Individual Details
Captain Thomas Pettus Jr.
(1644 - Feb 1687)
== Biography ==
Thomas Pettus was probably born about 1650. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Pettus, were married about 1642 and son Thomas was still a minor when his father died about 1666. Elizabeth placed her husband’s estate into trust for son Thomas before she remarried, but apparently her new husband attempted to appropriate young Thomas’ property for himself. In April, 1671 Capt. John Groves was ordered by the General Court to return the property of [Thomas] Pettus, orphan. “Minutes of the Council and General court of colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676 with notes and excerpts from original Council and General court records, into 1683, now lost.” Virginia Council; Virginia General Court; McIlwaine, H. R. (Henry Read), 1864-1934 ed.; Virginia State Library, digitized on Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/minutesofcouncil00virg] NOTE: the term ‘orphan’ in a legal document at this time meant that a person’s father was dead and that the person was under 21 years of age.
Thomas is believed to have married twice, although there is no record of his first marriage. He had only one documented child, a daughter named Elizabeth. She is named in the will of Nathaniel Bacon, who had been Thomas' guardian. On 15 March, 1691, Bacon wrote, "If Elizabeth Pettice daughter of Mr. Thomas Pettice shall happen to live to the age of twenty-one or be married, ..."
cited in Pettus, William Walker. ''Thomas Petyous of Norwich, England and his Pettus descendants in England and Virginia.'' Otter Bay Books, Baltimore, MD. 2011 p. 1082 His second wife was a woman named Mourning Burgh. According to William Pettus' book,''' Thomas went to Holland in 1686''' to recover money from an estate of a person related to his wife, Mourning. He did obtain the inheritance, but died before he could return to America. "Thomas Peytous," p. 1076
==Research notes==This '''Thomas Pettus-7''' was originally attached to Thomas Pettus-8 and Elizabeth Mourning-7. Noting this as merging 3 Thomas Pettuses today [[Fitz-Henry-9|Fitz-Henry-9]] 14:10, 24 March 2019
This is the Thomas Pettus II 64 of William Walker Pettus IV "Thomas Petyous of Norwich, England and his Pettus Descendants" vol 1 2011, p 206
== Sources ==
Pettus-157 was created by [[Alsford-1 | Dawn Griffis]] through the import of Griffis Ragland Alsford Wrighton Family Tree_2014-01-29.ged on Jan 29, 2014.
Thomas Pettus was probably born about 1650. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Pettus, were married about 1642 and son Thomas was still a minor when his father died about 1666. Elizabeth placed her husband’s estate into trust for son Thomas before she remarried, but apparently her new husband attempted to appropriate young Thomas’ property for himself. In April, 1671 Capt. John Groves was ordered by the General Court to return the property of [Thomas] Pettus, orphan. “Minutes of the Council and General court of colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676 with notes and excerpts from original Council and General court records, into 1683, now lost.” Virginia Council; Virginia General Court; McIlwaine, H. R. (Henry Read), 1864-1934 ed.; Virginia State Library, digitized on Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/minutesofcouncil00virg] NOTE: the term ‘orphan’ in a legal document at this time meant that a person’s father was dead and that the person was under 21 years of age.
Thomas is believed to have married twice, although there is no record of his first marriage. He had only one documented child, a daughter named Elizabeth. She is named in the will of Nathaniel Bacon, who had been Thomas' guardian. On 15 March, 1691, Bacon wrote, "If Elizabeth Pettice daughter of Mr. Thomas Pettice shall happen to live to the age of twenty-one or be married, ..."
cited in Pettus, William Walker. ''Thomas Petyous of Norwich, England and his Pettus descendants in England and Virginia.'' Otter Bay Books, Baltimore, MD. 2011 p. 1082 His second wife was a woman named Mourning Burgh. According to William Pettus' book,''' Thomas went to Holland in 1686''' to recover money from an estate of a person related to his wife, Mourning. He did obtain the inheritance, but died before he could return to America. "Thomas Peytous," p. 1076
==Research notes==This '''Thomas Pettus-7''' was originally attached to Thomas Pettus-8 and Elizabeth Mourning-7. Noting this as merging 3 Thomas Pettuses today [[Fitz-Henry-9|Fitz-Henry-9]] 14:10, 24 March 2019
This is the Thomas Pettus II 64 of William Walker Pettus IV "Thomas Petyous of Norwich, England and his Pettus Descendants" vol 1 2011, p 206
== Sources ==
Pettus-157 was created by [[Alsford-1 | Dawn Griffis]] through the import of Griffis Ragland Alsford Wrighton Family Tree_2014-01-29.ged on Jan 29, 2014.
Events
| Birth | 1644 | James City, Virginia | |||
| Death | Feb 1687 | Rotterdam, Holland, Netherlands | |||
| Reference No | 431852 | ||||
| Reference No | 447900 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Thomas Pettus (1598 - 1669) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Freeman (1608 - 1680) |
| Sibling | Stephen Pettus (1642 - 1677) |