George Hitch

Listed as a member of the Salisbury Battalion, Blackwater Company of the Maryland Militia in the Revolution for the year 1780.

Mary, Cissiah, George, Betty and Sarah Hitch are all listed in their father's will written in 1774. Also, they received reserved distributions from their mother's account out of their father's inventory when the administration of her account was completed in 1782. This indicates that they were probably still minors (< age 21) at that time; hence they were born after 1761 so that they were under 21 in 1782 but before 1774 when their father's will was written. In addition, we know that George Hitch is listed in a militia muster in 1780. It is uncertain how old a person had to be to join the militia, but it is assumed that he was at least age 16 at the time.