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3. Peter (Melott)
MALOTT , Jr. was born about 1765 in Frederick, Maryland.
He died on 3 Dec 1815 in Gosfield Twp., Essex, Ontario, Canada.4 He was buried at their farm at Kingsville, Ontario,
Canada.
[This is from Joseph Munger Jr., son of Joseph and Sarah Girty Munger, and grandson
of Simon and Catherine Malott Girty. This is family recollection, so take it
for what its worth. Joseph got the stories straight from Catherine Malott Girty
herself.]
Draper MSS 10E:143-150
From letter dated Jan. 17, 1849.
8. He [Simon Girty] was married near Amherstburgh Fort Malden to Miss Catherine
Malott, who was born 5 miles from Hagerstown Maryland. - was taken prisoner on
the Ohio River one day and night sold below Fort Wheeling by the Delawares then
taken to the Muskingum River rested 3 days and then to there village on Mad River
remained with the Indians 4 years and 3 months.
He was partially blind 2 years, and one year quite blind before he died in 1818,
his age about 85. Was generally healthy even in old age, died suddenly, perhaps
brain fever.
He had five children, some old papers but of little service though there is some
that show he sustained a loss of about $30,000 in land property, in leaving the
Americans when he did.
Joseph Munger's reply to further questions Feb 9, 1849:
Lyman Draper: "What is your grandmother’s age? "In what year,
and at what age, was she taken prisoner? - and what connections and others were
taken with her, and who commanded the boat? - who was it captured them, and
was Simon Girty of the party? When was she married?"
Joseph Munger: Her age is about 85-88 thinks she was 12 or 15 the year of Independence
– was a prisoner at that time says Simon her husband was old enough to be
her Father. Her mother and 7 children taken the same time Capt Runald’s
the commandant of them was shot in the boat, a child also shot in her lap while
in the boat – 20 in all that were taken alive. There was another boat in
where the rest of her family were, that was not taken, one brother William Malott
and a sister that afterwards settled on St. Louis. The brother’s account
from her brother Wm Malott says he is some place up the Missouri river, about
Council’s Bluff or further west – the name of the chief was Neshash
on [your?] was about 50 – Simon was not of the party.
[Draper’s Interview with Catherine (McKenzie) Girty, August 5, 1863, DM
17S:191-192]
Mrs. Malott was in Detroit and Simon Girty got her daughter Catherine from the
Shawanees by pretending to only wish to take her to see her mother, and promising
then to take her back, but instead he married her - she about eighteen.
Mr. Joseph Malott (father of Mrs. Girty) had started from Maryland with his family
to migrate to Kentucky. On the Monongahela united with a Mr. Reynolds and got
two boats – Mr. Malott (of French descent) had the cattle and horses placed
in one, and the family in the other, Reynolds having charge of this boat –
and Mr. Malott of the stock boat. They descended the river and somewhere on the
Ohio in March (abt. 1778 ) while near shore in a bend or elbow of the river,
concealed Indians fired, killed Reynolds, a small child and captured the family
boat and about twenty prisoners altogether. There were Ralf Nailor and one Dowler,
young men, and a Mr. Hardin and wife whose child was killed. Nailor said before
giving up, he would have one shot, and shot killed an Indian. Mr. Malott had
his cue shot off, and an eye of one of his horses shot out, but finally escaped
with his boat and stock. He and his wife had besides Catherine (afterwards Mrs.
Simon Girty) Theodore, Keziah, and Peter – Keziah married Robert Forsyth,
who died at St. Louis in Indian trade agency. Peter and Theodore settled in Canada,
and left many descendants.
Mrs. Reynolds had a black woman, and the Indians, by same freak, constrained
the Negro woman to put on the best of Mrs. Reynolds’s clothing, and made
Mrs. Reynolds act as her waiter.
Catherine Malott when taken was fourteen years old, and was four years and four
months in captivity. She died in January 1852, aged 88, thus born in 1764 - captured
in 1778 - married in 1782 – oldest child died in infancy, about 1783, John
died in infancy about 1784, Ann, born about 1786, married Mr. Govro [Peter Geauvreau,]
Thomas Girty about 1788, died in 1812 from overheat and exhaustion in carrying
a wounded British officer from Masuago - Girty a fine man, and class leader in
the Methodist Church. Sarah born in 1791 married Joseph Munger, Prideaux Girty
born Oct. 20th 1797, and died at Dayton, Ohio. – Jan. 1853.
[Draper’s interview with John Girty and Simon Munger, September 8- 9, 1846,
DM 3S:122-124.]
