Isaac Pettibone II (1746 - 1811)

Born 12 Jun 1746 in Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony

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Died 10 Mar 1811 at age 64 in New Haven, Addison, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Isaac was born in 1746. He is the son of Isaac Pettibone and Hepzibah Humphrey. He passed away in 1811.^[1]

At some time before 1795 Isaac Pettibone, Sr. and his fourth son, Isaac, Jr., journeyed to Middlebury, perhaps to prepare a dwelling place for the family prior to moving there from Norfolk. He may also have gone there to place his son as an apprentice to a hatter, as that would have been a necessary prelude to the fact that Isaac, Jr. did become a hatter in Bridport. It was a common custom to place even very young children in homes of employers who guaranteed to teach the child to read and write and figure and to train him in a skill for a lifelong trade. A child named Huldah Loisa Woolcot was indentured as an apprentice housekeeper to a family who guaranteed to feed and care for her, to teach her all housekeeping skills, and to provide for her when her term was completed at the age of eighteen with a Bible and two suits of "good common wearing apparel."

She was four years old at the time of indenture, 8 Dec 1850 [Indenture of Apprenticeship between Thomas R. Harner and Huldah Loisa Woolcot, in Huron County Courthouse Historic Library]. Huldah was apparently an orphan, as the indenture was approved by the directors of the Huron County Infirmary, but the terms of apprenticeship were representative of the system in general.

Supporting the notion that Isaac, Jr. may have served as an apprentice in his boyhood and youth is the report in a local history that Isaac, J r., emigrated to Bridport in 1795 [Smith, History 0f Addison , Vermont, 392]. Isaac, J r. was probably ten years old, certainly no more than eleven in 1795, while his father and later his mother, lived in Middlebury, Vermont, and later in New Haven, Vermont, but apparently not in Bridport. Isaac Jr. practiced his profession successfully in Bridport all his life. ^[2]

[Isaac Pettibone's Biography]

Sources

• "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XFKD-YQX : 18 October 2017), Isaac Pettibone, 10 Mar 1811, Death; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,654.
• Tom Bredehoft, Pettibone Registry, pages 58, 151, 254, see K. Pontius.^[3]
• Find A Grave: Memorial #22034389

1. ↑ Entered by Tom Bredehoft, Apr 7, 2012
2. ↑ Entered by Tom Bredehoft, Jan 1 2013
3. ↑ Entered by Tom Bredehoft, Jan 1, 2013