Thomas Whitted, Esquire, also known as Thomas Whitted Sr., was the progenitor of the Whitteds on this website. He lived in North Carolina. Around 1804 he began buying property for a new plantation, called Mt. Willing, not far from his Whitted Creek property in Orange County. Thomas was also a justice of the peace. He had two wives, the first one’s name is not known. By his first wife he had nine children between about 1774 and 1793. In 1813 he married Sarah, possibly Sarah Kirk, with whom he had no children. He died at Mt. Willing 5 August 1820. Most of his children left North Carolina for Indiana and Tennessee.
There has been much research and speculation concerning the ancestry of Thomas Whitted. In Thomas's descendents the name has been spelled Whitted, Whited, Whithed. Some researchers think that Thomas descended from a Robert Whitehead from Isle of Wight County, Virginia. It is easy to see how the name might have changed from Whitehead to Whitted with the spelling and pronunciation at the time. A definite connection has yet to be made. There is also a William Whitted living at the same time and in the same area as Thomas and some researchers feel that the two were brothers. There is no proof of this as yet. There were a number of Whitted families living in North Carolina in the 1700s and 1800s and our Whitted may or may not be related to them. Much more research needs to be done. Some researchers think that Thomas Whitted was not descended from the Isle of Wight Whitehead family, but from someone else named Whitted, not Whitehead.
Children of Thomas Whitted, Esq.:
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Anne Healy's Genealogy
Created October 2002
Revised 28 Jan 2009
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