From <em>The Pettit Correspondent</em>, Volume 3, Number 2, page 120

<h2>Will of Thomas Pettit of Rappahannock County, Virginia - 1663</h2>


<p>Loretta Taylor (6411 Seven Oaks Dr., Falls Church, VA  22042) sent a copy
of the following will as printed in Wills of Rappahannock County, Virginia,
1652-1692 (William Montgomery Sweeny, 1947, DAR).  The footnotes are as they
appear in that work.</p>


<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  September ye. 23th in ye year of our Lord
1663</p>

<p>I Thomas Pettit<sup>1</sup> of ye County of Rappa. and in ye parish of
ffarnham being in a Weak Estate of body but in perfect mind and Memory make
this my last Will &amp; Testament, first I bequeath my soul unto Almighty
God &amp; my body unto ye ground to be buried with assured belief of the
Resurection and that after this life my Soul &amp; body shall be united in
one &amp; enjoy that Eternall bliss where my Redemer liveth, First I give
and bequeth unto my Daughter Dorothy2 three ffemale Cattle, one Coe named
Cherry, and two heifers Comonly called by ye name of Goodluck, &amp; Slow
them and their female Increase, I give unto my aforesd. Daughter &amp; her
heirs for Ever but ye Male to remaine to those that look after them until
she come of age I do also give and bequeath all my Land yt ir Really mine yt
is to say a pattent of one hundred acres adjoining to ye Land I now live on
ye which Land encludes two hundred &amp; Eighty acres by conveyance
specified this Land heretofore mentioned my aforesaid Daughter Dorothy is to
have when she cometh to age for her &amp; her heirs for Ever, and in case of
ye death of my aforesd. Daughter Dorothy before she cometh to Enjoy this
Land according to ye term of my will then the sd Land here given unto my
Daughter to my Wife Katherine for her &amp; her heirs for Ever &amp; in ye
meantime untill my Daughter be of age as aforesd. my wife Katherine to
inherit &amp; enjoy for her use in every kind whatsoever not destroying any
timber nor to make sale nor diminish any more than what shall go for ye use
of her own housing and Cropps &amp; likewise I doe also include that in case
my wife Katherine aforesd. keep her self a Widow that she shall freely and
wholly enjoy the Land with the proffits thereof according to ye tenor
aforesd. during her life I do also give and bequeath unto my Wife after my
Death my debts Satisfyed all ye rest of my personal Estate both within doors
&amp; without unto her &amp; her hrs for Ever I doe also here ordaine and
appoint my friend Nicholas White and my friend Thomas Cooper overseers of
this my last will &amp; Testament ye day &amp; year above written</p>

<pre>
     Thomas Pettit   Seal

Witnesses
     Richard Glover, aged 37 years or thereabouts.

              his
     Richard  RN  Nightingale, aged 27 years of thereabouts.
             mark

     Robert Davis Cl. Cur.
     A true copy Thos. New Dep. Cl.

Truly recorded according to an order of Essex Court dated ye. 11th: March, 1694.
     Test Francis Meriwether Cl. Cur.
     Page 33.
</pre>


<p><sup>1</sup>Not in Torrence's "Virginia Wills and Adminstrations." 2Married 1st., James
Fuggett; 2nd. Godfrey Stanton.</p>

<p>Thomas Pettit married Katherine, daughter of Major George &amp; Eleanor Morris. 
Besides his daughter Dorothy he had a son Capt. Thomas Pettit "born in the
Spring after the death of his father Vizt. April or May." Land Trials
1711-1716, page 19.</p>

<p>3 June, 1665, Katherine Pettit makes a deed of gift to her son Thomas
Pettit.  Deeds &amp;c. 1656-1664, page 418.</p>