These are unedited excerpts from my personal research notes for November 1996, the information taken mainly from the sources cited. This research included the Wyatt family, of Perquimans County,
North Carolina, and Virginia. The notes are for reference only. I found that many families in Perquimans County originated in Charles City, Isle of Wight, Prince George, and Surry Counties, Virginia.
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"Wyatt or Wiatt Families"
The William and Mary Quarterly, Ser. 1, Vol. 10, No. 1 (July 1901), p. 59
An account of the various families of this name was given in Quarterly, III, p. 35, 74; VI., 257. Owing to the loss of county records the statement is not as conclusive as might be wished.... The early Wyatts in Virginia who cannot be directly connected are: (p. 61)
(5) Capt. Anthony Wyatt (of whom hereafter) (To be Continued)
"Wyatt Families"
The William and Mary Quarterly, Ser. 1, Vol. 10, No. 4 (July 1903), p. 261:
(5) Anthony Wyatt was a member of the House of Burgesses for Charles City county in 1645, 1653, and 1656. He lived at Chaplin's Choice, near Jordan's Point in that part of Charles City county, now called Prince George. This place in 1619 was the plantation of Capt. Isaac Chaplin, who represented it in the first House of Burgesses.
In 1686 Capt. Nicholas Wyatt patented it anew, discribing it as in area 361 acres and lying on James River between Parson's and Bicker's Creeks. He states that by the burning of his father's house and that of the secretary at Jamestown, the original patent to Chaplin's had been lost.
In 1676, Nicholas Wyatt, the son was a supporter of Nathaniel Bacon, and a brother-in-law of Capt. William Rookins, of Surry county (Surry Records.) He married Frances (Rookins?), and in 1680 was one of the justices of the county, with the title of captain.
In 1715 he confirmed to Edward Hill, of Charles City county, certain land known by the name of Burleigh and the Old Town, which had been left to his sons Anthony and Nicholas by the will of George Sparrow, of Martin's Brandon, dated Feb. 16, 1675. This land had been sold by Nicholas Wyatt, Sr., by deed 15 Feb., 1680, for 7,000 pounds of tobacco and 31 £ of lawful money, to Edward Hill, Sr., of Charles City county, Esq., dec'd, the money having been paid, pursuant to said Sparrow's will, to his son Anthony Wyatt, the other son, Nicholas, dying in infancy. The deed was witnessed by William Braine, John Wyatt, and Peter Finney.
Capt. Nicholas Wyatt, "aged and weak," made his will in Prince George county, April 14, 1720, and it was recorded December 2, 1720; names Elizabeth Wyatt, daughter of son Anthony Wyatt, deceased, granddaughters Frances Wyatt and Susan Wyatt, grandson John Wyatt, Nicholas Reeks, son of daughter Susannah Reeks, dec'd, legacy to Anthony Wyatt, and son Edward, to whom my plantation and land.
There is a deed from John Sykes and Frances his wife, of Prince George, for sixty acres in the Old Church Fields, at a place called Martin Brandon, being the lower third of the land on which Anthony Wyatt lived, and which he was siezed in right of his wife Elizabeth, and which afterwards descended to John Wyatt (as heir at law to said Elizabeth), and who dying seized thereof the said land descended to his three daughters, of whom Frances Sykes is one, dated February 10, 1722.
On May 10, 1726, Capt. Edward Wyatt, Sr., of Martin Brandon, made his will, naming daughters Elizabeth and Sarah Wyatt, and sons Edward and Francis.
In 1728 Edward Wyatt, son of Edward Wyatt, had not yet attained twenty-one (Deed). Henry Wyatt, of Prince George, and Mary [?nee Hill], his wife, sold a slave to Hon. John Carter, of Charles City county (Note b.) Feb. 3, 1727, which slave was devised to said Mary, by Edward Hill, of Charles City county, deceased.
In 1718-19, Michael Talbot, of Prince George, left legacies to Edward, Eliza, and Francis Wyatt, children of Capt. Edward Wyatt and to John Reeks. [Based upon this information, my best quess is that a family relationship existed between the Talbot, Wyatt, and Ricks families.]
In 1721, the estate of Anthony Wyatt was credited with the cost of the burying of Hanah Wyatt and John Wyatt. Edward Wyatt. It appears, then, that Capt. Anthony Wyatt (died about 1645) had issue, Capt. Nicholas2 Wyatt (died about 1720), who married Frances ---[possibly Sikes], and had issue Anthony3, Nicholas, died infant, Edward3, and Susanna3, who married [Benjamin; this is proved by a Goochland Co., Va., deed] Reeks, and had Nicholas.
Anthony3 Wyatt (Nicholas2, Anthony1), married Elizabeth ---, and had issue [i.] John4 Wyatt, who died before 1721, leaving three daughters, of whom (1) Frances married John Sykes; (2) Elizabeth, (3) Anthony.
Capt. Edward3 Wyatt (Nicholas2, Anthony1), died in 1725, and left issue, (i.) Edward4, (ii.) Frances, (iii.) Elizabeth, (iv.) Sarah.
Edward4 Wyatt (Capt. Edward3, Nicholas, Anthony1) was dead before 1760, when "Edward Wyatt, son of Edward Wyatt, dec'd," was apprenticed to Theodorick Bland, to be instructed as county clerk till twenty-one years of age.
Frances4 Wyatt, son of Capt. Edward3Wyatt, married Elizabeth, and had Elizabeth, born December 22, 1732; Susanna, born June 15, 1742.
Henry4 Wyatt, who was probably a son of Anthony3 Wyatt (son of Capt. Nicholas2 Wyatt), married Mary ---, and had issue Francis Wyatt, born about 1760, who lived in North Carolina and had three sons, Capt. John Wyatt [Perquimans Co.], a soldier of the war of 1812. Anthony and Douglas Wyatt, was a descendant of this Wyatt family. These brothers removed first to Montgomery County, Ky., and afterwards, about 1816, to Missouri. (See Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.)
Note b.-It might seem that Henry Wyatt did not belong to the Prince George county Wyatts. There is a deed among the Massie papers in the Virginia Historical Society from Henry Wyatt, of Prince George county, for the site of a mill in New Kent county, 13 Jamuary 128. In 1726 there was born to Henry Wyatt, of New Kent, a daughter Mary.
