Notes:

Married Deborah ROBBINS in Easton PA
Will dated Oct 20, 1768 Probated 4 Feb 1769 probably Easton
County courts were established by executive order of the NJ governor
Sussex County was formed on 8 June 1753. Jonathan's tavern/public house
in Hardwick Twp, the "Dark Moon", became the courthouse. Five judges included Jonathan Pettit.

PETTIT, Jonathan of Easton, Northampton Co., PA. 134S - W. 20 Oct 1768; Filed 4 Feb 1769. Wife: Deborah. Sons: Nathaniel, Jonathan, Isaac, Andrew, John and (youngest child) William (a minor). Daughters: Dinah and Elizabeth. Others: Bro, Nathan PETTIT; bro-n-law, William ROBINS. Executors: Wife, Deborah PETTIT, bro, Nathan PETTIT and b-n-l, Willliam ROBINS. Witnesses: William LEDLIE, John GODFREY and Robt. TRAIL.

Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc., Volume II, 1730-1750; Honeyman, A. Van Doren; Somerville NJ 1918.
Page 377: Amos Thatcher and Job Robins [Robbins] performed an inventory, dated 26 Dec 1748, on the estate of Andrew Pettit, of Amwell, Hunterdon Co., will date 21 Oct. 1748. (Lib. 6, p. 76)


Jonathan Pettit was born in 1721.7 John Reading, a large landholder in
colonial New Jersey, mentioned writing a deed to Jonathan Pettit in his
diary entry of May 26, 1749. The deed was written at the home of Samuel
Green who lived in the area that later became Sussex County14 (63:47).
Jonathan Pettit became a justice of the peace on May 13, 1749 in Morris
County.28 Sussex County was erected from Morris County in 1753 and one
of the first acts recorded in Sussex County was Jonathan's application
for a tavern license on Nov. 20, 1753.18 He was appointed one of the
first justices of Sussex County.29 The first court in Sussex Co. was
held at the house of Jonathan Pettit in Hardwick (now Frelinghuysen)
Township. The next year the county built a jail near Jonathan's tavern
and the place received the name "Log Gaol". It is now called
Johnsonburg and became part of Warren County when that county was
erected in 1824. The family later moved to the southwest corner of
Sussex County where they owned land on both sides of the Delaware River
at Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ.7 Jonathan Pettit wrote his will on
Oct. 20, 1768 and it was proved Feb. 4, 1769. The inventory of his
estate was done on Nov. 15, 17684 (33:327). Jonathan Pettit married
Deborah Robbins.13 She survived him and moved back to Hardwick Twp.,
Sussex County, NJ. She died in March 1791. Her will was written Mar.
21, 1791 and proved Mar. 31, 17914 (37:282). Jonathan and Deborah
Pettit had children including these (my grandparents):

Family/Spouse: Deborah ROBBINS. Deborah (daughter of Daniel ROBINDS, III and Deborah Hope) was born in 1723 in Amwell Twp. NJ; died in 1791 in Hardwick NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a Justice of Sussex County, N. J. (?)
Nathaniel PETTIT was born 1676 in Newtown ( now Elmhurst) Queens Co., Long Island, NY, and died 1768 in Hunterdon, NJ

His father had purchased land at Trenton in 1695. By 1723 Nathaniel was listed as a carpenter of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, which indicates that he made a move from the vicinity of Trenton to Amwell Township between 1719 and 1723. By 1735 and with the purchase of 100 acres the Pettit homestead was probably in Holland Township (Spring Mills) or Alexandria Township of Hunterdon County. By 1749 sons of Nathaniel Pettit began moving north to Sussex County. 30 year old Thomas Pettit died
in Newton, Sussex, NJ in 1758.




Residences: In 1693 he purchased part of 700 acres on the Delaware at Trenton NJ

Unlike his Quaker parents Nathaniel Jr started as a Quaker but about 1724 helped to found St Andrews Episcopal at Ringoes, (which before 1776 moved to Lambertville NJ.)