Girty married a white woman, Miss Catherine Malott, who with her mother and two
sisters and a brother were captured by the Indians - and Girty obtained her and
their release, took them to Detroit, and married her. Major Prideaux Girty, is
Major of militia, acted as such in suppressing the [?] of 1837 and is a magistrate.
He has seven or eight children, and resides at Gosfield P.O., Essex County, Canada
West – about 48 years old.
[Draper’s interview with Sarah (Girty) Munger, December 15-16, 1864, DM
20S:195-218.]
The Malott Captivity, and Girty’s marriage – Peter Malott, (not Joseph
Malott, as some have stated) wife and four children, Mr. And Mrs. Runnels and
three children and another family with five children were in one boat descending
the Ohio, while Mr. Malott and two other men occupied another boat, in which
was the stock – the stock boat went ahead – and seeing bushes cut and
blinds made on shore, ordered the rear boat to push out farther from shore –
when instantly the Indians rose up from behind their blinds, and fired –
Mr. Malott had his wig shot off, but he and his boat escaped. In the family boat,
Mrs. Runnel’s little girl, four or five years old (not her husband) was
killed by a fatal shot – when one of the men in the boat made signs of going
to shoot, when Mrs. Malott tried to dissuade him from it – he declared he
would, and shot and killed an Indian. One of the Indians now jumped into the
water, and seized the boat, and with others, soon had the possession. The Indians,
every night as they camped, held councils to decide the fate of the man who had
killed one of their number; they finally saved him for the sake of getting the
large reward offered by the British for prisoners, but loaded him heavily with
plunder and compelled him to carry the weary burden.
Mrs. Sarah Malott was taken and sold to the British at Detroit, but her children
were distributed among the Indians – but all were eventually rescued. Catherine,
her daughter, was adopted in a chief’s place, by an old squaw, who had children
grown, and was used well. Simon Girty became acquainted with, and attached to,
her, and stole her away, she promising to marry him if he would rescue her from
savage life. They were married at the mouth of Detroit river, by a German preacher
named Vatsbaugh.
Mrs. Malott’s son Peter grew up, several years after – and went back
to the old home region in Maryland, to see if he could learn any thing of the
father, who supposing all his family had been killed, returned, re-purchased
his old housestead , and married a young wife. When Peter came, and revealed
the real state of affairs, the young Mrs. Malott sent word back by him to his
mother, that if she would come, she should have her prior place as wife, and
she the younger would leave. But the elder Mrs. Malott was a woman of great industry,
had raised her family well for a new country, and had too much spirit to return
under the circumstances – and declined going, and never more heard any thing
concerning her husband, and she soon after died. She settled in Canada, and died
early – about 1796 – Mrs. Munger does not personally remember seeing
her.
Joseph Malott, the oldest of the descendants, about 70 years old, residing in
Canada, lives near Kingsville – a younger brother, Peter, near there. [-Peter
Sellars]
Peter (Melott) MALOTT , Jr. and Mary (Polly) JONES were married about 1790
in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.
Does anyone know anything about these Wilson children?
Linda McLean
Vancouver
Copied from the Malott family bible printed in 1812
Notice the spellings, copied as it was written
Births
John Wilson (Junior ?)
Was born June 30th 1793
William Wilson
Was born November 30th 1795
James Wilson
Was born July 10th 1799
May 12th 1802
Taner? Wilson
Was born March 1st 1809
Drusilla Wilson
Was born.
Births (beside the above)
Joseph Ma lott
Was born August 11th 1792
Mary McKinnzie
Was born September 28 1792
Sarah Ma lott
Was born October the 16th 1794
Mary Ma lott
Was born July the 9th 1796
Dory * Ma lott
Was born April 9th 1799
Ann Ma lott
Was born July 1 1801
Peter Ma lott
Was born March 1 1804
Mary (Polly) JONES (daughter of Jacob JONES and Dinah
STANTON) was born in 1764 in Loudoun, Virginia. She lived with her
husband in Kingsville, Ontario, Canada. She died on 16 Oct 1845 in
Kingsville, Ontario, Canada.12
She was buried at their farm at Kingsville, Ontario, Canada.
