The Haight Coat of Arms

The above is a sketch of the Haight Coat of Arms

By: Dwight L.Haight 1959

With the words:Explanation and description of the symbols and coloring of the above ARMORIAL COAT:

ARGENT: Whiteor silver, signifies peace and security.

GULES: or red,denotes military fortitude and magnanimity.

It is also the "Martyr's Colour".

THE CROSSMOLINE: is supposed to represent a mill rind and is often calledthe "Millers Cross" or a "Cross Miller".

The familyCrest: A wolf gules sitting upon a coronet.

EXPLANATION:The WOLF is a very ancient and uncommon bearing. It is said byMorgan to denote those valiant and captains that do in the endgain their attempts after long sieges and hard enterprises.Gullim speaks of it as being as animal that assail or thwart,since its nature is cruel and relentless. Macedon, the grandsonof Noah, bore this ensign and also did the NOMADS.

The aboveGerman Von Haight Coat-of-Arms are those of Baron Johannes VonHaight who was an Imperial huntsman (Master of the hunt or jaguarin the Bohemian forests for the Holy Roman (German) Emperor.Baron Johannes Von Haight fled first to Normandy, then to Englandin the 13 th Century, for religious reasons.

The canine oranimal on the helmet is either a wolf or hunting dog.

The color tothe symbol on the shield is red (Rouge) and the shield is silver(Argent).

I Dwight L.Haight find this same Coat-of-Arms in several listings of"Old Haight" history. I suggest you color the above. (Idon't have time). Sorry to not present a better Coat-of-Arms foryou it is very outstanding when colored properly.
 
 
 
 

SOURCES OFINFORMATION FOR FOLLOWING HISTORY:

Much of it came from WilliamP. Haight 536 Main St. Beacon, New York, who lives very nearwhere our William J. Haight was born. He has consulted cemeteryand church records, early town records, New England familyhistory in libraries, in addition to writing and talking inperson to many many Haights.

A certain Mrs. William B.Haight from Cleveland, Ohio sent me 50 old "Haight"letters written from Orange county, and near, from 1839 to 1870to her husband (William B. Haight). Or rather to his father. I atpresent am in possession of these letters.

They cover much of the sameperiod and the same country William J. Haight traveled.Cleveland, Ohio being near Sandusky, Ohio.

Other Information came fromall my brothers, my cousins and their children.

Perhaps Burl furnished hisshare. The Alpha (Martin) Watterson has done much as has everyoneelse.

There is not room on this pageto thank all and to give them their due credit.

To my knowledge the dates areall correct or nearly so. Some do not agree with dates used byothers various times. However a check reveals that in some caseswe have been using the wrong dates.

It is quite likely I have madea number of errors. Please change any you find and advise me so Ican do likewise.

It is my intention to rewritewith a better use of the English Language and especially thepunctuation and the spelling but time does not permit.

I have said it before but letme say it again.

Haights were and are"Thicker Than Fleas on a Hound Dog" especially in theNew England states and later in the west.

I only hope someone can comeup with some old letters or just any tiny bit of information asto William J. Haights parents or his childhood life.???

As is, the information I haveused, in all cases, are accurate and authentic and come fromstate, county or family and city records.

Dwight L.Haight May 1959

ORIGIN OF THE"HAIGHT" FAMILY.

The Haight name is of GermanOrigin, however when they left Normandy and migrated to Englandit was changed for a time to Hoit or Hoyt. After coming to theU.S.A. it was changed in most cases back to Haight. However thereis listed nineteen different ways of spelling the name, amongthem being: Hoit, Hoite, Hoyt, Hought, Hoight, Hight, Hite,Hyatt, Hayte, Haite, Hayt and more often Hait. Some went back tothe original but some kept the adopted version. Thus many of theabove names trace back to the Simon Haight (Hoit) who first cameto the U.S.A. with his sons.

Due to religious persecutionthe Haights fled from the Bohemian forest country to Normandy inthe 13th century. Not to long after they went over to England.

It was there Simon Haight(Hoit) was born the some of John and Ruth Haight on 1-20-1590 atDorchester, Doretshire, England.

Simon Haight married the firstmarriage Deborah Stowers at the Parish Church in Upwey,Doretshire, England on Dec. (?) 1612. His wife, Deborah Stowerswas the daughter of Walter Stowers and she was born May 1-1593and was baptized at Upwey Parish June 5, 1593. She passed away in1635. This from authentic records.

In June of 1628 Simon Haightwith his wife and three sons Walter born 1618, Nicholas born 1620and John born 1614 set sail for the United States aboard the ship"Abigail". Col. John Endicott was in command and theyarrived in Salem Mass. Later John Endicott was to become governorof the common wealth and of the state of Mass., for many, manyyears.

Shortly after they moved toCharleston, Mass. The early records show that the Simon Haightand his family were the first white settlers in seven differentearly day New England towns. The first town meeting of thosegroups as well as early organized churches show that the Haightfamily held many of the offices held both in the towns and thechurches in the early 16 hundreds. Along about here some placeSimon Haight, after the death of his wife Deborah, married secondSusanna Smith. From this union were born Moses 1636, Samuel born1643, Benjamin born 1644; also there were three daughters bornfrom the marriages of Simon Haight.

