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Samuel Wyatt, of Knox Co., KY
Facts and Events
Records in Kentucky
- Tax List, 1805, Knox County, KY., Samuel Wyatt.
- Tax List, 1810, Knox County, KY.
- Wiatt James 79, Wiatt Samuel 84. Wiatt Thomas 65
- 1820, Knox County, KY. Knox Co., Ky - 3/21/1820 Samuel Wyatt gave power of attorney to his son William Wyatt of Greene Co., Tn. to settle the affairs of his wife, the former Rebecca Bennett, daughter of John Bennett.
Estate Records
- Knox County, KY Court Records:
- 1835, Knox County, KY. The Commonwealth of Kentucky to the Sheriff of Knox County, Greeting; We command you to summon: Franklin Ballinger, Adm. of the estate of Samuel Wyatt, Dec'd, and Isaac Wyatt, Betsy Wyatt, Thos. G. Eve, John Wyatt, Vincent Wyatt, William Wyatt, Isaac Stewart and Elizabeth, his wife, late Elzabeth Wyatt, George Griffith and Rebecca, his wife, late Rebeca Wyatt, William Hickey and Patsy, his wife, late Patsy Wyatt, John Lynch and Lucy, his wife, late Lucy Wyatt, Susanna Coffet (widow) late Sauanah Wyatt, Valentine Gibson & Polly, his wife, late Polly Wyatt, Thomas Bailey & Frences, his wife, late Frances Wyatt and Samuel Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt, Catherine Wyatt, Fanny Wyatt, an infant; Susanah Wyatt an infant; Patsy Wyatt, an infant; Benjamin Wyatt, an infany; James Wyatt, an infant; children and heirs of Thomas Wyatt, dec'd; and Vincent Morris, an infant; Hannah Morris, an infant; Fanny Morris, an infant; Lyddea Morris, an infant; and Julia Ann Morris, an infant; children and heirs of Lyddea Morris, dec'd; lare Lyddea Wyatt, heirs and representatives of the said Samuel Wyatt. If they be found within your bailiwick to appear before the judge of the Knox Circuit Court at the courthouse there of in the town of Barbourville on the 1st day of our next March term to answer to a bill in chancery then and there exhibited against them by Rebecca Wyatt, complainant, and have them there this to wit. Witness James F. Ballinger, Clerk of our said court at this office the 5th day of October 1835 and in the 44th year of our said commonwealth.
- James f. Ballinger, Clerk
- Rebecca Wyatt vs. Samuel Wyatt Heirs to March Term 1835 Come to had 31 Oct. 1835 Executed on: Frand Ballinger, John G. Eve, Valentine Gibson, Polly Gibson, Betsy Wyatt, Tanny Wiatt, Catherine Wiatt, Isaac Stuart, Elizabeth Stuart, Susanna Wiatt, Benjamin Wiatt, Polly Wiatt, Patsy Wyatt, Thoma Baly,Francis Baly, Samuel Wyatt, John Wiatt, William Hickey, Patsy Hickey, James Wiatt
- Joseph Prichard SK C
- To the Hon.? the judge of Knox co. Court sitting in --- humbly complaining, sheweth into your Honor your orator, Rebecca Wyatt.
- That she was the wife and is now the widow of Samuel Wyatt, dec'd, who departed this life at his residence in Knox County in the month of July last, intestate, and administration upon his estate has been granted by the Knox County Court to Franklin Ballinger, Esq., a copy of the record of which is refered to as an exhibit. The inventory and sale Bill of estate is also refered to as an exhibit and copies thereof will be filed as soon as the same are returned to the county court and made a matter of record.
- Your orator states that the estate at the time of her husbands death was of the value of $__ and consisted of 290 acres of land on the Cumberland River in the county of Knox, the deeds for which are here exhibited whereon her husband lived and died and five slaves, one a man and the others a woman and two children and an old woman of little value and personal property and money the amount and value of the estate except the land will appear in the exhibits afsd & by other proof-- she will offer in the suit, if necessary.
