Elizabeth Pettaway

Elizabeth was born about 1634, probably in Virginia, and died after 1690 in Surry County, Virginia.

Married

1. William Carter d 1655
2. Edward Pettway d 06 JAN 1689 in Surry County, Virginia

There are no known children with William Carter.

Children of Elizabeth and 2nd husband Edward Pettway. Birth dates are estimates.

1. Elizabeth Pettway b: ABT 1649
2. Joyce Pettway b: ABT 1650
3. Fortune Pettway b: ABT 1651
4. Sarah Pettway b: ABT 1652
5. William Pettway b: ABT 1653

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Edward Petway's wife was the widow of William Carter, Jr. (1625?-1655), whose stepmother, Alice Croxon Carter Alice Warren, in Aug 1655, granted Edward 500 acres in Southwark Parish, Surry County, to be used by Edward only during the lifetime of his wife Elizabeth.

Edward's wife Elizabeth outlived him and her son-in-law Samuel Judkins Jr. (1657-1705) Samuel Judkins, of Surry County , and was listed in Surry County with 650 acres of land, of which at least 200 acres were previously owned by members of the Judkins family.

[1655] 20 9ber. Alice Carter, widdow, acknowledges that Edward Pettaway married the Relict of William Cater, son-in-law of Mrs. Alice Carter, that that 500 acres of land bequeathed to the sd William Carter, Jr., by his father, husband of Alice Carter, and that Edward Pettaway for the life of Eliza Carter, Relict of William Carter, Jr., have her plantation, 145 acres, but what is leased to Thos. Culmer and Mathew Hobson. Wit: Nich. Perry, Rich. Blunt

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http://feindholloway.com/pettway/ep1630.html Sources:

1. Boddie, John Bennett, Colonial Surry, 1966; p. 136-7, 214.
2. Briggs, Noel Currer, The Carters of Virginia, Phillimore Pub., England, 1979.
3. Edward Pettway's will dated Oct 27 1690, probated Jan 6, 1691 in Davis, E. T., Wills and Administrations of Surry Co, Va., 1671-1750, Geneal. Publ. Co., Baltimore MD, 1980, p. 103.
4. Holtzsclaw, B.C., "Judkins of Surry," in Boddie, John Bennett, Southside Virginia Families, v.2, pp. 287 ff.

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• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jhmjr&id=...
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=davidm164... has her as daughter of William Moore & Mary Roberts
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2903581&... has her as daughter of William Crafford & Anne Norton

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"Genealogies of VA Families" by John Boddie V.1 Surry Will BK 4, pg. 240, and Bk. 5 pp. 186, 275 (Robert) "Colonial Surry" by John Boddie Surry Order Bk. 1, pg. 235 (William)
Indenture between Alice Carter and Edward Petway, Surry Co. Deeds, Wills etc., 1645-72, Virginia. County Court, FHL #34099, Bk. 1, p. 75.
per https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-307620

• “The Newsom Family (Concluded).” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 48, no. 4, 1940, pp.358 -362. www.jstor.org/stable/4245047. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4245047?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab...

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