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Sumner County Loose Records
Sumner County, TN Archives
Lawsuit # 9307
State of Tenneessee
To the Sheriff of Sumner County---Greeting:
We command you to summon Leaton(?) H. Turner, James Roney, Linsey(?)
___, Simon Hiatt personally to appear before the judge of our 4th
Circuit court, now sitting at the courthouse in the town of Gallantin
there to testify and the truth to say in behalf of the State in a
certain matter of controversy in our said court depending, wherein the
State is plaintiff, and William Hiatt and Matty Cavit are defendants;
and this they shall in no wise omit, under penality prescribed by law.
Witness M. Baldridge, clerk of our said court, at office, this 2nd
Monday in ___ A.D. 1832
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State of Tenneessee
To the Sheriff of Sumner County---Greeting:
We command you to take the bodies of William Hiatt and Matty Cavet if
they be found in your county and thus safely keep, so that you ahve them
before the Judge of our 4th Circuit, at the nest circuit court to be
held for the county of Sumner at the court-house in the town of Gallatin
on ___ __ after the 2nd Monday in March next, to answer the State of
Tenneessee on a punishment for open and nortorious lewdness.
Herein fail not; and have then there this writ.
Witness, M. Baldridge, clerk of our said court, at office, the 2nd
Monday in March A.D. 1832
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State of Tenneessee
To the Sheriff of Sumner County---Greeting:
We command you to take the body of William Hiatt and Matty Cavett if
they be found in your county, and them safely keep, so that you have
them before the Judge of our 4th Circuit, at the circuit court now
setting for the county of Sumner at the court-house in the town of
Gallatin on the 2nd Monday in September to answer the State of
Tenneessee on a punishment for open and notorious lewdness.
Herein fail not; and have then there this writ.
Witness, M. Baldridge, clerk of our said court, at office, the 2nd
Monday in September A.D. 1832
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State of Tenneessee, Sumner County to ___:
The Grand Jurors for the State of Tenneessee duly elected empanneled,
sworn and charged to inquire for the body of the County of Sumner ___ __
their oath present that William Hiatt late of the county aforesaid,
yoeman and Matty Cavitt late of the county aforesaid ___ with force and
arms at the county aforesaid upon the first day of January in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two being persons of
evil conviction and regardless of the obligation of morality and decency
unlawfully, wickedly, openly, notoriously, lewdly and indecently and did
live together and carnally know each other as husband and wife without
having been previously and lawfully married and that they __ there so
lived together and carnally knew each other from day and year aforesaid
to the day of finding of this ___without ever having been lawfully
married. And to the jurors aforesaid do say that they the said William
Hiatt and Matty Cavitt then and there in manner and ___ aforesaid have
been committed and were guilty of open and notorious lewdness and
indecency, to the great damage and common nuisance of the people of said
State to the evil example of all others in the like care offending and
against the peace and dignity of the State. We find the ___ bill to be
__ ___.
Signed
Tho R. Anderson
Joshua W. Talley
John T. Carr
E. L. Douglas
Saml Davis
George Hull(?)
Levi Donnely
James L. Martin
Tha. C. Beard
W.Matten
John Martin
J. A. Patterson
Seaton H. Turner
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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Sumner County Loose Records
Sumner County Archives, TN
Lawsuit # 6061
State of Tenneessee
To the sheriff of Sumner County and to Richard Cavitt---Greeting
You the said sheriff is hereby commanded to summon Richard Cavitt and
the said Richard cavitt is hereby commanded personally to appear before
the judge of our __ circuit court at the next circuit court to be held
for the county of Sumner at the courthouse in Gallatin on the second
Monday in October next to answer a petition filed by Peggy Cavitt
praying to be divorced from the bed and board of him the said Richard
Cavitt--to be allowed such alimony as the said Richard Cavitt
circumstances will admit. By reason of the said Richard Cavitt having
turned said Peggy Cavitt out of doors and abandoned her without any just
cause--for so doing and other reasons more fully appearing in said
petition. Herein fail not I have then there this writ in inventory
whereof I Bennett H. Henderson, clerk of said circuit court have hereto
set my name and fixed my private seal. There being no seal of office
this second Monday in April in the year 1814 and 38th year of American
Independence.
