Mary Ann Prewitt

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• Reference Number: 11455

Mary married Robert T Johnston 28 Aug 1823, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA. Robert (son of William Henry Johnston and Rachel Spears) was born 17 Nov 1804, Kentucky, USA; died 19 Dec 1832, Boone, Missouri, USA; was buried , Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Joel Prewitt Johnston was born 13 Nov 1824, Howard, Missouri, USA; died 10 Jun 1896, Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, USA; was buried , Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, USA.
2. Nancy Elizabeth Johnston was born 26 Dec 1827, Boone, Missouri, USA; died 26 Aug 1882, Roanoke, Randolph, Missouri, USA; was buried , Randolph, Missouri, USA.
3. Robert Thomas Johnston was born 10 Jan 1829, Boone, Missouri, USA; died 17 Sep 1900, Boone, Missouri, USA; was buried , Columbia, Boone, Missouri, USA.
4. William Henry Johnston was born 10 Feb 1830, Howard, Missouri, USA; died 29 May 1862, Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, USA; was buried , Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, USA.

Mary married William M Burton 4 Apr 1836, Howard, Missouri, USA. William (son of Hutchens Burton and Elizabeth Stapp) was born 27 Jun 1805, Adair, Kentucky, USA; died 30 May 1867, Howard, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Mary Burton was born Abt 1849, Missouri, USA.
2. Edgar M Burton was born Feb 1846, Missouri, USA.
3. Patrick H Burton was born 24 Dec 1843, Missouri, USA; died 20 Jul 1926, Fayette, Howard, Missouri, USA; was buried , Fayette, Howard, Missouri, USA.
4. Caroline Burton was born Abt 1843, Missouri, USA.
5. Annie Eliza Burton was born 1 May 1840, Howard, Missouri, USA; died 8 Mar 1864, Chariton, Howard, Missouri, USA; was buried , Glasgow, Howard, Missouri, USA.
6. Martha C Burton was born 10 Feb 1836, Howard, Missouri, USA; died 25 Feb 1890, Grand River, Livingston, Missouri, USA; was buried , Avalon, Livingston, Missouri, USA.

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• Reference Number: 11436
• Residence: 1820, Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1830, Howard, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1840, Richmond, Howard, Missouri, USA

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Buried:
Family Cemetery (Since plowed over)

Joel married Mary Ann Netherland 22 Jul 1805, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Netherland and Theodosia Bramlett) was born 21 Sep 1789, Surry, North Carolina, USA; died 22 Sep 1811, Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Find-A-Grave: 147596658
• Reference Number: 10388

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Buried:
County Jail Cemetery (Was a garden owned by Benjamin Netherland)

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• Name: Joseph Pruitt
• Reference Number: 11416

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Joseph was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War.

Joseph married Leah Moss 1782, Virginia, USA. Leah (daughter of Frederick Moss and Sarah Elizabeth Tomlinson) was born Abt 1764, Halifax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 10185

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• Find-A-Grave: 100820920
• Occupation: Postmaster
• Reference Number: 10383
• _MILT: Revolutionary War
• _MILT: Between 1835 and 1850, Kentucky, USA

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Benjamin Netherland was the son of John Netherland; the date and place of his birth and the name of his mother are no shown. In 1789, his father was living in Powhatan County, Virginia, and was referred to then as John Netherland, Senior.

Benjamin Netherland, a cadet, entered the service in Colonel Henry's 1st Virginia Regiment, was in the battle at the Long Bridge, then went to Norfolk and remained until that place was burned, and was commissioned ensign in Colonel George Mathews' Virginia Regiment; he resigned to go to Georgia where regiments were then being raised, and in 1776, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Colonel George Habersham's 1st Georgia Regiment; he was on expeditions against the Indians, to Fort Augusta and to the St. Johns River, and at the time the British invaded Georgia under the Tory Colonel Brown, he was in command of a relief company and went to a fort on the Alatamaha River, was taken prisoner and confined nineteen days in a dungeon under a light house on the island opposite Augusta, following which he was imprisoned several months, was later sent to Charleston, thence to Georgia and, on account of ill health, went to Boston where he remained until late that fall; he returned south in 1780, was brevetted a Captain was granted leave to go to Kentucky by Colonel Samual Elbert, and in 1782, was in the battle of Blue Licks.

It was stated further that in 1786 or 1787, he was appointed Major of the County, the state not designated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1832, at which time he resided in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. He was then seventy-seven years of age.

The soldier died October 6 [10?], 1838 in Jessamine County, Kentucky.

Benjamin Netherland married in February, 1787, in North Carolina, Theodosia, daughter of Ambrose Bramlet, of Surry County, North Carolina.

Theodosia Netherland, the solider's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed June 18 [19], 1843, at which time she resided in Jessamine County, Kentucky. She was then 'above severty-six years' of age; the date and place of her birth are not stated.
Mary Anne Netherland, the daughter of Benjamin Netherland and Theodosia, was their only child in 1789. No other names of children are shown in the papers on file in this claim.

Buried:
Netherland Cemetery

Benjamin married Theodosia Bramlett 16 Feb 1788, Surry, North Carolina, USA. Theodosia (daughter of Ambrose Bramlett and Jane Woodson) was born 10 Aug 1769, Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died 1852, Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA; was buried , Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Find-A-Grave: 100820937
• Reference Number: 2105

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Buried:
Netherland Cemetery

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• Reference Number: 11458

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In 1779 three of Michael Prewitt's sons, Elisha, Rober and Joshua, went with members of six of their neighboring Virginia families to the wilderness of Kentucky. Major Herman Bowman, in a desposition taken by John D. Shane, which is recorded in the Draper Manuscript, 13cc170 No. 41, owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, tells of the famous Bowman Expedition, as follows:

"Father came to Boman's Station, 1779, through the wilderness. had been to Kentucky in 1777. Seven families came in from Virginia together. Got out of floure at the Holston. the mill in the neighborhood was impressed for public service, and then set out with a scarcity of flour for the winter. Got to Cumberland River, and there a deep snow fell, and another when we got to Rockcastle. Occupied tents only to protect us from the winter.

