CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Prewitt
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Prewitt

  The name Prewitt is variously given among county records, Prewitt, Prewett,
Pruitt. In 175O Richard Prewitt, together with Timothy Murrell, patented 465
acres both sides of Hall's creek, adjoining Hall's line. In 1755 Thomas Pruitt
patented 437 acres on Catawba creek. The will of Daniel Pruitt was recorded at
Halifax court in 175O and his two sons, William and John, were executors, their
mother, Sarah Pruitt, executrix. Michael Prewitt settled in Campbell and appears
to have married two sisters, first, Sarah, dau. of Moza and Phoebe Hurt, and
secondly, her sister, Bettie Hurt. The father of Michael Prewitt emigrated from
Ireland many years before the Revolution. He patented 177O acres on Falling
river between 1773 and 1780. Children of Michael Prewitt:

—Robert, m. Patsy Candler, and moved to Lexington,  Ky.; he possessed a Bible in
which he wrote "My father was Michael Prewitt of Campbell county, Virginia," and
on the fly-leaf was the name of his son William S. Prewitt, given to him by his
father, Robert Prewitt, as the testimony of the esteem of his father, March 8,
1815." Robert had a second son, Nelson  Pruitt-Prewitt; descendants in Missouri
and California. 

—Rachel m. Robert Shipley. 

—Jane    .    .    .;

—Elisha    .    .    .;

—Judith   ;

—Michael m. Elizabeth Simpkins; had a son Joseph (who m. Leah, the dau. of
Frederick and Sarah Tomlinson-Moss), and dau., Martha Tomlinson, who died in 187O.

—Byrd, m., 1782, Sarah Hurt;

—Joseph     .     .     .;

—Joshua .    .;

—Elizabeth

  A petition was sent on June 8, 1782, to the Assembly requesting that a passage
be kept open in the dam, in order to conserve supplies of fish in Falling river.
The petition contained complaint against Michael Prewitt for having built a
grist mill across the river within two miles of its mouth. This bill was
rejected, yet five years later a similar one stating that before the passage up
the river was obstructed by Michael Prewitt's erection of his mill near the
junction of Staunton river, the river was well supplied with fish for the
support of their families, but had been wholly deprived since, along a boundary
of twelve or fifteen miles; they therefore requested that Prewitt be compelled
to remove his mill. Assembly refused to interfere between Prewitt and his
neighbors in the charge of river obstruction and he was left free to reap the
benefit of his milling operations. In 1784 Prewitt sold to David Hutcheson 45O
acres lying on the south side of Falling river, beginning at Mitchell's corner
and crossing a branch several times till another branch was reached along
Dougherty's line. Again in 18O5 Michael and his wife, Sarah Preitt, sold Thomas
Scott 496 acres adjoining Staunton and Falling rivers. In 1778 a Michael Prewitt
m. M. Thurston of Halifax county. The marriage of Frances Prewitt to Thomas
Murrell in 1811 is among the marriage bonds in Campbell. Anthony Prewitt m., in
1785, Susannah Ghoulson of Halifax county.


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