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Peter KITTS
Elizabeth WYRICK
Note:
•  Secondary sources have made a mess of the various Peter KITTS.  Proceed carefully.
•  Given his age in 1786 (33/34), it's likely he had a prior wife.
•  He is not the Peter P. KILTS (1793-1829) who married Magdalena SALTSMAN and lived in Palatine, Montgomery Co., NY.
Husband:  Peter GETZ / KITTS
Birth:  1752
Death:  aft. 1830 Census; bef. 1840 Census
Disposition:  buried Dyer Cemetery, Cedar Ford [now Luttrell], Grainger [now Union] Co., TN

Father:  John KITTS (1730- ) to Montgomery Co. [now Wythe and Bland Cos.], VA, by 1771
Mother:  Nancy __?__
(Peter is said to have been John's only son.)

Marriage:  23 Aug 1786, Montgomery [now Wythe] Co., VA
Migration:  1805-1810, moved from VA to TN
Wife:  Elizabeth WEYRICH / WYRICH / WYRICK
Birth:  1766
Death:  aft. 1830 Census; bef. 1840 Census
Disposition:  buried Dyer Cemetery, Cedar Ford [now Luttrell], Grainger [now Union] Co., TN
Father:  Johann Nicolaus WEYRICH (1723-1792)
Mother:  Anna Barbara LITCHMERE (1725-1800)

Many secondary sources give Elizabeth a second given name, "Sally" (nickname for Sarah), but I find no primary record given her a middle name, middle initial, or nickname.

Children :
— born in Montgomery [now Wythe] Co., VA:
1.  John KITTS, b. 1788

— born in Wythe Co., VA:
2.  Peter KITTS, Jr., b. 1791; d. 1881, Grainger Co., TN
3.  Henry KITTS, b. 1794
4.  James KITTS, b.
5.  Jacob "Jake" KITTS, b. 2 Feb 1794; d. 2 Sep 1865, Bland Co., VA
6.  Andrew KITTS, b. ca. 1793; d. 2 Sep 1865, Ceres, Bland Co., VA; m. 24 May 1825, Wythe Co., VA, Mary "Polly" LEEDY
7.  Joseph KITTS, b.
8.  Catherine KITTS, b. 
9.  Nancy KITTS, b.

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Sources (n.b., Wythe Co. was formed in 1790 from Montgomery Co.; Union Co. was formed in 1850 from Grainger Co., and the two remain adjacent; Cedar Ford was renamed Luttrell in 1890):

1.  Jordan R. Dodd, ed.  1993.  KY, NC, TN, VA, WV Marriages:  Early to 1850.  Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229):
Kitts, Peter Wyrick, Elizabeth Aug 23, 1786 Montgomery Co., VA

2.  Census Index:  Colonial America, 1607-1789 (Broderbund CD-310):  not found.

3.  1790 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  the 1790 census of Virginia was destroyed.

4.  1800 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  the 1800 census of Virginia was destroyed.

5.  Betsy West [Mrs. Daniel], transcriber.  1972.  "Free Taxable Inhabitants of Grainger County for the Year 1805."  Ansearchin' News.  Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 16-20.  Tenn. Genealog. Soc., Memphis, TN (online as a PDF file at www.tngs.org/Ansearchn-News):  Peter not found.

6.  1810 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  the Virginia census is extant, including Wythe County, but Peter is not found there, so presumably he has made the move to TN.  He is also not found in the TN census, but nearly all of the TN census was lost (except for two cities in Rutherford Co.).

7.  1820 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  Peter not found in TN, but of the 48 counties existing in TN at the time, the censuses of 22 of them were lost, including Grainger County.

8.  1830 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #7-8 of 118; official enumeration date 1 Jun 1830; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
1830 TN Grainger Co. Roll M19_180 p. 356 Ln. 7 Peter Kitts 000 010 000 100 - 001 110 010 no slaves
These data indicate:
No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred
1 male 20-29 1800-1810 =
1 male 70-79 1750-1760 = Peter (b. 1752)
1 female 10-14 1815-1820 =
1 female 15-19 1810-1815 =
1 female 20-29 1800-1810 =
1 female 50-59 1770-1780 = Elizabeth
I suspect Elizabeth is fibbing about her age because she was more likely born in the 1760s.  Listed next to Jacob KITTS (æ 30-40), who is listed three households from Joseph WIRICK (æ 30-40), who is listed five households from John KITTS (æ 40-50).

9.  1840 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  not found.
 

Find-a-Grave: Entries (online at findagrave.com; be aware that, except for actual cemetery records and/or death certificates, these records are undocumented information from secondary sources):
Name Peter Kitts Elizabeth Wyrick Kitts
Birth 1770, PA 1770, Speedwell, Wythe Co., VA
Death 1830 (aged 59-60), Grainger Co., TN 1860 (aged 89-90), Grainger Co., TN
Note Peter Kitts was the husband of Elizabeth (Wyrick) Kitts. They were married in August of 1786 in Wythe County, Virginia. Their union produced nine (9) children...(see wife's note). Peter Kitts was murdered in 1830 in Grainger County, Tennesse as he went to the field to saddle his horse. No one was ever arrested or tried for his murder. His grave is unmarked, as time and weather have had their way. Elizabeth (Wyrick) Kitts was the daughter of Johann Nicholas Wyrick and Anna Barbara (Litchmire) Wyrick. She was born in Wythe County, Royal Colony of Virginia in 1770. She married Peter Kitts in Wytheville in August 1786. Their union produced nine (9) children... John, Peter, Henry, James, Jacob, Andrew, Joseph, Catherine, and Nancy Kitts... Elizabeth passed away in 1860 and was laid to rest beside Peter. Their graves are no longer identifiable.
Burial Dyer Cemetery, Luttrell, Union Co., TN Dyer Cemetery, Luttrell, Union Co., TN
Memorial # 52819319 52819767
Peter was born in the 1750s as shown by the 1830 census; had he been born in 1770, he would have been only 16 years old when he married in 1786 — very unlikely.  Wythe Co. was not formed from Montgomery Co. until 1790; Cedar Ford was not renamed Lutrell, until 1890.  I can find no sign of Elizabeth in the 1840, 1850, or 1860 censuses.

Genealogie Arink (online at www.genealogieonline.nl):  shows Elizabeth WYRICH born 1766 and married to Peter KITTS; identifies her parents (as above).

Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

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