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Found in the LDS Genealogical Libray, IGI.
Sent by Bernice Norris. When Christopher was nineteen years of age he
married Jemima Hunt, and they moved to Grayson County, Vir. Only a few years
were spent in Virginia, however, until with wagon and team he removed with his
wife and two or three small children to Clinton Co., Ohio about fifty miles
North of East of Cincinnati. They were disturbed by the alarms incident of the
war of 1812 and had long distances to travel in order to get supplies.
Christopher would say when he first saw Cincinnati it was composed of log
huts, and pigs running around at will.

Hiatt Family History by Dorothy Lang Hiatt
When Christopher and Jemima arrived in Clinton County in 1810 it had a
population of only 2,674 people. The town of Martinsville had not even been
laid out and the roads around there were only blazed trails through the wood.
But by 1819 there were enough people in the neighborhood to organize the
village, and they decided to hold an election, where a common brown crock was
used as a ballot box. Sixteen votes were cast and township officials elected.
(That was before women could vote by a hundred years.)
In 1816 Newberry Monthly Meeting was established and Christopher Hiatt was chosen clerk. (In Quaker Meetings the clerk is like the Chairman or President)
In 1829 Christopher went to Wilmington to a special meeting to hear an
aged Quaker minister speak. His name was Elias Hicks, a persuasive speaker who preached a somewhat different kind of Quakerism than had heretofore been
followed. I have never understood just what the difference was but it msut
have been considerable for eventually he caused a great break amongst the
Quakers who split into two fashions. There were those who clung to the
"orthodox" ideas and those who decided to follow those of Elias Hicks.
Christopher was one of the latter and in 1830 he was officially "disowned" by
his own Newberry Month Meeting. In other words, he was kicked out. In
November they disowned Jemima and eventually all the children.
So then there was a New Hicksite Meeting formed and Christopher was again
chosen one of the leaders. Since the records of the meeting are lost we know
very little about him from that time one. We do know that he was one of
the committee to oversee the subscription school the Quakers established.
There were no public schools and the Quakers set up their own schools and each family paid a modest amount for each child who attended.
In 1827 Christopher built the first carding mill in the community. That
had to do with repairing fibers like wool and linen to make thread to weave
into the cloth they used in those days. That's where the name "Linsey-Woolsey"
came from. Later he built the first mill.

Clintons Co. Oh Obituaries 1867-1875 and Selected Geneological Rates by
Larry D. Mart 1976.
Biography, Christopher HIATT living near Martinsville. Born in Guilford
County, N.C. two miles from famous Revolutionary War Battle of Guilford, on
February 5, 1783. His father was guide for General Green. Married Jemima HUNT
in Grayson County, Va. on May 5, 1802. Removed to Ohio in 1810.

Line in Record @I28917@ (RIN 28910) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
EVEN
TYPE Get Certifcate to
DATE 25 AUG 1810
PLAC Highland County, Ohio, Fairfield MM.

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Capon Valley 1698 to1 940 by Maud Pugh.
TYPE Get Certifcate to
DATE 26 JUL 1800
PLAC Surry County, North Carolina, Westfield MM.

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Not proven Christopher was his father. Sent by Rhonda Goodwin.
See Genealogies of the HIATT FAMILY ACCORDING TO HARMON HIATT, 1895. Christopher HIATT's oldest son, John, lived and died in Virginia.

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Never married.

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Sent by Beverly Anderson
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Reprint 1978 by William Wade
Hinshaw VOl 1. Page 829
Mills Family History by Paul and Rodney Mills 2nd Edition pg 20.
See also the Iowa Gen. Historical Society Surname Index, pg. 132.
This reference gives the date of birth as 1753, N.C. and died 1826 Va. and
married in 1779 NC to Keziah Mills. Code M51.
From the records of Charity Monroe of Peoria, Ill. Sept. 30, 1992, she has his date of birth about 1746.

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D/o Moses B. Roberts bo. Dec 1822 in Ohio, lived in Iowa for 55 years as of
1900, his father born in Penn. and mother in Vir. Mary A. mother born Sept
1825 in Ohio, father born in Penn. and mother in NC. Out of 10 children 6
children were living in 1900.
See Prairie Twnship 1900 Census, Mahaska Co, Iowa.