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Heiatt - Hyett etc.

A Robert Hyett (d. circa 1558) acquired Wootton estates in 1545 from Edward Carne. His son Thomas sold 
some of the estate to Richard Walton in 1566 though retaining a life interest which he subsequently sold 
to Andrew Dyer. (VCH) Not known if there is a connection between that Thomas Hyett [who also held estates 
in Street] and the Thomas and John Hiett of Street below, or Richard Hiett of Butleigh. Because the vicar 
John Radford didn't keep any baptism, marriage nor burial records during his tenure 1677 -1714 there are 
impossible gaps to fill in this genealogical data but the origin of the family seems to be above named 
Street branch, using the same forenames and with dates that fit fairly perfectly, and so I am taking 
them as being the same family here. The Street family disappear as their namesakes appear in Butleigh 
and Kingweston and John Hiett is recorded as departing Butleigh for Pennsylvania and his in-laws the 
Smiths also disappear in 1699 - just as they too are recorded as travelling to America with a Quaker 
exodus including William Penn..

A) John Hyett of Street is mentioned as Overseer when referred to in the will of Roger Dovel dated 
30 Jan 1571. [Jewer's notes] Probably the father or possibly brother of the next;

1) Thomas Hiett

    Married: [Alice? - see below][the widow with missing forename bur. 1650 Street?]

    Children:

        1) Thomas s.o. Thomas bur. 8 Jan 1600 Street

        2) John Chr. 22 Feb 1602 Street Hloy Trinity (1a)

        3) Alice Chr. 14 Aug 1605 Street [an Alice Hiett bur. 14 Mar 1629 Street, could also be the mother]

        4) Edith Chr. 20 Mar 1607 Street m. 4 Nov 1639 Street Richard Bartlett

        5) Elizabeth Chr. 20 Jan 1610 Street m. 1 May 1637 Street George Charde (Coward)

Besides Thomas a Nicholas Hiett living in Street fathered a Mary (Chr. 23 Sep 1608 Street) - Nicholas appears 
in Jewers Notes as son-in-law of Joane Brawdrip [Will of 6 Sep 1570 Street] - Nicholas buried 6 Oct 1610 Street. 
Edith and Elizabeth Hyett were left small legacies by 'cousin' Agnes Keene [Will 3 Jul 1635 Street] as was cousin 
Agnes Chard. John Hyett helped compile the inventory of Thomas Barry's will of 13 Aug 1631 Street. [all from Jewers Notes].

1a) John Hiet [the John who was buried 3 Feb 1649 Street?]

    Married: Alice [Alice, widow bur. 22 Jun 1665 Street]

    Children:

        1) John Chr. 18 Apr 1636 Street (1a1)?

        2) Robert Chr. 11 Mar 1637 Street

        3) Richard Chr. 10 Jan 1640 Street (1a2)?

Besides John an Alexander [bur. 5 Aug 1685] was fathering children in Street at this time and another 
Thomas [bur. 22 Mar 1688] and Mary (nee Peddle) Hiett : Alice Chr. 24 Mar 1674, Mary Chr. 25 Jun 1676 
and a John Chr. 22 May 1677

1a1) John Heiatt [Chr. 18 Apr 1636 Street] d. Butleigh 1686?

John paid rates in Butleigh from 1681-6 when his property becomes 'late John Hieatt deceased' - see below.

1a2) Richard Hiett [Chr. 10 Jan 1640 Street s.o. John and Alice Hiet?], d. Butleigh 1686?

    Married: ? [probably died. Before 1688 for children to be taken in by other people - or re-married]

    Children:

        1) Richard (1a2A) [a Richard Huett Chr. 1 Dec1667 Street s.o. Richard Huett seems likely]

        2) John [Chr. 27 Apr 1676 Street] (1a2B)

        3) George [probably Chr.Butleigh post 1677]

Richard was churchwarden in 1684-5 and paid rates from 1681-6. The Richard and George who received relief 
(including stockings and shoes) in 1687 may have been his children (or John's). They received this relief again 
in 1688 and '89 in which latter year George was taken in by Robert Barnard and Richard by Edward Jacklett. 
In 1687 the rates were paid by John Hiett and his neighbour (looking after George) was Robert Barnard. 
From 1688 the rate was paid jointly by Robert Burnard and John Hiett until 1695 when it was just John Heiat 
again - up to 1700 when he emigrated to America. All this time the adjoining property was was 'late John 
Hiett deceased' [see (3)]. In 1703 Richard Heiatt becomes a rate payer - but on a different property and 
was there until 1707. Probably the Richard Hiatt who was in Kingweston in 1715.