Signed Bennett H. Henderson
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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Last Blue Promise...Poetry and Links
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/meath/45/index.html
...It is in silence where music lies...
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Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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Sumner County Loose Records
Sumner County, TN Archives
Lawsuit # 13508
Here all men by these presents that Moses Cavitt of Sumner County and
State of Tenneessee am held and firmly bound to Richard Cavitt of said
county and state in the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars for
which payment well and truly be made I bind myself, my heirs, Executors,
(and) administrators firmly by these presents sealed with my seal dated
this 4th(?) day of September 1812
The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound
Moses maintain(sic) the said Richard in a decent manner to will,
Boarding, washing, lodging, Clothing and mending during the Term of his
natural life, but if said Richard should take a notion to move or live
with any of the rest of the children then in that case he the said
Richard will ask no more of said Moses but one bed and his clothes ___
likewise the said Moses shall school, board, cloth, wash and mend for
his youngest brother James for the space of two years and then he is to
have a beast from his brother Moses to the amount of seventy-five
dollars if said Moses performs these conditions __ above obligation to
be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, sealed and
delivered Signed Moses
Cavitt
In presence of
John Burney
Mick(?) Hammon
Jose(?) Jernigan
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State of Tenneessee
Sumner County Court---November term 1814----A bond from Moses Cavitt to
Richard cavitt dated the 7th day of september 1812, was duly proved in
open court by the oath of Michael Shannon a ___ ___ ___ thereto and
order to be recorded-----
State of Tenneessee, Sumner County
I david Shelby Clerk of the Court of past quarter ___ for the county
aforesaid do certify that the above is a true copy from the records of
said county of the probate of the then bond and I further certify that
said bond purusant to the above mentioned order is recorded at full
length in ___ B. page 344, one of the record books of said court given
under my hand at office the 13th day of December 1814 and 39th year of
American Independence.
Signed David Shelby
Cavitt's Bonds
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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Last Blue Promise...Poetry and Links
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/meath/45/index.html
...It is in silence where music lies...
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Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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Sunmer County Loose Records
Sumner Co. TN Archives
Lawsuit # 6469
To the Honorable The Judge of the Circuit Court
For the county of Sumner ___ ___ ___
The bill of complaint of Richard Cavitt, complaint against Moses Cavitt
and James Roney defendents--humbly ___
with that sometime in the year 1812 your orator being an old man, and in
a helpless condition, and not being able to see to, and take care of his
home property in the manner that he could have wished and being desirous
to place it in
such a situation that it would produce to your orator a living for the
few days of his existence which seem to remain, to him without, any
personal labor and attention of his own, and there being on one who
seems so likely to afford your orator security in the
arrangement---which he intended to make with regard to his said property
as one of his own sons---therefore it was, may it please your Honor that
on the date of ___ in the year 1812, your orator, and a certain Moses
Cavitt, the son of your orator entered into an agreement which was
executed to your orator by the said Moses under his hand and seal, and
this original or a copy of which your orator will be able to produce to
your Honor on the hearing of this cause, by which it was stipulated that
the said Moses for and during the natural life of your orator would
provide him with everything comfortable and necessary for life, in such
a manner, and such kind, as was suitable to the ___ and for men ___, and
property of your orator ___but to be more particular, your orator was to
be provided by the said Moses with comfortable boarding, lodging, a
comfortable room---good clothes suitable to the season, and washing, and
in short everything which was necessary, and comfortable for one of your
orator's age, and habits--- in consideration of which your orator
conveyed to the said Moses Cavitt, all the property of evey kind to
which he had right---but more especially your orator conveyed to the
said Moses on the seventh day of September in the year 1812 by deed
bearing that date the tract of land containing twoo hundred acres
granted to your orator by the state of North Carolina lying and being in
the county of Sumner on the middle fork of the Red River---beginning on
the north side of the creek, at a double sugar tree running south 45
degrees west, eighty poles to a white oak, thence east 162 poles to a
black oak, thence northeast along Samuel Piper's fence to the
creek---thence down the meander of the creek to a red oak, and ash on
the north side of the creek---thence north 98 poles to ___ ___
gums---thence west 75 poles to a white oak on Avran(?) Saundler's
line---then go south to the beginning---and your orator ___ charges that
said agreement on the part of said Moses Cavitt above stated was the
only consideration which induced your orator to make said conveyances
and was the only consideration which ___ from the said Moses to your
orator--but so it is may it please Your Honor the said Moses no sooner
was vested with the title to the said tract of land, and to the other
