Family/Spouse: Mary YERWOOD. Mary was born about 1630; 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

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth BARRETT. Elizabeth was born about 1666; died about 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Justice Nathaniel PETTIT. Nathaniel (son of Nathaniel PETTIT, Sr. and Mary BAYLEY) was born about 1676; died about 1768; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Hunterdon County NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her husband were members of the Kingswood MM

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).

Family/Spouse: Dennis WOOLVERTON. Dennis was born on 26 Jan 1709 in Amwell Twp. NJ; died on 19 Aug 1774 in Rosemont NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1737Charles Pettit, 1740Nathaniel Pettit1795, and 1742Elizabeth Pettit were his children and heirs (of Dinah Woolverton, his wife).


Andrew supported Washington (but not this one. His sons, above, however, were key in Washington's admin)

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 performed an inventory, dated 26 Dec 1748,
on the estate of [1717]Andrew Pettit, of Amwell, Hunterdon Co., will date 21 Oct. 1748 (Lib. 6, p. 76)
[Brother 1721Jonathan Pettit married Deborah Robbins]

Andrew Pettit the oldest, Jonathan's bro, lived in Amwell probably Lambertville
Ringoes is 3 miles NE of Lambertville

During the 1760's Charles Pettit concentrated on his iron-mongering business, but in 1767 he was appointed a provincial surrogate, the first step in his long political career. He held a number of minor offices in New Jersey during the next few years. In 1770 he was admitted to the bar. In 1771 Pettit was served as a lieutenant colonel and an aide to Governor William Franklin. When Franklin was arrested as a Loyalist in 1776, Pettit decided to give his efforts to the American cause, rising to the rank of colonel and serving as secretary under William Livingston, the new governor of New Jersey. In 1778 on the recommendation of General Nathaniel Greene, Pettit was assistant Quartermaster-General of the Continental Army. In this capacity he initiated a number of much-needed reforms until he resigned in 1781.

Family/Spouse: Dinah WOOLVERTON. Dinah was born on 26 Mar 1711; died in 1811. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas WOOLVERTON. Thomas was born on 17 May 1717; died in Jul 1759. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

#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 [note: on the back of the above note appears to be a consent signed by the Wainwrights that was not filmed.]

Moses married Anne WAINWRIGHT in Dec 1744. Anne was born about 1723; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

Will dated 5 Nov 1790

This guy's property appears on several maps of the 1770s
He had 5 daughters all christened in St Johns', Elizabeth, NJ (high Anglican)

"May 14, 1760. At a meeting of the Justices and Freeholders held at the house of Amos Pettit Sen., Newtown in and for the County of Sussex

Family/Spouse: Ester STOUT. Ester was born about 1726; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A NJ Judge.
Jailed 4 Apr 1777 to 28 May 1778

Rev. William Frazier baptized two children of Nathaniel and Margaret Pettit of Phillipsburg, Sussex Co., on Jan. 15, 1769


Probate: GS 1 Reel 648.

Nathaniel married Margaret MCFARLANE on 26 Feb 1747. Margaret was born on 2 Feb 1726; died on 4 Sep 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The John Pettit who left a Will proved in Accomack County, VA in 1785 had wife Mary and children:
Rachel Wright=Henry, Mary Pettit, George Pettit, and Thomas Pettit

The old stone manse was reportedly built for Reverend Uzal Ogden by John Pettit (1726-1796), a land agent and rent collector employed by Governor John Jay of New York to manage a large tract of land northeast of Newton.

John married Mercy FISHER about 1767 in Hackettstown NJ. Mercy was born about 1749; died in 1797. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A certain Isaac supposedly went to Loudoun Cnty, VA before 1770 BUT NOT THIS ONE
A certain Isaac died 5 Sep 1805, Washington, PA

This Isaac got land at L1, C5 WindhamTwp

THIS IS HIS NEPHEW:
[1753]PETTIT, Isaac of Hardwick. 443S - W. 12 Jan 1787; Filed 23 Jan 1787. Wife: Mary. Sons: John, and youngest son, Jonathan. Daughters: Rachil, Elizabeth and Deborah. NOTE: All children minors. Others: Brother, Jonathan PETTIT [Jr.].
Executors: Wife, Mary PETTIT and bro, Jonathan PETTIT. Witnesses: 1754Abm. SHAVER, John MOOR and 1764Mary M. NIXON.

Seven families in Sussex, under the leadership of Judge Nathaniel Pettit, decided to leave. These included his brothers, Charles and Isaac, his nephews Andrew and John Pettit, his niece Dinah, and her husband John Moore, and the latter's daughter and son-in-law Allan Nixon. In the spring of 1787 they joined a large band of other Loyalists, forty families from New Jersey and Pennsylvania totaling four hundred and ten persons, men, women, and children
genforum.genealogy.com/pettit/messages/2586.html

Family/Spouse: Margaret GOODEN. Margaret was born about 1732; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1798 Moravian missionaries from Bethlehem, PA, visited Charles Pettit and
Charles Anderson on their way to Fairfield, Upper Canada (Bothwell, on the Thames River about four miles east of Thamesville, 40 miles southwest of London)


Saltfleet: L's 13 & 14, C1 &2

In 1769 he helped to organize Christ Church, Newton, a Church of England congregation

Family/Spouse: Mary SMITH. Mary was born on 11 Oct 1746; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Abt 1770 moved with his brother Isaac Pettit to Loudoun County, Virginia