Rash's Surname Index
Notes for George HIATT
Family legend was that George was the only survivor of a shipwreck.
George was left no inheritance because, according to reference 51, he and wife Mary Dix Thatcher, also a Quaker, eloped without the Chester Meeting's approval, or the approval of their parents. Although both were disowned, their certificates were later sent from Chester Meeting to New Garden (North Carolina) Meeting and were on hand when New Garden was granted monthly meeting status in 1754. The spelling of"Dix" was later changed to "Dicks".
George and family lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania, located just south of Philadelphia. In 1750 he moved with a family of seven children, some of whom were then grown, and settled in the Quaker stronghold in Guilford County (formerly Roan), North Carolina. His brother, Robert Hodgson III migrated to the same locale in 1756. Zacharhia Dicks and his brother Nathan, cousins of George's wife, Mary,had preceded the Hodson brothers to North Carolina. They were among the earliest Quakers to explore and settle in the Piedmont area. Reference 51 suggests that their glowing reports of the region and the fact that without an inheritance George and Mary were probably having a difficult time, induced George to move to that area.
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