Roger Pettibone (1727 - 1797)

Born 22 Dec 1727 in Simsbury, Ct.

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Cook) Pettibone — married 22 Jun 1752 in Goshen, Ct.

Descendants

Died 27 Feb 1797 at age 69 in Lanesborough, Mass

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Biography

Roger was born in 1727. He is the son of Samuel Pettibone and Mary Porter. He passed away in 1797.

Roger Pettibone moved to Lanesborough, Massachusetts shortly after his second marriage to Susannah Tisdale in 1764. Lanesborough was in a beautiful area in the Berkshire Mountains which had been laid out in 1741 as a town named New Framingham at the confluence of the Hoosick and Housatonic Rivers in western Massachusetts. Because early raids of the French-Indian Wars occurred alarmingly close to the proposed town, it was at first almost impossible to attract new settlers to it, however. A few men bought lots in New Framingham during a brief peace that reigned between 1748 and 1753. A reward of two shillings and eight pence for every week a man worked on his lot was even offered by the group of proprietors in 1750, but the offer was not taken up. The following spring the reward was increased to three pounds to anyone who would actually live on his property. By then the next phase of the French-Indian war was imminent, and only a few responded. In 1752 the reward was changed: the first eight new settlers were to be rewarded by gradually diminishing amounts; the first would receive eight pounds, the second seven pounds, and so on. Only the first payment of eight pounds to one Moses Brower is recorded; but the efforts finally began to pay off, and the population of the settlement began to grow slightly. After the fall of Quebec to the British in 1759 and the cessation of Indian attacks, settlers from Connecticut, the earlier towns of Massachusetts, and Rhode Island began to arrive in New Framingham in increasing numbers.

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Sources

• Tom Bredehoft, information from Pettibone Registry, 84, (see Sharp-661), Bates, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Simsbury, Ct., 137, [Gravestone, Lower Cemetery, Lanesborough, Ma.] Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Tom and others.
• I. Fayette Pettibone, Ed. (1885). Genealogy of the Pettibone Family, Chicago, IL: Brown, Pettibone & Kelly. Retrieved from https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1156559

See also: Find A Grave Memorial No.44547404^[2]

1. ↑ Entered by Tom Bredehoft, May 3, 2012
2. ↑ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44547404.