Pettit, Obadiah

Notes:

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Fauquier County . Virginia. Deed Book 17 . page 377
23rd September 1808 - We, Samuel Pettit and William. Pettit , Of THE COUNTY Of SCOTT AND STATE OF KENTUCKY constitute and appoint Thomaa. Pettit , of the County of Fauquier, State of VirgInia and John H. Pettit , of the County of Culpeper. Virginia our true and Lawful attornay in fact to transact all business relative to the Estate of Obadiah Pettit , d ec'd., wherein we are interested and to which Estate we are legatees., etc. (Sworn to before Fielding Bradford and Peter Mason, Justices of the Peace for Scott County, Kentucky and certified to by Cary L. Clarke , Clerk of Scott County, Kentucky).

They Went Thataway, Charles Hughes Hamlin, (Richmond, VA, 1964-1966), page 13
Note: Keturah Pettit of Fauquier County, Virginia also gives her Power of Attorney to John H. Pettit of Culpeper County , Virginia .

Fauquier Co., Va Will Book 6 . page 55 -

John H. Pettit and Thomas Pettit, as administrators of the Estate of Obadiah Pettit, dec 'd., from July 9, 1808 to 23 January 1812 , records the debits and credits against the Estate and
makes a Settlement of the Estate to the following heirs and distributees : Keturah Pettit, Nathaniel Pettit, William Pettit, Samuel Pettit, Joseph
McDowell, Francis Walden , Richard Roberts, John H. Pettit, Thomas Pettit. Recorded: 26 September 1814 .

Fauquier County. Virginia Deed Book 17. page 360

14th November 1818 • Nathaniel Pettit OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY (no County stated) . sells for $820.00 . to John Kemper· all his right, title, interest, claims, and demands of and to that part of the real property of My father, Obadiah Pettit , dec'd.," lying and being in the County of Fauquier, Virginia and also my right, title, etc., in the Estate of Nathaniel Owens, dec'd., .
Witnesses: Daniel Withers, George H. Payne,
John A. W.(?) Smith.

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A letter from Sylvia Pettit Welch, of 511 Townsend St., Lansing, Michigan, on file at the Kentucky Historical Society Library, and dated Aug 1st 1832, but obviously intending 1932 as it mentions many marriage and death dates after 1832 and even into the 1900's, says:

"Obediah and Zedacia Pettit brothers of near Lynchburg, Va., came to Fayette Co. Ky about the beginning of the last century (1800). Obediah married Ann (surname unknown). Their children: Keturiah; Nathaniel married Rebecca Owens; William married Betsey Davis; Samuel married Elizabeth Bragg; Mary married Richard Roberts; Elizabeth married Francis Walden; John H. married Catherine M. a sister of Sarah Campbell; Thomas married Behethelon Owens."

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From The Pettit Correspondent, Volume 2, Number 2, page 76

Pettit / Furman / Waldron

Compiled by Lesba L. Thompson
(1745 Meredith Lane, Belleair, Clearwater, Florida 34616)

Obadiah Pettit (Will Book 6, page 55, Fauquier Co., Va.) was from Somerset Co., NJ; his mother was Jane Furman Pettit. Her will, filed under her maiden name, is in the Somerset Co., NJ records (Vol. 5 NJ, Wills, 193-4, NJ Archives). The will dated 12 Dec. 1770, proved 1773, names sons, Obadiah and Zedekiah. These brothers migrated to Culpepper Co., Va. about 1770; Obadiah sold his land there in 1776 and bought land in Fauquier Co., Va.

Francis Waldron (sometimes misspelled Walden) married 12 Oct. 1795, Fauquier Co., Va. Nancy Ann, daughter of Obadiah Pettit and his spouse, Ann H. (probably Hedges). Shortly after their marriage Nancy and Francis Waldron moved to Brooke Co., Va. (now W. Va.) with two sisters of Nancy and their families: Mary Pettit Roberts and Spouse Richard; Elizabeth Pettit McDaniels, spouse, Joseph. In 1811 Francis and Nancy Pettit Waldron moved to Jefferson County, Ohio; she died there prior to 1833 and he in October 1835, in Bloomfield, Jefferson Co., where they were buried.

The will of John H. Pettit, dated 24 July 1830, proved 28 Feb. 1831, named wife, Catey and nephew John, son of Obadiah and Nancy A. Waldron (this will probably in Bloomfield Station, Jefferson Co., Ohio, is filed in Will Book 12, page 21, Fauquier Co., Va.)

Died:
based on estate administration

Family/Spouse: Hedges, Ann. Ann was born about 1735. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Petit, Thomas was born about 1760; died in 1834 in Washington, Kentucky, USA.
2. Petit, Keturiah
3. Petit, Nathaniel was born between 1755 and 1760 in Virginia; died in 1809 in Fayette, Fayette, Kentucky, USA.
4. Petit, William was born in 1775 in VA.
5. Petit, Samuel died about Apr 1814.
6. Petit, Mary
7. Petit, Elizabeth
8. Petit, John H.

