Pettit Family descendants

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Information about the descendants of JThomas Pettit, removed from his profile. Much of this information may not be reliable.

 !DATA: John S. Wurts, MAGNA CHARTA, Brookfield Pub. Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1954, Part VII, p. xii, 2288-2304:

Soon after his arrival on Long Island the Town Marshal, one Elias Bailey, was voted out of office by the townspeople for exercising the duties of his office in an objectionable manner, and Thomas Pettit was elected 8 May 1657 to fill the office. This rather complicated matters, for his son, Nathaniel 1st, had fallen in love with the deposed Marshal's daughter, Mary Bailey.

On 4 December 1666 Thomas Pettit's name was on the list of freeholders, and in 1708 he was one of the first eight members of the Presbyterian Church in Newtown, L. I. Christian his wife (Asahel Pettit says her name was Catherine) became a member about five years later. The names Bailey and Furman occur frequently on the Church roll.

1. THOMAS PETTIT 2d was born 25 June 1630 on the "Talbot" in Salem Harbor, before the ship proceeded to Charlestown. He owned land in Exeter in 1644 or 1652 "and one had to be at least 14 years of age to own land in New England at that time." His name is on the Charter from Governor Dongan in 1686 with his brother Nathaniel. He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church in 1708. He married Hannah, widow of John Moore of Newtown, L. I. His son

Thomas Pettit 3d was born at Newtown in 1666. He purchased in the year 1715 a farm of 400 acres at New Rochelle, N. Y., took possession in the early spring and died there in the summer of 1715. He married first Mary Bond of Hempstead (or May Hallock of Hallock's Cove) and by her had two children Thomas 4th (who had settled in Jamaica, L. I. and was conservator of his father's estate) and Christian, born 2 February 1710, who married Daniel Baruch.

Thomas 3d married second Catherine La Broche (La Brenche) of New Rochelle and had Benjamin (a Loyalist, born 24 March 1701), Joshua (an ardent Patriot, born 24 February 1702, who married Sarah, daughter of Increase Carpenter),Samuel (a Loyalist, born 29 October 1704), Bartholomew, born 2 February 1706/7, and Nathan, born 3 February 1709/10. all mentioned in their father's Will, dated 24 July 1715, and probated 13 September 1715.

Joshua and Sarah, above, had Increase Pettit, born at Hempstead 1726, from whom is descended the late Francis Pettit of Hollis, L. I.

2. SARAH PETTIT, daughter of Thomas and Christian, born at Boston about 1634, married an English soldier named Skidmore after 1663, the date the English occupied New Netherland. They have descendants in Somerset County, N. J.

3. JOSEPH PETTIT, born at Exeter, N. H., 1636, received in 1657 or 1658 a grant of a lot, as did his brother John, at Hempstead, L. I., was the Town Clerk of Hempstead 1680 to 1700, and Justice of the Peace. The last entry in the Hempstead town book says he sold in 1725 (he would then be aged 89) a lot "at the beach called Rock-a-way." He married Margaret German (Germaine). Their children were: Margaret, Sarah, Martha, Joseph, Mary and John.

4. ELIZABETH PETTIT, born at Exeter about 1637 (?), died in 1730 (?). She married first Thomas Reed and second, after 1665, John Burroughs of Newtown, L. I., born 1617, died 1678, and had John Burroughs, Jr. In her Will dated 1678 she leaves her clothing to her sister Hannah.

5. JOHN PETTIT, son of Thomas and Christian, born at Exeter in 1638, whose testimony at the Newtown Court on 16 April 1669 was corroborated by his brother Nathaniel. He received in 1657 or 1658 a grant of land at Hempstead, L. I., as did his brother Joseph. His name is on the Dongan Charter of 1686, with his brother Thomas. John Pettit was an assessor from 1687 until his death in 1690. John married first a Miss Moore and second a Miss Osborn. Hewas the father of:

William Pettit 1st, born about 1690, whose Will at Jamaica, L. I., dated 1714, was probated 1726, and who married in 1716 (?) at Newtown Church, Catherine Van Velsey.

6. MARY PETTIT, daughter of Thomas and Christian, was born at Exeter about 1640 (?). She married at Newtown, L. I., after 1660, John Furman (Forman). After her father's death in October 1668 they were paid a small sum for caring for him in his last illness. John Furman received Thomas Pettit's sword.

We think her too young (age 13?) to have been the same Mary Pettit who, with a Thomas Pettit, witnessed a Deed to John Gilman at Exeter, N. H., in 1653/54. It is not clear who these persons were. In a Will at Newtown, L. I., in 1659, a lady devised an apple tree to her friend Mary Pettit.

7. Nathaniel Pettit 1st, of whom below

8. Hannah PETTIT, "youngest child" of Thomas and Christian, was born at Exeter, 1 February 1647, daughter of "Goodman" Pettit and "Christian" Pettit (Town Record). Hannah is mentioned in 1678 in the Will of her sister Elizabeth.

