Elizabeth (Dabney) Pettus (1668)

Born 1668 in Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Elizabeth married Captain Thomas Pettus (born 1666).^[1]

Children

• Dabney Pettus^[1]
• John Pettus^[1]
• Stephen Pettus^[1]
• Elizabeth Pettus^[1]
• Thomas Pettus^[1]
• Anne Pettus^[1]
• Mary Pettus^[1]
• Sarah Pettus^[1]

Research Notes

Merges

Profile merged, date of death different: 22 October 1688 and 6 January 1710. Have gone with the earlier as it has a location and the second date does not.

A proposed merge with Dabney-820 was rejected (see comments), noting that the daughter of Cornelius Dabney died unmarried on 4 April 1688.^[2]

The biography (above, as of 10 December 2021) is based on the information that was in the text of that profile (Dabney-820), which had Elizabeth born 1668 in King William County, Virginia, and died in 1702, "Williamsburg, York, Virginia".^[1]

Birth: There is a record of an Elizabeth Dabney, daughter of George, being baptized in St. Peter's Parish:

Eliz. daugh, of Geo. Dabney bapt. ye 11th of Nov., 1698.^[3]

Considering the profiles attached as children to this profile, this record cannot be for her. The only other record of an Elizabeth Dabney in the Parish Register is the death (on 4 April 1688) of Elizabeth, daughter of Cornelius.

The datafield entries for this profile about her birth were changed from "1660 in St. Peter's Parish" to "about 1668" in Colony of Virginia. (King William County did not exist prior to 1701.^[4])

Death: Note that 6 January 1710 may be the correct death date for the wife of Thomas Pettus.

Parents: It appears that the Dabney name became a Pettus family name following the marriage of Thomas's son Stephen Pettus to Mary Dabney (c1720). It is doubtful that his mother was named Elizabeth Dabney.

The Elizabeth who married Thomas Pettus is not the daughter of Cornelius and Susannah Dabney, who died unmarried.^[2]

According to the SAR application of a descendant, Elizabeth was the daughter of George Dabney, who was the son of Theodore Dabney. Therefore, she has been detached from John D'Aubigney.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Pettus Lineage (pages 338-339)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Vestry Book of St. Peter's Parish, digitized at FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3W-W9HF-Z?i=337&cat=109808 (see also the archive.org copy of the Vestry Book and Register, page 58, accessed 10 December 2021).
3. ↑ page 7 (accessed 10 December 2021).
4. ↑ Virginia Formation Maps, accessed 10 December 2021.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 11 August 2018, 19:23), entry for Elizabeth Dabney (LB7V-T5S); contributed by various users.
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
• Andrew Meade of Ireland and Virginia : his ancestors and some of his descendants and their connections (North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000)
• One World Tree Title: Henry Childers URL: ancestry.com
• Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Text: born 1660 in Virginia.