This project is to explore the Petticrew / Pettigrew families of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina. Our family history is that the Pettigrew family of South Carolina are cousins to our Pennsylvania/Virginia/Ohio Petticrew family (also spelled Pettycrew in Virginia). Are these various families related? Also, are they Scotch, Scotch-Irish, Huguenot or all three?

Before I had a chance to write this introduction to the project, I read the following message about the results of the Pettigrew and Petticrew Y-DNA results:

July 13, 2012 message on Gen Forum

...In 2002 the first dozen male Pettigrew participants submitted Y-DNA samples to the FamilyTreeDNA Y-DNA Project. Most of the four dozen Pettigrew and Petticrew descendants who participated in this Y-DNA testing proved to have very similar Y-DNA, indicating high probabilities they shared a common ancestor several hundred years ago. Among others, Project participants include descendants of:

1. James Pettigrew (born April 1713 Crilly House, near Auchnacloy, Co. Tyrone, Ireland – died 24 December 1784 Abbeville, SC)
2. James Pettycrew (b. Ireland, died 1799 Rockbridge, VA)
3. David Petticrew (born 1713 Ireland (?) – died 1784 Hanover Township, PA)
4. Jacob Pettigrew (about 1800-1881), lived his entire life in western Pennsylvania
5. Alexander Pettegrew (born 09 March 1718 Scotland – died 1758 in Grantham, Sullivan, New Hampshire)

Sources

• LEAVES FROM THE PETTIGREW FAMILY TREE By Penelope Johnson Allen. State Chairman of Genealogical Records, Tennessee Society DAR
• Gen Forum discussion of DNA proof of several Pettigrew and Petticrew families in American being related
• Pettigrew of Scotland, Ireland, and South Carolina genealogy
• HISTORY of the PETTIGREW FAMILY Compiled by James T. Pettigrew, 1972
• Pettigrew Family Sketch