Daniel
Pettit was born circa November 1749 in of Long Island, Suffolk Co., NY.
Daniel married first,
Elizabeth Platt circa 1785. He was assessed £ 0.2.6, for first class rated property on 18 July 1798 at Hallowell Township, Prince Edward Co., Ontario Province, Canada.
Daniel married second,
Mary Huntley after 1799 at Prince Edward Co., Ontario, Canada. He left a will dated 29 September 1831 at Prince Edward Co., Ontario, Canada.
Daniel Pettit died after 29 September 1831 in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward Co., Ontario Province, Canada.
His will was probated on 6 October 1831 at Prince Edward Co., Ontario, Canada.
Research Note: Received the following information on this date. Copies of the source data has been requested and I will add it properly to the database on my return:
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.)
Thanks for listening
Conny Green.