The Dyott family in England is traced to the 16th century. Thomas William Dyott was born in England in 1776. His fathers name was John Dyott. His Grandfathers name was Thomas Dyott. His brothers names were John born in 1773 and Michael born in 1783. These excerpts are from land records in England beginning in 1553.......
A chantry established in Lichfield cathedral for Dean John Yotton who died 1512 was endowed with land at Stychbrook. At least some of it was apparently administered by the college of chantry priests. After the suppression of chantries in 1548 the land was divided, but John Dyott of Lichfield later re-united it, buying a cottage and a close from John Pilsworth in 1553 and a messuage called STYCHBROOK along with land land from Hugh Ensdale in 1568. In 1571 Dyott held the messuage and cottage,and 50 acres of enclosed land and 77 acres in the open fields. He was succeeded in 1578 by his son Anthony Dyott who retained ownership until he died in 1622. Anthonys son Sir Richard Dyott gave the estate to his third son Matthew Dyott. Matthew was succeeded in 1698 by his son John Dyott,who died in 1742 leaving the estate in trust for his nephew Thomas Dyott, a Birmingham engraver. It was then 206 acres in area, of which 80 acres lay in Lichfield. In 1771 the estate passed to Thomas's son John Dyott, a resident of Lichfield. ( It was at this point in time that the property would have become one of Johns three sons either John Jr,Thomas Wiliam, or the youngest Michael however he died unexpectedly and the property was sold. Now Fatherless nothing held Thomas to stay in England ,and it was at this time that he and his older brother John would leave England and travel to the British West Indies before leaving there and traveling to Philadelphia to start a new life. ) In the 1790s the property and house were bought by Francis Eliot of Elmhurst Hall, who in 1801 sold 168 acres at Stychbrook to the Marquess of Stafford. By 1848 the owner was the Earl of Lichfield. His great-grandson sold the 179 acre estate in 1920 to the tenant Evan Weston who died in 1959. His family retained it until 1973, when the house and 14 acres were sold to Robin Taylor and the remaining 83 acres to Mr. G. Hollinshead of Curborough Hall Farm. A farmhouse was built by John Dyott in the later 1730s. It survived until the later 1970s when it was left uninhabited and allowed to fall down. As can be seen in the lineal chronology T W Dyott's family was well established in England. John and Thomas would travel from the West Indies and arrive in Philadelphia in 1798. From what I can gather about Thomas's beginnings that have been written about him. 1st he certainly wasn't penniless,as he came from a prominent family in England. 2nd I agree with other historians that he worked as an apprentice in most likely an apothacary shop early in his career. 3rd point When exactly he traveled to the West Indies is a mystery as I have check ship records leaving England between 1790 to 1800 and cannot find any Dyott on the name list. His arrival into Philadelphia