Notes:

Annuls of the Forty, Issues 1-8, Grimsby Historical Society,
Grimsby, Ontario, 1950-1959

"Children of Nathaniel and Mary (Bayley) Pettit as recorded by historians: Moses, Judith, Nathaniel, Elias, Jane, Jonathan, Mary, John. Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Bayley) Pettit, was born about 1676 in Newtown, L.I., and went with.."

The Pettit Correspondent, Volume 3, Number 2, page 126 Frank C. Baldwin (848 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL 60301):

"Nathaniel wrote his will on the 15th of March 1714/5 and his will was proved the 25th of June 1718 and names his children: Moses, Judith Neald, Nathaniel, Elias, and Jane Ealy. "

Elias married Furman, Jane. Jane (daughter of Furman, John and Lynch, Margaret) was born in 1694 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA; died in 1773 in Somerset, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 12 Dec 1770, Somerset, New Jersey, USA; Western Precinct

Notes:

1770, Dec. 12. Furman, Jane, of Western Piecinct, Somerset Co.,
spinster; will of.

Son, Zedekiah Pettit, £1. Grandson, Benjamin Pettit, the son of my son, Zedekiah, £1. House and lot where I live
to be sold, and the money to be "given to my son, Obadiah Pettit, who is to have one part, and another part to be given to my grandchildren, Sarah Pettit, Jesse Pettit, Isaac Pettit and Jane Pettit, who are the children of my son Zedekiah, and the other part to my brother, Nowell Furman and his sons, Isaac and Nowell. Granddaughter, Jane Pettit, daughter of my son, Zedekiah, the rest of my goods. .

Source; New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murphy Publishing Company

Source: Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011..

Other Events:

• Residence: 15 Mar 1714, Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA

Notes:

New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murphy Publishing Company.

1714-5 March 15. Pettit, Nathaniel, senior, of Hopewell, Hunterdon Co., yeoman; will of.

Wife Mary. Children- Mosses, Judith Neald, Nathaniel, Elias, Jane Ealy, wife of George Ealy, who has Mary and Joshua, Jonathan. Real and personal estate. Executors-the wife and son Jonathan. Witnesses- John Boyt (?), Peter Pommea, Petter
Ringgo. Proved June 25, 1718. Lib. 2, p. 91

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Ely, Reuben Pownall, 1815-1899, comp; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855, joint comp; Ely, Daniel Brittain, b. 1861, joint comp, "An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families who were among the founders of Trenton and Burlington in the province of West Jersey 1678-1683, with the genealogy of the Ely descendants in America," Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, Chicago, etc, 1815-1899:

"Nathaniel Pettit owned and occupied the plantation on the river directly below that of Joshua Ely, Sr., and extending
from it to the mouth of the Assanpink, and died there in 1718. His will, dated March 13, 1714-] 5, proved
.June 25, 1718, mentions sons Mroses, Elias, Nathaniel, and Jonathan and daughters :Mary Moon, Judith Heald
and Jane Ely, and grandchildren Mary and .J oshua Ely, son and daughter of George Ely. The daughter Christian
had probably died before the marriage of George Ely to her sister Jane."

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History of Thomas Pettit and Christian Mellowes (from Pettit Peregrinations)
· 3 January 2014 ·

Thomas Pettit married Christian Mellowes in County Essex, England, in November 1629, five months before they sailed on the Ship "Talbot" which left England in March 1629-30. After three months at sea, they landed at Charleston (Cambridge) July 2, 1630. It was just twenty days after Winthrop's Flag Ship the "Arabella" landed at Salem.

In 1630, Winthrop's First Fleet of seventeen vessels brought about one thousand Puritans to America. Most of these were from the vicinity of Saffron Walden. Two hundred of them died before December of that year. They brought with them horses, cows, goats, and materials for planting, fishing and building. The Arabella sailed March 1629-30 and berthed sixty days later at Salem, New England on June 12, 1630, before proceeding to Charlestown. Governor John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley were on the Arabella.

Anna Pettit was baptized as "daughter of Henry Pettit" at Saffron Walden April 9, 1610, according to the Cathedral records. She was a passenger on the Arabella. On August 9, 1630, she (Anna Pettit-Peters) transferred her membership from the Salem Church to the Boston Church, being entered as Member No. 104. Later she joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island.

John Pettit I, born in England about 1608, came to America on the Talbot, the same ship that carried Thomas Pettit and his wife Christian Mellowes. The Talbot carried Thomas Pettit and his wife Christian Mellowes and her brother Oliver Mellowes, a widower born in 1597.

Oliver Mellowes was a manufacturer of "says and pays". "Says" was a coarse woolen serge and "pays" a cotton cloth with extra long nap. Thomas Pettit worked for his brother-in-law three and a half years to pay for the passage money advanced for himself and his wife. John Pettit worked one and a half years to pay for his passage.
Abraham Mellowes, father of Christian Mellowes, was born about 1569. He invested fifty pounds in the Massachusetts Bay Company and came to New England on August 19, 1633. He died in May 1639.

