Joshua Pettit

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Petit, Pettit Members of this Huguenot family settled early in Newtown, L.I., NY. About 1742, six brothers, Jonathan, Amos, John, Nathaniel, Isaac, and Charles, came to Sussex County and Warren County, NJ. Johnathan Pettit settled in Hardwick; Amos in Brighton; John in Newton; Nathaniel in Newton, and Isaac and Charles in Newton. Isaac and Charles, during the Revolutionary War, were royalists and moved to Canada.

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Joshua Pettit, son of Thomas Pettit & (4) Catharine Branch b. 24 March 1700 Newtown, Queens Co., NY, married Sarah Carpenter, b. ---

children of Joshua Pettit & Sarah Carpenter:

• Increase Pettit, b. 25 Aug 1726 Hempstead, Queens Co., NY
• Joshua Pettit, b. about 1734 Essex Co., NJ; d. 1786 SC; m. Rachel Monroe. She was b. 1736 Ulster Co., NY; d. about 1786. Joshua served in the Revolutionary War under Col. Roebuck.

Sources: “Descendants of Henry Pettit” posted online at <http://www.avolve.net/users/jpet/d845.htm>

Biography

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/243397683/joshua-pettit

Joshua Pettit was born on the 24th of March 1701 in Newtown in Queens County in the Providence of New York. Source. The Long Island Source Records; from the New York Genealogical and Geographical record on page 126. The death date is an estimation (still looking for records)

Joshua Pettit was the son of Thomas Pettit III and his second wife Catherine Branch and is mentioned in his fathers Will the 24 of July 1715.

Joshua's father Thomas Pettit purchased 68 acres of land in early spring of 1715 from French Huguenot Theophilus Forrester of New Rochelle who died after the purchase. In the Last Will & Testament Mr. Forrester he demanded that Thomas Pettit pay for the land that he sold to him and give interest to his widow during her natural life after which he should pay interest to his adult children. Thomas Pettit III died after the death of Mr. Forester and his last Will probated July 1715.

Thomas Pettit IV of Jamaica Long Island petitioned the court December 1715 to ask that he be given control of the movable assets of his late father and the authority to remove the children from the home who were at risk of want of fodder. The Court granted his request.

Early research considered Susanna Carpenter the wife of Joshua Pettit Sr because he had a son Increase Pettit. Source. Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut being the Ancestry and Kindred of Herbert Furman Silversmith Volume 2

John Carpenter Jr. recorded in Jamaica New York 14 September 1676, rated 78 pounds, Jamaica, married Mary Rhodes in 1680 was an influential and was chosen townsman and called and designated Captain of the troops and acquired quite a bit of land. Will written 10th of June 1732 Issue John, Joseph, Increase, Soloman, Mary, Hannah, Nehemiah, Susanna b. 1699 CONSIDERED to have married Johua Pettit of Hempstead) & Phebe Carpenter.

Record Joshua Pettit married Martha Green.
April 2, 1725, Elizabeth Greene of the town of Jamacia, Queens County, Island of Nassau New York, widow of Richard Greene of Barton Regis, rope maker and sole heiress of Jonathan Edward of Bristol, haulier; Richard her son, Joshua Pettit of Jamaica Town, yeoman and Martha his wife (née Greene) Source. Bristol Archives.

Court Affidavit of Joshua Pettit.
It began after constable Richard Combs came to collect the ministers rate for the Anglican minister Rev Thomas Poyer from Daniel Bull and he refused to pay. Society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts was chartered in 1701 Jamaica maintained a church tax that was levied on the freeholder, but later the English rulers contended that the only ministers of the Church of England could be inducted into a town church and supported by taxation. When Constable Richard Combs came to seize property from Daniel Bull a vestryman of the First Presbyterian Church, he asked eighteen-year-old Joshua Pettit to notify the neighbours of the threat and a riot broke out. This later went to Court and the court ruled that Constable Richard Combs in the attempt to serve order given to him by the court risked his life and that he had not misbehaved himself or his office. (source) Records of the town of Jamaica Long Island NY 1565-1751 in American Colonies & Calendar of Historical manuscripts in the office of Secretary State Albany part 2.

Rood, John of Jamaica yeoman 5 Jan 1751. To my sons Isaac all land between Robert Denton & Benjamin Taylor on the hills, & lots adj. Nichola Everett. he to pay Joseph Wood £20. Witness William Carpenter, Joshua Carpenter & Joshua Pettit 5 Feb 1721; Source Records of Jamaica NY.

Record dated 1727

This Indenture made this sixteenth day of May and in the thirteenth year of our Sovereign Lord George King of Great Brittian and so forth and in the year our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven in Queens County Jamaica and in the Providence of New York... In the presence of Joshua Pettit & Saml Higbee. source Records of Jamaica NY.