From The Pettit Correspondent, Volume 4, Number 2, page 180

Miscellany

Some Cemetery Records

Received from Jill Stafford, 18 Ent. Ct. (HAFB), Novato, CA 94949.

Chapel Hills Cemetery Records, Joseph County, Indiana:

Alexander Pettit, age 65, born 24 May 1797, died 9 May 1862, wife Elizabeth Pettit.
Elizabeth Pettit, no age, born 12 February 1803, no date of death, husband Alexander Pettit.
John Pettit, age 20, born 28 September 1828, died 11 April 1848, parents Alexander and Elizabeth Pettit.
Sarah Pettit, age 13, born 28 September 1828, died 10 December 1841, parents Alexander and Elizabeth Pettit.
David Pettit, age 77, born 21 July 1799, died 14 December 1876, first wife Eliz. Pettit, second wife Hannah Pettit.
Elizabeth Pettit, age 36, born 13 July 1807, died 27 January 1845, husband David Pettit.
Nancy Pettit, age 20, born 5 August 1831, died 3 January 1851, parents David and Eliz. Pettit.
Hannah R. Pettit, age 92, born 1803, died 1895, husband David Pettit.
Amos Pettit, age 57, born 7 May 1836, died 1893, parents David and Hannah Pettit.
Three Baptisms

Received from Frank Baldwin, 423 S. East Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302. From page 217 of History of Old Tennent Church [Old Tennent Presbyterian Church, Freehold, Monmouth County, NJ], by Frank R. Symmes, 1904.

James Pettit, had bap. James, Feb. 9, 1735; Kezia, May 29, 1737; Stephen, June 3, 1739.

An Early Pettet Birth

From History of Exeter [N.H.] by Charles H. Bell, 1888. Received from Loretta M. Taylor, 6411 Seven Oaks Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042.

pg. 65 Hannah Pettet, dau of Thomas Pettet and Christian born beginning of Feb. 1647.

RW Pensioner

From A Transcript of the Pension List of the United States for 1813, Southern Book Company, Baltimore, 1953.


	Connecticut:
#144	Enoch Petott, Private, $24
	Virginia:
#126	George Pettit, Private, $50

An Obit Abstract

From Abstracts of Obituaries in the Western Christian Advocate, 1834-1850 - Waters, Riker, Leister, 1988. The week of 8 January 1847:

PETTIT, D.C. (Male); b 1822, Portage Co., OH; d 3-Nov-46, in 24th yr., Musquetin [sic] Co., IA.

A Daft Pettit?

From The Report, Vol. XXV #3, The Ohio Genealogical Society. Received from Jane E. Gregory, 3550 East View Drive, Lafayette, CA 94549.

page 127 Wesley Pettit judged insane, admitted 8 Sept. 1857 sent to Newburgh Asylum 14 Sept., 1857 - from notes from The Mahoning Co. Ohio Infirmary 1855-1859.

A Westmoreland County, PA Marriage

From Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Volume 10, page 23 from the article, "A Register of Marriages Performed by James Powers, D.D. of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., PA 1794-1823." Likely, this is the Elizabeth Pettit that A.H. Pettit states was the daughter of James and Martha (McCune) Pettit (The Pettit Family in America, page 170), "born December 11, 177 . . . Lived and died in Mercer County, Pennsylvania."

Jonathan Smith and Bettey Pettet, December 29, 1795.