property of your orator, that he wholly failed, and refused to comply
with this said agreement and would not furnish your orator with any of
the bare necessities of life, but turned your orator out to shift for
himself in the world without money and without the power to procure
sustinence by his own labor. Not only did the said Moses demean himself
in that manner, but the said Moses sold and conveyed the said tract of
land, and removed to the state of Kentucky---out of jurisdiction of this
honorable court--but your orator ___ charges that the said Moses
conveyed the said tract of land to a certain James Roney of the county
of Sumner---by deed bearing date on the 16th day of September in the
year 1814. A copy of which deed your orator is ready to produce to your
Honor as you may direct---but your orator charges that the said James
Roney had full notice before the said sale or conveyance of himself of
the consideration which was to have been given for said tract of land,
and had notice also before said sale, and ___ wants to himself that said
consideration had failed, and that there was an entire failure in the
performance on the part of said Moses Cavitt--and further your orator
charges that said Moses made some kind of agreement with said James
Roney, of what kind specifically your orator does not know, for the
maintenance and support by the said James Roney of your orator as part
of the consideration which he the said James was to give for the said
tract of land to the said Moses Cavitt---which ___ it was entirely
different from the kind of maintinence and support to be furnished by
the said Moses according to his agreement with your orator---by that
agreement with your orator was not to be transported from one man to
another with the land that was conveyed as an encumbrance which all were
willing to get rid of but was to ___ ___ the family of his said son, was
to be treated in that manner which his relationship and the property he
had conveyed would entitle him to---yet the said James Roney refused
after the said tract of land was conveyed to comply with his agreement
with the said Moses, and would not furnish any kind of living for your
orator---so that your orator is now in his days of decreptitute and
outcast from the world---without home--without money, and without the
capacity of labor to procure the necessities of life----In tender
consideration whereof and in as much as your orator is ___ in the ___ by
the strict rules of the common law, and can only be relieved in your
honorable court where matters of fraud, trust ___ are properly
relievable and cognizable your orator prays Your Honor to consider the
premises and decree of your honorable court cancel the said agreement
and revert the title to the said tract of land to your orator--and grant
to your orator ___ other and for the relief as the nature of his care
may require---May it please Your Honor to grant ___ of subpeonae to sue
against said defendents to compel them to answer upon their corporal
oath all the allegations in this, your orator's bill of complaint---and
your orator is duty bound will even pray.
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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Last Blue Promise...Poetry and Links
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/meath/45/index.html
...It is in silence where music lies...
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Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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Hi to all...in case I did not make this clear before.....any blanks that
you see on any of these documents are words that I could not make
out....either clearly or totally...these are old papers, in many places
there are ink blots..or where the papers were folded.etc..
And sometimes I just can not read this old spidery handwriting. So I
use the ___ to signify any of the above. Sometimes I am pretty sure of
something and I will just use (?)
to either signify spelling or what I believe the word to be considering
the context of the sentence.
Hope this helps clear this one up for all of you...BTW....aren't these
great papers?!
Rita
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Last Blue Promise...Poetry and Links
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/meath/45/index.html
...It is in silence where music lies...
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Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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Sumner County, TN Archives
Lawsuit # 10039
>From the Loose Records of Sumner Co, TN
To the Honourable Thomas Stuart ___ of the ___ of the ___ county in and
for the State of Tenneessee.
Your Petitioner Stephen Stalcup who is a citizen of this state and has
been a resident therein from his nativity to this ___ ___ leave __
represent to your Honor that some time in January 1818 he intermarried
with a certain Peggy Pill( or Pull?) of the county of Sumner and State
aforesaid; that they lived together __ a few months, perhaps about four
when he discovered that the said Peggy kept up an unusual intercourse
with one Andrew Cavitt; that he always ___
said Peffy tenderly and affectionatly ___ said discovery; that he was
not guilty of adultry or any offense that was __ with the matrimonial
vow after said marriage until he discovered that the said Peggy was
guilty of the crime of adultry with the aforesaid Cavitt. That ___ his
life __ and __ never since admitted him in to his __ as a wife; that
after your Petitioner remained absent from this country about four
months and on his return found the said Peffy actually cohabited with
the said Andrew as husband and wife and says she is married to him; that
he __ and believes that she has a child by the said Andrew: all of
which __ deeds are __ with the matrimonial vow and have __ __ your
Petitioners conditions intolerable __ __ __ __ please your Honor to
dissolve the bonds of matrimony subsisting between your Petitioner and
the said Peggy.
