Sarah Cathell Hitch ¹

Sarah Balding wrote her will on Dec 23 1799 and it was probated in Sussex County, DE on Feb 8 1803 and bequeaths to:
1. Sarah Balding Magee --daughter of Joshua Magee and Unice, his wife
-to have 1 clock which now stands in the testatrix's house and 1 large looking glass,
5 beds and furn., with 1 suit of curtains, 4 gold rings, 5 silver tea spoons, 12 pewter
plates, 5 small pewter dishes and 1 large oval pewter dish. to have 3 cows and calves, 1 set of blacksmith's tools, 1 large walnut desk, 1 small maple desk, 1 mahogany table, 1 small maple tables, 1 woolen wheel, 2 spinning wheels, 2 pine chests, 1 gum chest, 1 small tea chest, 1 small trunk, 2 dozen Blue-edged Queen's China plates, 2 dozen of the same kind shallow and 2 dozen of the same kind of ware deep plates, 1 set of Queen's China black and white, 1 set of green and red, 1 coffee pot of the same kind, of ware, 3 cream pots of the same kind of ware, 1 case with 12 bottles, 2 iron pots, 1 Dutch oven, 1 skillet, 1 large iron kettle, 1 iron tea kettle, 2 large tumblers with covers, 2 sugar dishes, 2 glass salt sellers with feet, and 1 without fee, 1 bell metal spice mortar and pestle, 4 flat irons and 1 box iron and heaters along with all the testatrix's wearing apparel. to have all the remainder of the estate
2. Sarah Cathell Hitch --daughter of Curtis Hitch and Hetty, his wife; to have 1 bed and furn. marked Sarah Cathell Hitch
3. Betsy Nichols, Esther Cathell; should Sarah Balding Magee die w/out heirs, then the property to be divided among them and Sarah Cathell Hitch equally share and share alike
4. Isaac Cooper --friend; named executor of the will
Witnesses: William B. Cooper, Covington Messick (mark), John Polk (SxW-F:100)

On December 13, 1814, Thomas Byrd, Sr. was appointed guardian to Sarah Catherine and Elijah Hitch. (Somerset County Orphans Court Proceedings, Book 2, Folio 48)
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Sarah married Thomas Rowland Jones, son of John Jones Sr. and Sarah Reddish, on 02 Oct 1821 in Somerset Co., MD. (Thomas Rowland Jones was born in 1803 in Mt. Vernon, Somerset Co., MD ^{2 3 4} and died in 1871-1879 in WI.)