written by Warren Skidmore

John Wyat  (sp. as noted) was of the Company of Capt. John Skidmore.

          Was paid 16 pounds, 7 sh., 6d. for 131 days.  John Wyat was a Pendleton man with probable roots in what is now Greene (Then Orange) County, Va.  In October 1762 "John Wyat"  apprenticed himself to James Griffin to learn the mystery of a "cooper", from now until he arrives at the age of 21.  (Source: #1 below) . He was probably then about the age of 14.  But he was another man in Capt. Skidmore's Company who did not survive to old age.  He was dead before January 1790 in Pendleton County when his son John Wyat Jr, called a "poor boy" was bound to James Patterson by the "Overseers of the Poor" .  Samuel Wyatt, John's younger brother, had Thomas Collett appointed as his gaurdian in September 1794, and their brother,

          "Edmund  Wyatt" later married Thomas Collet's  daughter Mary Collett. In 1806, Edmund, William, John and Samuel were named as plaintiffs in a land title dispute where they were identified as the sons of John Wiat, deceased.  (Source #2 below)

Source #1: Orange County Deed Book - 14, page 266

Jeff Carr has found that James Griffen, Wyatt's master lived in the western part of Orange County, which is now Greene County. Griffith was a familiar of Charles and James Walker and of John Warner (who married secondly to Anne Walker)  all to be noted later.  Peter Ferell married  "Jane Wyatt" (sic) in 1783, and was one of the defendants in a later dispute over the boundaries where John Wyatt's sons were the plaintiffs.

Source:  Allegheny Regional Ancestors - Vol 7 #4 Winter 1998

Published by Allegheny Regional Family History Society P.O Box 1804  Elkins, West Virginia 26241