Christian Mellowes was born about 1611. Her mother was Martha Bulkeley, born about 1572. She descended from King Edward Knights of the Garter and from eight Sureties of the Magna Charta of A. D. 1215.

Thomas Pettit, born in Widford, England about 1609, died in Newtown, Long Island, before October 1668. He was granted a house plot on January 8, 1637-8 in Boston where the Capitol now stands (1961). John Hancock later built the finest mansion in New England on a lot between Oliver Mellowes and Thomas Pettit's lots. This house was torn down in 1856, but a bronze plate marks the location.

Crossing the Atlantic in 1629 was not a "Luxury Cruise". The Talbot carried about sixty passengers together with their livestock and supplies. The passage took sixty days (from March to June) a turbulent season on the North Atlantic. Through all the hardships of a sail crossing, Thomas Pettit's wife, Christian Mellowes, waited her fateful day of confinement, hoping that her new son would be born in the new land of freedom. Her desires were almost attained, or were they actually realized? Her son Thomas Pettit 2nd was born in Salem harbor while his shipmates were waiting the thrill of taking their first steps on the hallowed soil of America. Hardships of the past and fears of the future were forgotten in the wails of the new born boy to whom thousands of descendants today spread throughout the United States and Canada, owe their gratitude and pay homage for his staunch defense of the principles of liberty so firmly ingrained in his character by that illustrious father, Thomas Pettit, 1st.

Life in New England was by no means easy or even peaceful. The arduous job of building houses from native materials and providing food from the earth and sea left no time for idleness. Two hundred of the first one thousand arriving in Winthrop's Fleet died by the following December. Although the original incentive for the migration was to obtain religious and personal liberty, intolerance soon became an accepted public policy.

Thomas Hooker who was driven out of Essex in 1630 went to Delft, Holland. He came to Boston in 1633 and became Pastor of the Church in Newton (Cambridge). Dissatisfied with the lack of liberty among the Puritans of Massachusetts he led a party of one hundred persons on foot, driving their cattle with them, to found Hartford, Connecticut.

Roger Williams was driven from Boston because he preached the principles that one hundred and fifty years later were to form the basis of the Constitution of the United States. He found sanctuary among the Indians across the Bay. The Indian Chief gave him a tract of land to live on where he later attracted the dissidents of Boston and established the town of Essex.

Mrs. Anne Hutchinson with her brother-in-law, the Reverend John Wheelright, were arrested in April 1638 for non-conformity. Thomas Pettit who sympathized with Mrs. Hutchinson was arrested on suspicion of "slander, insubordination, and inciting to riot". He was convicted and sentenced "to receive thirty lashes and be held in goal". The Church and State were one at that time. Later the Hutchinson group were released on agreeing to leave the Colony within ten days. Mrs. Hutchinson with about twenty followers joined Roger Williams at his "Rhode Island Plantation". Thomas Pettit went to the Falls of the Piscataqua in New Hampshire with the Reverend John Wheelright where they settled on a tract of land obtained from the Indians. There they founded the town of Exeter and in 1638 established the Congregational Church. Thomas Pettit received six acres and thirty poles as his share of Exeter Uplands. On July 4, 1637, they joined in signing "The Exeter Combination", a Declaration of Independence. Half of the signers made their 'mark', but Thomas Pettit's signature is seen in excellent handwriting. Each letter is printed separately in his signature.

In 1647 Thomas became Chief Military Man and Inspector of the staves. He served as Selectman of Exeter from 1652 to 1655. He and Christian, his wife, had a daughter, Hannah, born in Exeter in early February 1647/8. His son Thomas Pettit, Junior, received a grant of thirty acres of land in 1649 (Bell's History of the Town of Exeter p-18-32) Los Angeles Library Gen. R. 974.22.E 96 Be.).

Thomas senior was one of the signers of a petition sent to the General Court in behalf of Exeter in October 1651 and signed a contract with three others in behalf of the town agreeing to make fair payment to Mr. Dudley the town Minister.

John Pettit, brother of Thomas Pettit Senior, with his family settled in Stamford Connecticut where their names appear frequently on the town records as receiving allotments of land, on birth and death records and on the official papers as public officers.

Thomas Pettit Junior's name appears on the town Register for May 20, 1652.
In 1654 the Duke of York (brother of Charles II) granted all of the land east of the earlier Connecticut grant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This enabled the Bay Colony to surround the settlements of Exeter and in order to survive, Exeter was forced to be reinstated with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thomas Pettit was unwilling to again be under that jurisdiction so he with eight children (Thomas Junior born in Salem Harbor in 1630, Sarah born in Boston in 1634, Joseph born in Boston in 1636, Elizabeth born in Exeter in 1637, John born in Exeter in 1638, Mary born in Exeter in 1640, Nathaniel born in Exeter in 1645, and Hannah born in Exeter in 1647) and other settlers sold his property and moved to Long Island. They petitioned Governor Stuyvesant and were granted the right to settle in Queens County where they named their settlement Newtown. It was later changed to Elmhurst. The Dutch had settled this general area as early as 1644 and called it Mittleburg. It was south of Hempstead on the coast.