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Thomas Pettit, born about 1610, was in Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1634. He located at Exeter, where he was awarded six acres and thirty poles of land as his share of the land divided among the thirty-four founders of the town. He served as selectman of Exeter from 1652 to 1655, and in the latter year formed one of a party of New Englanders who migrated to Newtown, Long Island, where he was named as marshal, May 8, 1657. His name appears on the listof freeholders at Newtown in 1666, and on the Charter from Governor Dongan in 1686. By his wife, Christian (Mellows) Pettit, he had at least three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel and John.

Thomas Pettit, son of Thomas and Christian (Mellows) Pettit, was born at Exeter, Massachusetts, in 1645, and accompanied his parents to Newtown, Long Island, in 1655. On April 23, 1668, he was granted ten acres of land in Hempstead meadow. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and on September 13, 1673, is of record as refusing to take the oath of allegiance though promising fealty. His name appears on the Dongan Charter of 1686, but soon after that date he removed to Hopewell township, then Hunterdon county, and obtained the grant of a tract of land on the Delaware near the mouth of the Assunpink, within the present limits of the city of Trenton, where he died in 1718, leaving a widow Mary, and children: Moses, Judith, Nathaniel, Elias, Jane, Jonathan and John.

John Pettit, son of Nathaniel and Mary Pettit came to New Jersey from Long Island prior to 1737, his youngest son Charles having been born in Amwell, New Jersey, in that year. He removed to Philadelphia prior to 1759, where he engaged in marine insurance in partnership with Andrew Reed, and conducted a large business in underwriting under the firm name of Reed & Pettit with office in Front street, a few doors below Walnut.

The six sons of John Pettit were all prominent men. Jonathan was a Colonial justice at Hardwick, where he died in 1768. Charles, born in New Jersey, in 1737, died in Philadelphia, September 6, 1896, was a colonel in the Revolutionary war, Colonial secretary of the Province of New Jersey, member of Continental Congress, one of the founders of the University of Philadelphia, president of the Insurance Company of North America, etc. Isaac remained loyal tothe English crown, and was placed in the custody of his loyal brother Amos, and later removed to Canada. John lived and died in Sussex county, New Jersey, where his descendants still reside. Nathaniel was a justice of Sussex county, New Jersey, and that county's first representative int he Governor's Council, in 1772.

Amos Pettit, second son of John Pettit, and father of Abigail (Pettit) Wurts, was a freeholder in Brighton, (Hohnsonburg) 1764-89 and an incorporator of Christ Church in 1774. He was born in 1724, died in 1790. He was an ardent patriot during the trying years of the Revolution, as shown by the fact that his two tory brothers, Isaac and Nathaniel, were put in his charge by the Committee of Safety, to see that they did not communicate witht he enemy until they were permitted to remove to Canada. By his wife Ester he had three daughers, Polly, Mitilda Chambers, Abigail, wife of Dr. George Wurts.

Colonial and Revolutionary families of Pennsylvania : genealogical and personal memoirs Source: Original data: Colonial and Revolutionary families of Pennsylvania : genealogical and personal memoirs. New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1911

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1. THOMAS PETTIT 2d was born 25 June 1630 on the "Talbot" in Salem Harbor, before the ship proceeded to Charlestown. He owned land in Exeter in 1644 or 1652 "and one had to be at least 14 years of age to own land in New England atthat time." His name is on the Charter from Governor Dongan in 1686 with his brother Nathaniel. He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church in 1708. He married Hannah, widow of John Moore of Newtown, L. I. His son

Thomas Pettit 3d was born at Newtown in 1666. He purchased in the year 1715 a farm of 400 acres at New Rochelle, N. Y., took possession in the early spring and died there in the summer of 1715. He married first Mary Bond of Hempstead (or May Hallock of Hallock's Cove) and by her had two children Thomas 4th (who had settled in Jamaica, L. I. and was conservator of his father's estate) and Christian, born 2 February 1710, who married Daniel Baruch.

Thomas 3d married second Catherine La Broche (La Brenche) of New Rochelle and had Benjamin (a Loyalist, born 24 March 1701), Joshua (an ardent Patriot, born 24 February 1702, who married Sarah, daughter of Increase Carpenter), Samuel (a Loyalist, born 29 October 1704), Bartholomew, born 2 February 1706/7, and Nathan, born 3 February 1709/10. all mentioned in their father's Will, dated 24 July 1715, and probated 13 September 1715.

Joshua and Sarah, above, had Increase Pettit, born at Hempstead 1726, from whom is descended the late Francis Pettit of Hollis, L. I.

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It is not known [yet] whether he is descended from Valentine de Pettit of co. Kent, or from Sir Otes Pettit, or from some other old English line, or whether he was descended from one of the several families named Pettit who, amongmany Huguenot refugees, were forced to flee France under the terrible persecution of the Protestants, as on St. Bartholemew's Day in 1572, when the slaughter continued for a month and 30,000 persons were murdered[Pettit Arms - A Collection of Pettit Lineages, online <http://pages.prodigy.net/reed_wurts/heraldry/pettit.htm>].

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