#023; Nathaniel PETTIT of Little Egg Harbour in the County of Burlington, yeoman... [bound to]...
Lewis MORRIS, Governour... 500 pounds... 14 Dec 1744. ... Moses PETTIT, son of the
abovebound Nathaniel PETTIT... obtained a License of Marriage for himself... and for Ann
WAINWRIGHT of Little Egg Harbour, spinster... [w] Isaac DECOW Jr, Jos SCATTERGOOD [affidavit]
Nathaniel PETTIT of full age, being sworn... doth depose that he... heard the within named
James WAINWRIGHT and Susannah his wife give their full and free consent that Moses PETTIT this
deponents son should marry with their daughter Anne WAINWRIGHT which consent was given
sometime in November last. Sworn this 14 Dec [1744] before me, Jos SCATTERGOOD, Surrogate

Dennison lists two other sons: Amos=Esther Stout and 1726John=Mercy Fisher [and others include Thomas, who died 1758 sp]

Nathaniel is buried at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Alexandria Township in Hunterdon Co. NJ

THOMAS2 WOLVERTON (865) (from Charles1) was born on 17 May 1717 at Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. He married Mary Pettit, daughter of Nathaniel Pettit (1738) and Elizabeth Heath (2285). He died circa Jun 1759 at Sussex Co., New Jersey.
Children of Thomas2 Wolverton (865) and Mary Pettit (888) were as follows:
14. i. THOMAS3 (890), born circa 1735 at Sussex Co., New Jersey; married Elizabeth
Crowell (4885); married Catharine Barton (4884).

Nathaniel married Elizabeth HEATH. Elizabeth (daughter of Andrew HEATH and Elizabeth BARRETT) was born about 1690; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His name appears on the Dongan Charter of 1686. He was a Quaker. Soon after that date he removed to Hopewell township, then Hunterdon county, and obtained the grant of a tract of land on the Delaware near the mouth of the Assunpink. He died in 1718, leaving a widow Mary, and children: Moses, Judith, Nathaniel, Elias, Jane, Jonathan and John.

His will was dated 13 Mar 1715 new style

Donegan Charter 25 Nov 1686, Newtown, Long Island
In 1695 he purchased 100A at Trenton, NJ
He died Hopewell, NJ in 1718 (Assunpink, Assanpink Creek)
He was a staunch Quaker


Children of Nathaniel Pettit and Mary Bailey are
named in the will of Nathaniel dated 13 Mar 1714/15; (*)

1. (*) Nathaniel died about 1768; married Elizabeth Heath; daughter of Andrew Heath and Elizabeth Barrett. Nathaniel is buried at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Hunterdon Co. NJ.

2. (*) Moses died 1718; married (1) Lydia Lawrence and (2) Alice (unknown).

3. (*) Mary died 1754 Burlington NJ; married (1) Samuel Moore; married (2) Rev. Paul Watkinson.

4. (*) Judith married (unknown) Neald/Heald.

5. John.

6. (*) Elias married (unknown) Havens.

7. (*) Jonathan; named executor of his father's will.

8. (*) Jane married George Ely born about 1682 Nottinghamshire EN; died 1750 Trenton NJ; son of Joshua Ely and Mary Senior.

9. Christianne who is mentioned in will of Joshua Ely in the context that if George Ely were to marry her, Joshua would be displeased. See the Greens of LI

Nathaniel's name is on the Charter from Governor Dongan, 25 Novermber 1686, with his sons Nathaniel, Moses and John. In 1696 he removed to Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, settled at the Falls of the Delaware, and in 1696 bought 200 acres from John Wilsford, Sr. and Jr., who had bought it in 1685 from Mahlon Stacy and Peter Fretwell. In 1791 Nathaniel Pettit was Collector of Hopewell Township. In 1711 he granted 100 acres in Amwell to his son Elias. In 1718 with his three sons, Elias, Jonathon and Nathaniel(who married Elizabeth Heath) he purchased a plantation, in all 1400 acres of land, at Trenton near the Assanpink Creek, including the ground where the New Jersey State Capitol now stands. Petty's Run was named for him. Nathaniel Pettit died before 25 June 1718 in Hopewell Township, New Jersey aged 73. His Will, dated 13 March 1715 was probated at Burlington, NJ 25 June 1718 and filed also in New York 9 July 1719. His son Jonathon was Executor; Inventory dated 24 June 1718.