The Pennsylvania Gazette
Philadelphia, August 13, 1783
Captain Dalton, Superintendant of Indian affairs for the United State, arrived
here last week from Canada, which he left about a month since, in company with
200 Americans, who are at length happily liberated from a cruel captivity with
the savages. But he is sorry to inform us that there are a number of unfortunate
fellow sufferers, who are still retained as prisoners by the Indians. The sufferings
of Captain Dalton and his lady have been very great, both having been many years
prisoners with the enemy, and forced to endure the most cruel treatment from
their captors. For the satisfaction of their friends, Captain Dalton has given
a list of the unhappy people who are confined chiefly among the six nations,
viz. the Shawanese, Delaware, Munseys, Ouiactenaws, Putawawtawmaws,etc. (Among
the list of names were the names Mary Jones (nicknamed "Polly")
and her brother John Jones.) [http://www.shawhan.com/indianprisoners.html]
"In 1775 John Hinkston and other settlers built fifteen crude cabins on
a broad flat ridge above the South Fork of the Licking River, along an old game
trail from McClelland's Station (Scott County,) to Lower Blue Licks. This site
is now in Harrison County,. Simon Kenton and Thomas Williams helped build a blockhouse
at the station in the winter of 1776-77. Indian threats then caused its abandonment.
Isaac Ruddell enlarged and fortified the station in 1779; after that, the site
was interchangeably referred to as Ruddell's or Hinkston's. A large number of
Pennsylvania German families lived there and at Martin's Station, only a few
miles away. Ruddell's Station was attacked by Capt. Henry Byrd and his British
and Indian troops in 1780. About twenty inhabitants were killed at the site.
The survivors were subjected to a forced March to Detroit, where they remained
prisoners for the remainder of the Revolutionary War. The bones of the victims
were later gathered and buried in a mass grave covered with stones. The site
was included in Hinkston's 1,400-acre settlement and preemptive grant, filed
in 1784, and is marked by a stone monument."
See Destruction of Ruddle's and Martin's Forts in the Revolutionary War, (Frankfort,
Ky., 1957 ).
[-Written by Nancy O'Malley. - Kentucky Encyclopedia - 1992]
March 30, 1788
Macomb Home, Detroit
Sarah Macomb had given birth once more, this time to her sixth child and third
son, William, Jr. As she sat propped up with frothy, lace-trimmed pillows behind
her, her cheeks were pale and drawn, her eyes dull and listless. She forced a
weak smile for Polly when she approached her with the lunch tray but Sarah refused
to eat much of the carefully prepared food. She just wasn't recovering as rapidly
as she had when the other children had been born. She related to Polly her concern
about failing to eat and her concern for the lack of nourishment her baby was
getting at her breast. Young William was always ferociously hungry and she just
wasn't satisfying his needs. Her distress seemed more for the wee babe than for
herself. Noticing the sympathetic concern in Polly's eyes, Sarah told Polly of
her plan to send William out to see if her could hire a wet nurse for the child.
This statement sent tears flowing down Polly's cheeks. Indeed she did understand.
This time she was not weeping for Sarah but for herself.
Sarah forgot her problem and began feeling real concern for Polly whose tears
flowed endlessly. Only a few short weeks had elapsed since she left her Sandusky
home and had come to this bit of heaven at Detroit but Sarah's situation brought
memories to Polly of her recent past. "Why ever are you sobbing so
loudly, Polly? This is my child and my problem. I'm sure, that, knowing William,
he'll find me a wet nurse as soon as I suggest it."
"I am crying for both of us. You see I had a baby of my own just weeks ago.
I am crying for him and for you too. It's too late to help my son but please
let me help you. I ask you to please not question me about this part of my life
for it is something I must forget. It is simply too painful for discussion; yet,
were I to try to be your son's wet nurse it could be good for both of us. Oh
Ma'am, please let me try. With a little stimulation I'm almost sure I could."
There they were -- two women in each others arms caring and understanding as
only women can understand. When William returned for the evening meal he found
his wife to be much happier and a newborn who was far more contented. Polly then
experienced a great sense of belonging and all the family were generous in expressing
their gratitude to her. They'd won her over completely. There was absolutely
nothing Polly wouldn't do in order to please her newly found family. That evening
as he careflly wrote up his daily ledger, William Macomb smiled with satisfaction.
Both his wife and his young son were sleeping peacefully. If she would continue,
he would pay Polly a handsome sum. On turning to Polly's account, he entered
an extra sum for suckling William Jr.
Note: Birthdate for William Macomb Jr. March 27, 1788, is confirmed in Isabella
Swan's "The Deep Roots"
Note: Record of William Macomb's payment to Polly for suckling William Macomb
Jr. is recorded in the Macomb Ledger at Burton Historical Collection, Detroit
Public Library. [-Contributed by Dorothy Glen]
Peter (Melott) MALOTT , Jr. and Mary (Polly) JONES had the following children:
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