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]