Soon after their arrival in Newtown the Town Marshall was voted out of office for exercising his duties in an objectionab1e manner. Thomas Pettit, Senior, was elected to that office on May 8, 1657. This developed family complications since Nathaniel Pettit, his son, had fallen in love with Mary Bailey the deposed Marshall's daughter.

Thomas Pettit's name was on the list of Freeholders in 1666. Thomas Pettit, Senior (1st), died before October 1668. He was fifty nine years old.

SOURCE:
William Alfred Pettit Sr. Pettit Peregrinations 654 to 1961. J. Grant Stevenson, B. Y. U., Provo, Utah. 1961. Pages 15-19.

Pedigree of author: William Alfred Pettit, Sr.-Edwin Pettit-Jesse and Mary Pettit-William Pettit-Increase Pettit-Joshua Pettit-Thomas Pettit III-Thomas Pettit II-Thomas Pettit I and Christian Mellowes

Biography re-typed by Lucille Layton Davidson in approximately 1990 (Mary Lucille Layton Davidson-Mary Leone Green Layton-Mary Isabell Pettit Green-Edwin Pettit); scanned and converted to electronic text by Richard H. Thornton on 04 January 2007

Nathaniel married Bayley, Mary in 1665 in New York, USA. Mary (daughter of Bailey, Elias and Bailey, Sarah) was born in 1647 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA; died in 1720 in Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

( I ) john Furman, born 1600, came from Wales, according to the family tradition, and He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Colony in 1631. Soon after this he probably removed to Long Island and little further concerning him is known.
( II ) Josiah and John Furman. sons of john. removed from Hempstead, Long Island, to the town of Newtown. where they purchased land and where john died in 1677, aged about 46 years, leaving a son Jonathan. Josiah Furman, born 1635,. in Massachusetts, died in 1705 in Newtown leaving sons, John,
Josiah, Joseph, David, Samuel and Jonathan
( III ) John (2), apparently eldest son of Josiah Furman, , born in Newtown, died there in 1726. He was one of the twenty-four patentees of Jamaica by grant of Governor Dongan made May 17, 1686. He married Margaret Lynch.

Tunis Garret Bergen, Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2 (New york, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), page 620.


Died:
Age: 76

John married Lynch, Margaret about 1674 in USA. Margaret (daughter of Lynch, Gabriel and (Lynch), Margaret) was born on 8 Feb 1660 in Newtown, Queens, New York, USA; died on 11 May 1742 in Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 82

Other Events:

• Residence: USA

Notes:

Genealogy of Pettit Family: Chapter V, page 12:

Anne Pettit’s name is on “Hotton’s earliest list of emigrants, 1600-1700” (John Camden Hotten). In “The Wintrhop Fleet” Chas. Edw. Banks states that she arrived at Salem, Mass. Colony June 16, 1630 on one of five Winthrop ships from Saffron Walden, Essex Co., England. She transferred her membership from the “State” church there to Salem and from Salem to Boston in August 1630. She was enrolled in the Boston Church as Anna (Pettit) *Peters, doubtless was married after arrival in America and before August 1630. (Pioneers of Massachusets by Pope; Planters of the Commonwealth by Banks). William M. Pettit of Dayton, Ohio in response to a letter of inquiry written to the Vicar of the church at Saffron Walden, received the information that Anna Pettit of Widford was baptized there in April 1610 and was the daughter of Henry Pettit, a Huguenot refugee. No further information in regard to Anna Pettit Peters has been found. She was undoubtedly a sister of John and Thomas Pettit and preceded them to America.

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The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, Churches, Courts and Other Contemporary Sources, Charles Henry Pope (1908 - Boston), page 159.

PETTIE, PETTIT,
Thomas, Boston, having served Oliver Mellowes three and a half years, received a grant of a house plot from the town 8 (II) 1637. He removed to Exeter; signed the combination
5 (4) 1639. Signed petitions to Gen. Court of Mass. in 1645 and 1647. Allowance was made to him in 1650 for attending Hampton court as constable.

Wife Christian ; children, Hannah b. at the "beginning of February," 1647; Thomas, Jr. had a grant of land in 1649.

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The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents, Charles Henry Pope, (Boston - 1841-1918),page 356,

PETTIT,
Anne, Boston, reed. ehb. 1030-1 from chh. of Salem.

Thomas. Boston. having served with Oliver Mellowes thei 3 1/2 years, had a house plot granted to him 8 (11) 1637. This lot referred to in a deed of Geo. Griggs' 8 (8) 1650

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History of Thomas Pettit and Christian Mellowes (from Pettit Peregrinations)
· 3 January 2014 ·

Thomas Pettit married Christian Mellowes in County Essex, England, in November 1629, five months before they sailed on the Ship "Talbot" which left England in March 1629-30. After three months at sea, they landed at Charleston (Cambridge) July 2, 1630. It was just twenty days after Winthrop's Flag Ship the "Arabella" landed at Salem.

