Daniel Hitt
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 5 Apr 1768 - (Fauquier Co., Virginia) Christening: Death: 17 Oct 1825 - Washington Co., Maryland Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Harman Hitt (Abt 1721-After 1797) Mother: Mary Weaver ( - )
Notes
General:
GERMANNA RECORD NO. 1, pg 32:
Daniel Hitt b. April 5, 1768, died unmarried in Fauquier Co. in 1825. Rev. Daniel Hitt was also a rather distinguished Methodist minister, and is said to have been Bishop Asbury's companion over several thousand miles to attend conferences.
Contrary to the above Earl J. Hitt says that Daniel died at the residence of Samuel Merritt Hitt in Washington Co., Maryland and that he is buried in the Hershey Burial Grounds, Burtner, Washington Co., Maryland.
LAWSUIT:
Daniel Hitt died intestate and without issue. See notes under his father concerning a lawsuit to distribute the proceeds from the sale of a tract of land he owned in Fauquier Co.
EARL J. HITT:
The following was copied from the database of Earl J. Hitt in WorldConnect (no longer existent):
Daniel was prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He entered the ministry in 1789 with his older brother, Martin. He traveled the Lancaster circuit in Virginia in 1790, the Allegany circuit in Western Maryland in 1791, the Ohio circuit in 1792, Pittsburg in 1793, Redstone in 1794-95, and Clarksburg in 1796. In 1796 Daniel was presiding elder. He was sent to Baltimore, Maryland in October 1796 and to the Frederick circuit in 1797. Later that year Daniel was returned to Fairfax and Alexandria. In 1798 he was made presiding elder of the Pittsburg district where he remained for three years. He returned to Alexandria, Virginia in 1801 as the presiding elder of the Alexandria district. The years 1805 and 1806 were spent in the Baltimore district. For one year, 11 March 1807 to 11 March 1808, Daniel accompanied Bishop Asbury on his annual tour of the conferences, from Baltimore to Maine, west to Ohio, and south to the Carolinas; the trip covering some 5000 miles. Asbury in his Journal and Letters refers to three generations of Hitts and he stayed at Hitt homes in several states.
In 1781 Daniel was living in the Rectors house, Route 710, at Rectortown. Here Daniel was host to Bishop Asbury who came to hold services at the Rectortown Methodist Church which held their services at the old Meeting House that served as a hospital during the Civil War.
Daniel declined to be made a Bishop because he believed he could be of greater service to the church by promoting the Methodist Book Concern. From 1808 to 1816 Daniel was the "book steward" and lived in New York City.
Daniel returned to the active ministry in 1816, serving the Schuylkill district of the Philadelphia conference. He took the Monongahela district in the Baltimore conference until 1822 when he began his travels with Bishop McKendree. He served the Potomac district in 1823-24 and the Carlisle district in 1825 the year he died. Daniel's last sermon was delivered at a camp meeting near Greencastle, Pennsylvania where a child in the audience predicted that "Bro. Hitt would die". Daniel became ill at Greencastle, Pennsylvania and died of typhus fever at the home of his nephew, Samuel Merritt Hitt in Washington County, Maryland.
On 12-13 May 1826, the inventory of Daniel's estate was recorded in Fauquier County, Virginia (Fauquier County, Virginia Will Book 9, p. 420) The account of Daniel's estate, which was made by his son Benjamin, was filed on 25 February 1828 (Fauquier County, Will Book 10, p. 301). (GR #1, page 36, mistakenly lists the above inventory under Daniel Hitt son of Jessie and Nancy Ann (Rector) Hitt, who married Joanna Jett and died in May 1862.)
There is a collection of 335 letters written to Daniel from 1788 to 1806. (The Letters Written to Daniel Hitt, Methodist Preacher, 1788-1806; Given by the Stevenson Family to Ohio Wesleyan University; Transcript made by Miss Annie Winstead, Upper Room, Nashville; Footnotes and Introduction by Raymond Martin Bell, Washington & Jefferson College; 1967) Daniel owned one of the four portraits made of John Wesley. Sarah Ann (Hitt) Warnock inherited the portrait and it was last known to be in the possession of her grandson, Dr. Mark C. Houston of Urbana, Ohio.
Daniel never married. He was engaged to be married to Sarah Smith, sister of Margaret & Jane, but she died before they could be married.
Daniel can be found in the early records of Vermont and in the late 1700's he traveled with the bishop. One book published by Daniel Hitt & Thomas Ware is still in existance: "A True and Complete Portraiture of Methodism" by Johathan Crowther. A complete sketch of Daniel Hitt can be found in: Archives of the American Methodist Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland for complete sketch of Rev. Daniel Hitt by Rev Joseph R. Wood, of Maria Hitt, of Martin.
(History of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, Hagerstown, Maryland, pp. 1783-1794.)
(Annals of the American Pulpit, distinquished American Clergymen, by William B. Sprague, Vol VII, Robert Carter & Bros., 1861, pages 144-145.)
(Religion on the American Frontier 1783-1840, Vol. IV, The Methodists, A Collection of Source Materials; by William Warren Sweet, 1964.)
(The Letters Written To Daniel Hitt, Methodist Preacher 1788 to 1806; given by the Stevenson Family to Ohio Wesleyan University; Transcript by Miss Annie Winstead, Upper Room, Nashville, 1967.)
(Lovely Lane Methodist Church Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
Birth: 05 APR 1768 in Germantown, Fauquier County, Virginia
Death: 17 OCT 1825 in Washington County, Maryland
Note: Daniel died at the residence of Samuel Merrit Hitt, Washington County, Maryland.
Burial: Hershey Burial Grounds, Burtner, Washington County, Maryland
Note: Daniel is believed to be buried in an unmarked grave in the Hershey burial grounds near Burtner's flag station. The grounds are on a hill behind an old stone house (still standing in 1906) believed to have been built by Thomas Smith; sold in 1794 to Isaac Hershey and later owned by Joseph M. Rowland.
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