From The Pettit Correspondent, Volume 4, Number 2, page 180
Received from Jill Stafford, 18 Ent. Ct. (HAFB), Novato, CA 94949.
Chapel Hills Cemetery Records, Joseph County, Indiana:
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, $50An 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.