In 1630, Winthrop's First Fleet of seventeen vessels brought about one thousand Puritans to America. Most of these were from the vicinity of Saffron Walden. Two hundred of them died before December of that year. They brought with them horses, cows, goats, and materials for planting, fishing and building. The Arabella sailed March 1629-30 and berthed sixty days later at Salem, New England on June 12, 1630, before proceeding to Charlestown. Governor John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley were on the Arabella.

Anna Pettit was baptized as "daughter of Henry Pettit" at Saffron Walden April 9, 1610, according to the Cathedral records. She was a passenger on the Arabella. On August 9, 1630, she (Anna Pettit-Peters) transferred her membership from the Salem Church to the Boston Church, being entered as Member No. 104. Later she joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island.

John Pettit I, born in England about 1608, came to America on the Talbot, the same ship that carried Thomas Pettit and his wife Christian Mellowes. The Talbot carried Thomas Pettit and his wife Christian Mellowes and her brother Oliver Mellowes, a widower born in 1597.

Oliver Mellowes was a manufacturer of "says and pays". "Says" was a coarse woolen serge and "pays" a cotton cloth with extra long nap. Thomas Pettit worked for his brother-in-law three and a half years to pay for the passage money advanced for himself and his wife. John Pettit worked one and a half years to pay for his passage.
Abraham Mellowes, father of Christian Mellowes, was born about 1569. He invested fifty pounds in the Massachusetts Bay Company and came to New England on August 19, 1633. He died in May 1639.

Christian Mellowes was born about 1611. Her mother was Martha Bulkeley, born about 1572. She descended from King Edward Knights of the Garter and from eight Sureties of the Magna Charta of A. D. 1215.

Thomas Pettit, born in Widford, England about 1609, died in Newtown, Long Island, before October 1668. He was granted a house plot on January 8, 1637-8 in Boston where the Capitol now stands (1961). John Hancock later built the finest mansion in New England on a lot between Oliver Mellowes and Thomas Pettit's lots. This house was torn down in 1856, but a bronze plate marks the location.

Crossing the Atlantic in 1629 was not a "Luxury Cruise". The Talbot carried about sixty passengers together with their livestock and supplies. The passage took sixty days (from March to June) a turbulent season on the North Atlantic. Through all the hardships of a sail crossing, Thomas Pettit's wife, Christian Mellowes, waited her fateful day of confinement, hoping that her new son would be born in the new land of freedom. Her desires were almost attained, or were they actually realized? Her son Thomas Pettit 2nd was born in Salem harbor while his shipmates were waiting the thrill of taking their first steps on the hallowed soil of America. Hardships of the past and fears of the future were forgotten in the wails of the new born boy to whom thousands of descendants today spread throughout the United States and Canada, owe their gratitude and pay homage for his staunch defense of the principles of liberty so firmly ingrained in his character by that illustrious father, Thomas Pettit, 1st.

Life in New England was by no means easy or even peaceful. The arduous job of building houses from native materials and providing food from the earth and sea left no time for idleness. Two hundred of the first one thousand arriving in Winthrop's Fleet died by the following December. Although the original incentive for the migration was to obtain religious and personal liberty, intolerance soon became an accepted public policy.

Thomas Hooker who was driven out of Essex in 1630 went to Delft, Holland. He came to Boston in 1633 and became Pastor of the Church in Newton (Cambridge). Dissatisfied with the lack of liberty among the Puritans of Massachusetts he led a party of one hundred persons on foot, driving their cattle with them, to found Hartford, Connecticut.

Roger Williams was driven from Boston because he preached the principles that one hundred and fifty years later were to form the basis of the Constitution of the United States. He found sanctuary among the Indians across the Bay. The Indian Chief gave him a tract of land to live on where he later attracted the dissidents of Boston and established the town of Essex.

Mrs. Anne Hutchinson with her brother-in-law, the Reverend John Wheelright, were arrested in April 1638 for non-conformity. Thomas Pettit who sympathized with Mrs. Hutchinson was arrested on suspicion of "slander, insubordination, and inciting to riot". He was convicted and sentenced "to receive thirty lashes and be held in goal". The Church and State were one at that time. Later the Hutchinson group were released on agreeing to leave the Colony within ten days. Mrs. Hutchinson with about twenty followers joined Roger Williams at his "Rhode Island Plantation". Thomas Pettit went to the Falls of the Piscataqua in New Hampshire with the Reverend John Wheelright where they settled on a tract of land obtained from the Indians. There they founded the town of Exeter and in 1638 established the Congregational Church. Thomas Pettit received six acres and thirty poles as his share of Exeter Uplands. On July 4, 1637, they joined in signing "The Exeter Combination", a Declaration of Independence. Half of the signers made their 'mark', but Thomas Pettit's signature is seen in excellent handwriting. Each letter is printed separately in his signature.

In 1647 Thomas became Chief Military Man and Inspector of the staves. He served as Selectman of Exeter from 1652 to 1655. He and Christian, his wife, had a daughter, Hannah, born in Exeter in early February 1647/8. His son Thomas Pettit, Junior, received a grant of thirty acres of land in 1649 (Bell's History of the Town of Exeter p-18-32) Los Angeles Library Gen. R. 974.22.E 96 Be.).

