Jonathan Heath Pettit

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Jonathan Heath Pettit

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Birthplace: NJ
Death: October 20, 1769 (48)
Sussex, NJ
Immediate Family:

Son of Nathaniel Pettit, Jr. and Elizabeth Petit
Husband of Deborah Pettit
Father of Nathaniel Pettit; Dinah Robins Moore; Jonathan Pettit; Isaac Pettit; Andrew Robbins Pettit and 5 others
Brother of Elizabeth Woolverton; Andrew Pettit; George Pettit; Amos Pettit; Judge Nathaniel Pettit, III and 5 others

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About Jonathan Heath Pettit

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. The first court in Sussex Co. was held at the house of Jonathan Pettit in Hardwick (now Frelinghuysen) Township.


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Jonathan Heath Pettit's Timeline

1721
June 12, 1721
NJ
1744
1744
1746
February 2, 1746
Phillipsburg, Warren, NJ, United States
1748
1748
1753
1753
Phillipsburg, Sussex, NJ, United States
1755
1755
Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States
1756
March 17, 1756
Pennsylvania, United States
1758
December 6, 1758
Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey
1761
April 22, 1761
Pennsylvania, United States