Additions/Corrections are always gladly appreciated.Family Group Record for William Hoit, creator of this website.
Family Group Record for John Hoyt
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"Are John Hoyt and Simon Hoyt related? Read this in-depth study. See Link 8"
"Hoyt's German Cologne - The cologne which was to make the name Hoyt famous"
We have seen the name spelled in many different ways; as, Hoyt, Hoit, Hoyte,
Hoite, Hoytt, Hoyet, Hoyett, Hoytte, Hoyght, Haight, Hight, Hite, Hyatt, Hayte,
Haite, Hayt, Haigh, and Hayts. In the earlier periods of this country's history,
there seemed to be no settled orthography for proper names, especially surnames,
and each clerk and recorder spelt as he pleased. Sometimes individuals even
wrote their own names differently at different times, and some evidently did not
know the proer method of spelling them. Whether all of those whose names have
been spelled in either of the las eight ways above mentioned are descended from
the Hoyts, we cannot say. The three most common ways of spelling the name in the
United States, at the present time, are Hoyt, Hoit and Hoitt.
My line started changing when Moses Hoyt was a taverner in Plattsburgh, NY.,
1827. It was Moses Hoyt in the 1830 census of Plattsburgh, Clinton, N.Y. He
bought land in DuPage County, Illinois in the fall of 1837, as Moses Hoit. In
1843, Moses Hoit of DuPage county and State of Illinois was bound by the Probate
court as surety in the Probate of his son, George Washington Hoit, late of
Dundee in Kane county and State of Illinois, estate. Sarah Hoit, widow, applied
for Letters of administration. George William Hoit, son of George Washington
Hoit, kept and used the name Hoit.
Somewhere in the early 1800s, Nicholas Smith Hoyt decided that his last name looked better in script when written with an “I”, instead of a “Y”. So he changed his name and all of his children were given the name HOIT.
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