Major Isaac Hite, Jr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of LIEUTENANT. DAR Ancestor # A055678

Jost Hite's grandson Major Isaac Hite, Jr., attended William and Mary College and served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. In 1783, his father gave him and his bride Nelly Conway Madison, sister of a future President of the United States, the 483 acres on which Belle Grove house was later built-in 1794.

For a time, General Sherman had headquarters here during the Civil War.

James and Dolly Madison spent two weeks at Belle Grove when on their honeymoon.

Rich, Jenna, and I visited the plantation in August of 2003.

It is located one mile south of Middletown, Virginia, on U.S. Route 11.

www.bellegrove.org

He & wife Nellie Madison called their home "BELA GROVE."Aided in the building by friend THOMAS JEFFERSON & wife's brother JAMES MADISON (resembles Monticello), James and Dolly Madison spent two weeks of honeymoon there.

Isaac & wife Nellie had 3 children; wife #2 was Ann Tunstall Maury- they had 10 children.

Both wives buried with him -Nelly is on the west, Ann on Right.

Isaac Jr (a Major) in Revolutionary Army was said to General Muhlenberg at the Siege of Yorktown.

All of Isaacs Jr's son's Grads of Wm & Mary.

Belle Grove Plantation is a late-18th-century plantation house and estate in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, USA. It is situated in Frederick County, about a mile southwest of Middletown.

Historically important as the home of revolutionary veteran Major Isaac Hite, Jr – President James Madison’s brother-in-law – and as the headquarters of General Philip Sheridan during the Battle of Cedar Creek (1864), the manor house has been little altered over the centuries and remains one of the best preserved 18th century homes in the country.[3] Affording grand vistas of the surrounding Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge and Alleghenies, the estate is situated on 283 acres of Maj. Hite’s original 483 acres. (The entire CCBGNHP, including the nearby battlefield, consists of 3,593 acres.)[[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Grove_Plantation_(Middletown,_V...)]

Maj. Isaac Hite of Belle Grove who was aid to Genl. Muhlenberg in the war of the Revolution -- born February 7, 1758 -- died November 24, 1836

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11785440/isaac-hite