Signed
Stephen Stalcup
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State of Tenneessee
Sumner County
This day, Stephen Stalcup __ __ __ personally appeared before me, John
Rutherford, an acting Justice of the Peace for said county and made
oath, that the facts contained in the ___ petition are true to the best
of his knowledge and belief and that said complaint is not made out of
levity or by collusion between husband and wife for the __ purpose of
being freed and so separated from each other; but in sincerity and truth
for the causes set forth in said petition.
Signed
Stephen Stalcup
Sworn to me this 20th day of Sep 1819
Signed John Rutherford
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Stephen Stalcup vs Peggy Stalcup
Petition filed 18 Sept 1819
April term 1820
Be it remembered that on the 19th day of April 1820 the last day of the
above term of Sumner Co. court the above case came on for __ in part the
said Peggy Stalcup was called to come into court and answer the petition
of the said Stephen for a divorce but came not; that it appeared to the
satisfaction of the court that a copy of the said ___ ___ petition and
delivered by the sheriff of this county; that the said Petitioner
Stephen Stalcup also proved
to the satisfaction of the court that the said Peggy was guilty of
adultry as set forth in his petition, it therefore
ordered, judged, and decreed by the court that the marriage subsisting
between the said Stephen Stalcup and Peggy Stalcup the above named
parties be dissolved and the said Stephen Stalcup pay the costs of this
suit.
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
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Last Blue Promise...Poetry and Links
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/meath/45/index.html
...It is in silence where music lies...
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Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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All of these below came together.....all part of the same lawsuit.
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Court Documents from Sumner Co., TN Archives Lawsuit # 10104
I Andrew Cavitt, Davis Pit(t), and Jacob Parker __ __ our silver
indebted to the State of Tenneessee in the sum of two thousand dollars
but to be ___ ___ of ___ good and ___ but to be paid on condition that
Andrew Cavitt does make his personal appearance at __ next ___ Cavitt to
be held for the county of Sumner at the court house in Gallantin and the
___ monday in month next, then and there to answer a charge of ___ ___
against for ___ in his ___ ___ for counterfitting many ___ ___ ___ ___
__ __ be oath ___ win to be in full face in law as ___ ___ hand theis
14th day, 1819.
Signed
Andrew Cavitt
Davis Pit(t)
Jacob Parker
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State vs Andrew Cavitt
This day ___ makes oath, that so much publicity has been given by the
prosecutor and others to circumstances calculated to incriminate him,
that a degree of prejudice exists in the public mind in Sumner County
against him, that he does believe that a fair and impartial trail cannot
be had in this county. He states, that great pains have been taken by
the prosecutor, who is a man of great influence in Sumner County to ___
belief of his guilt, and he has so far succeeded. That an unprejudiced
trial, he believes, can not be had---he further says, that neither the
Counties of Davidson , ___ or ___ are free from the ___ exception, he
therefore says that the ___ may be changed---
Signed
Andrew Cavitt
12th March 1819
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State of Tenneessee
Sumner County
This day came before me Edu (?) Douglas(?) a justice of the peace for
said county. John M. Byon(?) and made oath that the night of the ___
___ he heard Andrew Cavitt give instructions to a young man by the name
of William May, to go to his Uncle Michael Cavitt's and ___ certain
boxes of his, he ___ ___ __ went, advised his __
when the said Michael Cavitt, his son and daughter, took the boxes in
order to deposit them in some ___ place when he the said Byon stopped
them and took possession of them.
