SUIT & SUITE in MD & NC
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In reply to:
Re: Richard SUITE --now know he was s/o DENT SUITE, No. 1
Bonnie Treon 11/03/11
I am still working on all of this. At the library last week I found a book on taxpayers in NC and in 1771 William SUIT (which one?) was listed on the Granville Co. NC tax list.
He is the EARLIEST one I can find so far.
Descendants of Margaret SUIT GOBER say she was b. in Granville Co. NC March 1774. Not sure how they know her birth date, perhaps from a Bible??
I still believe Margaret SUIT GOBER and Victoria SUITE HARRISON were sisters!
But anyway, due to both women's connections with CHAPPELEAR & CARNES for both she and Victoria SUITE HARRISON-- I think BOTH women had to be daughters of Benjamin SUIT and an early wife of his, MOST PROBABLY, Rebecca HARRISON, d/o Robert HARRISON & Margaret BURROUGHS.
I say this due to Margaret GOBER naming her daughter Rebecca HARRISON GOBER.Plus,Rebecca HARRISON's aunt, Barbara BURROUGHS referred to Rebecca as "Rebecca SUIT" in her will. At first, I was told that Rebecca had married my James SUIT but he allegedly wasn't batptized until 1765 and
would've been too young, plus we have now learned he married Anna BANNER due to several wills and census records.
WHO was the William SUIT in Granville Co. NC by 1771?
At first, I thought he may be the same man as Benjamin which would surely explain how Margaret SUIT could have been born in NC and not MD in 1774. But there is a fly in the ointment so to speak--Benjamin SUIT took the Oath of Allegiance in St. Mary's Co. MD and had served only 5 days as a soldier there in the 1770's -but he was in MD 1776-1778.
A man named William SUIT took the Oath of Allegiance in Granville Co. too (if I remember correctly?). If so, this William either has to be son of Benjamin or brother of him.
Victoria SUIT HARRISON was allegedly b. 1776 (where did people get this date from? Source?) & Margaret SUIT, Mar. 1774 in Granville Co. (allegedly).
Could Benjamin have been in NC 1771-1774?Hard to say.
But yet we know "Victoria Harrison" was a legatee of Benjamin SUIT. She was NOT in his will as a child of his (the wording of the will is notable as it does suggest all children listed were MINORS)--his will was written by another man, Neal H. Shaw, as Benjamin was too sick to write it for himself.
Much was clearly left out of the will of Benjamin SUIT.
Some of the legatees must have fought over the will and land and Benjamin's widow owed taxes.
SOMEHOW the land ended up in the HARRISON familyand Mildred was inOH with her son Kelita by 1840 but had returned to MD by 1850. It is also notable that men named ROBEY/ROBY (a MD name) were also in that OH census.
In 1830, they were living in Charles Co. MD. Benjamin's will clearly said Mildred was to control the land. Yet--she was off of it by 1820. (Was this the census where they were living with a Joseph WATSON?)
The man who physically penned the will of Benjamin SUIT was named Neal H. SHAW. In NC, we do ind a Neil SHAW, Sr. and Neil SHAW, Jr.. (Bladen Co.) A man named Neal SHAW was in Bladen Co. NC as early as 1742.
Also, supposedly, the Neal H. SHAW of St. Mary's Co. MD (who wrote Benjamin SUIT's will for him) was s/o Joseph SHAW who had moved to Orange CO. NC which is more evidence that Benjamin SUIT may have lived in NC at some point.
My ancestor Samuel SUIT, s/o James SUITE who d. 1813 in St. Mary's Co.-- had older people with him in the 1820 census and I have no clue who they were. (Coul Mildred and famiy have lived with him in 1820?)
But again--who was William SUIT in Granville Co. in 1771?
Later, in the 1780's we see 2 men named William SUIT, a man named John SUTE and a Dent SUITE. How do they connect? I assume all were from MD?
Unless the John, Dent, and Wm. SUIT, Jr. were sons of William SUIT, Sr. who was in Granville Co. by 1771.
That also could be the case.
There was a man named Dent SUIT in 1758 in Charles Co. MD>
He was still there in 1786 when a depostion was taken at his home.
There was a man named Dent SUITE who owned land he inherited in St. Mary's Co. MD and apparently d. there testate in 1792. He was father of Benjamin SUIT. He also voted there in the year 1790.
Was he the same man in NC who disappears off of that census in 1790 as well?
Pat Suit Gray found a census (I think it was 1784) where Dent Suit had a LARGE family then. By 1786, he was living ALONE in Granville Co. -- Did his family return to MD or did they die or move away? He owned NO land.
He was still listed in the 1790 census but there is no way to view this anywhere that I have found. We cannot see if he had any inhabitants living with him in 1790 or anything.
Just that his name was listed in1790. Why can't we view this census? Did that census actually exist --or was it perhaps of compilation of tax records? (DOES ANYONE KNOW?)
Was WILLIAM SUIT (b. bef. 1750) a son of Benjamin or perhaps Benjamin's brother?
If he was Benjamin's son, then Benjamin was older than b. 1737 and probably born closer to 1730.
Could Margaret and Victoria SUIT have been granddaughters and not daughters of Benjamin SUIT? Or perhaps, nieces?
If so, why was Victoria suit a legatee of Benjamin's estate?
So many questions.
NEED TO FIND OUT AS MUCH AS WE CAN aobut the William SUIT who was in Granville Co. NC in 1771 and what his relatinship to Benjamn and Dent SUIT in MD was.
BOTH