The Reverend Haute (Hawte) Wyatt came from a well known family in Kent, proud of their descent from William the Conqueror.  He was the second son of Sir George Wyatt and Jane Finch.  The name Hawte was his paternal Grandmother’s maiden name.  The records show that he entered Queen’s College, Oxford in 1611.

cccc            Haute arrived in Virginia aboard the George in autumn 1621 together with his brother, Sir Francis Wyatt, the incoming governor.  He is shown in the census as living in James City in February 1624 but is not listed in the muster in 1625.  In another place he was mentioned as having served in Jamestown until his brother’s term was up in the autumn of 1625.  His son John was born in England in 1630, and Haute is recorded as being vicar of Boxley in 1632.  He was married three times:
                                                                        1.  To Barbara Mitford in 1619
                                                                        2.  To Elizabeth who died in 1626
                                                                        3.  To Ann, who died in 1632.

            He died and was buried 1 August 1638, survived by four children and his mother who administered his estate.  Haute’s four children listed in a court filing in 1639, were shown with ages as: George 19, Edward 17, John 10 and Ann 7.  The first two were born of Barbara and the last two of Ann.

            George and Edward probably came to Virginia with their uncle, Sir Francis, when he returned for his second term as governor, 1639-1642.  George patented lands in James City County in 1645 and had married Susanna sometime before November 1659.  He was residing in York County in 1661 and had died by January 1672 when his only son, Henry, sold 50 acres of land adjacent to the palisade at Middle Plantation which he had inherited from George.  After marrying Alice, Henry is recorded as being a vestryman at St. Peters Church in New Kent County and died without children.

             Edward is mentioned in the records in 1643 as providing a head-right for a Sir Francis Wyatt land patent.  In 1646 he was administering an estate.  In 1662 he was a joint recipient of a 370 acre land patent in Gloucester County and in 1663 he acquired 850 acres in York County and also another 1230 acres in Gloucester County on the Piankatank River.  He married Jane, surname unknown, but possibly Conquest, and they had a son named Conquest Wyatt, who in turn had five sons and a daughter.  Conquest resided in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, where he served variously as vestryman, justice of the peace, and sheriff.  The records show that he had died by 1672.

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  April 2010