His 1808 marriage bond in the typed Rowan County Marriage Bonds, p. 460: “Wiatt, Barnet — Nelly Willice, 20 June 1808,” bondsman Samuel Foster, witness R. Pearson, Jr. The page also lists other Rowan Wiatts — Brantly (1836), James E. (1854) and Robin Henry (1856) — but none is shown to be related. See Sources.
1830 U.S. Census, Washington Co., Virginia
His earliest known Washington Co., VA record: the 1830 census, household listed under "Wyatt Barnet" — 2 boys under 5, one each aged 5–10, 10–15, and 15–20, himself in the 50–60 bracket, plus a girl 5–10, a girl 20–30, and a woman 40–50. Matches the register report's own citation exactly.
Pinkney Washington Wyatt's 1879 marriage record
Named as parents — "Barnett & Elander Wyatt" — on his son Pinkney's 1879 marriage record in the Washington Co., VA Register of Marriages. "Elander" reads as a period spelling of Eleanor, the same kind of clerk's phonetic rendering seen elsewhere in this family's records. A direct, contemporary, official confirmation of the parent-child link, not a compiled family tree. Full register page · FamilySearch citation.
The first listing for Barnett Wyatt is the 1830 Census: 2 boys under 5, 1 boy 5-10 years, 1 boy 10-15 years, 1 boy 15-20 years,1 male 50-60 years, 1 girl 5-10 years, 1 girl 20-30 years, 1 female 40-50 years. A Michael Fleenor, an overseer, ordered Jonathan Leach be allowed $5.00 for making a coffin for Barney Wyatt. A man whose estate was insolvent. 1832. Eleanor Wyatt is listed in the census of 1840. 1 boy under 5 years, 1 boy 10-15 years, 1 boy 15-20 years 1 boy 20-30 years, 1 girl 5-10 years, 1 girl 15-20 years, 1 girl 20-30 years, 1 female 50-60 years.
