Hewitt's of White Oak and Collateral Families

Katherine SIMMONS Parents: Johannes SIMMONS and Margaretta BUSSETT.

Laney Eleanor SIMMONS was born on 24 Apr 1767. She died in Jun 1846. Parents: Abraham Bussett SIMMONS and Rachel LAVENDAR.

She married to Israel HATHAWAY on 5 Jul 1789.

Lavendar Bryan SIMMONS was born on 19 Jan 1769. He died on 3 Mar 1843. Parents: Abraham Bussett SIMMONS and Rachel LAVENDAR.

He married to Nancy GRIMES on 28 Aug 1798.

Lemuel H. SIMMONS was born about 1797. He died before Mar 1846. Parents: Needham SIMMONS and Elizabeth RHEM.

He married to Mariah FOY. Children were: Emily SIMMONS, Benjamin SIMMONS, Elizabeth SIMMONS, Mary Ann SIMMONS.

Liberty Bryan SIMMONS was born on 14 Jul 1776. He died on 26 Jul 1776. Parents: Abraham Bussett SIMMONS and Rachel LAVENDAR.

Louise SIMMONS Parents: Benjamin SIMMONS.

She married to William COX.

Madlena SIMMONS Parents: Bendicht SIMMONS and Catherine SCHAIDELI.

Maria SIMMONS Parents: Bendicht SIMMONS and Maria KRAEUCHI.

Maria Madlene SIMMONS was born in 1689. Parents: Bendicht SIMMONS and Catherine SCHAIDELI.

Mary SIMMONS Parents: Johannes SIMMONS and Margaretta BUSSETT.

Mary "Polly" SIMMONS was born about 1798. Parents: Needham SIMMONS and Elizabeth RHEM.

She married to George C. HATCH. Children were: Lemuel Simmons HATCH.

Mary "Polly" SIMMONS was born on 16 Jan 1765. Parents: Abraham Bussett SIMMONS and Rachel LAVENDAR.

Mary Ann SIMMONS Parents: Lemuel H. SIMMONS and Mariah FOY.

She married to Richard OLDFIELD.

Mary Elizabeth SIMMONS was born on 19 Sep 1824. She died on 26 Aug 1829. Parents: Furnifold Green SIMMONS and Penelope Becton LOFTIN.

Mary H. SIMMONS was born about 1846. She died in 1876. Parents: Amos L. SIMMONS and Leah S. KOONCE.

Miriam SIMMONS Parents: Emanuel SIMMONS and Miriam.

She married to Edmund HATCH after 1785 in Craven Co., NC. Children were: Lemuel HATCH, Buckner HATCH, Arseneth HATCH , John Stanley HATCH, Mary Fonvielle HATCH.

Nancy SIMMONS was born in 1793. Parents: Daniel SIMMONS and Penelope HARGETT.

Needham SIMMONS was born in 1772. He died in Feb 1822 in Jones Co., NC. Parents: Emanuel SIMMONS and Miriam .

He married to Elizabeth RHEM on 14 Jan 1797 in Craven Co., NC. Children were: Lemuel H. SIMMONS , Mary "Polly" SIMMONS, Furnifold Green SIMMONS, Amos L. SIMMONS, Sophia Elenory SIMMONS.

Obed Isler SIMMONS was born on 17 Nov 1790. Parents: John SIMMONS and Elizabeth ISLER.

Peggie SIMMONS was born in 1797. Parents: Daniel SIMMONS and Penelope HARGETT.

Penelope SIMMONS was born in 1801. Parents: Daniel SIMMONS and Penelope HARGETT.

Prudence SIMMONS⁽¹³⁸⁾⁽¹³⁹⁾ died before 1820 in Jones Co., NC.

Rigdon Hewitt & Prudence Simmons

The family of Emanuel Simmons owned several tracts of land east of the Whiteoak River in Craven and Jones County. The known children of Emanuel include Needham, who at the time of his death had considerable real assets, John, Amos, and a daugther suspected to be Miriam. Another child of Emanuel, who is not explicitly stated in the records of this family, must have been Elijah Simmons. In Emanuel's will of 1806, he mentions Needham and children of John, husbands of his two daughters and their children, and also grandchildren Prudence Hewitt and Sarah Oldfield (Fisher, p. 366). He does not mention Amos. The father of the Prudence and Sarah is not stated in the will, so it likely that he predeceased Emanuel.

Elijah Simmons' name appears many times in the records of Onslow and Jones Counties, often in connection with the Henry and Martha Simmons family. This has confused the identity of these persons named Elijah Simmons. Two key records that help to clarify matters are land sales of Prudy Simmons and Elizabeth Mundine on Sept. 11, 1798 (Jones Co. Deed Book H, p. 623-4; Gwynn, p. 221), and of Richard and Sarah Oldfield on July 8, 1802 (Jones Co. Deed Book J, p. 136-8; Gwynn, p. 265). Each party sold their half of land inherited from the estate of Elijah Simmons that was originally granted to him in 1782. Elijah Simmons died intestate, so his wife and children would inherit his land. From this it is apparent that Elijah Simmons had daughters Prudence and Sarah, and wife Elizabeth. Furthermore, Emanuel Simmons in 1786 gave land to his son John that was adjacent to the land "owned formerly by Elijah Simmons, deceased" (Gwynn, p. 122 entry 178-179). The facts that Emanuel had grandchildren Prudence (Hewitt) and Sarah (Oldfield), that Elijah Simmons had children by the same name, and that Emanuel owned land next to Elijah, are enough to hypothesize that Elijah Simmons was the son of Emanuel.

