Michael Prewitt's wife Elizabeth, evidently died by 1778, for Michael married second Mary Thurston on March 10, 1778. They were married in Halifax Co. with Charles Simmons as bondsman and George Watkins and Charles Simmons as witnesses. (See Tyler's Quarterly, Vol. IV, pg. 59-60; Marriage Register 1, p. 3 Halifax Co.; and Kentucky Genealogist of Jan. 1960, p. 25 & 137.
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