Great Wits Jump
  • Home
  • Stories
    • The Library of Stories
    • Consequences of the Past
    • It Was A Good Day
  • History
    • The TRUITT Family & Their American Roots
  • Photography
    • Scenic
    • Creative Photos
    • Just For Fun
    • Scotland >
      • Scottish Landscapes & Animals
      • Dunoon, Scotland
      • Navy in Scotland
  • About
  • Home
  • Stories
    • The Library of Stories
    • Consequences of the Past
    • It Was A Good Day
  • History
    • The TRUITT Family & Their American Roots
  • Photography
    • Scenic
    • Creative Photos
    • Just For Fun
    • Scotland >
      • Scottish Landscapes & Animals
      • Dunoon, Scotland
      • Navy in Scotland
  • About
Picture
Picture

The TRUITT Family & Their American Roots - 1: Introduction

5/18/2020

15 Comments

 

The TRUITT Family

& Their American Roots

By Steven C. Gardner
NOTE:  This post includes only the "Introduction" at this time.  Additional posts to follow of each Chapter upon completion.  Table of Contents list below.  All sections are subject to re-editing as needed.
(Truitt, Trewhitt, Trewett, Trywhitt, Truitt, Trwhyt, Treuit...)

1 - Introduction

     The crisp Northumberland English landscape of the high moorlands, with its vast undeveloped landscapes, stretches along the eastern borders of the Anglo-Scottish line and is the ancestral land of the Truitt family.  With their persistent beginnings, this families fascinating adventures focus on a culture full of personal struggles, religious identity, and national pride.  From these Northern English roots grew a cultural line whose adventures would eventually cross the great Atlantic Ocean to participate in the founding of the Virginia colonial experience.  The consequences that follow stretch from the virgin tobacco fields of this new wilderness, through struggles of religious hardships, and culminates in a war for a new Nations identity.  The story that surrounds this family is entwined in the birth of the American Experience and the foundation of a Nation.
     Through the efforts of numerous family historians, the tale of this Truitt’s families adventures dramatically come to life.  Scrupulously gathered facts gleaned from ancient documents, combined and collaborated through modern research, sprinkled with conjecture, formulated and weld together to form a story that was once lived by these forefathers, and gives us a peek into the lives of those ancestors whose struggles and triumphs must be retold.
     The original emigrant of this Truitt family to the Americas was George Truitt, who arrived in the thriving community of the Virginia Colonies sometime between 1635 and November of 1640.  He became a stalwart landowner and tobacco farmer on the eastern shore of Northampton County, Virginia, married twice and had nine offspring.  He converted and became a staunch practitioner of the Quaker faith, an upstart religion that challenged the structure of the dominant Anglican religious base during the Virginia colonial years.  Through his struggles and successes, he set the path that several generations of posterity came to embrace and to be deeply influenced by.

     The following articles will faithfully attempt to compile as much formulative information about these progenitors of the Truitt family, tracing their history from Northumberland County, England, down through the American Revolutionary War.  The attempt to accurately compile and faithfully portray the Truitt family line, is vast and complex, and it is hoped that this presentation will be informative, insightful, and entertaining, and will be a lasting tribute to the history of a family whose lives influence us to this day.
 
*****
Family Lineage
~ Main Line being followed in this Article ~
 
George Truitt (~1617-1670) & Frances Graves (1621-1691)
:
George Truitt (1647-1721) & Eleanor Meredith (1646-1732)
:
Samuel Truitt (1686-1756) & Jennet Porter (1693-    )
:
Samuel Truitt (1725-1801) & Mary Collins/Collings (1734-1836)
:
John Truitt (1753-1821) & Elizabeth Gray (1757-    )

General Chapters
Under Development

1:  Introduction

2:  Truitt Beginnings

3:  The Immigrant - George Truitt of England

4:  Captain Thomas Graves

5:  Alice Watson

6:  The Life of a Quaker in the Virginia Colony

7:  The Final Days of George Truitt

8:  George Truitt Jr.

9-14:  ~ To be Determined ~

Appendix A:  The Genealogies

Appendix B:  The Graves Family History

Appendix C:  Historical Records Supplement

Appendix D:  High & Low Trewhitt

Bibliography


Picture
© Copyright 2020 Steven C. Gardner

15 Comments
Travor Truitt
9/4/2020 12:24:36 am

I would like to find out more about the Truitt family lineage. Ironically, my father's name is George Truitt.

Reply
Cheryl Truitt
4/6/2022 07:25:18 am

My father and my brother are named George Truitt.

Reply
Steve Hubble
7/27/2022 10:17:01 am

My father was born Edward Curtis Truitt. I have an extensive Truitt tree developed. Id like to share our notes on family trees. Would you do that?

Steve

mike truitt
9/8/2020 11:29:19 am

i have a great deal of info on the George Truitt family tree,

Reply
Steve Hubble
7/27/2022 10:18:59 am

My father was born Edward Curtis Truitt. I have a good deal of detail on his Truitt ancestry. I'd like to compare our tree info. Would you want to do share info?

Thanks
Steve

Reply
Kitty Truitt Aguilar
7/5/2021 04:44:38 pm

I'd love to find out more information such as birth records for Lemuel Truitt b. March 18, 1808. Who were his parents and grandparents? Anyone have documentation for him before he left Maryland?
Thank you,
Kitty Truitt-Aguilar

Reply
Steven Hubble
10/8/2021 01:46:22 pm

I would like to follow this writing. George Truitt was my 9th GGF on my paternal side. His son Job was my 8th GGF.

Reply
Sheila Thompson Banks Truitt
1/1/2022 06:51:57 pm

Clarence earl Truitt. Was my Grandfather.....Dale Truitt was the last male son of the George Washington direct male bloodline. My mother is the last of his living bloodline, she has one sister left. I have one son,and my sister has one son.. I would like to know why my grandfather left England at 1

Reply
Dakari Truitt
2/18/2022 10:41:54 pm

This is the stolen history of my Family

Reply
Cheryl Truitt
4/6/2022 07:27:41 am

Dakari, what do you mean?

Reply
Linda Norton
8/19/2022 07:42:54 pm

Ms. Dakari, are you the descendant of people enslaved by the Truitt's? I am reading a good book by artist Ann Truitt and am wondering about the roots of the inheritances and wealth she keeps mentioning. I sense reparations might be owed, or at least the truth acknowledged.

Reply
Bill Tennis
7/26/2022 08:52:50 pm

My Great Grandmother was Priscilla Anne Truitt. Any info would be thankful

Reply
Cathy Charity
10/8/2022 02:07:37 pm

Ancestors were all Scott Irish. I know Edward Truitt and have pics from 1800. My great great grandmother was Janie Truitt

Reply
Corey Cadden
12/9/2022 08:23:51 pm

My grandfather's name was Anthony Jerome Truitt! Wild I heard that all Truitts in America can be traced back to George is that true?

Reply
Chris Beckstrom
1/3/2023 07:35:50 pm

Hi, I'm searching for a John Truitt father of Eliza Truitt, born 1632.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    S. C. Gardner
    Author & Story Teller
    ~~~~~

    Archives

    May 2021
    May 2020
    July 2018
    June 2018

    Picture

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly