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 1758 - 1836 (78 years)
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| Name |
Isaac Hite |
| Title |
Major |
| Suffix |
Jr. |
| Birth |
7 Feb 1758 |
Long Meadow Plantation, Frederick County, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
24 Nov 1836 |
Belle Grove Plantation, Frederick County, Virginia |
| Person ID |
I147 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
29 Nov 2009 |
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| Headstones |
 | Hite Jr., Isaac
GPS: 38 deg, 59 min, 5.5 sec North by 78 deg, 18 min, 7.5 sec West |
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| Notes |
- Isaac Hite was the grandson for pioneer settler Jost Hite, he attended William and Mary and was one of the first inductees in Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity in 1777. He left William and Mary in 1778 to join the Virginia 8th Regiment under the command of Colonel Peter Muhlenberg. He later was transferred to the Continental Army when Muhlenberg was promoted to General and served as the aide-de-camp for General Muhlenberg. Isaac was wounded at Yorktown. He also wrote the Articles of Capitulation defining the terms of Surrender for the British at Yorktown which brought the war to an end. After the war, Isaac married Nelly Conway Madison, sister of James Madison, at Montpelier. Later James and Dolly Madison spent ther honeymoon at Isaac's home, Belle Grove. Isaac continued public service as a Major in the Frederick County Militia, as a member of the Virginia delegation at the Constitutional Convention, and as a Justice in Frederick. He died in 1836 at Belle Grove.
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