- She states that she is entitled to Dower in said estate, and claims the same and prays that it may be assigned to her as well in the as the____& to that end she makes the defendants to this bill the said Franklin Ballinger, Admr. and James Wyatt, Betsy Wyatt, John G. Eve, John Wyatt, Vincent Wyatt, William Wyatt, James Coffell & Sally Coffell, his wife, late Sally Wyatt, Isaac Stewart & Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Wyatt, George Griffith and Rebeccca, his wife, late Rebecca Wyatt, William Hickey & Patsey, his wife, late Patsy Wyatt, John Lynch & Lucy, his wife, late Lucy Wyatt, Susannah Coffel (widow), late Susannah Wyatt, Valentine Gibson, & Polly his wife, late Polly Wyatt, Thomas Bailey & Frances, his wife late Frances Wyatt, and Samuel Wyatt, and Samuel Gibson & Rebecca, his wife, children and heirs of Samuel Wyatt, Jr. dec'd, and Davis Wyatt, Samuel Coffill & Rebecca, his wife, Samuel Wyatt, Thomas Wyatt, Catharine Wyatt, Polly Wyatt, Fanny Wyatt, and infant, Susannah Wyatt, an infant; Patsy Wyatt, and infant; Benjamin Wyatt, and infant; James Wyatt an infant, children and heirs of Thomas Wyatt, dec'd and Vincent Morris, and infant, Hannah morris, an infant; fammy Morris, and infant; Leddy Morris, and infant & Julia Ann Morris, and infant, children & heirs of Leddy Morris, dec'd late Leddy Wyatt, and representatives of the said Samuel Wyatt, and children and grandchildren of your orator and she prays against said defts, to compell and appearance and answer. The deft. John G. Eve is a purchaser from one of the heirs & for this reason is made a deft.
- Your orator further states that her husband, the said Samuel Wyatt, for some time before his death was not only in body but from old age and other causes was infeebled in mind and in fact almost entirely deranged, so much so, that he was found a lunatic before his death by regular? inquision in the Knox Circuit Court and a committee was appointed to take charge of his estate and person. The record of this proceeding (which took place at the last June term is refered to as an exhibit) She states that for some time before the inquision afsd the old man's state of mind afsd and was to her on many accounts, the most painful period of her life, it was 19:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)19:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)19:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)~`(talking of staying part of the time with James Wyatt her son, and had separated at wish of Samuel, he help ill felling- Samuel was found a lunatic before his death by regular inquision in Knox Curcut court cause old age. And all she wants is her Dower from the estate)
References
- Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- Find A Grave.
Samuel Burgess Wyatt Sr.
Birth 1755
James River Junction, Greensville County, Virginia, USA
Death 25 Jul 1835 (aged 79–80)
Stinking Creek, Knox County, Kentucky, USA
Burial Worley Cemetery
Corbin, Whitley County, Kentucky, USA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/237030464/samuel-burgess-wyatt
- Migrations.org.
Samuel Wyatt 1755-1835
Samuel Wyatt was captured by Indians in 1757 who slaughtered his father John Wyatt and family. He was retrieved by cousins Edward Wyatt and family in 1771 and lived in and around Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia. Samuel Wyatt then became known and respected as an Indian fighter. He married Rebecca Bennett, day of John Bennett of Virginia ca. 1775. Next found Samuel Wyatt and John Bennett in North Carolina Army Continental Line getting discharge in 1783. Both families moved to Greenville, Tennessee District of N.C. where John Bennett received a 300 acre military warrant land grant. Samuel Wyatt later bought 640 acres there. Both on 1783 Greenville Tax List. Samuel Wyatt migrated on to Claiborne Co. TN, buying and selling land until settling permanently in Knox County, Kentucky. Samuel Wyatt was a miller and also drilled for salt wells in Knox County, Kentucky.
http: www.migrations.org/individual.php3?record=27099
- Wikitree.com.
Samuel Wyatt Sr. (abt. 1755 - abt. 1835)
Samuel Wyatt was probably born about 1754/5[1] in Virginia and is possibly a descendant of Sir Francis Wyatt, but he is NOT the son of Rowe Wyatt (possible father: John Wyatt)
In abt 1757, Indians killed his entire family, but spared Samuel, age 2. He was recovered from Indians in the Kanawha River area abt 1761 at age 16 (age 6?)
He married about 1776 Rebecca Ann Bennett[1][2] probably in Virginia.
Rank: Private[4] Samuel was awarded NC Specie Certificate #603 (roll #S.115.136 per DAR #A132251) recorded 12 Jun 1783 for service in the Rev. War in the Continental Army. Soldier in Wash. or Sullivan Co. NC or Greene TN per Peters Coll.
He was on 1783 tax list of Greene Co.,TN, Dist. of North Carolina. He was listed in early Tennessee land records, recorded on the 12th of January 1784 in Greene County.
The family removed from Greene Co. TN to Greenbrier Co. VA (now WV) in 1786 (dau. Susanna was b.in Greenbrier Co.) due to threat from Indians. They reappeared on Greene Co. TN tax lists in 1799 (after NC/TN gained control of area).
Deed Book 6, p.234 - purchased 300 acres of land on Little Chuckey for 50 pounds on 3 Aug 1790 from Nicholas Davis; Deed Book 2, p.129 - Purchased 640 acres on Little Chuckey from Thomas Galbreath per Peters Collection.
Appears on Greene Co. TN tax lists by 1799.
First registered on Knox Co. KY tax list in 1805, along with a Thomas Wyatt (from "Whitley Co. KY 1818-1993 History & Families").
