Genealogy De Bruijn in 4D
Genealogy De Bruijn in 4D
This genealogy has been established by Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, The Netherlands.
This genealogy has been established by Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, The Netherlands.
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Brief Life History of Thomas Pettus on FamilySearch.org (Website) Domein: www.FamilySearch.org |
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The following is information from William Pettus: NOTE: Hi, I just had a quick look at your website, which claims that Theodore Pettus m. Ka-Okee, daughter of Pocahontas and Kocoum. I first heard about that claim a year or so ago, when I read a posting by Arthur Mitchell on genforum.genealogy.com. After some exchanges with Mitchell and William Deyo, who is the historian for the Patawomeck tribe, Deyo and I concluded that the evidence more strongly favors Thomas Pettus, Theodore’s elder brother. The last record of Theodore in Virginia was in 1626, when he testified about a disputed shipment of tobacco in a court case heard at Jamestown. Thomas, on the other hand, patented 1,000 ac. of land on Potomac Creek in 1650. He sold it to Mr. Henry Meese in 1660. Potomac Creek is in Stafford Co. Meese was married to another Patawomeck woman. - I have received this information from William Pettus - I discussed this matter in the second volume of my books on the Pettus family of England and Virginia. Do you have any further information I may not be aware of? Thanks, William Pettus Thomas Pettus, the son of Thomas and Cecily Pettus, came to America in 1631 from Norwich, England, where the senior Thomas was the Mayor of this city. See https://pettusheritage.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/misinformation-on-the-pettus-family/. Col. Thomas Pettus was a member of the King's Council in 1642-1660. In 1661, Littletown was the plantation of "Colonel Thomas Pettus of the Council." He married, perhaps as his second wife, Elizabeth widow of Richard Durant. Per "Henry Duke Councilor his Descendants and Connections," at p. 338, Thomas Pettus received a patent for land in James City Co. VA in 1643. In 1645 he had a grant of 886 acres in James City Co. in right of his wife Elizabeth (widow of Richard Durant). While someone asserted in this spaced previously that "Thomas came to America because he murdered a man in England, and came here to escape being charged," that assertion is wrong. As discussed at https://pettusheritage.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/misinformation-on-the-pettus-family/, he was tried in 1629 and acquitted. He came to America two years later. In support of that statement, I would add that man who left County Norfolk to hide from a murder charge would, not within a few years, rise to the top levels of leadership of the Virginia Colony with never a worry that government agents would haul his hide back to Norfolk for trial. Agents of the Crown and Parliament did not lose jurisdiction in capital cases upon entering Chesapeake Bay. For an airing of the issue regarding Thomas Pettus's alleged relationship with Indian princess KaOkee, see https://pettusheritage.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/misinformation-on-the-pettus-family/ (favorable) and comments at https://genealogyadventures.net/2017/10/23/playing-genealogical-hide-and-go-seek-with-col-thomas-pettus-abt-1598-1663/ (less favorable). Barry Wood 11 March 2021 Reason This Information Is Correct: there was a temporary question and I answered it and merged the questioned profiles |
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| Cicely King (*1561-†1609) (Cecile) as mother | |
| Sir Thomas Pettus (*1552-†1620) as father | |
| Colonel Thomas Pettus (*1598-†1663) as main character | |
| Ka-Okee (*1611-†1642) as partner |