From <i>The Pettit Correspondent</i>, Volume 4, Number 1, page 162<p>

<h2>Miscellany</h2>


<b>A June Reunion</b><p>

The first family reunion of the descendants of Agnes Jane Pettit and Thomas
Lee Gibson (m.  1880 in Scott County, Arkansas) will take place in Waldron,
Arkansas on June 8 and 9, 1991.  Thomas and Agnes Gibson were the parents of
Troxie Lee, James Omer and Jennie.  Jennie married Lindsey Denton. 
Associated family names include Pool(e), Walker, Watkins, Welch, Williams,
Whisenhunt, Smith, Miller, Prior, Harrell, Owens, Laird, Blaylock and Haney. 
For further information regarding the reunion contact Edward Gibson,
Chairman, P.O. Box 569, Mt. Ida, AR 71957.<p>

<b>Some Virginia Soldiers of the War of 1812</b><p>

<i>From "Virginia Soldiers in the U.S. Army 1800-1815" by Stuart Lee
Butler:</i>

<dl>

<dt>Petitt, Jesse, 10th Inf., age 24, tailor, born Virginia, enlisted Plattsburg
NY on 4-13-14, present 4-30-15

<dt>Petitt, Jesse, 13th Inf., age 21, tailor, born Virginia, enlisted Alexandria
on 6-8-12, discharged Burlington VT 1-2-14

<dt>Petitt, John, 12th Inf., age 18, farmer, born Virginia, enlisted Alexandria
on 5-13-15 or 6-14-12, prisoner of war Buffalo NY 4-3-15

<dt>Petitt, John, Dragoons, age 21, farmer, born Fairfax, enlisted Alexandria on
12-7-13, present 5-1-15

<dt>Pettit, Francis, 12th Inf., age 24, farmer, born Fairfax, enlisted
Alexandria on 5-7, 8-12, discharged Fort Clark 5-8-19, bounty land warrant

</dl>

<b>A Quaker Marriage</b><p>

<i>From "Quaker Marriage Certificates - Pasquotank, Perquimans, Piney Woods
and Suttons Creek Monthly Meeetings, North Carolina, 1677-1800", compiled by
Gwen Boyer Bjorkman, page 118:</i>

Joshua Scott of ye Precinct of Pascotank, and Sarah Pettit of ye precinct of
Paquimance ... 13, 10m, 1726 ... at ye publick meeting house in Paquimance
... Edward Mayo, Richd. Cheaston, John Williams, Jane Jessop, Saml.
Nicholson, Saml. Charles, Jesse Newby, Tho. Peirce, Mary Peirce, Rebecca
Tomes, Francis Petitt, Gabriel Newby, Saml. Newby, Joseph Nicholson, Joshua
Scott, Sarah Pettit now Scott, Anna Letitia Low, John Scott, Jean Barrow.
Recorded ye first day of ye 11th mo 1726 By Rt. Wilson<p>

<b>Old War Pensioners</b><p>

<i>From "Old War Pensioners 1815-1926", Virgil D. White:</i><p>

<dl>

<dt>Pettet, Eliash, Pvt., Old War IC-7063 file #24318 IL 1850, Mex War W-0
#20153 & WC-16003, soldier died 20 Oct 1910 Austin TX

<dt>Pettit, George P., Pvt., widow Lydia Ann, Old War WC-2012 file #13800 PA,
Mex War serv

<dt>Pettit, Jonathan, Pvt., Old War IC-2079 file #24325, no war

<dt>Pettit, Michael S., Pvt., filed 23 Jan 1883 IN, Mex War claim #9815 &
C-#4843

<dt>Pettitt, Samuel H., Old War MA-R23969

</dl>

<b>Some Loyalists</b><p>

<i>Submitted by Jean Cloud, 890 Edgewood Rd., Redwood City, CA 94062</i>

From "Biographical Sketches of American Loyalists", page 536: John S.
Pettit, petty officer of the customs, embarked at Boston for Halifax with
the British Army 1776; Pettit - Eleven persons of this name of Queens
County, New York, acknowledged allegience October 1776. To wit: James,
Samuel, Isaac, Increase P., John W., Samuel Abadiah, [and] Joseph Jr.  Isaac
had previously signed a declaration at Jamaica.  In 1780 James, William, and
Joshua Pettit of that county, belonged to an armed party of Loyalists under
Lieutenant McKain.<p>

<b>Two Apple Trees</b><p>

<i>Also received from Jean Cloud . . .</i><p>

From "Long Island Records", Henry B. Hoff: "Richard Fido sells house and
lands he bought from the widow Meacocke to James Sawtel, excepting two apple
trees that were given by the widow to her daughter Mary Coe and Sarah Petit,
and a little table standing in the house that is Mary Coe's.