Noah Pettibone (1798 - 1866)

Born 27 Jul 1798 in Kingston, Pa.

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Sharps) Pettibone — married 30 Nov 1820 in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 1866 at age 68 in Kingston, Pa.

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Biography

Noah was born in 1798. He is the son of Oliver Pettibone and Martha Paine. He passed away in 1866.

In the years before 1845, an aged resident of the Wyoming Valley wrote a lengthy series of letters to his son, in which he recounted the history of as many of the first families of the region and of their lands and patriotic deeds as he could remember or learn about from the original records. In 1845 the letters were published in a weighty volume entitled History of Wyoming. The book is a treasure, full of descriptions of the countryside, and of house, farms, customs, and above all. individual people and their deeds. Here is Charles Miner’s description of the original homestead founded by Noah Pettibone on the west side of the Susquehanna River in the 1770s and expanded by his son Oliver in the early 1800s, as it looked in 1845 when Noah Pettibone, 3rd,’s family lived on the property:

The fine farm, after passing that of Col. Dorrance, has belonged, from very early times, to the Pettibone family. Observe that white house on the right,—the bam, an hundred feet long, on the left—those beautiful flats, extending more than a mile from the river towards the mountain! Attractive to the eye, prolific of every good thing kind earth can yield. Nature must have been in excellent humour when she formed those lovely plains [Miner, p. 12].

Noah, himself, was mentioned by two other local historians of his day:

Noah Pettibone, 3rd, was a public spirited citizen of the west side of the Susquehanna River and one of the progressive farmers of his time [J. S. Pettibone typescript, p. 74].

His estate proved to be very valuable, all of it proving to be coal land situated in the heart of the anthracite region [I-Iayden, History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, 2:524].

Sources

• information from the Pettibone Registry, 124, 212, (see Kay Pontius).

• Find A Grave: Memorial #44496493