Individual Details

Colonel John Hite

(1710 or 1715 - 1792)

Colonel John Hite was part of the Frederick Co., Virginia Militia which fought during the French and Indian Wars. In 1758 he built his family a fine stone colonial house near Red Bud on the Opequon which he named "Springdale". Later in 1787 he built the first brick house and two years later the first merchant mill west of the Blue Ridge in the valley. He was prominent in community affairs, serving as a vestryman in the Christ Episcopal Church, Justice of the Commonwealth of Virginia, etc.

Events

Birth1710 or 1715Kingston, Ulster, New York, British America
Marriage1737Sara Elting
Death1792Monocacy, Frederick, Maryland, United States

Families

SpouseSara Elting (1715 - )
ChildAnna Maria Hite (1738 - 1784)
ChildRebecca Hite (1740 - 1785)
ChildElizabeth Hite (1743 - 1812)
ChildMargaret Hite (1750 - 1770)
ChildJohn Hite (1751 - 1808)
FatherHans Joist Hite / Heydt ( - 1760)
MotherAnna Maria Du Bois ( - 1738)
SiblingMary Hite ( - )
SiblingElizabeth Hite ( - )
SiblingMagdalena Hite ( - )
SiblingJacob Hite ( - )
SiblingMajor Abraham Hite (1729 - 1790)
SiblingColonel Isaac Hite (1732 - 1795)
SiblingJoseph Hite (1731 - 1757)

Endnotes

1. Schoene, Charles E., The Moores of Virginia and Kentucky (Belleair Bluffs, Fla.: B.I. Moore, 1974, 217 pgs. ), p. 98 says 1710, p. 95 says 1715.

2. Smyth, Samuel Gordon, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents (Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909, 480 pgs.), p. 15.

3. Schoene, Charles E., The Moores of Virginia and Kentucky (Belleair Bluffs, Fla.: B.I. Moore, 1974, 217 pgs. ), p. 95.

4. Anna Hunter Van Meter, "A Glance at the Van Meter Family in the United States of America." Salem, New Jersey, March 1902. (Papers held by the Western Kentucky University Library in Bowling Green, transcribed by John H. Ross).

5. Schoene, Charles E., The Moores of Virginia and Kentucky (Belleair Bluffs, Fla.: B.I. Moore, 1974, 217 pgs. ), p. 95.

6. Schoene, Charles E., The Moores of Virginia and Kentucky (Belleair Bluffs, Fla.: B.I. Moore, 1974, 217 pgs. ), p. 98.