These are therefore in the name of the State to command you to take the
body of Andrew Cavitt and __ safely keep so that you have him before ___
proper authority to be examined ___ the above States __ and be further
__ with as the case ___.
Given and my hand and seal this 14th of Jan. 1819
signed (?) Eau Douglas
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State of Tenneessee
To the Sheriff of Sumner County ___
We command you as you have before been commanded to take the body of
Alexander Cavitt of to be found in your county. and him safely keep, so
that you have him before the Judge of our Circuit Court to be
holden(sic)for the County of Sumner on the second Monday in September
next, then and there to answer the charge of Government exhibited
against him for willfully and knowingly, aiding and asisting and being
concerned with Michael Cavitt, in _____, concealing, hiding and ___, the
mould, stamp, die, punch, and other machines and instruments, designed,
intended, and calculated for forging and counterfitting of Spanish
milled dollars, and further to hide and perform the ___ sentence and
decree of our county __ have then there this writ, ___ Anthony B.
Shelby, clerk of said court at office the second Monday in March in the
year A.D. 1819 and 43 years of our Independence.
Signed
Anthony B. Shelby
Clerk
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State of Tenneessee
Sumner County
March term in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
ninteen of the circuit court of said county.
The grand jury of the state aforesaid, elects, impanneled, sworn, and
charged to inquire for the body of the county aforesaid, upon this oath
___ and __; that Michael Cavitt, of said county, yeoman, on the
thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen, in the county aforesaid, did willfully and
knowingly ___, conceal, hide and secrete a certain mould, stamp, die,
punch, and other machines and instruments designed, intended and
calculated for the forging and counterfitting of Spanish milled dollars,
which are a species of silver coin current in said state on the said
thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen. And the juror aforesaid, upon this oath
aforesaid, do further present; that the said Michael Cavitt, on the day
and year aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, did ___ ___, conceal, hide
and secrete the said mould, stamp, die, punch, and ___ machines and
instruments as aforesaid, designed, intended, and calculated
for the forging and counterfitting of Spanish milled dollars, ___, ___,
and without knowing of their use and nature. And the juror aforesaid,
upon their true oath aforesaid, do further ____ and say; that in the day
and year aforesaid, at the county aforesaid, the said Michael Cavitt,
was not an officer of justice into whose hands and protection, the
aforesaid mould, stamp, die, punch, and other machines and instruments,
designed, intended, and calculated as aforesaid, for forging and
counterfitting of Spanish Milled dollars, __ come to be kept and
protected in the due and regular execution of the ___ of his office.
And the juror aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present
and say; that Andrew Cavitt, of said county, black smith, on the said
thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen, in the county aforesaid, did willfully and
knowingly aid, ___, and be concerned with the said Michael Cavitt, in
___, concealing, hiding, and secreting, the aforesaid mould, stamp, die,
punch, and other machines and instruments of aforesaid, designed,
intended, and calculated as aforesaid, for the forging and
counterfitting of Spanish milled dollars, wich is a species of silver
coin current in the State aforesaid, and also was such on the day and
year of aforesaid. And the juror aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid,
do further present and say, that the said Andrew Cavitt, on the day and
year aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, did not aid, __, and be
concerned with the said Michael Cavitt, in ___, concealing, hiding, and
secreting the aforesaid, mould, stamp, die, punch, and other machines
and instruments as aforesaid, designed, intended, and calculated as
aforesaid for forging and counterfitting of Spanish milled dollars as
aforesaid, innocently, ignorantly, and without knowingly, ___, and with
a full and perfect knowledge of their use and nature; to the evil
example of all others, ___
___ ___ of ___ in such case made and provided, and against the peace and
dignity of the State.
Signed
___Washington
Attorney general of the seventh district in said state.
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Sumner County TN Archives Loose Records
Lawsuit # 10104
Source: micro film-copy
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Last Blue Promise...Poetry and Links
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/meath/45/index.html
...It is in silence where music lies...
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Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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Good afternoon to all! Finally got some of these deciphered.
Warning......these papers were found all bundled up in a box....and they
are in bad shape. I obtained my copies from the Sumner County
Archives-Loose Records. If any of you would like for me to scan these
and email them to you I would be happy to....they are in that old
spidery handwriting...*sigh*....so very hard to read! But some of you
may be able to figure out more words than I did.......so drop me a line
and let me know!
Here goes...interesting reading......plus I have more to come!