1810 Census • Knox County, Kentucky - total in HOUSEHOLD: 15 -- 3 males/5 females/7 slaves.[5]
15 Oct 1811 • Knox County, Kentucky, USA - Purchased for $141 from George Smith, 141 acres, part of Wm.Sublett's survey of 1,189 acres on south side of the Cumberland River -Deed Book B., p.190.
27 Mar 1814 • Knox County, Kentucky, USA - Purchased for $1,200 on 27 Mar 1814 from Alexander Stewart and wife Catherine, 286 acres on west bank of Stinking Creek - Deed Book B., p.324
Mar 1814 • Knox County, Kentucky, USA - Samuel Wyatt given permission to build a mill -Knox Co. KY Order Book 1, p.482
30 Dec 1814 • Knox County, Kentucky, USA - Purchased from Wade Woodson for $300 on 30 Dec 1814, 30 acres on Flat Lick -Deed Book B, p.326.
Samuel built a Grist Mill in Knox Co. KY, he also drilled wells for salt extraction; his mill was located on Brush Creek in 1814 in Knox Co.; he also operated a still (from the "Whitley Co. KY 1818-1993 History & Families").
Purchased form Abraham Buford for $944 on 9 Sep 1815, 240 acres on Stinking Creek -Deed Book B, p.450.
Purchased property (unk) from George Smith on 12 Oct 1816 for $30, beginning on Buford's line -Deed Book B, p.487.
1820 Census • Knox County, Kentucky - total in HOUSEHOLD: 14 -- 2 males/3 females/9 slaves, lived on southeast side of Cumberland River.[6]
1830 Census • Knox County, Kentucky - total in HOUSEHOLD: 10 -- 3 males/1 females/5 slaves.[7]
Samuel died Jul 1835 in Knox Co. KY[1] intestate, estate administrator: Franklin Ballinger. It took 15 years to settle estate, per diary of the Rev. JJ Dickey[1]
Aug 1835 • Knox County, Kentucky, USA - Inventory total $1,767(attached). Assets: 290 acres of land on the Cumberland River, 5 slaves (1 man, 1 woman, 2 children and an old woman "of little value"), personal property and money.
5 Oct 1835. Knox County, Circuit Clerk, Suits Box #65. Rebecca, his widow. Suing the other heirs of the estate. Names children, in-laws, some grandchildren. Transcribed in an unidentified newsletter. Link goes to a partial copy of the summons.
https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Wyatt-959
- Tennessee, Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895.
Name Samuel Wyatt
Residence Date 1783
Residence Place Greene, Tennessee, USA
Note: also listed were William Bennett and Thomas Bennett
- Discover Kentucky Archaelogy.
Wyatt Farmstead
Summary
In 2013, archaeologists uncovered the remains of an early to mid-nineteenth-century house on a small knoll along the Cumberland River in Knox County. Samuel Wyatt, a native of Virginia and a Revolutionary War veteran, had established a farm there in 1811.
Wyatt was 56 years old and had developed several successful farmsteads in northern Tennessee and nearby Whitley County, Kentucky before settling in Knox County. He and the nine people he enslaved built the house and worked the farm until his death in 1835. His wife, Rebecca, and their adult children continued to work the farm until her death in 1842, when her heirs sold the farm to Levi Hoskins and his wife Sallie.
Like Wyatt, Hoskins was in his 50s and left a successful farmstead to move to Knox County. Although Hoskins had built some wealth using enslaved labor at a farm in Harlan County, there is no record that he enslaved people to work the old Wyatt farmstead. Hoskins, one of the wealthiest farmers in the area, worked the land with his family until his death in 1875.
https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Wyatt.aspx
- FamilySearch: Unidentified database - please replace source when identified.
From the Whitley County Kentucky 1818-1993 History & Families:
Samuel Wyatt, Sr. was born ca 1755 in Virginia, came to Kentucky via North Carolina and Tennessee, and was first registered on Knox County, KY, tax lists in 1805, along with a Thomas Wyatt. Isham and James Wyatt show up on the Knox County tax lists as early as 1803, but their relationship to Samuel is unknown.
Samuel served in the Revolutionary War as evidenced by North Carolina Specie Certificate #603 of record June 12, 1783. He settled in Greene County TN for a while before removing to Knox County. Family tradition holds that Samuel was a descendant of Sir Francis Wyatt, first governor of Virginia.
Samuel Wyatt built a Grist Mill in Knox County and also drilled wells for salt extraction. His mill was located on Brush Creek in 1814, in Knox County. He also operated a still.
He married Rebecca Bennett, daughter of John Bennett who also served in the Revolutionary War for North Carolina, receiving North Carolina Specie Certificate #607 of record June 12 1783. John settled in Greene County, TN.
https://www.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/das-mem/patron/v2/TH-904-78531-2940-42/dist.txt?ctx=ArtCtxPublic
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