The will of Jeremiah Watson also makes a claim on the children Prudence and Sarah Simmons in 1792 (Fisher, p. 363). He states them as his grandchildren, and like Emanuel, he does not name their parents. This suggests that their father was deceased by the time Jeremiah wrote his will. Which Watson daughter was the mother of Prudence and Sarah? P.W. Fisher's detailed work on these families claims that it was Jeremiah's first daughter Mary, who was married at least once before Micajah Frazar, because she wrote a will in which she mentioned grandson Urbane Oldfield. Sarah Simmons, sister of Prudence, married Richard Oldfield. He assumed Urbane to belong to that family. The fact is that Urbane did not come from Sarah, but rather from Louisa, Mary's last child. What Fisher did not apparently see was the will of Pitts Oldfield of 1809, who mentioned his wife Louisa and son Urbane Oldfield. He states that the last child of Mary Frazer was Levisey, which can be easily mistaken from her will. Levisey is really Louisa. Therefore, Mary need not be the mother of Prudence and Sarah from a marriage before Micajah Frazar.

Furthermore, Mary is not likely to be the mother of Sarah and Prudence, since Mary had children of Micajah Frazar by the early 1770s, which was the approximate time that Sarah and Prudence were born. According to Fisher, Elizabeth Watson, a younger daughter of Jeremiah Watson, married Francis Mundine (Fisher, p. 416) before 1791. As implied by the land sale records mentioned above, the mother of Prudence Simmons and co-heir of Elijah Simmons' land was named Elizabeth Mundine. Therefore, Elizabeth Watson was first married to Elijah Simmons, and then remarried to Francis Mundine.

The 1786 census records of Jones Co. further makes the point that Elizabeth was married to Elijah, by listing a family headed by Elizabeth Simmons, which is to imply that her husband was deceased. The previously mentioned land transfer of Emanuel to John in the same year confirms that Elijah Simmons had indeed died.

These facts combine to form little doubt that Elijah was the name of the Emanuel Simmons' son who fathered Prudence and Sarah.

The inventory of the estate of Emanuel Simmons in 1809 clarifies that Prudence was married to Rigdon Hewitt, since Rigdon was named as receiving a payment from the estate along with Richard Oldfield and others (Gwynn, p. 398 entry 33). Rigdon was named guardian to the children of Francis and Elizabeth (Watson) Mundine in 1807, after Elizabeth remarried to Alexander Hicks and his subsequent death (Fisher, p. 417).

Now that we have asserted that Elijah Simmons and Elizabeth Watson bore Prudence and Sarah Simmons, we need to clarify the relation between the Watson family and the Hewitt family of Onslow County. Fisher claims that Rigdon Hewitt, son of John and Hannah (Pitts) Hewitt, married Jeremiah's daughter Nancy Watson Williamson, a widow of David Williamson. He says this because of the will of Nancy Hewitt of 1807 who names the Williamson children. Fisher did not have the opportunity to see the marriage bond of Wilet Hewitt to Nancy Williamson of 1796. Had he done so, he would not have assumed that Rigdon was the Hewitt who married Nancy. Wilet was likely a brother to Rigdon Hewitt, who probably died by 1798 when Nancy Hewitt gave certain legal rights to other parties, something she would not have been allowed to do if she was married. Furthermore, she would not have been allowed to write a will in 1807 if she was married to Rigdon.

We know that Rigdon had a son John in late 1798, and the deed sale of Prudy Simmons that year tells us that she was not Rigdon's first wife. Rather, they appear to have married about 1802, as their child Elijah, named after her father, was born the following year. Rigdon is known to have remarried to Nancy Pitts about 1820.

It also appears that Rigdon obtained the lot of his wealth from his spouse Prudence. She was an heir to Elijah Simmons, Jeremiah Watson, and Emanuel Simmons, each of whom left slaves or land. Rigdon moved from his father's homestead in Onslow County, near Ashe's Creek (now Webb Creek) and the west side of the Whiteoak River, to lands on Black Swamp and Mirey Branch about ten miles to the North on the other side of the river. By the time of his death in 1842, he had 28 slaves and several hundred acres of land that was divided among the children.

Parents: Elijah SIMMONS and Elizabeth WATSON.

She married to Rigdon HEWITT about 1802.⁽¹⁴⁰⁾ Children were: Elijah HEWITT, Abram M. HEWITT, Edward M. HEWITT, Louisa HEWITT.

Rezin SIMMONS was born on 19 Apr 1772. She died on 22 Nov 1800. Parents: Abraham Bussett SIMMONS and Rachel LAVENDAR.

She married to Wiley GUNTER on 30 Jan 1800.