In 1687 the Overseers 'charged for the relief of Richard Hieatte & George Hieatte £1 8s, paid for a peare 
of shoose for Richard Hieatte 1s 10d for a peare of stockens for George Hieatte 7d and a peare of drawers 
for Richard Hieatte 1s 4d. In 1689 They paid Robert Barnard for George Heiates relife 1s 6d a weake for 
50 weakes and Edward Jacklett for Richard Hieates relief 1s 6d a weake for 5 weakes.They also paid Thomas 
Jacklett £1 10s for clothes for Richard Hieatte when he was bound out to him. In 1690 the Overseers paid 
45 weeks relief at 1s 6d per week for George Hiatt and bought him a pair of drawers for 2s 4d.See Overseers 
accounts p. 45 for the conditions of the Poor receiving relief - they had to wear clothes of a distinguishable 
type that bore two red letters PB either on their arms or backs, standing for Parish of Butleigh!

DD/S/BT/6/8/5 1] Richard Hiatt of Kingweston and wife Amy daughter of John Gregory decd 2] John Gregory of 
Butleigh, yeoman and son of John decd 3] John Reynolds the elder of Kingweston, yeoman Assignment of 1a at 
Nurslinge gate in the West field and 1a at north end Date: 1715.

1a2A) Richard Hiett [Chr. 1 Dec1667 Street], of Kingweston bur. Jun 1725 Kingweston

    Married: Amy Gregory Chr. 24 May 1675 Kingweston d.o. John Gregory of Kingweston bur. 8 Mar 1745 Kingweston

    Children:

        1) John Chr.10 Jul 1706 Kingweston bur. 19 Jun 1715 Kingweston

        2) Amy Chr. 10 May 1708 Kingweston

        3) Mary Chr. 29 Dec 1710 Kingweston

        4) Hannah? Chr. 19 Jun 1713 Kingweston

            Illeg child) Amy Chr. 4 Mar 1753 Kingweston

        5) Thomas Chr. 23 Apr 1715 Kingweston bur. 8 Sep 1723 Kingweston

        6) Grace Chr. 25 Aug 1718 Kingweston

1a2B) John Hiett [Chr. 27 Apr 1676 Street, s.o. Richard Hiett] d.c. 1727 America

    Married: c. 1695 Mary Smith [Chr. 22 Apr 1673 Butleigh] d.o. William and Grace Smith #, d. 1745 Bucks County, Pennsylvania

    Children:

        1) John b. 1696 [probably Butleigh]

        2) George b. 1698 [probably Butleigh]

        3) William b. 1700 Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Another John Hiett was also Chr. 22 May 1677 Street, s.o. Thomas Hiett.

DD/S/BT/6/8/3 1] John Hiett late of Butleigh but now of Pennsylvania, America and wife Mary 2] Henry Coate of 
Kingsbury, yeoman Mortgage of Hiett's messuage, 6a in the moor, Darksome (1/4a), 4a at East end by Barton river, 
2a at Whitewell, 6a at Shilfehedge, 6a at Brownswell Date: 1700.

