Seth Pitts

SETH PITTS / AMERICAN PATRIOT

Seth Pitts...was born about 1734 in Taunton, Mass. and died in Maine. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War and held the rank of Sergeant. In the "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War", there are six entries of service by Seth Pitts...Whether all these terms of service can be credited to one man is doubtful, but as Seth Pitts is noted as "of Taunton" in three cases, and as the roll was sworn to at Taunton in another case, there is little room to doubt that Seth Pitts of this sketch assisted in establishing the independence of this country...Family tradition says he was a captain and took his third son Shubael, aged nine years, as his servant.

After the revolution, Maine offered a promising field for ambitious men who wanted to avail themselves of the advantages of virgin soil and opportunities to build homes and factories. Seth Pitts was a man of energy and foresight and saw opportunities in the new territory that caused him to settle there. Seth Pitts, senior, was taxed at Hallowell or Augusta in 1785. His son Ichabod was taxed there in 1786 and son Shubael in 1796. In 1788, the record in the Kennebec Registry of Deeds shows that Seth Pitts bought land in Winthrop, and the tax list of 1790 shows that he was assessed in Winthrop that year. In 1797, he bought about three hundred acres in Sidney.

Seth Pitts made a will which was proved in the Probate Court of Kennebec County, and in the will is found the names of his children, as follows: Seth, Ichabod, Shubael, Abiel, Elizabeth, Rosanna, Celia, Polly, Abigail, and Sally.

Genealogical and Family History of,the State of Maine / George Thomas Little, A.M., Litt.D. (editor) Lewis Historical Publishing Co. / New York, 1909