Simon Haight (or Hoit, Hoite)died in Stamford, Conn. Sept. 1, 1657 and no doubt his grave canbe found at this place.

Simon Haight landing on theeast Coast 136 years after Columbus discovered America was indeeda pioneer. Some of his family, Captain John, I think received alarge land grant from the King of England. Some 1600 Acres therecord shows and was near where New York City now stands. Thefirst U.S. Census taken in 1790 shows about 75 Haight Familiesliving in New York State alone.

After settling in Mass. theyhad drifted to Conn. and then to New York state. One branch goingnorth to New Hampshire.

They had extra large familiesand prospered for a time. In fact there were a rich outfit.

Then came the war of 1776 andthe D.A.R. lists many, many Haights being in the think of it.Before that however and directly afterwards many were killed byIndians. One family alone being all but wiped out.

A certain Captain John Haightwas very active and just north of New York City built a largehome. It was here George Washington visited several times. Thismay have been due to the fact that a Haight woman married RobertE. Lee and she must also have been the direct (Granddaughter) ofGeorge and Martha Washington. Be that as it may the house justrecently (1950) in fact passed out of Haight ownership. Pagescould be written about the important events the Haight familytook part in during that time. Early records prove that fact.

Times were not so good in theearly 18 hundreds and the Haights went north from new Your Citywhich is in Westchester county over into Putman county. This wasa poor farming country and between them poor farms, miningplaying out and having big families most of the Haights went froma rich outfit to on outfit, no so rich.

From Putman county on the eastside of the Hudson river many were crossing the Hudson river overinto Orange county where the land was fertile. Living of familiescame from the soil in those days.

This crossing was known asFishkill Landing on the east shore and Newburgh on the west shoreof the Hudson. In this year of 1959 what was Fishkill landing isknown as Beacon, New York. I find in the Beacon phone book of1958 about 15 Haight families living there.

Newburgh on the west side ofthe Hudson has many Haights to so some got across and just satdown and stayed there. This is some 50 or so miles south ofCatskill where old Rip Van Winkle took his long nap.

Some Haights that crossed overhad a family and one of that family was OURWilliam J. Haight born August 27, 1826. Which one I am notpositive yet but am hot on the trail. It takes church, city orstate records to prove and they are hard to come by.

A William P. Haight who liveson the east side of this old ferry site along with his wife, hissister and his children are doing no end of work to trace theright family. to date he has sent me OVER TWO HUNDRED PAGES OFEARLY DAY NEW YORK "HAIGHT" HISTORY.

Through his efforts I findthat there was a Henry Huntley Haight one of California's firstgovernors. And early day governor of Pennsylvania was also aHaight.

Robert E. Lee's wife or hisdaughter-in-law was a Haight woman.

General Sherman, of the CivilWar's, mother was a Haight woman.

An early day Haight H.W. orH.G. along with a nephew Graham Haight started a bank in about1850 at #9 Wall St. New York, New York.

There was a Haight in the 1839New York legislature a rich and influential man.

I, Dwight L. Haight have theoriginal invitation from Martin Van Buren the 6th president ofthe United States, to him to attend a social function.

I also have the originalinvitation from Seward for this Haight to attend some dinner.This is the Seward who was in the New York legislature and thenfor ten years or so was governor of New York State. And thenseveral more years was in the U.S. legislature. He then thoughthe would receive the nomination for President but they gave it toLincoln.

Seward become Secretary ofState under Lincoln. It was Seward who bought Alaska--(SewardFolly-Remember?)

Back to Orange county and NewYork state the first half of the 18 hundreds.

It was here not far fromGoshen, Newburgh that our William J. Haight was born August 26,1826.

And it was from this country(New York and other New England States) the Haights migrated toall points west and all taking wives and having large families.Well most of them.

Some became rich, some not sorich, and some like myself just plain poor.

Most of them are pretty finepeople and all lean yet as they did even back in the 12 or 13thcentury very religious. A few like to drinknow in 1959, some did in the 18 hundreds but none to excess.

All in all they stack up asgood or better than the average run of the folks in this good oldU.S.A.

Be that as it may let fromhere on follow just one Haight namely William J. Haight bornAugust 27 in Orange county New York. He was my fathers father, inother words my grandfather. Following pages are devoted to him,his children and their descendents.

Signed this May 20, 1959 By:Dwight L. Haight

P.S. In checking records I find that in almost every state in this U.S.A., especially in the west and New York State, that the"Haights" are "Thicker than Fleas on a hounddog".
 
 
 

Much Thanks tothe following people for the "volunteer" work on thisproject.

These folkshelped me by typing "allot" of the pages for the Haightsite!

IreneMorford-90 pages

KathyDuncan Cawley-15 pages

PatsyTabbert-13 pages

SherylMc Clure -7 pages

HarriettHolly-3 pages

MaryMiller-2 pages

TedFetkenheur-1 page

Thank you from meas well as the Haight family!