John Hiett, arrived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1699. On 11 April 1700 he purchased 300 acres 
of land (Bucks Co. Pennsylvania DB 3, page 27) from John Rowland for 350 p. (The foregoing deed is also mentioned 
in the 'Inventory of Church Archives, Pennsylvania - Friends' . ( In 1700, John Hiett bought 300 a. of John Rowland, 
a Quaker, who had given the land for the Watson Graveyard out of his tract previous to 1700. The land had been granted 
to John Rowland by William Penn in 1673. In 1702, John Hiett sold this 300 a. to Thomas Watson, tanner, for 400 p. 
(DB 3, p. 88) Deed book 4, p. 15, Bucks County: On April 22, 1706, John Hiett of the County of Bucks in ye province 
of Pensilvania Yeom'n - bought land granted and confirmed unto Andrew Ellet by patent under the hand of William Penn ".
John's wife was Mary Smith, the daughter of William and Grace Smith. William lived in Cecil County, Maryland, where 
on the 20th of May 1710 his will was proven.
Some 50 miles SW of Philadelphia in the north east corner of the State of Maryland, lies the county of Cecil. It was 
here, in Cecil Co., MD that William Smith wrote this will on the 20th of September 1708, it was proved the 20th of 
May 1710. He leaves to 2nd son John and heirs 1000 acres, dwelling plantation, to daughter Mary, wife of John Hayet, 
and granddaughter Hannah, daughter of son William personalty (Personal property) . Executors wife Grace, and son John. 
Teste: David Evans, William Smith 13:113. The name Hayet becomes Hiett in further court proceedings regarding this will.
Both, Hietts and Smiths families were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Somersetshire, England. 
William Smith, the Quaker, bought a certificate to Philadelphia for himself and wife and family, dated 1699, from 
Glastonbury Monthly Meeting in Somersetshire, England. It is quite possible, that our John Hiett, immigrant, came 
to America with his wife's family. William and John Smith, brothers of Mary Smith Hiett, are probably the ancestors 
of the Smiths show settled in Virginia in the same community and at about the same time as did John Hiatt Jr. and 
his brother William Hiatt, sons of John and Mary Smith Hiett.
Mary Hyot was noted in the Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks Co. PA, she was received on certificate the 7th of the 
6th month in 1706.
The History of Bucks Co. Pennsylvania mentioned that the families of Roberts, Foulke, Gilbert, Nixon, Edwards and 
Hyatt were prominent among those who formed the early community, his was in early 1700's.
John Hiett is called a yeoman, in the early deeds of Bucks Co. A yeoman is a freeborn common man of the most respectable 
class, a freeholder. John is known to have resided in the town of Makefield in Bucks Co. at one time, it is possible 
that he was a merchant, by which means he acquired the 350 p. (over $1500) to make his first purchase of land in 1700. 
Andrew Ellet, from whom John Hiett purchased land, was a merchant. He is most probably identical with the John Hyatt 
who was a witness to the will of Thomas Masters of Philadelphia, Merchant, dated 4 Dec. 1723. Also he was a witness to 
a will of Abraham Bickley, a Quaker merchant from Burlington, New Jersey and Philadelphia, PA. ( Hiatt - Hiett, Genealogy 
and Family History, compiled and edited by William Petty Johnson, Payson , Utah )

2) Joane Hiett

In 1680 a warrant was issued for Joane - possible wife or daughter of one of the above? A Joan Hewet was born 1 May 1655 
Street d.o. Alexander and Jone Hewet, the latter also having a daughter Elizabeth Chr. 9 Dec 1649 Street. A Joan Huett 
was bur. 29 Nov 1686 Street.

3) Edith Heyat witnesses the Overseers Accounts in 1696 - widow of John (1a1)? Possible misreading of Edith Helyar?

4) Walter Hiett b. 1825 Taunton, tailor, s.o. James and Mary Hiett, died 1908 (Mar Q 5c/271 Langport)

    Married: 1897 (Mar Q 5c/723 Wells) Elizabeth Britton b. 1835 Taunton #

Elizabeth Britton was the widow of William S. Britton. This couple lived at Rockwell [Brittons Court] in 1901. Walter 
was thrice married and his two previous marriages took place in Taunton in 1876 (Martha - who died in 1879) and 1880. 
Walter was the son of a tailor, James Hiett (b. 1796) and his wife Mary, and appeared with them in 1841. He appeared 
with his widowed father in 1851 and with two of his sisters (at 3, Murry's Court, Taunton) in 1861. In 1871 he lived 
with one of his sisters, Mary Tapper, and her daughter, at 5, Paynes Court. He seems to be missing from the censuses 
in 1881 and also 1891 when he was married to his second wife. He died in 1908 aged 81.