Nathaniel married Mary BAYLEY. Mary was born about 1648; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His Loyalist descendant and namesake was from Germantown PA

Interpreter, for the West Jersey Proprietors,
among the Leni Lenape Indians along the Delaware, and negotiator of land deals with the Indians
From Ransclough (Rudyard Lake, Heath House Lane), near Leake (Leek), Staffordshire, England
Andrew arrived in New Jersey 28 September 1682 on the ship "Friends Adventure".
William Yardley had married Jane Heath in 1663.

Elizabeth Heath's parents are named by Frank C. Baldwin as Andrew and
Elizabeth (Barrett) Heath. Andrew is identified as the same man who
arrived in 1682 as the bonded servant to William Yardley; possibly
Yardley's nephew. Baldwin states that "they came from Staffordshire
in England and settled in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.

Andrew Heath moved to [Hopewell] New Jersey in 1699 when he bought 420 acres of
land near present-day Trenton. About 1703 he helped established the
Hopewell Church, one of the first Episcopal Churches in the area.
In 1705 four of Andrew's children were baptized there: Andrew,
Elizabeth, John, and Sarah." Andrew made his will on the 3rd of
January 1716/7 and the instrument was proved on the 29th of December
1720 in which he names his wife Hannah and children: Martha, John,
Elizabeth, Andrew, Sarah, and Richard. He also names his grandchildren:
Elizabeth, Abigail, and Andrew Pettit and his wife's children:
Daniel Clark, Samuel Clark, and Hannah Clark [re: Baldwin & County
Court records 23:219].

On December 29, 1720, Robert Heaton proved Andrew Heath's will.

Baldwin writes of the Heath family and quotes from Louise H. Tunison
and Althea F. Courtot's work "The Heath Family of Hunterdon County,
New Jersey; a 1977 manuscript in the collection of the Hunterdon County
Historical Society.

Andrew Heath married twice, first to the widow Elizabeth Barrett
Venables Bannor. She had married first William Venables who is also
found as a passenger on the same ship as the one Andrew Heath and the
Yardleys arrived on. Venables died leaving his widow and two daughters
Joyce and Frances. Elizabeth remarried to a Lawrence Bannor. She
married Andrew Heath after 1688 and died by 1699 when Andrew and his
step-daughter Joyce leave an instrument conveying land. Andrew married
secondly the widow Hannah Clark, whose maiden name unknown.

Andrew had 3 brothers [Robert?] one who was the father of 1697Thomas
Andrews parents may have been Richard Heath & Mary Yerwood

Andrew married Elizabeth BARRETT. Elizabeth was born about 1666; died about 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

born Saffron-Walden, Essex, England
sailed on the ship "Talbot," which left England in March 1630 and after three months at sea landed at Charlestown (North Boston, MA) 2 July 1630. Also on this ship was Anna Pettit who was probably daughter of Henri Pettit; and John Pettit born about 1608 in England; may be related to Thomas Pettit.
Others say that, "with brother John", Thomas Pettit signed the Donegan Charter in 1688
[should be 1686] whereby the city of New York was passed by the Dutch to Britain
with Thomas Don(e)gan, Earl of Limerick, the Governor of New York State from 1684-1688



1637 moved to Exeter NH

Thomas married Christianne MELLOWES. Christianne was born about 1611; died in 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Mary YERWOOD. Mary was born about 1630; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]