; John Wilson, b. March 30, 1787; Polly, b. July 24,1789; Patty, b. February 13, 1792; Noah, b. October 28, 1797."
"John McNitt undoubtedly was a responsible family man, for in addition to his own flock he took in at least one nephew, Samuel, when his brother Andrew the Minute Man was killed late in 1778."
