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Clyatt, Cliett family history

Re: Jonathan Cliett

Posted: 9 Aug 2011 2:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
George Hillman would be Frances Youngblood's step brother. The most common phrase used is that he is her children's half uncle.
From the bio of George Hillman Cliett:
"Among the useful ministers of Georgia may be classed Rev. George Hillman Cliett, who was born in Columbia county on the 15th of February, 1826. His mother's maiden name was Mary Dillard and she was the fourth wife of Jonathan Cliett, a worthy and wealthy Baptist of Columbia county, who contributed liberally toward the establishment of Mercer Institute. He died when his son George was only thirteen years old,..."
The 1930 census still shows that Jonathan was 60-70 when George was 4. To me, this indicates that George's father was born 1760-1770.
I'm curious what evidence you have that indicates that Mary Chambless was the mother of Jonathan Cliett, father of George Hillman.

Re: Jonathan Cliett

Posted: 9 Aug 2011 2:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am not in personal possession of written evidence that Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1776) married Mary Chambliss (b. abt. 1793). The closest thing to written evidence I have is from a letter from another researcher to me in 1997, which stated that Jonathan Cliatt married Mary Chambliss in Columbia County, Georgia in 1793. He found this in Georgia Pioneers, Columbia County, Georgia Early Marriage Records, Albany, Georgia. He also found that Jonathan Cliatt was Agent for Mary Chambliss on the tax list for Columbia County, Georgia in 1805.
If you believe Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1795) instead married Mary Chambliss (b. 1773), then she would have been 22 years his senior when he was born. Although not impossible, I think it unlikely that Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1795) would have married Mary Chambliss (b. 1773) when she would have been about 40 years old (assumming he was about 20 when he married). Furthermore, all of my sources state that she married Jonathan Cliatt in Feb. 1793, which would have been two years before Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1795) was born. I think it more likely that Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1776) was 17 years old when he was married in February 1793, to Mary Chambliss (b. 1773) when she would have been about 20 years old.
Also the tax list for Columbia County, Georgia in 1805, shows Jonathan Cliatt as her agent. I think it more likely that this would have been Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1776), who would have been 29 years old at that time rather than Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1795), who would have been ten years old in 1805.
A letter from another researcher to me in 1986, states that Jonathan Cliatt helped establish Grove Church in 1808, and that Mary Chambless was his wife. This could only have been the Jonathan Cliatt who was born in 1776, who would have been 32 years old, and not the Jonathan Cliatt born in 1795, who would have been 13 years old in 1808.
All this, plus 16 of the 18 family trees in Ancestry.com that show Mary Chambliss as the wife of Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1776), and as the mother of Jonathan Cliatt (b. 1795), lead me to the conclusions I have drawn.
I admit that the lack of written records leave us all groping in the dark, but logical deductions can be drawn from the little evidence we do have. Until more hard evidence can be found, there is not much of which we can be absolutely certain.

Re: Jonathan Cliett

Posted: 9 Aug 2011 9:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Let me try this one more time. Have you ever seen any scrap of evidence or even a good hint that there was a Jonathan Cliett born about 1795. As I started saying back in the 70's, he was invented to have someone to marry Ona Zachary, Millie Moseley, and Mary Dillard. The early compilers of the Cliett family history refused to believe, as you do, that younger women would be interested in marrying one of the wealthiest older men in the county and proposed that it must be his son, even though what little evidence there was, said there was only one Jonathan that married all four ladies.

Re: Jonathan Cliett

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 1:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
No, I do not have any recorded evidence for the birth of a Jonathan Cliatt in 1795. To be fair, I do not find any recorded evidence for the birth of a Jonathan Cliatt in 1776, although he undoubtedly existed. You may indeed be correct that there was no Jonathan Cliatt born about 1795, and that the Jonathan Cliatt said to have been born in 1776, married Mary Chambliss, Ona Zachry, Millie Mosley, and Mary/Polly Dillard/Youngblood Cliatt. It would certainly simplify things. I also think you are correct in pointing out that the 1830 census showed that Jonathan was probably born in 1760-1770. Believe me, I have no trouble believing that younger women would marry an older, wealthy man. Indeed, I would be more than happy to reduce the number of Jonathan Cliatts by one. If I have been deluded, I can only console myself that I am not the only one. Perhaps someday more evidence either way will emerge.
Do you have any information about the birth date of Mary Dillard? You stated earlier that she married Benjamin Youngblood in 1810. Her birthdate in other family trees has been given as about 1805. Certainly she could not have married at five years of age. If she had married as early as 15 years old in 1810, then she would have been born in 1795, making her about 31 years old when George Hillman Cliett was born in 1826. Please let my know if you have even an approximate birth date for her.

