Mary Eugenia Bitting
(b. 1877)
Main source of information on BITTING
family.
Sue Bitting
BITTING genealogist; lived in California.
Anthony Bitting,
II
Built home "Rabbits' Nest" at Rural
Hall, Forsyth Co., NC.
Ludwig Bitting
Migrated with brother, Heinrich Martin
Bitting, from Bittingheim, in the high Baileywick of Germersheim(Alsace-Elsass),
on the Rhine River, to Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, in c. 1723. He represented
Northampton Co., Pennsylvania, in the Assembly of the Freemen of the Province
of Pennsylvania, 1758-1760.
Richard Samuel
Reynolds, II
President and Chairman, Reynolds Metals
Co., 1948-1976. "Profits are to business what breathing is to life."
Anna Bitting,
II
A son was President, R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co.
Nicholas Bitting
He was young and just back from the
army, when in 1868 he married Mary Jane Nichols, who had some Indian Blood.
They went to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and "never came back". He was
a doctor and Methodist minister.
Benjamin Lewis
Bitting
He operated a store at Rural Hall,
Forsyth Co., North Carolina. He inherited the house and plantation "Rural
Hall"[a.k.a. "Rabbits' Rest"] built by his father Anthony Bitting, II.
"He did a modest hostelry business with the old house."
Anthony Bitting
Migrated to Maryland in early life.
When the Revolutionary War broke out, he was appointed "Quartermaster"
under Gen. Nathanial Greene. He was Lt. Colonel, 4th Battalion, Philadelphia
Militia, 1780-1781. He carried arms at the Battle of Guilford Court House.
After the war he founded the town, Germanton, North Carolina ("in the Moravian
lands"), now in Stokes Co. He bought 240 acres from Peter Moser, registered
9 Nov. 1786 (Surry Co. Records). He was a saddler by occupation.