MS Family Group Sheet for the William Elliot Suiter Family

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Submitted by: Linda Suitor Fountaine
Email address: llfountaine@gmail.com


Husband: William Elliot SUITER
Birthdate:abt 1765
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Death date: 04 Apr 1832
Place of death: Rockingham County, NC USA
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: James
Sex: M
Birthdate: 02 May 1792
Birthplace: Maryland
Death date: 06 Oct 1857
Place of death: Tishomingo County, MS 
Burial: Wheeler Grove Cemetery
Marriage date: 13 May 1813
Marriage place: Rockingham County, NC
Spouse's name: Mary Henslee

Child No. 2: John Suiter
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1794
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Child No. 3: Sarah Suiter
Sex: F
Birthdate: 16 Feb 1897
Birthplace: Rockingham County, NC
Death date: 06 Oct 1861
Place of death: Fannin County, Ladonia, TX
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Marriage date: 18 Aug 1813
Marriage place: Rockingham County, NC
Spouse's name: John Payne Hensley

Documentation: In Rockingham County, NC, Deed Book D, P. 210, Moses Yell sold to
Wm. Elliott Sewter (Sutor) 37 3/4 acres on S side of Great Troublesome Creek,
adjacent to John Waford and William Jones on 23 November 1795 for 26 Pounds, 18
Shillings. Witnessed by John Bawick, William Straton, John Suter. Page 211
showes Moses Yell sold to Wm. Elliott Sewtor for 175 pounds, 133 acres on both
sides of the Great Troublesome Creek, adjacent to Mateer, James McNealy, dated
11 November 1795; witnessed by John Bowick and John Sewtor. Page 212 shoes Moses
Yell sold to Wm. Elliott Sewter,for 50 Pounds, 87 acres on Great Troublesome
Creek, adjacent to Mateer, James McNealey; November 11, 1795 and witnessed by
John Barwich and John Sewtor. In Deed Book O, page 22 John Suter sold to William
E. Suiter 100 acres on Big Rock House Creek. On 9 March 1826, in Rockingham
County, NC, William Suiter married Mrs. Elizabeth Caffey (widow of Michael
Caffey). In 1823, William Suitor sold a negro girl to Michal Caffey; the bill of
sale is recorded in Rockingham County, NC Deed Book X, page 117. In 1832 William
E. Suiter sold to James Suiter, 4 tracts of land (377 acres) on Big Troublesome
Cree. In 1832, James Suiter, Executor of William E. Suitor\'s will, deeded Negro
slaves to Elizabeth Suitor in a quit claim recorded in Deed Book 2dE, page 103.
On 4 April, 1832, William E. Suiter wrote his will, found in Book B, p 60. He
mentions his sons James and John, and daughter Sarah Hensley and wife Elizabeth
Suiter, whom he provided for in her widowhoo. He made bequests of slaves to
grandchildren Guy Caffey, William Hensley, and Mary Hensley. To his grandaughter
Mary he left a slave girl named Rachel. In the will it states that James is to
care for John and see that he is well-clothed. A sow and a calf are given to
John, but James was to keep them for John\'s support. William Suiter specified
that the slaves he left to his daughter, Sarah, were not to be sold to pay her
huband\'s debts. After his were settled, Willliam Suiter left the rest of his
estate to his three children, with John\'s part being handled by James. Executor
of the estate were to be James Suiter and James Irwin. The will was probated in
August, 1832. In 1835 Elizabeth Suitor et al sold to Thomas Jones 82 acres on
the Haw River, recorded in Book 2dE, page 163. In 1839 James Suiter sold 287
acres on Big Troublesome Creek to James Johnson, recoreded in Book 2dK, page 40.
(Note: The name Suiter has been found to have been spelled many different ways,
ie., Souter, Sewter, Suiter, Suitor. It should also be noted that James Suiter
moved to MS and his name is recorded as Suitor)