Thomas senior was one of the signers of a petition sent to the General Court in behalf of Exeter in October 1651 and signed a contract with three others in behalf of the town agreeing to make fair payment to Mr. Dudley the town Minister.

John Pettit, brother of Thomas Pettit Senior, with his family settled in Stamford Connecticut where their names appear frequently on the town records as receiving allotments of land, on birth and death records and on the official papers as public officers.

Thomas Pettit Junior's name appears on the town Register for May 20, 1652.
In 1654 the Duke of York (brother of Charles II) granted all of the land east of the earlier Connecticut grant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This enabled the Bay Colony to surround the settlements of Exeter and in order to survive, Exeter was forced to be reinstated with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thomas Pettit was unwilling to again be under that jurisdiction so he with eight children (Thomas Junior born in Salem Harbor in 1630, Sarah born in Boston in 1634, Joseph born in Boston in 1636, Elizabeth born in Exeter in 1637, John born in Exeter in 1638, Mary born in Exeter in 1640, Nathaniel born in Exeter in 1645, and Hannah born in Exeter in 1647) and other settlers sold his property and moved to Long Island. They petitioned Governor Stuyvesant and were granted the right to settle in Queens County where they named their settlement Newtown. It was later changed to Elmhurst. The Dutch had settled this general area as early as 1644 and called it Mittleburg. It was south of Hempstead on the coast.

Soon after their arrival in Newtown the Town Marshall was voted out of office for exercising his duties in an objectionab1e manner. Thomas Pettit, Senior, was elected to that office on May 8, 1657. This developed family complications since Nathaniel Pettit, his son, had fallen in love with Mary Bailey the deposed Marshall's daughter.

Thomas Pettit's name was on the list of Freeholders in 1666. Thomas Pettit, Senior (1st), died before October 1668. He was fifty nine years old.

SOURCE:
William Alfred Pettit Sr. Pettit Peregrinations 654 to 1961. J. Grant Stevenson, B. Y. U., Provo, Utah. 1961. Pages 15-19.

Pedigree of author: William Alfred Pettit, Sr.-Edwin Pettit-Jesse and Mary Pettit-William Pettit-Increase Pettit-Joshua Pettit-Thomas Pettit III-Thomas Pettit II-Thomas Pettit I and Christian Mellowes

Biography re-typed by Lucille Layton Davidson in approximately 1990 (Mary Lucille Layton Davidson-Mary Leone Green Layton-Mary Isabell Pettit Green-Edwin Pettit); scanned and converted to electronic text by Richard H. Thornton on 04 January 2007

Thomas married Mellowes, Christian in Nov 1629 in Essex, England. Christian was born in 1611 in Lincolnshire, England; died on 2 Sep 1665 in Newton, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note: Accounts of the the parents of Christian Mellowes being Abraham Mellowes and Martha Bulkeley have been largely disproven. One of the best newer sources for the family of Abraham Mellowes and Martha Bulkely is "Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011", page 419, which accounts for the six documented children of Abraham and Martha. Many genealogists believe that Christian is possibly the niece of Abraham Mellowes. Unfortunately, that family is largely undocumented.


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Pettit Peregrinations, 654 to 1961, page 16:

Abrahzm Mellowes, father of Christian Mellows, was born aboct 1569, He invested fifty pounds In the Massachusetts Bay Company and came to New England on August 99, 1633, He died in May 1639,

Christian Mellowes was born about 1649. Her mother wz,s Martha Bulkeley, born about 1572. She descended from King Edward Knights of the Garter and f rom eight Sureties of the Magna Charta of A, D. 1215.

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History of Thomas Pettit and Christian Mellowes (from Pettit Peregrinations)
· 3 January 2014 ·

Thomas Pettit married Christian Mellowes in County Essex, England, in November 1629, five months before they sailed on the Ship "Talbot" which left England in March 1629-30. After three months at sea, they landed at Charleston (Cambridge) July 2, 1630. It was just twenty days after Winthrop's Flag Ship the "Arabella" landed at Salem.

In 1630, Winthrop's First Fleet of seventeen vessels brought about one thousand Puritans to America. Most of these were from the vicinity of Saffron Walden. Two hundred of them died before December of that year. They brought with them horses, cows, goats, and materials for planting, fishing and building. The Arabella sailed March 1629-30 and berthed sixty days later at Salem, New England on June 12, 1630, before proceeding to Charlestown. Governor John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley were on the Arabella.

Anna Pettit was baptized as "daughter of Henry Pettit" at Saffron Walden April 9, 1610, according to the Cathedral records. She was a passenger on the Arabella. On August 9, 1630, she (Anna Pettit-Peters) transferred her membership from the Salem Church to the Boston Church, being entered as Member No. 104. Later she joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island.

John Pettit I, born in England about 1608, came to America on the Talbot, the same ship that carried Thomas Pettit and his wife Christian Mellowes. The Talbot carried Thomas Pettit and his wife Christian Mellowes and her brother Oliver Mellowes, a widower born in 1597.

