HISTORY OF THE DITTO FAMILIES
1700-2000
Copyright 1996, Library of Congress Call Number: CS71.D6153 1996
SYNOPSIS: Circa 1980, the writer sent an inquiry to a Ditto descendent regarding the Ditto family of Maryland and received the reply that Captain (USN-Retired) W. Lester Richards of Palm Coast, Florida, was in the process of compiling and writing the History of the early Ditto Families of Maryland and Kentucky. The writer rushed a letter off to Captain Richards, and the latter sent a Xerox copy of his work entitled, "Ditto's Delight". The writer nearly "missed the boat" (not a Navy expression) on the Dittos, but thanks to Captain Richards and his wife Edna, he was able to respond with copies of interesting records extracts about the early Dittos who migrated to Kentucky. Sometime earlier, Captain Richards had been corresponding with interested Ditto descendents from around the country who had furnished him with various information from their files and the copies of official county records on the Ditto lines from whom they descend. The writer had just come aboard and was excited in learning more about the Dittos of early Maryland. In the exchange of correspondence, Captain Richards wrote that he was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and the writer replied he was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Thereafter, the collaboration in Ditto family research became an urgent joint "Army-Navy" effort. Unfortunately, about two years later, Captain Richards became ill and passed away.
Chapter 1 contains a brief history about the origins of the French people and how French names evolved. Chapter 2 contains much of the original text about the Ditto families of Colonial Maryland as written by the late Navy Captain W. Lester Richards. In Chapters 3 and 4, the writer discusses the brothers William [II] and Henry Ditto [II], who moved to Kentucky in the late 1700s, and their descendents. Then, a year before the book manuscript was submitted for publication, the writer learned that a William Ditto [I] and his son James [II] moved from Baltimore County, Maryland, to Chatham County, North Carolina, circa 1750. Thus, Chapter 5 discusses the descendents of William Ditto [I] who live mostly today in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas. Finally, in Chapter 6, the writer discusses a separate line of Dittos who descend from the immigrant Joseph DeToe or Ditto, who arrived in America circa 1750 and settled in York County, Pennsylvania. Today, the descendents of Joseph Ditto live mostly in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, and California. Also, the book contains thirteen appendixes which document and support the Ditto lines discussed in the narrative chapters. The appendixes consist of extracts from primary and secondary sources; such as official probate, deed, tax, and marriage records; Federal Census extracts; gravestone inscriptions; and three sets of lineage charts which enable all Ditto descendents to trace the early lines of descent from their immigrant ancestor.
This book has a hard-bound cover and consists of 686 pages (Second Edition).
BOOK CONTENTS
FRONTISPIECE
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART I
HISTORY OF THE DITTO FAMILIES, 1700-2000
CHAPTER 1--A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE
CHAPTER 2--"DITTO'S DELIGHT"--ORIGIN OF THE DITTO FAMILIES
IN MARYLAND AND KENTUCKY
CHAPTER 3--HENRY DITTO [II] AND HIS DESCENDENTS
CHAPTER 4--WILLIAM DITTO [II] AND HIS DESCENDENTS
CHAPTER 5--WILLIAM DITTO [I] AND JAMES DITTO [II] AND THEIR
DESCENDENTS
CHAPTER 6--THE PENNSYLVANIA DITTOS
INDEX--FOR PART I ONLY (CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 6)
LIST OF MAPS
MAP 1--THE TERRITORY OF MODERN FRANCE
MAP 2--ROUTES TO THE WEST
MAP 3--COUNTIES WHERE DITTOS LIVED IN MARYLAND AND
PENNSYLVANIA
MAP 4--KENTUCKY, 1780-1784
MAP 5--COUNTIES WHERE THE EARLY DITTOS LIVED IN KENTUCKY
PART II
DOCUMENTATION IN SUPPORT OF THE HISTORY OF
THE DITTO FAMILIES AND THEIR LINEAGE CHARTS
APPENDIX A--EXTRACTS OF DITTO TAX AND CENSUS RECORDS OF
THE COLONIES AND THE UNITED STATES, 17671850
APPENDIX B--EXTRACTS OF DITTO COLONIAL, STATE, AND COUNTY
RECORDS IN MARYLAND, 1760-1900
APPENDIX C--EXTRACTS OF DITTO MARRIAGES FROM MARYLAND
CHURCH AND CIVIL RECORDS, 1700-1900
APPENDIX D--DETAILED FEDERAL CENSUS EXTRACTS OF DITTOS IN
MARYLAND AND KENTUCKY, 1790-1900
APPENDIX E--EXTRACTS OF DITTO PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX
RECORDS IN KENTUCKY COUNTIES AND AT THE
KENTUCKY STATE ARCHIVES, 1780-1865
APPENDIX F--EXTRACTS OF DITTO PROBATE RECORDS IN
KENTUCKY COUNTIES AND AT THE KENTUCKY
STATE ARCHIVES, 1800-1973
APPENDIX G--EXTRACTS OF COURT RECORDS IN KENTUCKY
COUNTIES AND HARRISON COUNTY, INDIANA,
1783-1900
APPENDIX H--EXTRACTS OF DITTO MARRIAGES RECORDED IN
KENTUCKY COUNTIES AND AT THE KENTUCKY
STATE ARCHIVES, 1792-1910
APPENDIX I--EXTRACTS OF VITAL STATISTICS DATA, GRAVESTONE
AND OTHER RECORDS OF THE KENTUCKY DITTO
FAMILIES, 1800-1973
APPENDIX J--LINEAGE CHARTS OF THE DESCENDENTS OF ABRAHAM
DITTO [I] OF COLONIAL MARYLAND, 1700-1996
APPENDIX K--LINEAGE CHARTS OF THE DESCENDENTS OF WILLIAM
DITTO [II] AND HENRY DITTO [II] OF KENTUCKY,
1800-2000
APPENDIX L--LINEAGE CHARTS OF THE DESCENDENTS OF JAMES
DITTO [II] OF ALABAMA, 1800-1996
APPENDIX M--LINEAGE CHARTS OF THE DESCENDENTS OF JOSEPH
DITTO OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1800-1996
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