From <i>The Pettit Correspondent</i>, Volume 2, Number 2, page 74<p>

<h2>Will of Elijah Pettit of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
1799</h2>

<em>This is undoubtedly the son mentioned in the 1789 will of Elias Pettit.  See
page 8 of the April, `88 issue for an abstracted copy.  The following is
recorded in Will Book Vol. 1, p. 152.</em><p>

In the name of God Amen!  I Elijah Pettit of Derry Township Westmoreland
County & state of Pennsylvania, being sick & weak of Body but of perfect
soundness of mind & memory, & calling to mind that it is appointed for all
men once to Die Do make this my last Will & Testament this eighth day of May
in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred & Ninetynine<p>

In the first place it is my Will that my Loving Wife Leah enjoy my whole
Estate both Real & personal, after my Just Debts & Funeral Expenses are paid
untill my son Joseph arrives at the age of Twentyone Years provided He doth
take care of & educate my Children in a Decent & Christian manner In the
second place it is my Will that when my said son Joseph arrives at the
aforesaid age that my Lands be then sold & the Monies thence arising shall
be equally Divided between my Wife Leah & my three Children viz Nancy,
Joseph & Betsy to them their Heirs and Assigns forever And I do hereby
constitute & Appoint my Wife Leah & my brother William Hughes Executors of
this my Testament & last Will in Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand &
seal the day & year first above written<p>

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                                                       his
                                             Elijah     X    Pettit  [Seal]
Witness present                                        mark
Thomas Underwood Tho. Culberson                                  proved June 13th 1799 -
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