Oliver Mellowes was a manufacturer of "says and pays". "Says" was a coarse woolen serge and "pays" a cotton cloth with extra long nap. Thomas Pettit worked for his brother-in-law three and a half years to pay for the passage money advanced for himself and his wife. John Pettit worked one and a half years to pay for his passage.
Abraham Mellowes, father of Christian Mellowes, was born about 1569. He invested fifty pounds in the Massachusetts Bay Company and came to New England on August 19, 1633. He died in May 1639.

Christian Mellowes was born about 1611. Her mother was Martha Bulkeley, born about 1572. She descended from King Edward Knights of the Garter and from eight Sureties of the Magna Charta of A. D. 1215.

Thomas Pettit, born in Widford, England about 1609, died in Newtown, Long Island, before October 1668. He was granted a house plot on January 8, 1637-8 in Boston where the Capitol now stands (1961). John Hancock later built the finest mansion in New England on a lot between Oliver Mellowes and Thomas Pettit's lots. This house was torn down in 1856, but a bronze plate marks the location.

Crossing the Atlantic in 1629 was not a "Luxury Cruise". The Talbot carried about sixty passengers together with their livestock and supplies. The passage took sixty days (from March to June) a turbulent season on the North Atlantic. Through all the hardships of a sail crossing, Thomas Pettit's wife, Christian Mellowes, waited her fateful day of confinement, hoping that her new son would be born in the new land of freedom. Her desires were almost attained, or were they actually realized? Her son Thomas Pettit 2nd was born in Salem harbor while his shipmates were waiting the thrill of taking their first steps on the hallowed soil of America. Hardships of the past and fears of the future were forgotten in the wails of the new born boy to whom thousands of descendants today spread throughout the United States and Canada, owe their gratitude and pay homage for his staunch defense of the principles of liberty so firmly ingrained in his character by that illustrious father, Thomas Pettit, 1st.

Life in New England was by no means easy or even peaceful. The arduous job of building houses from native materials and providing food from the earth and sea left no time for idleness. Two hundred of the first one thousand arriving in Winthrop's Fleet died by the following December. Although the original incentive for the migration was to obtain religious and personal liberty, intolerance soon became an accepted public policy.

Thomas Hooker who was driven out of Essex in 1630 went to Delft, Holland. He came to Boston in 1633 and became Pastor of the Church in Newton (Cambridge). Dissatisfied with the lack of liberty among the Puritans of Massachusetts he led a party of one hundred persons on foot, driving their cattle with them, to found Hartford, Connecticut.

Roger Williams was driven from Boston because he preached the principles that one hundred and fifty years later were to form the basis of the Constitution of the United States. He found sanctuary among the Indians across the Bay. The Indian Chief gave him a tract of land to live on where he later attracted the dissidents of Boston and established the town of Essex.

Mrs. Anne Hutchinson with her brother-in-law, the Reverend John Wheelright, were arrested in April 1638 for non-conformity. Thomas Pettit who sympathized with Mrs. Hutchinson was arrested on suspicion of "slander, insubordination, and inciting to riot". He was convicted and sentenced "to receive thirty lashes and be held in goal". The Church and State were one at that time. Later the Hutchinson group were released on agreeing to leave the Colony within ten days. Mrs. Hutchinson with about twenty followers joined Roger Williams at his "Rhode Island Plantation". Thomas Pettit went to the Falls of the Piscataqua in New Hampshire with the Reverend John Wheelright where they settled on a tract of land obtained from the Indians. There they founded the town of Exeter and in 1638 established the Congregational Church. Thomas Pettit received six acres and thirty poles as his share of Exeter Uplands. On July 4, 1637, they joined in signing "The Exeter Combination", a Declaration of Independence. Half of the signers made their 'mark', but Thomas Pettit's signature is seen in excellent handwriting. Each letter is printed separately in his signature.

In 1647 Thomas became Chief Military Man and Inspector of the staves. He served as Selectman of Exeter from 1652 to 1655. He and Christian, his wife, had a daughter, Hannah, born in Exeter in early February 1647/8. His son Thomas Pettit, Junior, received a grant of thirty acres of land in 1649 (Bell's History of the Town of Exeter p-18-32) Los Angeles Library Gen. R. 974.22.E 96 Be.).

Thomas senior was one of the signers of a petition sent to the General Court in behalf of Exeter in October 1651 and signed a contract with three others in behalf of the town agreeing to make fair payment to Mr. Dudley the town Minister.

John Pettit, brother of Thomas Pettit Senior, with his family settled in Stamford Connecticut where their names appear frequently on the town records as receiving allotments of land, on birth and death records and on the official papers as public officers.