Rita
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Court Document from the Sumner County, TN Archives
State of Tenneessee
Sumner Co
July Term 1802
Richard Cavitt maketh oath in open Court ___ that a ___ ___ has ___
against him for non attendance as a juror
at last term, and now has come forward and says on his solemn oath that
he was never summoned as a Juror to April term. That if he had, He
would have attended and would not be guilty of such a contempt. To this
worshipful Court therefore prays that the fine may be limited and ____
discharged from further trouble thereon.
Signed
D Shelby
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched.
It must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Last Blue Promise...Poetry and Links
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/meath/45/index.html
...It is in silence where music lies...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Listowner CARRINGTON & CAVITT Surnames ICQ#1280761
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with the charming old gentleman. He told us many of the escapades of the
Cavitt and Cavett boys back in 1800 as they visited back and forth on
their Coryell co. ranches.
A story told often of Ann Cavett Cavitt was of a kinsman from Alabama
who was not doing well financially and came to her asking help. She
stated that the people who had slaves so that they could grow up to do
nothing, failing to develop independence and self-reliance were not to
her pattern, but she would give him two small farms to oversee.
She often said that people who used slaves to do their part of the work
and overseeing the rest of it would have all property dissipated as they
lacked self-reliance...those poople she referred to as triflers and
slack-twisted.
.. . .
The two farms near Wheelock were planted to corn, and all the kinsman
had to do was see that this was properly cultivated, grow his own garden
truck and keep his own family in hand. As the corn began to mature one
of the slaves reported to Ann that wild hogs were crawling under the
fences and eating up the corn in one of the big fields. This problem
Ann herself reported to the overseer, her kinsman.
. . . \ . .
A week or so later she was again informed that the range-hogs were still
depredating and called the overseer to her to sk why the trouble had not
been remedied. His reply, "We have two fields of corn, if this one is
destroyed we have the other one." To this trifling reply Ann answered,
"You and I do not see business matters alike. I think it best for us to
part company. I do not want my people to acquire your business habits
nor to follow your example. I never like my rope slack-twisted."
Ann was efficient and thoroughgoing, had little patience with those who
slighted their work and dodged responsibilities. Her good Dutch blood
could not accept shoddiness in anything.
Ann Cavett Cavitt (later Mrs. Cavitt Armstrong) kept journals on all her
work and business transactions. she made accurate reports to the courts
on her guardianship of her childrens' inheritance from their father. At
his death Andrew Cavitt's estate was apraised at 18, 603.06, of which
the seven sons received their half.
.,, . :
.In 1840 Ann Cavitt ordered a bill of goods and the list with prices is
taken from the fly leaf of her account book. It is headed: 1840
Republic of Texas:
2 sacks salt(a)$15.00, 1 sack coffee, 185 lbs @ 62 1/2,
$115.62......$145.62
421 lbs. blacksmith iron @.30, $126.30, 1 pr. shoes $5.00..........
131.30
1 bbl, sugar 230 lbs @ .45, $103.50, 8 yrs calico @ $1.25, $10.00..
113.50
8 yards Jeans cloth @ $4.50, $36.00, 1 bbl, Flour $33.00...........
69.00
1 paper needles 75¢, knitting needles 50¢s l1/2 yd. ribbon $1.50...
2.75
5 yds,cotton drilling $5,00,1 lb. tea $1.50,3 head of sheep $18.00
24.50
1 ream of paper $16.00,1 hat $27.00,12 glass tumblers, $18.00......
61.00
11 pairs horseshoos @$4.00, $44.00, 5lbs nails@ 40¢,$2.00...........
46.00
2 yd.silk $2.25, 2 combs 75¢, 1 tablecloth $16.87 1/2...............
19.871/2
10 yds lilac silk @ $2.50-per yard,................................
25.00
7 yds French muslin @ $1.50 per yard...............................
10.50
Capt. A. Beck was manager of Sam Houston's horse breeding farm that was
down the road from the Cavitt homeplace. Mrs. Ann Cavett Cavitt and
later her second husband, Cavitt Armstrong, kept accurate records of all
the business transactions between the two places. Capt. Beck lived at
the Cavitt-Armstrong House while he was raising and training Houston's
running horses.
An exerpt from the account book shows the prevailing prices for room and
board for people and care and feed for their horses.
