Re: James and Mary Brittain of Rowan County, NC
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Re: James and Mary Brittain of Rowan County, NC
Randi 8/15/03
Thank you for the reply. What I am looking for is hard data. I can find no immigration record for James nor any sign of a Witty family in Chester County, PA from which Mary Witty might have come. Simon Moon was definately a close friend and neighbor of James' because he was surety for a 500 pound sterling bond which James entered into as estate administrator for Mary Wall in Frederick County in 1747 and he is listed next to James in the 1768 Rowan County tax list. However, Simon married Leaury Humphrey at Christ Church in Philadelphia on September 27, 1721. Now it is possible that she was Leaury Witty Humphrey and that Simon was her second husband, but that is a stretch. Still, there is some sort of a Witty connection because James' son William said in his will "to my daughter heirs Witty five shillings" which means that William had a deceased daughter who married a Witty. I have sent off for Mary Wall's estate papers in the hopes that they might be of some help.