Thomas Pettit Junior's name appears on the town Register for May 20, 1652.
In 1654 the Duke of York (brother of Charles II) granted all of the land east of the earlier Connecticut grant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This enabled the Bay Colony to surround the settlements of Exeter and in order to survive, Exeter was forced to be reinstated with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thomas Pettit was unwilling to again be under that jurisdiction so he with eight children (Thomas Junior born in Salem Harbor in 1630, Sarah born in Boston in 1634, Joseph born in Boston in 1636, Elizabeth born in Exeter in 1637, John born in Exeter in 1638, Mary born in Exeter in 1640, Nathaniel born in Exeter in 1645, and Hannah born in Exeter in 1647) and other settlers sold his property and moved to Long Island. They petitioned Governor Stuyvesant and were granted the right to settle in Queens County where they named their settlement Newtown. It was later changed to Elmhurst. The Dutch had settled this general area as early as 1644 and called it Mittleburg. It was south of Hempstead on the coast.

Soon after their arrival in Newtown the Town Marshall was voted out of office for exercising his duties in an objectionab1e manner. Thomas Pettit, Senior, was elected to that office on May 8, 1657. This developed family complications since Nathaniel Pettit, his son, had fallen in love with Mary Bailey the deposed Marshall's daughter.

Thomas Pettit's name was on the list of Freeholders in 1666. Thomas Pettit, Senior (1st), died before October 1668. He was fifty nine years old.

SOURCE:
William Alfred Pettit Sr. Pettit Peregrinations 654 to 1961. J. Grant Stevenson, B. Y. U., Provo, Utah. 1961. Pages 15-19.

Pedigree of author: William Alfred Pettit, Sr.-Edwin Pettit-Jesse and Mary Pettit-William Pettit-Increase Pettit-Joshua Pettit-Thomas Pettit III-Thomas Pettit II-Thomas Pettit I and Christian Mellowes

Biography re-typed by Lucille Layton Davidson in approximately 1990 (Mary Lucille Layton Davidson-Mary Leone Green Layton-Mary Isabell Pettit Green-Edwin Pettit); scanned and converted to electronic text by Richard H. Thornton on 04 January 2007

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From Long Island Surnames, http://www.longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I5855&tree=VanVelsor:

"I have found information stating that Christian was the daughter of Oliver Mellowes, and other information that states she was
the daughter of Abraham and Martha Mellowes, and sister to Oliver.

The fact that she was married in Essex, England in Nov. 1629, proves that she could not be the daughter of Oliver Mellowes. Oliver was not born until 1598 and was first married to Marie James on Aug 13, 1620 in Boston, England. Christian would only be 9 years old at the time she was married.

The Wurtz Magna Charta does list Christian Mellowes as the daughter of Abraham and Martha Bulkeley Mellowes. She was born about 1611, and this would make her 18 years of age when she was married. I wrestled with this for some time, and could not find evidence that would support the claim of Oliver being her father."

Jim Pettit
jpet@ascenture.net

Elias married Bailey, Sarah. Sarah was born in 1622 in New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA; died in in Elmhurst, Queens County, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Colonial Families of the United Stated of Ammerica, Volume II, Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, page 289

JOHN FURMAN, written also FOREMAN, FIRMAN or FYRMIN, an English Puritan, came to America with his brother Giles or Gyles FYRMIN, in Governor WINTHROP'S fleet in 1631, settling at Watertown, Mass. He brought with him two sons and four daus.

ISSUE
I. John. IV. A dau., m. ----JACKsON.
II. JOSIAH, h. 1625. v. A dau., m. How.
III. A dau., m. ---- BEERS. VI. A dau., m. WHITEHEAD.

Josiah FURMAN, b. 1625, sold his lands to his brother-in-law, ---- BEERS,
and moved to Hempstead, L. 1.; later to Newtown, L. 1.
ISSUE
1. John, b. at Hempstead, 1650; d. 1726; m. Mary LYNCH.
II. JOSIAH, b. 1652.
111. Joseph, b. at Newtown, 1655; m. widow of John BULL.
IV. David, m. Mary MORRELL.
v. Samuel, m. Elizabeth ROBERTS.
VI. Jonathan.

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From Find a Grave

Josias was the son of John Furman of Watertown, MA, who is thought to have come from Nayland, co. Suffolk, England. Josias is reportedly the same baptized at Nayland on 22 Apr. 1621, the son of John Furman and Susan Warren. The family arrived in New England in "Winthrop's Fleet" in 1630.

Josias settled in Hempstead, on Long Island, by 1657. By 1664, he relocated his family to Middleburgh/Newtown, in what would become Queen Co., NY.

He married at least twice. His wife Alice/Angelche is documented in 1669 and later, and is thought to be the mother of his children. They included six sons, as follows:

1. Josias Jr., b. abt. 1653--linked below
2. Joseph, b. abt 1655
3. John, b. 1650-56, d. 1726, m. Margaret Lynch
4. David, m. Mary Morrell
5. Samuel, m. Elizabeth Roberts
6. Jonathan

Josias married (second) to the widow Mary Weed of Stamford, CT, about 1692.

He died sometime between 1703 and 1709, presumably in Newtown where he resided.

Note: He was most likely buried in the Old Newtown Cemetery based on his residence. No documentation of burial or a gravestone has been found.

Josias married Beers, Alice in 1650 in USA. Alice died about 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gabriel married (Lynch), Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]