FAMILY MATTERS

cvi.

Ambrose Noble

Pettus/Pettit

cvii.

b. circa 1896. d. 1963. Age 67.

cviii. m. Omega Noble

cix.

Vesta Noble

Colonel Thomas PETTUS (aka Councilor) came to America in 1638-1641,after serving on the Continent in the Thirty

cx.

b. 1921. d. 2003 Age 83.

Years War, for the Virginia Company in command of forty men to assist the colonists in their struggles with the Powhatan cxi.

m. Edward Fugate (1912-1964)

Indians at Jamestowne. Colonel Thomas built a substantial residence on the James River on a tract four miles downriver cxii.

Inez Fugate

from the Jamestown settlement not long after his arrival. He named the seventeenth century plantation house Littletown.

cxiii. b. 1948

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cxiv.

m. Robert Liftig. 1971. b. 1947

Thomas Pettit born circa 1598 and died in the spring of 1663.

Anya Liftig

born the 12th of 17 children; fathered by Thomas Pettit, Esq. , b. 9-17-1552, d. 1620,

cxv.

b. 1977

mother Cecily, d. 1641, the daughter of Wm. King, Esq. of Hempstead, Norfolk.

cxvi.

m. Noel Hartman, 2011

He was known as Col. Thomas Pettit of “Littletown”, James City, VA.

cxvii. Dorothy Liftig

Thomas Pettit came to America about 1637; he married Katherine, daughter of Major George & Eleanor Morris before 1643.

cxviii. b. 1981

Besides his daughter Dorothy, Thomas and Katherine had a son, “born posthumously in the Spring after the death of his father cxxi.

m. David Martin, 2009

vizt. April or May 1664. [confirmed below]

p. 344 KNOW ALL MEN that I KATHERINE PETTIT of the County of Rappa. Widdow do give & make over from … (missing) day of the the date hereof unto my Son THOMAS PETTIT one black heiffer comonly called Marton & now about fifteen months old marked with two swallow forks & a nick under each ear together with all femal increase from this time forwads until my sd Son shall be twelve years old & after he shall be of the aforesd age of twelve years I do hereby give unto my sd Son the increase both maile & female to him & his heirs for ever in Testimony I set my hand this 3 of June 1665 (OLD RAPPAHANNOCK

COUNTY DEED BOOK 1656-1664 PART II.

KATHERINE (her mark) PETTIT

Test: THO. GOODRICH

ROBERT BEVERLY

recog in Cur Com Rappa 7 die Junii 1665

Source: Virginia County Court Records - Deed Abstracts of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia (Part II of 1656-1664

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Records, Deeds, Wils and Setttlements of Estates (Part II) 3 July 162 to 3 May 1665

Following the death of Thomas Pettit, Sr. , Katherine (Morris) Pettit married (2) John Longe of King and Queen county. Child of this marriage was born circa 1668.

The will of Thomas Pettit of Farnham Parish, Rappahannock was dated September 23, 1663 and proved January 7, 1664. This will mentions his wife Katherine and daughter Dorothy. This will was originally recorded in a record book now missing but was re-recorded at the request of Thomas Games (Gaines) on March 11, 1694. Thomas Games (Gaines) married Katherine (Morris) Pettit Long as her third husband. Child of this marriage was born circa 1678.

REFERENCE

Editor’s note: Information below is thought to be referring to Col. Thomas Pettit

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I - III

Colonial Councillors of State first appears in the Virginia records as included in the commission to the councillors at the beginning of Berkeley’s administration, Aug. 9, 1641. He probably came to the colony about that time. He was present at meetings as late as 1651, but in this year seems to have lost his seat on the arrival of the parliamentary commissioners. The House of Burgesses, however, elected him a councillor in 1652 and reflected him a number of times afterwards. Upon Berkeley’s reappointment to the governorship at the time of the restoration, in 1660, the King again commissioned Pettus a councillor. Colonel Pettus made his home at “Littletown” on the James river, not far below Jamestown. The date of his death is not known.

APPOINTED POSITIONS

[Col. Thomas sat on the Council of the Grand Assembly ordered by the Governor from 1640 through 1660}

pg. 408, Att a Grand Assembly, Held att James Citty (sic), March 31, 1655. Ordered the Governour and Councill be as followeth: 319

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