[Bgnet] New Pettit data recieved

[Bowerman Genealogy Discussion]

I received the following in an email today and am forwarding it on to the
list.  I will add it to the site on my return.

 

I have requested copies of the source material she sent and I will also post
it immediately upon receipt:

 

 

Hello:

am writing with update to Daniel Pettit (of Long Island) b. ca 1749 d. 1831
*(Hallowell)

 

The name of the fifth daughter has been discovered!   (according to Belden
Atlas of Hastings and Prince Edward Counties) Daniel Pettit had five sons,
and five daughters (with his two wives Elizabet Platt and Mary Huntley
Elsworth).

 

Here are my resources:

 

RELATIONSHIP: Belden's Atlas of Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, 1880,
p. xxiv  mentions that Daniel had five daughters

 

RELATIONSHIP: Based on her petition for land: On 10 August 1797 from
Sophiasburgh, Martha petitioned for land. The petition states that she is
the daughter of Daniel and that she is of age. Martha asked for, and was
granted 200 acres

 

LAND: Haldimand, Lot 17 4th Conc. Patent Aug 10, 1801, Crown to Martha
Pettit 200 acres  5800 B & S 1 Sept 1817. 

 

BIOGRAPHY:  She wrote the above mentioned petition. The fact that she could
write suggests that she was educated

 

DEATH: It is presumed that she died before 1831 when her father wrote his
will since she is not mentioned in the document. It is highly likely that
she might have died a single woman

 

Thank you for correcting Daniel Pettit's family group record on the Desc of
Thomas and Hannah (Annable) Bowerman website.

 

This is my link to the Bowerman Family. I am a desc of Ichabod Bowerman, of
Beekman Patent through his daughter Nancy, who m. George Elsworth. (Note
that records exist with the surname spelled with only one L particularly in
the earlier records in US and Upper Canada. George's father, Caleb Elsworth
was a desc of Arthur Aylsworth , (not Aylesworth). The spelling changed when
the family removed from Rhode Island, and went to NY state (what is now
Canaan, Columbia County, NY). The Elsworths went to Upper Canada after 1790
(they appear in 1st Fed Census at Canaan.)

 

 

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Dr. Ronald L. Lahti, M.A., D.A., P.A.

Professor of Genealogy

Distance Learning Faculty

Canterbury University

 

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