Congratulations on your oustanding research, Howard.
Now, can you find together another piece to the
Cavitt puzzle. By 1793, Moses Cavitt's son Richard lived
in Sumner County, TN on land that I had thought had belonged to his uncle
Alexander Cavitt.
I was under the impression that Alexander had received
the land in payment for services in the American Revolution. As I recall,
Moses Cavitt also lived in
Sumner County at the same time.
The Cavitt "recycling" of given names has always caused
me problems. Could you shed any light on this???
The Sumner County Richard Cavitt's son Andrew married his cousin Ann Cavett
from AL. Was this the
"other" Richard's daughter?
Helen Gant Donald
Descendant of the Sumner County Richard Cavitt whose
son Richard and family migrated to Robertson County, TX.
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Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 4:13 PM
Subject: [CAVITT] Thomas Cavett/Joseph Lones
Several postings in February discussed or questioned how and why
Joseph
Lones
ended up with the Alexander Cavett 640 acre Knox County tract of land.
Some
said that Thomas inherited it, and some said that Thomas gave it to Nancy
as a
wedding present. Actually, it was a lot more complicated than that.
Agnes Nancy Meetch Cavett was named executrix of Moses Cavett's estate via
his will. She functioned in that capacity until his estate was settled on
10/6/1818. Knox County Tax Lists still exist for the years 1806 - 1812.
Agnes
Cavitt/Caveat, Executrix, is listed as the taxpayer during the period
1806 -
1810. In 1811, Thomas Caveat for the Moses Caveat Estate is listed as the
taxpayer, and the same identical styling was used in 1812. All of the Tax
Lists
reference 640 acres of land.
In 1813, Thomas Cavett commenced an oddessy to buy out the heirship
interests
of his five brothers and sisters in the 640 acre tract. The first to sell
his interest was John Caveat, Thomas's brother, who sold his heirship
interest
in "a certain tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres, lying
and
being at the headwaters of Big Sinking Creek, the same that my mother,
Agnes
Caveat, now lives on" for $100.00 on 1/14/1813 (see Knox County Deed Book
"O",
Vol. 1, Page 276). In November 1813, Jonah Bowman of Washington County,
KY,
husband of Betsey Caveat, sold their heirship interest in "640 acres on
Sinking
Creek, the same that Moses Caveat did sieze" to Thomas Cavett for $150.00
(see Knox County Deed Book "O", Vol. 1, Page 336).
On 5/2/1816, John Holloway and Rebecca Holloway, alias Rebecca Bosley or
Caveat, of Roane County, sold their heirship interest "in and to a certain
tract
of land containing 640 acres lying and being on the headwaters of Big
Sinking
Creek in Knox County, being the same that Agnes Caveat now lives on" to
Thomas
Caveat for $150.00 (see Knox County Deed Book "R", Vol. 1, page 149).
On 10/28/1820, Richard Cavett of Madison County, Alabama sold his heirship
interest in "a certain tract of land that said Thomas Cavett lives on" to
Thomas
Cavett for $375.00 (see Knox County Deed Book "S", Vol. 1, Page 154).
Reading between the lines here, it appears that Agnes Cavett died between
10/6/1818
when the estate was settled, and 10/28/1820 when Richard sold his interest
in
the 640 acre tract.
On 11/17/1823, Elizabeth Caveat, widow, administrix and one of the
representatives of Moses Caveat [son of Moses and Agnes], deceased, James
O'Donel and
Elizabeth, his wife, and Isaac Caveat, children and representatives of
Moses
Caveat, deceased, of Madison County, Missouri, sold their heirship
interests in
land that Moses Caveat, deceased, formerly of Knox County, TN, lived on
"should
on the decease of his wife be sold to the highest bidder and proceeds
divided
as by will; whereas in such will he appointed his wife Agnes Executrix
with
others as Executors, who were authorized to make sale of such tract of
land,
and whereas the said Agnes, widow of said Moses, deceased, was the only
person
who took upon themselves the execution of said will, and [with] her
decease the
said will could not be carried into execution without the deed of a Court
of
Chancery", to Thomas Caveat for $300.00 (see Knox County warranty Deed
Book
"T", Vol. 1, page 124).
Therefore, after the expenditure of $1,275.00 and an investment of more
than
ten years time and effort, Thomas Cavett became sole owner of the 640 acre
tract of land on Big Sinking Creek in Knox County, TN that Moses Cavett
inherited
from his brother, Alexander Cavett.
On 12/14/1823, Nancy Cavett married Joseph Lones of Knox County. Nancy
Cavett was born on 11/19/1807, which means she was sixteen years old when
they
married. Supposedly, Jacob Lones, grandfather of Joseph, lived about two
miles
from Cavett's Station, and supposedly saw the light in the early morning
darkness caused by the Indians burning down the buildings at Cavett's
Station on
9/25/1793.
Thomas Cavett cut a wide swath from 1812 - 1824, which will be the subject
of
a future posting. In 1824 he ran afoul of the law in some manner, and on
10/7/1824 in State vs. Cavett, acknowledged being indebted to the State in
the
amount of $500.00, it to be voided if he "keeps the peace and is of good
behavior towards all the good people of the State, and specially towards
Mary
Cavett, for one year from this day".
On 11/20/1824, Thomas Cavett sold the 640 acre MosesCavett tract of land
on
Big Sinking Creek to Joseph Lones for $2,500.00 (see Knox County warranty
deed
Book "T", Vol. 1, Page 173). I asked Clara Smith where a young man like
him
got $2,500.00 in 1824, and she responded that the Lones' brought money
with
them when the came to America, and were well off.
Thomas Cavett thereafter disappeared from Knox County records.
Howard Roach
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