Robert Witt 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 24 Apr 1765 - Bedford Co., Virginia
    Christening: 
          Death: 31 Mar 1849 -  ( at age 83) 1
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *Nancy Reese (Abt 1771 - 9 Oct 1836)
       Marriage: 19 Aug 1790 - Bedford Co., Virginia 2
       Children:
                1. Christopher R. Witt (Abt 1791-      )
                2. Mills Witt (Abt 1792-      )
                3. William Witt (Abt 1794-      )
                4. Sally Witt (Abt 1795-1859)
                5. Nancy Witt (Abt 1795-      )
                6. Martha Witt (Abt 1803-1865)
                7. Elizabeth Caroline Witt (1804-1891)
                8. Rhoda Witt (Abt 1805-      )
                9. Caleb E. Witt (Abt 1807-      )
                10. Reuben C. Witt (Abt 1811-      )
Notes
General:
CENSUS:

<pre>1820 Logan Co., Kentucky, Russellville
Robert Witt 110101-11101; 3 in agriculture, no slaves
male female
1 <10 1
1 10-16 1
16-18
1 16-26 1
26-45
1 >45 1 </pre>

He is in the sequence Robert Witt, William Witt, Joel Stroud.

<pre>1830 Logan Co., Kentucky, Russellville
Robert Witt Sen'r 000010001-010010001; 2 slaves
male female
< 5
5-10 1
10-15
15-20
1 20-30 1
30-40
40-50
50-60
1 60-70 1 </pre>

Joel Stroud is the next entry. The two younger females are probably Elizabeth Caroline Ballard and her daughter.

PENSION:

Red River Settlers, Miscellaneous Records at Ancestry.com, page 129, image 138/198:

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48271/images/RedRiverSettlers-000457-129?usePUB=true&pId=274409

Robert Witt; of Kentucky; applied for Revolutionary pension while living in Logan County, Kentucky; was born in Bedford County, Virginia on April 24, 1765; enlisted in that county on April 24, 1780 and served until 1783 under Capt. John Baley (Bailey) and Col. George Rogers Clark in the Virginia Troops; married Nancy Reese. Note: He died March 31, 1849. His children were William, Martha, Sarah, Rhoda, and Rebecca.

Red River Settlers, Records of the Settlers of Northern Montgomery, Robertson, and Sumner Counties, Tennessee by Edythe Rucker Whitley (1980)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Genealogy of the Hill family, Kentucky and Virginia, compiled by David Gordon Young, published by Col. Francis Hill Kuhn, 1969, "The Witts", image 45/143:

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/29926/images/dvm_GenMono008519-00026-1?usePUB=true&pId=45

ROBERT WITT, my great grandfather. The limited data I have on him is in some instances conflicting. One source gives his birth as 1765, another as 1768. The former is the more likely, as he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1780. He was born and lived in Bedford County, Va. until he came to Kentucky in 1811 or 1813. My father in his diary states there were nine children, but one application for membership in the D.A.R. lists 13, as follows:

1. William Witt, born 1791, married Mary Witt,
2. Mills Witt, married Jane Dawson,
3. Caleb Witt,
4. Lockey Witt,
5. Martha Witt, born 1798, married Joel Strode,
6. Robert Witt, born 1801,
7. Elizabeth Caroline Witt, born 1804, married Aaron Ballard and John Jefferson Young,
8. Reuben Crawford Witt, born 1811, married Rebecca Stall,
9. Rhoda Witt, married ______ Reese,
10. Sallie Witt, married ______ Willard,
11. Christopher Witt,
12. Beckie Witt,
13. Nancy Witt, married Eli Strode.

Robert Witt, Sr., married Nancy Reese on Aug. 19, 1790. He was a veteran of the George Rogers Clark Northwest Expeditions, and campaigned throughout the West. He received in recognition of his services two land grants totalling 108 acres. I have no data on their location, value, or disposition. By 1834 he was in indigent circumstances, and spent the last 14 years of his life with his daughter, Elizabeth Caroline Young, my grandmother. He was paralyzed on his left side, and nearly or quite blind. These conditions were supposed to have been brought about by the hardships endured during his service in the Clark Expeditions. He was buried in the Martin Young family burying ground in Logan County, Ky.

MIGRATION:

The family moved from Virginia to Kentucky when Elizabeth Caroline was about 7. She was born in 1804, so they moved in about 1811.
picture

Sources

1 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 101815645.

2 "Familysearch.org," "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRCV-BPV : 6 August 2020), Robert Witt, 1790; film # 007578830, page 221, image 120/199.

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