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Nancy who married a William N. Pruitt (said to be a cousin of Sally's
husband)
Alexander b. 5-19-1797, d. 7-31-1841, who married Louisa Bice.
Louisa T. Bice Cavitt, relict(sic) of Alexander Cavett who died
intestate, applied for letters of administration in Madison Co., Ala.,
1845.
Ann's father, Richard, her grandfather Moses, her great uncles James,
Andrew and John, fought in the Revolution. Moses was killed 10-7-1780
at Battle of Kings Mountain and we(sic) found the petition for pension
for the service as a teenage boy in the revolution and the papers
granting this pension in Madison Co., Ala. The depositions taken from
leading citizens of the community spoke of the fine character of the
applicant
Richard Cavett, born 6-12-1763 in Botertout Co., Virginia. Richard was
married 1781 to Rutha Millsap. They moved to Sullivan Co., Tenn.,
thence to Madison Co., Alabama.
Inscriptions in the Cavett family cemetery near Hazel Green, Madison
Co.,Ala., show:
Richard Cavett, born 1763, died 1844
Rutha Cavett, consort of Richard Cavett, born 1766, died 1843
William Whitley Cavett, born July 29 1809, died 1-10-1853
Alexander Cavett, born 5-18-1797, died 7-31-1841
James Boggs, son of Samuel and Sarah Boggs, born 1842, died 1844
Wlliam Whitley Cavett (Ann's brother) married Eleanor Kennard - their
son:
James Richard Cavitt, called "Jimmy Dick".
Ann Cavett Cavitt's brother Thomas, who married Betsy McAdory, has
direct descendents living in Texas who spell their name with the "i" and
not the "e". In direct descent there are:
Thomas and Betsy, their son James Richard, who married Louise Conner,
whose second husband was a Mr. Kelly
James Richard and Louise had 3 sons: John Conner Cavitt, "Bob" and
"Dock" John Conner Cavitt and his wife have a daughter, Bessie, who is
married to W. B. Hamilton
Backing up a bit, James Richard's two other sons beside John Connor
Cavitt are:
R. A. Cavitt (called Bob) who spells his name Cavett. Bob married
Mildred Anderson
D. F. Cavitt (ealled Dock) married Ann Owen and moved to Coryell Co.,
Texas.
D. F. and Ann Cavitt's children are:
W. Robert (Bob), married Madie White, who lives in Waco, Texas,
at this time, 1965
Laura
Joe
Sallie
Bruce (we knew and loved him well, he adopted a son and named him
Richard)
Ernest (who claimed he was the ugliest man in Texas, a charming
and successful man)
Maude
Alvin Adrian
Flora Estelle
Edgar
Most of these "cousins" spell their name Cavett. As a vcry old and sick
man, Bruce livcd in Waco at a hotel. When we found him we were so
delighted, we had many hours of visiting
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CHAPTER X
If we follow the lines of Cavitt families through the distaff side we
must begin with the first wife about whom much is known, Ann Cavett,
daughter of Richard and Rutha Millsap Cavett, born January 9, 1801, in
Alabama, died January 26, 1882, Wheelock, Texas.
Ann's father, Richard, was son of Major Moses Cavet of Kings Mountain
fame, killed in this battle of the Revolution, October 7, 1780. Moses II
was son of Moses Cavet I, born in Scotland, moved to Ireland 1738 and
arrived in America 1750, following three of his sons who had come to
America seeking religious freedom.
Ann's mother, Rutha Millsap, is spoken of as a fullblood Dutch girl from
Paxtang, Pennsylvania.
Ann's family, like most of the early families, was a large one and Ann
was one of the youngest children. The one person who knew her well and
who lived long enough for me to ask about Grandmother Ann was Cora
Cavitt Armstrong (Mrs. Robert Armstrong, Bryan, Texas), sister of Jim
and Joe Cavitt and daughter of Vol Cavitt, who was son of Ann and Andrew
Cavitt.
Cora, one of the thirteen Vol Cavitt children, was eleven years old when
her father moved back to the Cavitt Homeplace to make their permanent
home there. Grandmother Ann was 79 years when little Cora first lived in
the home with her. Grandmother retained the two rooms at the left of the
big double front door entrance hall. Her bedroom, entered by a door from
the porch not through the front hall, is a large room with big
fireplace. To the rear of this room is a smaller room and bath. The room
which had always been used for the smaller children who needed parental
care and were not yet ready to move upstairs to the four large bedrooms
was, at the time Cora remembered, used for the Negro woman who cared for
Grandmother Ann, only in the capacity of maid, as the sprightly
chatelaine of Cavitt House was never senile or in need of nursing eare.