Walker and Henderson were running the line, and marking it with red paint very plain (on the top of the Cumberland Gap) while we were crossing. They told us that an Indian had killed one of their men, or that one of their men had killed an Indian the day before, which alarmed us somewhat, though we saw none. We got so far out that there was fine cane, and good range for out stock. Had ten cattle and expected eight calves in the spring, but lost all our stock, but one head. had no fear of Indians, whatever, it was so cold. Snow covered the vegitation, and cane-breaks scattering. 2 men were left to take care of them, but they became alarmed, run away, left them, and they scattered everywhere to get grapes, and only one of my father's was found...."

Robert Boman, Stephen Collins, Joseph Collins and Joel Collins left his family in Virginia. Was one of the best hunters that ever came to Kentucky. Elisha Prewitt and Robert Prewitt left their family in Virginia. Joshua Prewitt had no family.

His sons having verified by personal experience the reports of the beauty and fertility of Kentucky over the mountains, Michael Prewitt removed from Campbell County, Virginia (His home was between the Staunton and Falling Rivers) with members of his family and some neighboring souther Virginia friends.

Robert Prewitt was left behind with a Power of Attorney to sell his Virginia holdings and to settle his affairs there. Michael Prewitt, Sr., and the following of his children, set out in October, 1789, after the year's crops were harvested for Kentucky; Daniel and Judith Prewitt Michell; James and Elizabeth Stree Prewitt; Elisha and Tabitha Collins Prewitt; Byrd and Sarah Hurt Prewitt; Joseph and Leah Moss Prewitt; Joshua and Sarah Adams Prewitt; Elizabeth Prewitt Adams and her husband Mr. Adams.

Rachel Prewitt, who had marrie Robert Shipely; Michael Prewitt, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth Hurt; still living in Virginia in 1802 when he wrote a letter to his brother in Kentucky - then went to Tennessee about 1805; and Robert Prewitt, who remained to settle up the family's affairs after which he and his famly removed to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1794, were not in the party with their father and other members of the family when they made their memorable trip.

Members of the family settled in Jessamine County, shelby County and Henry County, Kentuckey. Michael Prewitt, Sr., settled on Mulberry Creek in Shelby County and Died in Jessamine County while on a visit to his children; was buried in the family cemetery near Nicholsville on land which came into the possession of George Bryan and Elziabeth Prewitt Bryan, daughter of Byrd Prewitt and Sarah Hurt, whose land lay on Clear Creek. Jessamine's County Seat, Nicholsville, is laid out on part of the former land of Joseph Prewitt.

Michael Prewitt,Sr., and his sons, wrote good legible letters and documents, they seemed to spell their name in many different ways. These documents are in the possession of descendants in Winchester, Kentucky.

Michael Prewitt, the father, wrote the name Prewet, "Michael Prewet, sen", except when he signed his Will, when he wrote "Michael Prewitt, sen", but in the body of the document, which is filed in the courthouse at Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky (Will Book I, page 41), he spelled the name Prewit and Prewitt. The Will is filed under the name Prewitt.

James Prewitt used "Prewit" in one document and Joshua sometimes spelled the name as Prewet and Prewett.

Michael Prewitt, Jr. apparently always spelled his name Pruitt.

Robert Prewitt apparently went to Kentucky as early as 1777, having spent the winter at the fort of Harroldsburg. Reference History of Kentucky, Collins, Vol. II

Copy of Original Document

Prewitt to Pow Atty. Prewite 461 Recorded

To all to whome these presents shall come Know ye that I Michael Prewet Senior of the County of Campbell State of Virginia for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moeving Have Consituted & appoint my son Robert Prewit of the County and State aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to sue and recover all such sums of money as are due me in the said State of Virginia or elsewhere, or in my name to Grant such Acquittances or other Receits as shall be Lawful And to sell and Dispose of all my Lands in the County of Campbell and State afresaid that remain now unsold and Convey the same to the Purcheser or purchasers in fee Simple as fully and Absolutely as I might or Could do were I personally Present Satisfying and Confirming Whatever my said Attorney shall Lawfully Do in and about the premises.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th day of September 1789.

(The information set down above concerning the activities of Michael Prewitt and his family is derived from the Prewitt-Pruitt Ancestors in the Virginia State Library, Accession No. 64-25 52)

Michael married Elizabeth Simpkins 1742, Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John Simpkins and Elizabeth Rench) was born 1724, Accomack, Virginia, USA; died 1767, Halifax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 12655

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• Reference Number: 10184

Frederick married Sarah Elizabeth Tomlinson Abt 1763, Halifax, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Tomlinson) was born Abt 1741, Virginia, USA; died 1828, Jessamine, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Sally
• Reference Number: 14195

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• Reference Number: 10386

John married Mary Ann Mosby 1 Feb 1750, Cumberland, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Mosby and Mary Poindexter) was born 1736, Goochland, Virginia, USA; died 1803, Henrico, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 10135

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• Reference Number: 2104

Ambrose married Jane Woodson 25 Nov 1768, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Jane was born Abt 1745, Goochland, Virginia, USA; died Between 1794 and 1840, Wilkes, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 49029