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Notes for Moses Cavet
Arrived in America from Ireland in 1750 at Paxtang, Penn. Family history has it that Alexander, Sheridan, John, Richard, Michael, Moses, and Patric arrived in Pennsylvania with their aging father Moses (1684-1750+). Others do not believe this traditional story.
From John K. Bryan
Unproved tradition has it that seven Cavitt brothers came at various times in the fore part of the 18th century into Pennsylvania from Ireland and that their father, Moses (b. 1684) joined them in America as an old man. The brothers are said to have been named Alexander, Sheridan, John, Richard, Michael, Moses, and Patric. The brother named Richard married one Elizabeth Whitley. This couple is said to have lived in western Pennsylvania where one or both may have died before the family moved in the 1760's to southwestern Virginia. Richard and Elizabeth Whitley Cavitt's children included John (1736-1764); Moses (1742-1802); Mary (1744-?) who married Andrew Clark; Alexander (1745-1793); Michael Whitley (1747-1821); Richard (1749-1819); George (1750-?).
By 1775, brothers Moses, Alexander, Michael Whitley and Richard were all married and had moved their families into what was then Sullivan Co., NC (later, Sullivan Co., TN). Moses married Agnes Meetch, 16 Feb 1764, Alexander's wife's name is unknown, Michael Whitley's wife was named Katherine (surname unknown).
Moses and Agnes Meetch Cavitt had about nine children including, Richard (1765-1844), who married Rutha Millsap (1766-1843); John who married Mary Graham; Susanna (1768-1860) who married 1. William Shoemaker and 2. John Moses; Rebecca, who married John Holloway; Moses; Thomas; and possibly three more daughters. Moses died in Knox County, TN.
Alexander, his wife and all their children were among the 14 people killed in the infamous Cavitt Springs Station massacre which took place in September, 1793, near Knoxville. His brothers Moses, Michael Whitley, and Richard fell heir to his estate.
Michael Whitley and Katherine Cavitt had at least seven children, including; George; Elizabeth who married a Wiett; Alexander; Martha; Thomas; Mary, who married 1. a Smart in 1810, 2. a Chapman; Claibourne, who married Nancy Cornelius in 1828. Michael Whitley died in Sumner Co., TN, where he had lived since before 1787.
Richard had at least ten children; Joseph 91776-1833); Mary (1777-1857), who married William Lapsley Armstrong; Richard, who died unmarried in 1808; John; Elizabeth, who married Richard Jones; Sarah, who married Thomas Maxwell in 1811; Margaret (1792-?), who married Abram Young in 1808; Moses (1794-1853), who married 1. Elizabeth Tinnin in 1812 and 2. Susan ? in 1840; Andrew (1796-1836), who married Ann Cavitt (1801-1882) in 1821; James. Although Richard brought his family to Sumner County, TN, before 1787 and lived there through 1818, he disinherited his children and died the following year at the Madison County, Alabama, home of a nephew and namesake (eldest son of Moses and Agnes).
Rita Carrington-Bryant http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/6964/cavitt.htm
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