Re: Jonathan Cliett

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 3:05AM GMT
Classification: Query
I feel fairly confident in saying that Aunt Lucille will not come back and haunt us if we only list one Jonathan in our files.
Assuming I have interpreted all these correctly:
1820 census Polly Youngblood 26-45
1830 census with Jonathan 30-40
1840 census Polly Cliatt 40-50
The date I use which fits in with these 3 records is 1790.

Re: CLIETT EARLY HISTORY

Posted: 1 Dec 2012 10:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello.. Newby to geneology. Traced family roots to Jonathan Clyatt ( Cliett, Cliatt) depending on where you look. See some different correspondence on diff websites.
One tree on Robert Clyatt pretty intensive. Similar to your acct. but in GA. Read another that ties in Jesse, Jonathan.. perhaps descendants of James Clyatt.
An incerpt is below from the Robert Clyatt Family Tree:

"My report on descendants of Robert Clyatt is a long way from being complete. Robert is the first Clyatt I have found in the US, with a petition for land in 1703. After Robert, there was a John Clyatt came to Deleware about 1732 and then Thomas Clyatt came in with Oglethorpe to Ft Fredericka, Georgia in 1735. I have looked, but find no further records on Thomas.

The story my parents were told 25 years ago by Ralph Cliatt, of Cliatt's Sausage in Lincolnton, Ga; was that there were three Cliatt's (2 brothers and a nephew) that Settled around Augusta, Georgia and they are the ancestorys of all the Clia(e)tt's in this area. I find Jesse, Jonathan, and Isaac each purchased about 87 acreas of land on Reds Creek (now Reids Creek) near Augusta from Daniel Richardson.

I can in fact link one of these three men to almost every
Clie(a)tt I meet. Only problem is linking these three men with one of the earlier Clyatt's."

Also found a thread on ancestry UK.. Origin of Clyatt/et/at name is unknown. Poss Eng./ Scottish and French.

My Paternal Great Grandmother was a Cliett from Bainbridge, GA. Rather interesting =) look fwd to sharing.tks
Marie Lee.. My friends call me Lee.

Re: CLIETT EARLY HISTORY

Posted: 7 Jan 2014 3:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
I also am descended from the Clietts, My 3 great grandma was Nancy Cliett, daughter of Jehu Cliatt & Elizabeth (Besty) Savage. Jean Cliett has the most extensive information on the Clietts. Will be happy to share what little I have. I have been told that it doesn't matter how the name is spelled we are all kin.

Re: CLIETT EARLY HISTORY

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 4:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am curious about Robert Clyatt whose signed as witness on many deeds abstracted by Clara A. Langley in "South Carolina Deed Abstracts, Vol. l." He was married to Hannah Stone, daughter of John Stone Jr. Deeds of 1721 state John Stone was a tanner and the father of Hannah, James, John (iii). Robert Clyatt lived in St. Thomas Parish, Berkeley County, S. C. and he signed as a witness to deeds of my ancestors - Nicholas Bochet, Daniel Trezevant, Peter Poitevint, Peter Johnson, and more. I wonder if he was simply their neighbor or was he a clerk? Also, the descendants of Peter Poitevint moved from St. Denis Parish, S. C. to Wilmington area N.C. in 1728 and after the Rev War, some descendants moved to Decatur County, Georgia, stopping first in Screven. Maybe Robert Clyatt's descendants did the same. Do you think the Clietts you're descended from might be related to this colonial pioneer in Berkeley Co. S. C.? Charlet Poitevint Grace
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