Zachariah Britt

Abt 1814 - Aft 1880  (~ 67 years)

• Name	Zachariah Britt
  Birth	Abt 1814	North Carolina   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1816  [3]
  Death	Aft 1880  [4, 5]
  Person ID	I35143	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 May 2021

  
  

  Father	(Unknown father of Zachariah Britt)
  Family ID	F20770	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Nancy Freeman,   b. 1808, North Carolina d. Bef 25 Jul 1857 (Age < 49 years)
  Children	+ 1. Ezekiel Rufus "Zeak" Britt,   b. 1847, North Carolina d. Aft 1910 (Age > 64 years)
  Family ID	F20652	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Freeman,   b. Abt 1820, North Carolina d. Aft 1880 (Age ~ 61 years)
  Marriage	25 Jul 1857	Moore County, North Carolina   [6]
  Family ID	F20772	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  On 2 Jul 1864 he enlisted in the Confederate army, Capt. H. C. McLean's Company, Senior Reserves, at Carthage, Moore County, North Carolina. Age 48, born in Moore County, 6 feet 0 inches in height, complexion "fair", hair "light", eyes blue. Some online sources appear to conflate him with Zacheus Britt, born Nov 1826 in Moore County, died there 20 Jul 1903, a son of Brittain Britt, but Zacheus was a separate individual with different wives and children. According to the Moore County, NC Family Tree DNA project, Zachariah's father is unknown but DNA shows him to have been a descendant, almost certainly a grandson, of Joseph Britt, Sr. (bef 1755 - bef 1810 in Moore County) who migrated from Wake County to Moore County prior to 1800. "[T]he Britt families of Moore/Montgomery counties and the Britt families of Robeson County descend from the same Britt families that were originally from Virginia and moved down into North Carolina settling in the Edgecombe County area before migrating on to Johnston and Wake counties."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2228] 1850 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S2229] 1860 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S5831] U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865, on ancestry.com. [S5833] Moore County, NC Family Tree DNA project. [S2244] 1880 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S1034] North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011, on ancestry.com.