In her words Cora recalled, "She was petite, quick in gait, her long
dark brown hair had not a grey streak in it and curled and shone under
the care given by the maid, including nightly brushings. Even when she
was an old lady we thought her pretty. We had moved from Pa's ranch
once before for a short time, but this time it was for good, we moved
everything and only went back to the other place for the fun of
gathering pecans. Pa looked after both ranches and, though we never
knew what his business was, kept busy with men coming and going at his
office where the Houston desk was his work space, we knew as grownups
that he was the local banker, and had connections with one of the early
banks in Waco. My best recollection is of being allowed in
Grandmother's room which we could enter throught the colored woman's
room from the hall back of the stairs or, in good weather, going out the
front door and entering her bedroom-sitting room door to the left of the
big door. Usually early in the morning when we were ready for breakfast
I could visit while the maid brushed Grandma's pretty hair. I guess
that is where so many of us got our curls, though Ma had curly hair too.
>From records in Madison and Green Counties, Alabama, we have learned
that Ann's brothers and sisters were:
Samuel who married Kesiah Norwood, 5-7-1826
Janie who married John K. Taylor of Little Rock, Ark.
Elizabeth who married Pleasanton Taylor, 10-4-1825
Thomas who married Betsy McAdory, 9-16-1817 (whose descendents see
later) William (b.1-22-1809, d.l-10-1853--fu11 name William Whitney) m.
Eleanor Kennard
Rutha (died a child)
Moses b. 5-18-1791, who married Polly Pickel in 1812 in Roan Co.,
Tennessee
Mary (called Polly) who married Isaac Taylor
Sally Jane who married William Pruitt, 1-3-1820
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with Andrew Cavitt, who returned with him to Texas as a colonist to this
new country. James Coryell remained in Texas and Andrew Cavitt returned
to Tennessee in order to sell his property and prepare to bring his
family and as much furniture as he could move, also his 20 slaves. It
was late fall when he left Tennessee to come to Texas. It required three
weeks to get through the mud and water in the Mississippi Bottoms and
three months to reach his destination, bringing his wife and children in
a carry-all and his negros and furniture in 15 wagons drawn by oxen and
mules.
Viesca was the headquarters of Robertson Colony. James Coryell always
made his home with Andrew Cavitt's family while in the Viesca
Settlement.
For some time the Robertson Colony had lived under a treaty of peace
with the Caddo Indians who lived further north towards the head-waters
of the Brazos and frequently visited the Viesca Settlement on their
hunting expeditions.
About this time, some of the leading Caddo Indians were employed to find
some horses that had strayed away from other colonists and bring them
back to the owners. The Indians found the strayed stock near the "Three
Rivers Country" and while driving them back to their owners were killed
by some of the colonists who took it for granted the horses were being
stolen. These Indians who were killed were closely related to the
chief's family and councilors of the tribe. The young warriors felt
outraged at such an injustice and went on the warpath and swore vengence
against all white persons wherever they were found. The hostilities
increased to such an extent the colonists finally came together and
built a fort at Viesca for protection of women and children. Volney
Cavitt (who was a boy of 12 or 13 years of age) stated "It became
necessary for the men to take their guns to the fields with them as a
protection from the Indians." Mr. N. C. Duncan, who lived near the
fort, stated that Coryell, Sam Barton, Ezra Webb and Michael Castleman,
met about a mile on the road to Perry Springs to cut a bee tree. After
the tree was cut and while they sat and talked and ate the honey,
Coryell said, "If the Indians should come I couldn't run I'm so weak
after my illness." Suddenly twelve Caddo Indians appeared too close for
the men to get away without shooting. Two of the guns snapped, Coryell
fired. About the same time the Indians shot. Coryell fell and was
scalped by the Indians. The other men escaped to the fort, secured
assistance and returned. They found Coryell's body, also found blood on
the ground and on
feathers, which showed plainly that one Indian was wounded by Coryell.
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