Samuel Pruitt, II

PRUITT, SAMUEL

• DAR Ancestor #: A091939
• Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
• Birth: 1705 MARYLAND
• Death: POST 11-13-1801 PITTSYLVANIA CO VIRGINIA
• Service Source: ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 3, P 769; MAG OF VA GENEALOGY, VOL 23, #1, PP 3, 8
• Service Description: 1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES, PITTSYLVANIA CO 2) TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, PITTSYLVANIA CO
• RESIDENCE 1) County: PITTSYLVANIA CO - State: VIRGINIA
• SPOUSE 1) LUCY OWEN

Biography

Samuel Pruitt II (son of Samuel Pruitt and Elizabeth Hawker) was born Abt. 1730 in Prince George's Co. Maryland, and died November 17, 1801 in Franklin Co. Georgia. He married Lucy Owen on 1754 in Halifax Co. Maryland.

Notes for Samuel Pruitt II:

SAMUEL PRUITT, II

(NOTE: The three youngest sons (Richard, Byrd and Levi) listed for Samuel Pruitt, II and Lucy Owen are not listed in Samuel's will and I have been told by Pruitt-Owen researchers that these three sons do not belong in this family. I found Richard, Byrd and Levi Pruitt listed as Samuel Pruitt and Lucy Owen's sons in the LDS Ancestral File, which may be in error.)

Samuel Pruitt, Jr. moved from Frederick Co. Maryland to Halifax Co. Virginia about 1762. In 1763, Samuel Prewitt received a land grant for 350 acres in Halifax County, Virginia. On January 17, 1765 he entered 400 acres Sandy Creek in Halifax Co. Virginia. September 16, 1765, a land grant for 325 acres in Halifax Co. Virginia was entered on the branches of Cand and Sandy Creeks adjoining the land of Floyd Owen & c.

September 22, 1766 Samuel Preuit was granted a patent of 350 acres on both sides of Midway River alias Birch's Creek adjoining the land of Terry. August 3, 1771 Samuel Pruit was granted a patent of 329 acres in Pittsylvania Co. Virginia on the drafts of the Lower Sandy Creek of Dan, adjoining Parish's land.

There are numerous records of Samuel Pruitt acquiring and selling land in Halifax Co. Virginia, which was later changed to Pittsylvania County, Virginia. It was thought by Pruitt-Owen researchers, that the William Owen, Samuel Pruitt sold 100 acres to, was a brother of Lucy Owen, since she was born in 1736 and this William was born 1733. This William Owen married Drusilla Echols but, so far, there is no proof that Lucy is his sister.

Samuel Pruitt was a member of the House of Burgesses in Halifax Co. Virginia in 1765.

Samuel Pruitt II was a PATRIOT, having taken oath of allegiance, and gave material aid, thus proving Revolutionary loyalty. He is listed in the DAR Patriot Index, (page 550, Vol 1) as having served as a Patriotic Service person from Virginia. His name also appears in a list of Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Patriots, for supplies furnished in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia during the Revolution under Commissioners of Provisions Law. (Information from Record Copy Department, Office of the Registrar General, National Society, NSDAR)

On March 18, 1782, at a Court of Claims, held at Pittsylvania Co. Virginia, for adjusting property impressed or taken for public service, Samuel was reimbursed for food taken for the Continental Army's use during the Revolutionary War. Three of his sons are listed as Revolutionary soldiers of Georgia, but are not listed in his will of 1801.

Will of Samuel Pruitt II (Pittsylvania Co. Virginia Book 11, page 240)

In the name of God, Amen. I, Samuel Pruett of Pittsylvania County, State of Virginia, being weak of body but of a sound and perfect memory do constitute this my Last Will and Testament. After paying my just debts and funeral expenses, first recommending my Spirit into the hands of Almighty God that gave it.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son Philip Pruett, 5 shillings starling besides what he already has.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son Zachariah Pruett, 100 acres of land where he now lives.

Item. I give to my daughter Ruth Cook five shillings sterling besides what she has already had.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son Samuel Pruett, one hundred acres of land that he sold.

Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Butt, one cow and yearling.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son Benjamin Pruett, one gray horse branded C.S.

Item. I give to my daughter Polly Hawker, one white heiffer besides what she has already had.

Item. I lend to my daughter Sallie Pruett, during her natural life or as long as she may remain single, the land lying as follows including the orchard and archard fence round the new ground of Atkerson's line at the corner of the old field, that with all the land over my spring branch for her use not to be rented.

Item. I also give to my daughter Sallie Pruitt, one mare and colt and one horse, two chosen cows and yearlings with the whole stock of hogs, one featherbed and kitchen furniture with all the working tools and kitchen furniture to be hearn forever.

Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Japeth Pruett, one hundred and ninety-two acres of land it being the land I now live on, also the bed and furniture that I now lye on and one cow and yearling that her now has in possession.

Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Sallie Pruett, all my household, furniture, the balance of my stock of cattle I leave to be equally divided between my four daughters, Ruth Cook, Elizabeth Butt, Polly Hawker, and Sallie Pruett. As witness my hand this 13th day of November and affext my seal in the rear of our lord Christ 1801.

Samuel Pruett (seal)

Geo. Spratten

Wm. Stamps

Polly Stamps

(recorded 21 December 1801 Pittsylvania Order Book 10, page 15)

(All female Pruitt descendants can belong to the DAR through this ancestor. The DAR records show Samuel Pruitt, II, or Jr., as Samuel Pruitt I.)

Sources:

Tillman Dixon Pruitt & Diannah Hillsman Farrar Their Ancestors and Descendants, by Donna Duckworth.

From Thomas W. Pruett:

It seems that the Pruitt’s, the Owen’s, the Hill’s and the Hawker’s, remained closely associated for a number of years. I found land transfers from Virginia in the 1700’s with the name Samuel Prewit (Prewett, Pruit, Prewitt, Pruitt, Pruett), all with his mark since he obviously couldn’t write, and John Owen, James Smallwood Owen, and William Owen, as owner or buyer or witness. His wife was Elizabeth Hawker. Then Samuel, II, married Lucy Owen in 1754, and their daughter married Bozdel Hawker in 1794, then his granddaughter married Burrell Hill in 1819. In the history of the move from Kentucky to Arkansas in 1850, the three families are mentioned by name, Pruitt, Hill, and Owen. William Pruitt Hill moved from Kentucky in 1880 to White Co. Ark. and he married Nancy Jane Pruett Owen, widow of George Owen, Jr. and daughter of Benjamin Hawker Pruett.

More About Samuel Pruitt II:

Will dated: November 13, 1801, Franklin Co. Georgia.

Will Probated: December 21, 1801, Franklin Co. Georgia.

More About Samuel Pruitt II and Lucy Owen:

Marriage: 1754, Halifax Co. Maryland.

Children of Samuel Pruitt II and Lucy Owen are:

Phillip Pruitt, b. 1756, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia, d. 1818, Caldwell or Calloway Co. Kentucky.

Zachariah Pruitt, b. 1758, Frederick Co. Maryland, d. 1843, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia.

Ruth Pruitt, b. 1760, Frederick Co. Maryland.

Samuel Pruitt III, b. September 10, 1762, Halifax Co. Virginia, d. December 19, 1845, Franklin Co. Georgia.

Elizabeth Pruitt, b. 1763, Halifax Co. Virginia.

Benjamin Pruitt, b. 1765, Halifax Co. Virginia, d. 1841, Gwinnett Co. Georgia.

Mary Polly Pruitt, b. 1767, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia.

+Joseph Pruitt, b. 1769, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia, d. Bef. February 12, 1805, Franklin Co. Georgia (now Banks Co. GA).

Richard C. Pruitt, b. 1773, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia.

Byrd Pruitt, b. 1775, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia, d. Aft. 1832, Georgia.

Levi Pruitt, b. October 22, 1778, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia, d. November 11, 1804, Warren Co. Georgia.

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