Sarah SIMMONS Parents: Elijah SIMMONS and Elizabeth WATSON.

She married to Richard OLDFIELD . Children were: Elizabeth "Betsy" OLDFIELD , Nancy OLDFIELD, Prudence OLDFIELD, Sarah OLDFIELD, Susan Hatch OLDFIELD, Richard OLDFIELD.

Sarah "Sally" SIMMONS was born on 23 Jan 1787. She died in 1850. Parents: John SIMMONS and Elizabeth ISLER.

Sarah Frances SIMMONS was born in 1848. She died in 1868. Parents: Amos L. SIMMONS and Leah S. KOONCE.

Sophia Elenory SIMMONS Parents: Needham SIMMONS and Elizabeth RHEM.

She married to Henry B. MITCHELL.

Susanna SIMMONS was born in 1799. Parents: Daniel SIMMONS and Penelope HARGETT.

Thomas SIMMONS was born on 29 Mar 1786. He died in 1817. Parents: Abraham Bussett SIMMONS and Lucy GUNTER.

Unknown SIMMONS

William SIMMONS was born in 1791. He died in 1861. Parents: Daniel SIMMONS and Penelope HARGETT.

Winefred SIMMONS was born on 5 Jul 1778. Parents: Abraham Bussett SIMMONS and Rachel LAVENDAR.

She married to Charles WESTIN(?) on 27 Feb 1800.

Abram SIMPSON was born in 1748 in Swansboro, Onslow Co., NC. Parents: John SIMPSON and Anne.

Ada SIMPSON (Private).

Children were: Juanita JACKSON , Thomas Clifford JACKSON, Thomas Wayne JACKSON, Dorothy JACKSON, Clarence "Buddy" JACKSON, Clara Mae JACKSON , Tommie Jean JACKSON, Thomas Drew JACKSON.

Cornelius SIMPSON. Parents: John SIMPSON and Sarah.

E. Bell SIMPSON was born on 8 Oct 1846. She died on 26 Nov 1933 in Marshall, Harrison Co., TX.

She married to James Franklin GODBOLD in 1865 in TX. Children were: Sarah D. GODBOLD , Edwin L. GODBOLD, Susie GODBOLD, Maggie G. GODBOLD.

J. S. SIMPSON

John SIMPSON was born about 1710 in Albermarle District, NC. He emigrated in 1725 from Carteret Co., NC. He was a Constable between 1745 and 1761 in Onslow Co., NC. He died in Jan 1761 in Onslow Co., NC. John Simpson lived on the West bank of the White Oak River near his brother Robert since 1734. Parents: John SIMPSON and Sarah.

He married to Anne in Mar 1748 in Onslow Co., NC. Children were: Abram SIMPSON, Thomas SIMPSON.

John SIMPSON died in 1760 in Carteret Co., NC.

He married to Sarah. Children were: Robert SIMPSON, John SIMPSON, Joshua SIMPSON, Cornelius SIMPSON, Joseph SIMPSON.

Joseph SIMPSON Parents: John SIMPSON and Sarah.

Joshua SIMPSON Parents: John SIMPSON and Sarah.

Robert SIMPSON emigrated in 1732 from Onslow Co., NC. Parents: John SIMPSON and Sarah.

Thomas SIMPSON was born in 1750 in Swansboro, Onslow Co., NC. He was Guardians selected for the orphans estate on 10 Mar 1763 in Onslow Co., NC.⁽⁵⁶⁾ "James Dyson who intermarried with Ann Simpson relict of John Simpson dec'd comes into court and produces John Hewitt and Richard Pitts securities for the orphans estate..." He was Estate released on 10 Nov 1769 in Onslow Co., NC.⁽⁵⁶⁾ "On motion of Thomas Simpson ordered [that] John Hewitt guardian to him deliver up his estate to him or suit be brought agst. him next court." Parents: John SIMPSON and Anne.

Thomas SIMPSON

He married to Amy about 1747 in Craven Co., NC.

Amanda B. SIMS

She married to David Ward WATSON.

Lawton SIMS

He married to Mae HEWITT.

Mary Jane SINGLETON was born on 14 Apr 1813. She was born on 14 Apr 1813 in GA. She died on 8 Mar 1889. She died on 8 Mar 1889 in (Near) Quitman, Brooks Co., GA.

She married to Daniel DAMPIER on 11 Sep 1833. Children were: Martha A. DAMPIER, George W. L. DAMPIER, Mary Ann DAMPIER, Saleta Jane DAMPIER, Sarah DAMPIER, Henry Washington DAMPIER, John Warren DAMPIER , Chapel Miles DAMPIER, William Hansel DAMPIER, Jane DAMPIER.

Sarah "Sallie" Ann SINGLETON

She married to Washington Baker DAMPIER on 18 Feb 1847. Children were: George Washington DAMPIER, Luiza DAMPIER, John Ashley DAMPIER, Angeline DAMPIER, Eviline DAMPIER, Susan Elminie DAMPIER, Berrien DAMPIER.

Unknown SINGLETON

Abner SIRMANS was born in 1793. Parents: Josiah SIRMANS and Harty HARDEMAN.

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