Jacob Rector and Mary Hitt

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Husband Jacob Rector ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1811 - Grayson Co., Virginia
         Buried:  - Grayson Co., Virginia

       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Hitt

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           Born: Abt 1723 - (Germantown, Stafford Co., Va)
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1813 - Grayson Co., Virginia
         Buried:  - Grayson Co., Virginia

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         Father: Peter Hitt (1680/1683-1772)
         Mother: Elizabeth Otterbach (1689-Abt 1773) 2

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Rector

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LAND:

In 1772 Mary Rector inherited Lot No. 8 in Germantown on which her father lived at the time of his death. She also inherited a Negro boy named Moses. In 1773 Mary and her husband Jacob Rector sold the lot to Jeremiah Darnall. (GERMANNA RECORD NO. 2 Germantown Revisted, pg 40)

On May 24, 1773 Jacob Rector & Mary, his wife, of Fauquier Co. sold to Jeremiah Darnall of the same place for £70 a tract of 100 acres whereon Peter Hitt, dec'd, lived, being one of the lots of land in the German Town. Signed Jacob Rector, Mary (her X mark) Rector. (Fauquier Co. Deed Records 5/335)

On August 24, 1773 Jeremiah Darnall sold the same tract for £100 to Tilman Weaver. (5/415)

EARL J. HITT:

The following was copied from the database of Earl J. Hitt in WorldConnect (no longer existent):

On 24 July 1748, Jacob was deed land in Fauquier County, Virginia by his brother, Henry, which would indicate that Jacob was of age but likely still unmarried. Henry and his wife, Anne, signed the deed but Jacob signed alone which would indicate that he was unmarried. it is believed that he married about the same year because his oldest son, Peter, was born on 1 November 1749.
The 1782-1785 tithables for Fauquier County lists Jacob, Sr., Jacob, Jr., Peter, James and Jesse Rector. The 1786 tithables list only Jacob Sr. and Jr. which would indicate that Peter, James and Jesse had away. The 1787 tithables list only Jacob, Jr. which would indicate that Jacob, Sr. had moved away. It is known that Peter, James and Jesse moved to Rowan County, North Carolina. James and Jesse are listed in the 1794 tithables for Grayson County, Virginia.
Jacob and his wife moved from Germantown to Rowan County, North Carolina where it is believed they lived from about 1787 to 1793. They are listed in the Grayson County, Virginia tithables from 1794 to 1809. On 18 May 1796, Jacob received a grant of 130 acres of land from the Commonwealth of Virginia located on Meadow Creek in Grayson County. In 1798, Jacob and his wife deed this land to his son, Bennet, but continued to live on the land until Jacob died in 1810. Jacob and his wife Mary Ann (died in 1813) are buried in a cemetery near Delhart, Grayson County, Virginia.
Jacob's will dated 31 July 1810, probated in July 1811, and filed in Grayson County, names his children.

Birth: BET 1720 AND 1725 in Germantown, Fauquier County, Virginia
Death: AFT 31 JUL 1810 in Grayson County, Virginia
Father: John Jacob RECTOR b: ABT 1674 in Trupbach, Germany
Mother: Mary Elizabeth FISHBACK
Marriage 1 Mary Ann HITT b: ABT 1723 in Germantown, Stafford County, Virginia
Married: ABT 1748

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Hitt

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In 1772 Mary inherited Lot No. 8 in Germantown on which her father lived at the time of his death. She also inherited a Negro boy named Moses. In 1773 Mary and her husband Jacob Rector sold the lot to Jeremiah Darnall. (GERMANNA RECORD NO. 2 Germantown Revisted, pg 40)

BIRTH YEAR:

The year of her birth is just a guess. See notes under her father.

EARL J. HITT:

The following was copied from the database of Earl J. Hitt in WorldConnect (no longer existent):

Germanna Record No. 1 gives the husband of Mary as Harman Rector son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Fishback) Rector, which is in error. Mary's husband was actually Jacob Rector son of John Jacob and Mary Elizabeth (Fishback) Rector.

Death: ABT 1813 in Grayson County, Virginia

1 Earl J. Hitt, "http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: hitthaynie."

2 B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestors and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750, 1964; Germanna Record No. 5; The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, pg 482.