Mary Lett was born circa 1706. In Maryland in 1728 & 1730 a woman named Mary was convicted of having "Molatto" children by a negro. She was the
mother of children named; (A) Sarah born before August 1728 and (b) Zachariah born in 1731.
According to the Samuel Delaney Lett family oral history, Samuel's mother, a white woman, married Zachariah Lett (mixed race) and her son Samuel
Delaney so respected Zachariah's treatment of his mother that he took the Lett surname as his own. Samuel Delaney Lett was born circa 1737.
The positive to this account places the ensuing generations of 1.2 brothers, Aquilla and Zachariah in the same generation. Further, it could account for why descendents of Samuel Delaney Lett's children and those of Zachariah Lett II. are found in the same areas in proximity to one another.
Other common attributes shared by these families are the fact that all of the children of the ensuing families are taken from the bible. Further the Zachariah Lett family oral history claims to be cousins to the Samuel Delaney Lett by virtue of the 1/2 bother status of Samuel and Zachariah.
My 1920 note goes on to list the children of Zachariah & Henrietta as being; Daniel, Jim, Israel, Ephraim, Cornelius, Caleb, McKenzie, Rachel, & Stacey.
The same note goes on the point out that Caleb Lett's wife Abagail Thomas was the 1/2 sister to Isaac Clifford father of John W. Clifford, Editor of
The Pioneer Press Newspaper of West Virginia. The marriage is supported by findng the Caleb Letts in the census of Hardy Count Virginia in 1850 &
1860.
courtesy of Robert Lett
Posted by bneson
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