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Lexington County South Carolina Hite Family
Michael Heyd/Hyde (died 1803), of German origin, settled along the Saluda River in present-day Lexington County South Carolina by 1774. His wife’s name is unknown, but they had six children, born in the 1760s and 1770s. Some male-line descendants spell their surname as Hyde, but most spell it as Hite. Because of the fact that one of Jost Hite’s sons (Jacob Hite, 1719-1776) moved to South Carolina a few years before his death, many have assumed that this family descends from him. It is not true, however – the only one of Jacob’s sons to accompany him to South Carolina died young without having married and DNA has proven that Michael’s descendants were not related to the family of Jost Hite. They lived in an area populated heavily by Germans, many of whom came directly to South Carolina from Europe, arriving in the city of Charleston.
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South Carolina Hites
Simon Hoyt (1593-1667), First New England Settler with Hoyt Surname
Simon Hoyt, an Englishman, arrived in Massachusetts on the ship Abigail in 1628. He lived first in Charlestown, Massachusetts, then Dorchester and Scituate before moving to Windsor, Connecticut by 1639. He died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1637. To date, no relatives of his with their surname spelled as Hite or Hight have been identified some spell it as Haight (typically pronounced “Hate”).
Simon Hoyt
Nicolaus Heyd (born ca. 1685), Somerville, New Jersey
Nicolaus Heyd was, Like Jost Hite, among the Germans that went to England in 1709 and then salied to New York in 1710. His home in Germany has not been identified. He and his wife Susanna lived in or near present-day Somerville, New Jersey and had three children baptized in the German Reformed Church there between 1716 and 1722.
John Nicholas Hight (1756-1850) Somerset County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, New Jersey, and Steuben County, New York
John Nicholas Hight was born in 1756 in Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey and moved to Middlesex County with his parents at age three. He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. In 1780, he moved to Steuben County, New York where he spent the rest of his life.
New Jersey Hights