John Wyat. He was paid £16.7sh.6d for 131 days. John Wyat was a Pendleton County man with probable roots in what is now Greene (then Orange) County, Virginia. In October 1762 “John Wyatt apprenticed himself to James Griffin to learn the mystery of a cooper, from now until he arrives at the age of 21.”39 He was probably then about the age of 14, but was another man in Captain Skidmore’s company who did not survive to old age. He was dead before January 1790 in Pendleton County when his son John Wyat [Junior], called “a poor boy” was bound to James Patterson by the Overseers of the Poor. Samuel Wyat, John (Junior) younger brother, had Thomas Collett appointed as his guardian in September 1794, and their brother Edmond Wyatt later married Collett’s daughter Mary. In 1806 Edmond, William, John and Samuel were named as plaintiffs in a land title dispute where they were identified as the sons of John Wiat, deceased,
This might help you with the Brothers. It has been passed down from generation to generation that Aaron Wyatt and Jacob Wyatt were sons of Edmond Wyatt and Mary Colette and they went west. We have no real proof. We know that John (Junior) went with the Pattersons to Kentucky.